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I’m not so keen on rugby, but I do like it when they take off their clothes.

The Mirror has the full set along with a bunch of other nude athlete photos here.

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Last night I watched the BBC’s impressive adaption of John Cleland’s famous dirty novel, Fanny Hill. The film was written by Andrew Davies, the genius who had us all swooning over Mr Darcy in a wet shirt in Pride and Prejudice, so naturally, it made for a very entertaining and amusing hour and a half.

Nonetheless, the experience was also rather disconcerting. The BBC’s costume dramas usually inhabit stuffier, more literary realms, inviting the viewer in for an evening of high tea and good manners. This movie was quite removed from all that, even if there were some mighty spiffing accents on show.

Indeed, Davies was obviously and gleefully aware of the change in tone, inserting has he did a dance scene not unlike your standard Elizabeth/Darcy number – except that it degenerates into a half-naked orgy. It’s quite delicious, to be honest.

And yet I couldn’t help wishing that there’d been more sex. While not shying away from the various liaisons, most of the erotic encounters lasted only a few seconds before dissolving into the next scene.

This film, I thought, could have been the best porn film ever. If only they’d showed a bit more explicit detail. If only we’d discovered exactly what kind of erotic arts Mr H taught Fanny.

If only that rigid dividing line between smut and mainstream didn’t exist!

Ah well. I would still recommend it if you’re after a bit of bodice-ripping fun. Fanny is an admirable hero, a woman with guts and intelligence who refuses to be a victim. Quite the feminist tale, really, and it makes prostitution seem like a rather alluring profession.

There’s a short, non-rude scene from the film at Youtube, here.

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The New York Times has an extensive article on research into female desire and lust, profiling the hardworking scientists who are studying this relatively new field of human sexuality (i.e. nobody’s bothered to look into what turns women on. Go figure.)

What I found really interesting was the discussion about how the old ideas of romance and relationships aren’t what really get the juices flowing. It’s being lusted after that makes all the difference.

Definitely rings a bell with me.

The problem was how to augment desire, and despite prevailing wisdom, the answer, she told me, had “little to do with building better relationships,” with fostering communication between patients and their partners. She rolled her eyes at such niceties…

“Female desire,” Meana said, speaking broadly and not only about her dyspareunic patients, “is not governed by the relational factors that, we like to think, rule women’s sexuality as opposed to men’s.”

“Really,” she said, “women’s desire is not relational, it’s narcissistic” — it is dominated by the yearnings of “self-love,” by the wish to be the object of erotic admiration and sexual need. Still on the subject of narcissism, she talked about research indicating that, in comparison with men, women’s erotic fantasies center less on giving pleasure and more on getting it. “When it comes to desire,” she added, “women may be far less relational than men.”

For evolutionary and cultural reasons, she said, women might set a high value on the closeness and longevity of relationships: “But it’s wrong to think that because relationships are what women choose they’re the primary source of women’s desire.”

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From early glances at her data, Chivers said, she guesses she will find that women are most turned on, subjectively if not objectively, by scenarios of sex with strangers… “I’ve often thought that there is something really powerful for women’s sexuality about being desired. That receptivity element. At some point I’d love to do a study that would look at that.”

There’s also some interesting speculation about why women will get physically turned on by all sorts of things, even if their mind doesn’t register it.

Genital lubrication, she writes in her upcoming paper in Archives of Sexual Behavior, is necessary “to reduce discomfort, and the possibility of injury, during vaginal penetration. . . . Ancestral women who did not show an automatic vaginal response to sexual cues may have been more likely to experience injuries during unwanted vaginal penetration that resulted in illness, infertility or even death, and thus would be less likely to have passed on this trait to their offspring.”

Evolution’s legacy, according to this theory, is that women are prone to lubricate, if only protectively, to hints of sex in their surroundings.

It’s a very interesting article, well worth reading.

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Might as well get in on this internet meme and make it better by using naked men!

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I’m a bit late with this article but I do love what it’s saying: that women enjoy perving just as much as men.

The tiresome myth that women are not as visually aroused as men is used to justify everything from sexual assault to double standards about public toplessness, and it’s time to kill it dead.

If the oceans of female drool spilt over Obama (and Daniel Craig and Jude Law and Roger Federer et al) isn’t enough to convince you, consider the fact that women continue to have sex with men despite not being legally or economically or in any other way compelled to do so.

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Phew! Today I spent waaay too much time updating Porn Movies For Women. I’ve actually added a total of 21 new titles to the listing, which is pretty impressive considering it’s only been two months since I last updated it.

I created a new page for Kelly Holland’s Chick Media, which last year released four titles including the MySexTherapist series. The first one earned her the Sexiest Straight Film at the Feminist Porn Awards.

Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide series has been updated again, with Penny Flame’s Expert Guide to Handjobs and the very fresh Expert Guide to Threesomes.

Tina Tyler, who has only just announced a return to performing, has added two more titles to her Handyman male masturbation series.

