Let’s Make Valentines Day Happier
It’s Valentines Day today which in theory is all about celebrating romantic love. All well and good, except I’m seeing an awful lot of cynicism and unhappiness surrounding the day Read More …
Tag: romance
“We’re Still Targeting Men” – Couples Porn and The Male Perspective
Slate now has a follow up article to CNBC’s piece called “What Is Porn For Women?”. It features an interview with New Sensations’ writer, director and publicist Jacky St. James who says: ‘When we say adult films for women’ we’re still targeting men”. Read More …
Porn’s “New” Market Is Women Says CNBC, 40 Years Too Late
Yes folks, CNBC has discovered porn for women, an exciting “new” market for the porn industry. According to their article, Fifty Shades of Grey has seen women suddenly get into porn in record numbers. They’re backed up by Scott Taylor, founder of New Sensations, who has apparently made the discovery of the century by creating romance titles for women and couples in 2010. Read More …
Venus In Furs
I feel like there aren’t many new porn for women movies being released at the moment. There seems to be a bit of a lull in production, which is perhaps not surprising given the upheaval in the porn industry at present. For a while there were new feminist porn titles everywhere but right now, not so much. For my latest For The Girls review I chose to watch Venus In Read More …
Where The Hell Is My Prince Charming?
Gorgeous cartoon from Stuff No One Told Me, via Erika Lust. I think we need to make this point a little more often. Romance novels are often derisively called “porn for women” and, while this is inaccurate in a lot of ways, it does make a point about unrealistic fantasies. Both porn and romance/fairytales offer a fantasy version of the opposite sex and depict sex and relationships in a very Read More …
Beyond Heaving Bosoms
Romance novels have long been considered to be trashy, something that plenty of women read but should not brag about. Now there are feminists standing up for their right to read good romantic fiction. Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches Guide to Romance Novels recommends the good stuff. There’s a great interview with the author here. I liked this quote. MV: Why should feminists read romance novels? SW: It’s a Read More …
Mills And Boon Gets Spicy In The UK
Romance publishers Mills and Boon are 100 years old this year and they’re about to launch the Spice erotica imprint in the UK, according to The Independent. In the past, M&B books only allowed sex within the confines of a long term relationship. Spice, however, features stories where people “have sex for enjoyment.” Phew, imagine that? The article has an interesting timeline of erotic milestones in the Mills and Boon Read More …
Now They’re Pushing Romance Novel Addiction
I just had to laugh at the opinion piece by Shaunti Feldhahn proclaiming the serious dangers women face if they read romance novels. I was concerned to learn that many romance novels are not as harmless as they look. In fact, some marriage therapists caution that women can become as dangerously unbalanced by these books’ entrancing but distorted messages as men can by distorted messages of pornography. Oh my God! Read More …