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I’ve just had a mad 5 days attending a film festival, learning a whole lot, making new friends and watching some seriously inspiring movies. It’s also got my creative juices working again.

And this film about Procrastination was one of my favourites, because it sums up what I’ve been doing lately. NOT ENOUGH.

Procrastination is messing about on Facebook.
Procrastination is reading everyone’s posts on Twitter
Procrastination is buggerising about on Youtube
Procrastination is aimlessly wandering around the web with Stumbleupon
Procrastination is reading the Sydney Morning Herald
Procrastination is playing spider, endlessly
Procrastination is watching Oprah
Procrastination is looking for Asterix books on eBay
Procrastination is writing to-do lists without actually doing anything on the list
Procrastination is drinking wine on weeknights
Procrastination is joining Script Frenzy and then not coming up with a single idea
It’s having dozens of ideas and not following through on any of them
Procrastination is owning a bunch of domain names and not getting around to using them
It’s owning Celtx and YWriter and still not really knowing how to start (or how to use the software)

Procrastination is watching videos about procrastination
It’s blogging about the video, and making my own list of individual distractions
It’s putting off changing my life til tomorrow because I’m too tired today

Procrastination is putting off the inevitable.

Procrastination is making a cup of tea.

Procrastination is stopping me from writing a novel. From writing a screenplay. From making a film. From creating more websites. Procrastination is sucking my creativity, wasting my time, slowly eking away the precious seconds of my life.

The procrastination has to stop. Now.

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Just a quickie post which I’ll expand on Monday when I have time:

Good For Her has released the list of nominees for the Feminist Porn Awards 2009. My little short, That’s What I Like, is listed.

This is fab, but I should reveal the facts behind it. I’ve actually withdrawn the film from competition because For The Girls decided to sponsor the awards after I’d posted off the movie. Given the conflict of interest, the film can’t really be in the running. Never mind, though, I’m planning to submit it to a bunch of other adult film festivals.

Oh, and For The Girls is very excited to be a sponsor. This is a great event that needs to be supported!

Update 30th March – Here’s the full list:

The Nominees for the 2009 Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards are (in alphabetical order – director first name)

1. Girls Lusting Girls – Abby Winters – Abbywinters.com
2. Voluptuous Biker Babes – Carlos Batts – Adam and Eve Pictures
3. Padded Cell – Cant Dog Productions
4. Roulette – Courtney Trouble – No Fauxxx
5. Intense Desires – Eli Cross – Lennox Films
6. One Night Stand: Emilie Jouvet – Hyst Productions
7. Barcelona Sex Project – Erika Lust – Lust Films
8. Exploring the O – Jamye Waxman – Adam and Eve Pictures
9. Monogamy without Monotony – Jamye Waxman – Adam and Eve Pictures
10. Toying with Pleasure – Jamye Waxman – Adam and Eve Pictures
11. Matinee – Jennifer Lyon Bell – Blue Artichoke Films
12. Head Shot – Jennifer Lyon Bell – Blue Artichoke Films
13. MySexTherapist.com 2 : Advanced Therapy – Kelly Holland – Chick Media
14. That’s What I Like – Louise Lush – Indigo Lush Media
15. Lesbian Life; Layover – Madison Young – Lesbian Life Productions
16. Lesbian Life: Real Sex San Francisco – Madison Young – Lesbian Life Productions
17. Madison Young’s Bride of Sin – Madison Young – Madison Bound Productions
18. Madison Young’s Tail of a Bondage Model – Madison Young – Madison Bound Productions
19. Perversions of Lesbian Lust – Madison Young – Madison Bound Productions
20. Undone – Madison Young – Madison Bound Productions
21. Strap-On Motel – Maria Beatty – Bleu Productions
22. Skateboard Kink Freak – Maria Beatty – Bleu Productions
23. Sex Mannequin – Maria Beatty – Bleu Productions
24. Post Apocalyptic Cowgirls – Maria Beatty – Bleu Productions
25. New Romantix – Max Royale – Babeland Premieres
26. Man Of My Dreams – Mimi Balfour – Cleopatra Films
27. Red Hot Touch: Genital Massage for Men – New World Sex Education
28. Red Hot Touch: Erogenous Zones and Orgasmic Massage – New World Sex Education
29. Red Hot Touch: Erotic Touch For Sexual Positions – New World Sex Education
30. Red Hot Touch: Exquisite Anal Massage – New World Sex Education
31. Red Hot Touch: Genital Massage For Women – New World Sex Education
32. Girls Kissing Girls – Nica Noelle – Sweetheart Video
33. Lesbian Noir: The Pool Girl – Nica Noelle – Sweetheart Video
34. My Little Minx: A (sort of) Silent Lesbian Farce Nica Noelle – Sweetheart Video
35. Feeling It! Not Faking It – Petra Joy – Strawberry Seductress Films
36. Pixie Licks – Pixie and Andy Ide – Sweetmeat Productions
37. Bag Ladies – Stelllaaa Kowolsky and BJay Pink – Jumbo Grab Productions
38. Champion – Shine Louise Houston – Pink and White Productions
39. Crash Pad Series 3 – Shine Louise Houston – Pink and White Productions
40. Doing It Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project – Tobi Hill-Meyer
41. Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless – Tony Comstock – Comstock Films
42. Couch Surfers: Trans Men in Action – Trannywood Pictures – Brazen Garage Squad Productions
43. Tristan Taormino’s Guide to the G-Spot – Tristan Taormino – Smart Ass Productions & Vivid Ed
44. Penny Flame’s Guide to Handjobs for Men and Women – Tristan Taormino + Penny Flame – Smart Ass Productions & Vivid Ed
45. Chemistry 3 – Tristan Taormino – Smart Ass Productions and Vivid Entertainment
46. Chemistry 4 – Tristan Taormino – Smart Ass Productions and Vivid Entertainment

