Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
These images are from Wordle, a site that analyses text to see which words are used most often. The first image is made up of my del.icio.us tags. The second one is the result of taking all the posts on the index page (back to 19 May) and seeing what I talked about the most. I guess there’s not many surprises here.
Another statistic to add to my collection. A survey of Swedish women by “yummy mummy” magazine Mama says that 28% of them have looked at online porn. This tallies with numerous other surveys which seem to always conclude that around a third of all women like to indulge in a little smut occasionally. The survey also found that just because women become mothers, it doesn’t mean that they’re not also Read More …
Every time I’ve started to blog on this story it’s escalated, and now it’s just crazy. Police have seized artworks and are expected to lay child pornography charges against photographer artist Bill Henson and the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney. This is because Henson’s works included several photographs of 12 year old girls in the nude. In yesterday’s SMH, the artist explained his work: “I’ve worked with people this age Read More …
I read on Petra Joy’s blog today that her award winning bi scene from Female Fantasies was cut out of some copies of her film at the behest of a dealer. Male bi sexuality and female/male role reversal is still a major taboo in mainstream porn. So this scene was censored by one of my big dealers who accepted “Female Fantasies” on their shelves only if that particular scene that Read More …
JavaScript is required to view this page. This is a little ad I made for For The Girls a while ago and I’ve just converted it into a flash movie using a new bit of software I’ve bought called EasyFLV. I’ve been meaning to learn more about flash for a few months but I was procrastinating. Instead I just forked out some money for a little program that does it Read More …
Something has been bugging me for a long time now, so I’m going to have a little rant about it. It seems that there are a lot of people out there who don’t like the term “porn for women.” I realise this – and I’ve discussed the ins and outs of it plenty of times on the blog. But I’m just gonna have to talk about it again. The thing 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 …
No, that title doesn’t mean your usual girl-girl, long fingernail stuff. I’m talking about real life lesbians, making porn that reflects their sexuality. Today I stumbled on a rather extensive academic essay entitled The Politics Of Lesbian Pornography. The author looks at the contrast between anti-porn feminism and the work of lesbian filmmakers such as SIR and Fatale Video. The essay seems to date from about 2001. I skimmed through Read More …
Delightful columnist Emma Tom had a bit of fun with this column, inspired by the recently released Porn Report. She takes the idea that all porn is always addictive to its logical conclusion. Unfortunately your frigid female boss (who’s probably a lezzo and not the good kind, either) lacks a sense of humour. You lose your job, then lose all your money downloading pony porn and snuff flicks from the Read More …
The Porn Report seems to be making waves at the moment, with most newspapers giving the story a relatively positive spin. The Courier Mail, for example, gives Alan McKee plenty of column space here, with only lip service paid to the conservatives who argue against porn, albeit without any proof, by the sounds of it. I think that’s the cool thing about this book – it offers good, well researched Read More …
I’m a bit late with this but it’s worth blogging about anyway. Three Australian researchers have released The Porn Report, the result of several years of research and surveys. The finding that the media have jumped on is that – gasp! – women like porn. 17% of those interviewed for the book were women and the authors say that women make up an increasing percentage of the porn market. That Read More …
I missed this when it happened – perhaps because AVN isn’t such a great site for discovering useful stuff like this. Still, better late than never. The AVN expo in January held a special seminar called “What Women Want”, aiming to discuss the needs of female consumers when it comes to porn and sex toys. Given the title of the forum and the fact that it was AVN I was Read More …
The Dominion has an article about porn for women and the feminist porn awards. Admittedly, they’re six months late with the awards, but the piece does discuss women’s erotica in an interesting way. As for the opposite of feminist pornography, “any film made with female coercion†would qualify, says [Chanelle] Gallant. She stresses that feminist porn is not a genre. You can’t identify it by pointing to certain aspects of Read More …
Seems the Israeli girls are all rather liberated, if we’re to believe a survey of over 14,000 women published recently. Apparently 71% of Israeli women consider themselves to be liberal and daring in bed, with the same percentage happily having orgasms regularly. So it’s unsurprising that half of them say they enjoy watching erotic materials including films, websites and books with 37% specifically saying they liked pornography. They were also Read More …
USA Today reports on a survey of 813 students about attitudes to porn. The researchers have concluded that young people are more accepting of porn than their parents, seeing it as an “acceptable way to express sexuality.” Naturally the study has prompted much hand wringing about the terrible influence of internet porn. Most headlines have focused on the idea that women are more accepting of porn, although apparently most of Read More …