Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
I just had to post this very cool photo of comedian Bill Bailey, who is a very, very funny man. A snippet from his blog: What is this lunacy of making people pledge allegiance to the Queen? I could understand if it was allegiance to the band Queen.
It’s a long hard climb but I’m gonna get there, I’m climbing to the morning sun. I’ve been down this week. This frog tells me all I need to know. I’ve got both DVDs of the early Sesame Street episodes. It’s a bizarre thing to watch because I remember so much of it. Viewing all those little segments triggers memories of my childhood, and I remember the emotions and thoughts Read More …
A man on the psychiatrist’s couch sees, in ink blot after ink blot, nothing but sexual imagery. A butterfly shape looks like testicles, a hilly mountain-scape like a rollicking bedroom scene, and so on. When the shrink delivers his verdict – you, sir, are a sex fiend – the man is indignant. “What?” he huffs. “But you’re the one drawing the dirty pictures!”
Another statistic to add to my collection. A survey of Swedish women by “yummy mummy” magazine Mama says that 28% of them have looked at online porn. This tallies with numerous other surveys which seem to always conclude that around a third of all women like to indulge in a little smut occasionally. The survey also found that just because women become mothers, it doesn’t mean that they’re not also Read More …
I sometimes muse about the way that the nude male body is hidden from public view, but the female form is considered to be public property. Apparently this is not the case in the gay community. MCV has a piece discussing the fact that advertisers targeting gay men almost always resort to using beefcake to sell their wares. Doesn’t matter what the product is, chances are it will be accompanied Read More …
The annual Masturbate-A-Thon was held on Sunday. The event aims to encourage the acceptance of masturbation as a healthy practice. Apparently some new world records were set: a man broke the record for orgasming the most number of times (31). And woman masturbated for seven hours straight, orgasming an average of once an hour. Doing anything for seven hours straight is stressful so such a marathon wank session must have Read More …
I watched the final of the Eurovision song contest last night and all the songs I liked didn’t do very well. I was so relieved and happy to hear the UK’s Hot Chocolate disco song because it wasn’t yet another boy band… but it came last. Denmark had a happy-go-lucky song that was very likeable and I also enjoyed the whimsy of the French song with its female singers wearing Read More …
Every time I’ve started to blog on this story it’s escalated, and now it’s just crazy. Police have seized artworks and are expected to lay child pornography charges against photographer artist Bill Henson and the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney. This is because Henson’s works included several photographs of 12 year old girls in the nude. In yesterday’s SMH, the artist explained his work: “I’ve worked with people this age Read More …
Just wanted to whack up a couple of quick links today. The first is this Canadian article on the growth of Yaoi – Japanese gay erotica made for straight women. I’ve written about Yaoi before, this adds another perspective. Secondly I found this board post from a woman who works in IT. She is making a point about how IT is still an overwhelmingly male industry, at least in the Read More …
I read on Petra Joy’s blog today that her award winning bi scene from Female Fantasies was cut out of some copies of her film at the behest of a dealer. Male bi sexuality and female/male role reversal is still a major taboo in mainstream porn. So this scene was censored by one of my big dealers who accepted “Female Fantasies” on their shelves only if that particular scene that Read More …
This week at For The Girls I’ve reviewed Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide To Cunnilingus which recently won a prestigious butt plug at the Feminist Porn Awards. Tristan is doing a great job with her educational series from Vivid and this is no exception. Aside from clearly explaining anatomy and giving handy tips for good pussy licking, the movie offers a number of seriously hot cunnilingus sex scenes. It’s worth recommending Read More …
A disturbing development in US free speech law – you can now be prosecuted for writing “obscene text.” Author Karen Fletcher was arrested a couple of years ago for offering explicit stories about child torture and sex on her members-only website. Today she has decided to plead guilty to obscenity charges, saying she has agoraphobia and doesn’t want to contest the case in public. So… this is one of these Read More …
Over the weekend I watched all four Alien films plus AVP. It inspired me to get out my book of H.R. Giger’s amazing surreal artwork, some of which is amazingly explicit. Everything he creates has a lurking, dark sexual element to it, as if tapping into the vast and unvoiced fears of our sexual subconscious. It’s both arousing and frightening. Indeed, if you watch the first Alien film, I can’t Read More …
JavaScript is required to view this page. This is a little ad I made for For The Girls a while ago and I’ve just converted it into a flash movie using a new bit of software I’ve bought called EasyFLV. I’ve been meaning to learn more about flash for a few months but I was procrastinating. Instead I just forked out some money for a little program that does it Read More …
Stumbling about today I found this post at the delightfully named Adventures of a Well Mannered Can-Can Dancer blog. The author has posted a bunch of beautiful photos of guys dressed in 19th century clothing, posing as they would for an official portrait. The pics originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 06 edition of Numero Homme magazine under the title “Ultimate Dandys” (sic). Unfortunately I don’t have a proper link for Read More …