{"id":9,"date":"2006-01-21T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/womynswares-attempt-at-a-porn-film-for-women\/"},"modified":"2006-01-21T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T06:43:00","slug":"womynswares-attempt-at-a-porn-film-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/womynswares-attempt-at-a-porn-film-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"WomynsWare’s attempt at a porn film for women"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumbled across the site for Canadian feminist sex toy store WomynsWare today. Aside from a strong fair trade ethos and a swathe of warnings about heaps of common sex toys, the site also describes why the store doesn’t stock porn videos.<\/a><\/p>\n

They theorise that most porn is designed for men and thus “most women dislike videos made for men without consideration of women as potential viewers.” I’d agree with them there.<\/p>\n

And then they tell the rather intriguing story about a plan to create their own adult videos for women:<\/p>\n

“We had everything together: a talented female director, female screen writers. And the next thing you know, we had this cigar-chomping, Florida-based attorney wanting to co-opt the whole thing. We ended up having to bring our own lawyer in because the guy was trying to enforce a joint venture agreement that he said we had by just initiating discussions with us. We discovered quickly that we’d have a hard time even getting distribution because distribution is controlled by the mainstream porn makers. It just wasn’t worth the heartache and besides, they told me, women aren’t even really sure what it is they want to see.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sounds like a lost opportunity. And a shame that the ladies at WomynsWare were so quick to believe what “they” say about “what women want”. It would be like saying “men aren’t really sure what they want to see” because men like so many things in porn. Ah well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stumbled across the site for Canadian feminist sex toy store WomynsWare today. Aside from a strong fair trade ethos and a swathe of warnings about heaps of common sex toys, the site also describes why the store doesn’t stock porn videos. They theorise that most porn is designed for men and thus “most women dislike videos made for men without consideration of women as potential viewers.” I’d agree with 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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pornforwomen"],"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