{"id":94,"date":"2006-05-29T22:09:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T12:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/29\/vixens-visionaries-female-erotic-directors-revolutionizing-porn\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T22:09:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T12:09:31","slug":"vixens-visionaries-female-erotic-directors-revolutionizing-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/29\/vixens-visionaries-female-erotic-directors-revolutionizing-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vixens + Visionaries: Female erotic directors revolutionizing porn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto adult retailer Good for Her is sponsoring a gala evening celebrating the work of female porn directors on June 1. Vixens + Visionaries<\/a> aims to showcase female friendly and women-driven erotica.<\/p>\n

Candida Royalle will be the special guest along with her protege Abiola Abrams as well as anal queen Tristan Taormino, Dana Dane from Eroktavision, Angela Phong from lesbian-focused Pornograflics and Jen Bowers who runs SMUT Magazine (a Canadian pansexual journal).<\/p>\n

Aside from a few lectures and discussions and a burlesque performance, the evening will see the presentation of the first ever Feminist Porn Awards.<\/p>\n

You know, I get the tiniest suspicion that For The Girls hasn’t been nominated for anything. It probably doesn’t qualify as “cutting edge” porn, at least in some circles. Ah well. If I was in Toronto, I’d go. It sounds interesting. But living in Australia means I’m out of the loop with these kinds of things, something that I occasionally find frustrating. Nonetheless, I hope to report back on who won what and how it all went.<\/p>\n

Update 31 May 2006<\/strong> – The Toronto Star<\/a> has featured a well-written piece on this event. A few quotes:<\/p>\n

“What makes porn feminist for me is women being involved in its creation. It has to be a woman-driven effort that shows real women’s pleasure.” – Lorraine Hewitt from Good for Her<\/p>\n

“It was such a big step for women to look,” Candida Royalle says. “We are visual, we love beauty, we love things done well. We love good-looking men and women.”<\/p>\n

“Getting rid of [porn] entirely is unlikely, so why not make sure that there is porn that not only pleases a female audience, but also demonstrates to the rest of the porn industry how women should be treated and depicted in their films?” – Megan McChesney, author of the article.<\/p>\n

“We’re not hosting a debate about porn because \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as bad as most of it is \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it has a right to exist. We want to make sure there’s more fun, women-friendly porn out there.” – Chanelle Gallant, manager of Good for Her<\/p>\n

Update June 1<\/strong> – Eye Weekly has this article<\/a> on the awards – called the “Emma Awards” after feminist Emma Goldman. Apparently Good For Her manager Chanelle Grant came up with the idea. “Good porn is a human right,” Gallant says. “I think we deserve to have good sexual images that make us feel good about ourselves and about sex.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto adult retailer Good for Her is sponsoring a gala evening celebrating the work of female porn directors on June 1. Vixens + Visionaries aims to showcase female friendly and women-driven erotica. Candida Royalle will be the special guest along with her protege Abiola Abrams as well as anal queen Tristan Taormino, Dana Dane from Eroktavision, Angela Phong from lesbian-focused Pornograflics and Jen Bowers who runs SMUT Magazine (a Canadian 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":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-porn","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