Amazing that there are so many amazing films to choose from this year! So many different viewpoints and ideas on display. It’s gonna be a great FPA this year!

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Please visit the excellent comic site Girls With Slingshots. The above pic is the punchline from this cartoon satirizing porn for women.

Part of me thinks it’s hilarious that porn for women should involve unicorns. The other part of me sighs and thinks “Shit… do people really still believe that there’s no hardcore porn for women?” Why do some people find it so difficult to find? What search terms are they using? What adult shops are they visiting? Don’t they know about Femplay and Babeland and Good for Her and all those other great places? Don’t they know that For The Girls has been around since 2003? Don’t they know that the dykes are going crazy and making the most cutting edge porn on the net?

We’re here, you know. Maybe we need to hire better PR people…

By the way, sex with unicorns. No. Too, um, horny. Sex with dragons, nup, wrong again. Sex with an elf, however…. schwing! I’m talking about you, Legolas.

Actually, make that Arwen and Aragorn.

Now that would be some fabulous porn. Although perhaps better described as “porn for nerds” rather than all women.

Thanks to Violet Blue for the original link.

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So it’s Monday, the start of a new week and the rest of my life.

Thought I’d better put up a sexy photo post, it’s been a long time between sexiness on this blog, what with all the depression and censorship and stuff. This photo set can be found at For The Girls, of course.

Amid all this frustration and doom and gloom, this photo reminds me why I make porn – I want to see pleasure, joy, intimacy, playfulness and love in the world! I want couples to enjoy sex together, I want women to embrace their sexuality, to explore their sexual possibilities and enhance their relationships. I want chicks to love their bodies and to get off!

I’m not about corrupting anybody, or spreading hatred, or exploiting anybody. I want to make porn better, more ethical and inclusive and realistic and wonderful. I want to make sex better through the use of good, positive porn.

And I want adults to be able to access that porn as they see fit, without interference from anybody else. Personal responsibility, private decisions, individual morality.

Wake up! Porn can and should be wonderful!

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Following on from yesterday’s blacklist post…

Wikileaks went down yesterday but it’s back up again today. I’ve just spent a bit of time going through the list again and making a note of all the adult websites that I’ve heard of before, ones that feature consenting adults or are run by adult companies that I know.

The list contains 40 domains. The majority of them are hardcore sites, a lot in the reality style that I personally find offensive. That doesn’t make them illegal, however. The majority of paysites on the list contain warning pages or make use of ICRA/RTA codes.

Several of the URLs on the blacklist are simple adult linklists. There are 2 adult affiliate program domains, 3 swinger’s meeting sites and 2 BDSM sites (including Hogtied.com) which, according to our classification system, are considered to be “abhorrent.” Also listed is the Alt Sex Stories Text Repository. There were plenty of other domains that looked fine but I wasn’t game to double check them.

There’s also at least 18 gambling/poker domains on the list.

Interestingly, the oldest links – the ones at the bottom of the list – contain very few legitimate URLs (that is, the vast majority of domains listed under the June 1 2007 date ARE illegal CP or rape sites). As time goes on, however, mistakes and bad judgements creep in. It’s indicative of the ad-hoc, complaints based system, combined with an increasingly lazy or moralistic ACMA.

I was going to post my list, but then it occurred to me that it would make the government’s cover-up job a little easier if they knew what shouldn’t be on there. Conroy and the ACMA are claiming the list isn’t theirs, even if the official one resembles it an awful lot. It’s entirely possible that the 40 legitimate adult domains have been put there by an ISP. If that’s the case I’d like to see the government come out and explicitly say that those 40 adult domains are fine.

I don’t think that’s gonna happen.

This is the thing, there’s outrage aplenty over the dentist and the dog kennel, but we need to be outraged about the censorship regular porn sites too. Explicit sexual content featuring consenting adults should be considered protected speech in Australia, end of story.

If you want the list, email me – msnaughty AT msnaughty dot com

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Two days ago I was complaining that the internet filter plan is sucking up my time. Damn, if that hasn’t been true today. At 11am the SMH revealed that the ACMA blacklist of “illegal” sites had been leaked on Wikileaks. Naturally I went straight there to check out what the government authority considers to be “prohibited content.”

