{"id":4072,"date":"2013-07-30T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2013-07-30T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:40:49","slug":"sex-news-womens-erotica-and-porn-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/sex-news-womens-erotica-and-porn-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex News: Women&#8217;s Erotica and Porn Bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanicbusiness.com\/2013\/7\/29\/womens_erotica_pulls_in_big_money.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/beate-uhse-lg1.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"175\" \/>Women&#8217;s erotica pulls in big money<\/a> &#8211; German adult chain Beate Uhse has announced they&#8217;re going to ramp up their marketing to women.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have talked for months with a lot of women,&#8221; said company spokeswoman Doreen Schink. They want &#8220;to be addressed in a loving, tongue-in-cheek way.&#8221;\u00a0 More than 80 per cent of the group&#8217;s products are already developed for women, who represent about 60 per cent of its customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live.huffingtonpost.com\/r\/segment\/romance-novels-and-erotica-on-e-readers\/51e41e25fe34443e0500039a\">More women reading erotica on e-readers<\/a> &#8211; Huffington Post live talks about erotic and romance novels and their female audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Britain-wants-to-ban-porn news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/is-extreme-porn-really-so-different-to-hollywoods-sexual-violence\">David Cameron&#8217;s war on porn lacks a smoking gun<\/a> &#8211; Great piece by Martin Robbins discussing the lack of evidence behind the anti-porn filter campaign in the UK<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/frankie-mullin\/glamour-models-sex-objects_b_3510623.html\">What glamour models have to say about lad&#8217;s mags and page 3<\/a> &#8211; Frankie Mullin actually bothered to ask the women who work in adult about their thoughts on censorship and feminism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, Sophie, I ask, are you a feminist? I expect her to say yes. She&#8217;s bright, articulate, financially independent. Instead she laughs in an appalled sort of way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Of course not. Feminists want to ban Page 3.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/the-truth-about-pornography-its-time-for-a-rude-awakening-8735043.html\">The truth about pornography: It&#8217;s time for a rude awakening<\/a> &#8211; Archie Bland spends three-quarters of his piece talking about how embarrassing it is to admit to porn. But he finally makes his point near the end:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What if we ditched the stigma carried by pornography in general, and instead attached it, loudly, to the pornography that we consider to be unacceptable?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Australia, a sex worker was brutally murdered. The media response to this was to diminish the crime, in stark contrast the to the high-profile case of Jill Meagher a few months ago. In response SA Jones wrote: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/jul\/29\/sex-prostitution-st-kilda\">Why I changed my mind about sex work<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I feel uneasy about sex work. I worry that it objectifies women and compounds our difficulties in carving a place for ourselves as cerebral and corporeal, as full persons. But here\u2019s the thing: it\u2019s not about me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German adult chain Beate Uhse has announced they&#8217;re going to ramp up their marketing to women. 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