Vimeo Deletes My Account… Again
Vimeo has deleted my account for the third time. I’ve sent an email asking to explain their guidelines and to define “sexual stimulation” Read More …
Tag: Censorship
FOSTA/SESTA & HR2219: The Pornocalypse May Well Have Arrived
I’ve long been feeling that the online porn business is on its last legs. Thanks to new laws FOSTA/SESTA and HR2219, the pornocalypse may be here. Read More …
Chilling Effect: Youtube Bans Erika Lust’s SFW Erotic Film
Erika Lust’s SFW film has been deleted from Youtube 2 days after the media wrote about it. This post discusses ongoing censorship by social media sites and even “respectable” well known erotic filmmakers aren’t immune from it. Read More …
All The Fun Of Facebook Bans And Realnaming + Other Censorship
I’ve been banned and realnamed by Facebook. This is another ranty post about censorship on online platforms. Read More …
Mainstream Media: Oh, We Couldn’t Possibly Link To A Porn Site!
A website asked me to write about porn for them but they absolutely refused to link to my porn site. Thus perpetuating porn stigma and the ongoing pornocalypse. Read More …
Porn For Women Retrospective 2014
2014 marks the tenth anniversary of the Ms Naughty Porn for Women Blog and the ninth anniversary of this retrospective. And you know, I’m not sure the retrospective is needed anymore, especially since the topics have expanded beyond the old idea of “porn for women” and now include feminist porn, queer porn and censorship. Still, habits are hard to break and there has actually been a lot to report on Read More …
My Uncertainty About Banning Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto 5 allows gamers to kill sex workers. This is abhorrent and yet I resist the calls for it to be banned. I feel uncertain as to where I stand on this issue. Here’s why. Read More …
The UK Porn Laws Are Now Worse Than Australia’s
A new raft of anti-porn laws in the UK ban the depiction of facesitting, fisting and female ejaculation. These laws are the same as Australia’s but also include online video. Here’s a brief summary of my thoughts on this. Read More …
What Happened When I Asked Vimeo To Define “Sexual Stimulation”
Vimeo deleted all my videos and said they were “primarily focused on sexual stimulation”. Here is my correspondence asking them to clarify their terms and asking why they are discriminating against erotic content. Read More …
Am I Terminated From Youtube Or Not?
I’ve been temporarily banned from Youtube. Their guidelines are obscure and I want to appeal but Google has made the process impossible. Read More …
Hollywood and The C-Word: Cunnilingus Scenes
Hollywood thinks cunnilingus scenes deserve “explicit” ratings, though violence and rape don’t receive the same censorship. Evan Rachel Wood protested this suppression of women’s sexuality on Twitter. Here’s a list of mainstream films that have cunnilingus. Read More …
Fists Are For Fucking, Not Fighting
In honour of Fisting Day, here’s a snippet of the short erotic film starring Zahra Stardust. In this movie we hear some of Zahra’s thoughts on fisting. Read More …
Surprise! Another Internet Filter Plan!
The conservative party in Australia didn’t release costing until 41 hours before the election. And hidden in those policies is a mandatory internet filter. Worse than the one our government abandoned last year. Read More …
Vulva Cover Censored: Apparently “Demeaning To Women”
The editors of the Sydney student newspaper decided to use the cover to make a point about women’s bodies and thus photographed the vulvas of 18 students in all their glory. The cover has been censored and removed from shelves Read More …
Porn Panel At Reality Bites Literary Fest
Yesterday I attended the “Money Shot” porn panel at the Reality Bites Literary festival. I wanted to hear what author Jeff Sparrow had to say about porn and censorship. He has written a book called The Money Shot, which looks at the dysfunctional censorship system here in Australia. This review does a good summary of the book. Also on the panel were erotica and fiction writer Krissy Kneen and journalist Read More …