Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
You may already be aware that Britain is about to pass a law which outlaws the possession of “extreme pornography” (details here.) The law is based on moral hysteria and very bad science and is being shuffled through parliament in a much larger bill full of other issues such as privacy and immigration. Interestingly, the British press has done more reporting on a clause about data loss than it has Read More …
This interesting looking sex toy is a Luna Butt plug. It looks so weird because it’s an actual cast of someone’s rectum. I’m not entirely sure how they got the cast, but I suspect it didn’t involve plaster of paris. Anyway, the reason it looks like this is to counteract the bum muscles tendency to expel butt plugs during orgasm. According to the blurb: It was designed specifically to resist Read More …
There’s something super post-post-modernist about my blog commenting on someone’s blog which is commenting on another blog… but anyway: Idolator blog offers up a list of sexy album covers featuring naked men, as distilled from Gigwise’s 50 sexiest album covers list. They also point out that most male entries in the list are treated as a joke, rather than as something “sexy.” This compared to the nude female album covers Read More …
Alt porn is the new black. Or it was the new black – some say that it’s been commercialised beyond coolness so now it’s more of a new brown. In any case, there are now plenty of alternative gothic porn sites out there featuring naked chicks with tattos and piercings (see Quirky Sex for examples). The problem with the new black is that it’s still the same ol’ same ol’ Read More …
Here, my good friends, is an example of what sort of photos should have been in that Porn for Women book. Yes, it’s a guy doing the housework. But take note, dear readers, of one crucial and vital difference. Yes, Niko here is drop-dead gorgeous and he’s completely fucking naked.
Apparently the upcoming spring/summer issue of Britain’s GQ Style features an essay by fashion guru Tom Ford and pictorial featuring naked men. Ford says he wants to look at the way Western society avoids serious study of the male body and the disparity between the treatment of men’s and women’s bodies. NYMag has lifted whole paragraphs from Ford’s essay and turned it into a mock interview. It makes for interesting Read More …
It seems that the canon of women’s literary erotica is growing, and that’s a good thing. The latest book release is Dirty Girls, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussell. I received my review copy the other day but I haven’t had much of a chance to read it. The few stories I have read have been amazing, so I think it’s worth checking out. Here’s the official blurb off the back: Read More …
Here’s a pic from one of the new couples galleries at For The Girls. It’s a lovely set of photos with lots of intimacy and eye contact – and it starts with him serenading her with a guitar. I thought I’d best whack up a nice porn pic to keep you all placated… all of you… all of my thousands of readers out there… er… hello? Anyway, I’ve been slack Read More …
On October 20, 2003 an article called “The Porn Myth” by Naomi Wolf appeared in NYMag. The article suggests that porn desensitises men to real women and thus ruins relationships. She says that women now have to compete with a porn star aesthetic: Now you have to offer—or flirtatiously suggest—the lesbian scene, the ejaculate-in-the-face scene. Being naked is not enough; you have to be buff, be tan with no tan Read More …
I love Ewan McGregor. And it’s not just because of his eagerness to get naked in almost every film he’s been in. He’s also very likeable. Proof: Long Way Round. Damn, that was great TV. Oh, and he was naked in it too. Anyway, apparently his latest film was too much even for him. He’s told the press he was exhausted after having to repeatedly get nude and simulate sex Read More …
I’d been avoiding Facebook after I tried to join as Ms Naughty last year and it wouldn’t let me. It kept demanding a real name. And then I read about all the privacy issues and how you can’t ever delete your account. So I wasn’t keen. But then an old friend encouraged me and I thought… OK, I’ll just do it a little bit. And now I’ve lost hours searching Read More …
I’ve now watched Erika Lust’s debut film Five Hot Stories For Her and I have to say I’m very impressed. This film won movie of the year at the Feminist Porn Awards and I think it deserved it. Certainly this film now shares a spot on my “all time favourites” list. Five Hot Stories For Her is a pretty good title. This movie has consists of five individual short films, Read More …
Surfing around today I was slightly startled to discover that women’s porn sites have been the subject of a very serious academic paper. Women’s Porno: The heterosexual female gaze in porn sites “for women” by Terrie Schauer is an 18 page article first published in the journal Sexuality and Culture two years ago. Here’s the abstract: The article deals with a number of Internet sites claiming to specialize in providing Read More …
The blog has just been through the ringer a little, thanks to a spot of spammer hacking and a subsequent upgrade after hours of fucking around. Anyway, I’m back again, hopefully it will stay up, especially after I put all the padlocks on the doors, nail the windows shut and load up my virtual shotgun.
This weekend Amber Rhea’s Sex 2.0 conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia. It was attended by various blogging luminaries like Dacia and Rachel Kramer Bussell and was a general discussion of feminism, sexuality and the internet. It looked very cool and various posts are appearing about the event as I write. Thing is, though, I wasn’t there. Once again, living in Australia means that I miss out on all these Read More …