{"id":425,"date":"2007-06-18T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T04:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/book-one-for-the-girls-metro-article\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T04:55:25","slug":"book-one-for-the-girls-metro-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/book-one-for-the-girls-metro-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: One For The Girls + Metro Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cover<\/a>Surfing Google news I found this article<\/a> at the UK’s Metro Magazine about women enjoying porn. It’s got all the usual semi-amazed discussion about the idea of women actually enjoying smut, plus a short interview with Anna Span.<\/p>\n

Nothing new there, although it has brought to my attention a new academic book by Clarissa Smith called One ForThe Girls<\/a>. It’s a look at women’s experience of porn via the UK magazine For Women<\/em>, which was published in the 1990s. The official blurb says:<\/p>\n

Significantly this book moves beyond the usual rehearsal of claims about readers’ vulnerability to ideologies hidden in the text and uses readers’ designations of ‘sexy’ and ‘pleasureable’ to underpin an alternative theorisation of pornography. Exploring readers’ responses to nude male pinups, explicit stories and sexy articles, the book traces the patterns of response hidden behind the title ‘porn reader’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s an interesting review of this book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My first reaction to this book was… not fair! She stole our name!<\/p>\n

Then I thought that perhaps this book has been in the pipeline for a really long time, possibly before For The Girls came into existence. Why else would this academic choose an incredibly out-of-date magazine, now defunct, as her official example? I’ve never seen a copy of “For Women” magazine and it’s really difficult to find any reference to it on the internet.<\/p>\n

It sounds like this book is a worthy addition to the discussion surrounding porn for women but it’s a pity the author restricted herself to one example from the world of old media. The internet has created so many more opportunities for women to explore explicit material, and opened up a greater debate about where feminism fits into an enjoyment of porn.<\/p>\n

I originally wanted to write a non-fiction book about the grown of women’s porn and even got started on the first chapter. And then I realised I’d much rather be making the smut rather than sitting back and academically musing about it.<\/p>\n

Although I must admit, this blog does both jobs for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surfing Google news I found this article at the UK’s Metro Magazine about women enjoying porn. It’s got all the usual semi-amazed discussion about the idea of women actually enjoying smut, plus a short interview with Anna Span. Nothing new there, although it has brought to my attention a new academic book by Clarissa Smith called One ForThe Girls. It’s a look at women’s experience of porn via the UK Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,15],"tags":[138,621],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-porn","category-pornforwomen","tag-books","tag-porn-for-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t