Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
I’ve written a guest post for Good Vibrations magazine. It’s called What Oprah Didn’t Tell You About Porn For Women. I wanted to give a back-to-basics rundown of what I think are the main points about porn for women and what it encompasses. One of the things I wanted to point out is the ongoing blind spot the media has when it comes to websites. The Oprah show happily quoted Read More …
Someone has helpfully posted the segment on the Oprah show featuring Violet Blue so I’ve finally been able to watch what was said. Violet has posted her feelings about the show on her blog and they’re overwhelmingly positive. I like this bit: Look closely at this show and you’ll notice that Oprah has reframed the entire conversation: we women are not ‘tolerated’ or marginalized for exploring our inhibitions, voicing our Read More …
So it’s been almost a week since Oprah did her porn show. I haven’t had a chance to watch it so I can’t comment but it seems the response is not as positive as we’d like it to have been. This seems due to the fact that the show relied heavily on an interview with Jenna Jameson. Reading comments in the Oprah forums after the show had aired, I was Read More …
Today (November 17) is the big day. The long-awaited Oprah Winfrey show about women and porn is due to be aired. It features Violet Blue, longtime blog friend and advocate of women’s porn. It also has an interview with Jenna Jameson. That bit is to be expected given she’s the big name star but I’m not sure she’s the best example of the way women are changing the industry. The Read More …
On Monday, the theme of the Oprah Winfrey show was “237 Reasons To Have Sex”. One segment on it was a relatively lengthy discussion of the usefulness of porn in spicing up a sex life. They also discussed the fact that women like porn and that – apparently – “in the $12 billion adult entertainment industry, $1 out of every $4 is spent by a woman.” And Dr. Schwartz agrees Read More …