I had a field day on my porn movies for lesbians page, adding a veritable swag of new movies. It really seems like authentic lesbian erotica is charging ahead while the rest of the porn industry languishes. Shine Louise Houston’s new film Champion leads the pack, of course. She’s recently launched a site for the movie complete with trailers, pics and cast lists. I also added the Good Dyke Porn compilation, Trans Entities and One Night Stand by the talented French filmmaker Emile Jouvet. All of them are at Babeland, which seems to stock the most comprehensive queer catalogue online.

Tony Comstock’s newest film Bill and Desiree has also been added.

Then there’s the usual Playgirl titles, one appearing every month like clockwork. And I even added Pirates 2 to the Couples page. Might as well, I thought. Someone’s bound to like it.

In the course of ferreting out all these new titles I also discovered that Babeland have started their own porn “label” and are scheduling the release of two movies over the next couple of months. Sounds interesting and I look forward to seeing what they come up with. 2009 looks to be a very promising year for women’s porn, I suspect.

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Alison Lee of Canadian adult shop Good For Her has written an extensive article looking at porn for women, the feminist anti-porn movement and her own experiences with porn. It makes for great reading. A snippet:

Seeing the world of Big Porn showed me that not only are women left out, but men are presented with an incredibly bland palate to work from and to mold their own sexuality. I left my porn review gig believing that the world of porn shouldn’t be eradicated, but that it should instead live up to the boundless possibilities of the erotic, and that it should, and could, be able to reflect the diverse bodies, desires and dreams that make up human sexuality.

Alison is organising this year’s Feminist Porn Awards. Submissions are open until 24th February.

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Tomorrow marks the start of another wonderful erotic film festival, this time in the Netherlands. The Rated-X Alternative Erotica Film Festival features a fascinating variety of unusual, artistic and very sexy films offering a very different view of sexuality and porn. It’s almost the exact opposite of what was recently on show at the AVN awards.

At the Berlin Porn Film Festival I was very lucky to meet one of the festival’s organisers, Jennifer Lyon Bell and I’ve been meaning to post something more substantial about her work. She runs Blue Artichoke Films and her movie Matinee is being screened at the festival. Jen creates intelligent, female-friendly erotic films and she’s also a lot of fun.

There’s also a number of familiar names being screened at the festival: Tony Comstock and Maria Beatty each have a major showcase of their films. Shine Louise Houston, Audacia Ray, Emile Jouvet and Erika Lust also have films at the festival.

Among the panel discussions is one called “Positive pornofication: Women strike back” – a look at whether positive depictions of sex in porn can change the way we approach sexuality in general. Panelists include Anna Span, Sue du Plessis from Mail and Female and the lovely Wendy Delorme, who I saw perform in Berlin (and developed quite a big girly crush on).

There’s also a bunch of thumping afterparties which I’m sure will be fantastic and I know those fun Dutch friends I met in Berlin will be there with bells on.

So I wish I was there, dammit. Once again, living in Australia leaves me out of the loop a bit. Maybe next year. And if you’re from the UK or Europe you might want to consider heading to Amsterdam for a few days this weekend and checking out the real deal when it comes to the future of porn and erotica.

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So the 2009 AVN Awards and Expo have come and gone and, as before, there’s nothing new to report. The industry has successfully patted itself on the back for producing more of the same. The only award worth mentioning was the one given to Tristan Taormino for her Expert Guide to Oral Sex: Fellatio. Innocent Pictures’ All About Anna didn’t win anything despite several nominations.

It’s kind of depressing that there’s so many new and exciting things going on in the adult industry, so many people trying to offer something fresh and different, but AVN doesn’t see them. And AVN is the public face of porn, it’s the thing that gets into the mainstream media. So “porn” comes to equal silicon-titted porn stars and the sleazy looking guys hoping to get their autograph. It’s never the whole story.

The AVN expo once again hosted a panel on marketing to women called, rather revealingly, Girls Girls Girls. The workshop included an address by Kelly Holland, who runs Chick Media, and a panel discussion featuring Joy King of Wicked Pictures, Kim Airs of Grand Opening, Diane Duke of the Free Speech Coalition, entrepreneur Nenna Joiner, Evil Angel’s Karen Stagliano, Rachel Venning of Babeland and Kristin Wynters of Pink Visual/Yappo.

I must admit, I’ve only ever heard of Kelly Holland. I’m not sure what the other women have to offer to a discussion on marketing to women, I should look them up. In any case, Tristan Taormino attended and said on Twitter: “It was frustrating, fractured, sprawling & circular. I got a headache.”

Perhaps next year I’ll be there and give them my thoughts on the issue.

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I’m finally back from my various holiday travels burdened with a toxic liver, extra weight around the middle and not much motivation to work.

My new year’s resolutions are typical in some areas: drink less alcohol, exercise more, maybe eat more vegetarian meals each week. Others aren’t what you’d see on your average “to do list”: write a movie script, make a short film or two, maybe travel to the US for a trade show, create some hot videos for For The Girls…

I also want to work on some of my many unused domains this year, getting more sites out there. One of my problems with getting things done last year was blogging, unfortunately. It does take up a lot of time. A while ago I wrote that I wasn’t going to blog as much in favour of doing other work. I didn’t end up following through on that. Maybe this year it will happen. We’ll see.

Happy New Year, everyone. Here’s to a fab 2009.

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