As is to be expected, the list is a fairly abhorrent catalogue of child porn and rape sites – which is what Senator Stephen Conroy has been trumpeting about in his quest to censor the net.

Unfortunately the list also has more than its fair share of legitimate adult sites featuring consenting participants: Abby Winters, I Shot Myself, I Feel Myself, Girls Out West, The Hun, XTube and Redtube are all listed, along with Australian linklists like Danger Dave and even Whale Tails – a site that focuses on women wearing their g-strings above the waistline of their jeans. Shocking, no?

The list also contains the site of a dentist, a dog kennel facility, a school tuckshop and a website design company. Beyond that there are gambling and poker sites, euthanasia sites, gay dating sites and LibChrist.com – an online community for Christians who are into swinging and polyamorous lifestyles. Plus, of course, the anti-abortion site which was added after a single complaint by an anti-filter protester to see what would happen.

I checked carefully. None of my sites have been banned.

Yet.

Last week the ACMA was threatening $11,000 a day fines for publishing any URL that was on the blacklist. Even though nobody officially knew what was on the blacklist. Go figure.

Now they’re threatening the fine and 10 years jail to any Australian who publishes the Wikileaks link. Even though Conroy is saying that the list is a fake. If it’s a fake, why the threats?

I found myself feeling suddenly worried. I’ve been linking to Abby Winters and plenty of other blacklisted sites for years! How was I to know I was breaking the law? Thankfully, the fines only apply if your site is hosted in Australia. Thanks to the draconian laws of 2000, all of my hosting money is paid to US providers.

Indeed, it tends to prove how silly the whole idea of internet regulation is. Blogger, Facebook and millions of other sites do not come under the jurisdiction of our puny bunch of pollies. The internet is the world. It can’t (and it shouldn’t) be ruled by any one nation.

There is no constitutional guarantee to freedom of speech in Australia. Thus, it’s possible for the government to compile a secret list of sites deemed unacceptable based on single complaints from individuals. No review process, no appeal. And, until today, no idea what was banned.

Right now this list is used by ISPs for optional filters and by workplaces. Senator Conroy’s plan is to use it as the base for the mandatory nationwide filter. If it goes ahead, no Australian will be able to access Abby Winters, or the Whale Tale site, or even find out about Christian swingers (which, you’ve got to admit, is a pretty amusing site that NEEDS to be seen). It’s patently obvious how much of an imposition this will be on freedom of speech. The list already contains legal sites. What’s to stop the government from secretly adding anything else that irks them?

And there’s more than a touch of Room 101 in the blustering threats of prison and fines for linking to the list. Where is the harm in looking at a list of URLs? Certainly, the majority of them lead to highly offensive or illegal CP sites, but I’m a grown, thinking woman. I calmly and sensibly went through that list to see what was included. I did not click any of the illegal links – I know better than that. I’m sure most people do.

So why is some beaurocrat more morally able to look at this list of links than me? Who decides?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?

I’ve been following this issue all day. It’s been a fascinating example of why the internet is so powerful, and why governments want to clamp down on its use. Within hours, thousands of people in Australia and around the world knew that our government is not being honest with us. We Tweeted about it, blogged it, talked about it, considered options. When the story appeared in our major online newspapers, about 99% of comments were anti-filter. A huge groundswell of opposition to the filter made itself known – and the government has been scrambling and lying to protect its position.

This is our revolution. We’ve got to protect it, or the bastards will snatch it away forever.

By the way, if you want to look up the blacklist for yourself, type “Wikileaks” or “ACMA blacklist txt” into Google.

There. I didn’t link to it.

Edit: Just have to add this pic, thanks to Overclockers.

Another edit: If you can get to Canberra this weekend, attend the March In March anti censorship protest.

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There’s another porn movie for women on the scene. This one is softcore and created by a TV executive, backed by market research. Man Of My Dreams features 7 vignettes with a variety of fantasy men – the fireman, the handyman etc – and is 38 minutes long.

The film and its director, Mimi Balfour, scored a decent write up in the National Post. Mimi told the paper: “There was nothing soft and sexy for women who want to dip their toe in the adult-content area,” she says. “I wanted something intelligent, with a sense of humour.”

I’m gonna have to be cynical here and say that EVERY porn for women creator says that there was nothing available for women… until they made it. And a lot of consumers go for it, I guess, so it’s a good marketing spiel. Of course, the real truth is that the “for women” market is growing exponentially. Aside from the indie producers who are making the really good stuff, a lot of larger porn studios have run out of gonzo ideas and decided to try for the “chick market” – with mixed results.

That said, it’s always good to see someone bringing their own perspective and ideas to the genre. I haven’t seen the film but it looks very appealing.

Mimi has been announced as a speaker at the Feminist Porn Awards on April 24.

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You may have noticed that the blog has been scarce with posts recently. That’s because I took another week off, relaxing and trying to recover from a bad RSI attack. The house I stayed in only had dialup, which decreased my computer use substantially – and a lovely thing it was too.

Now I’m home again and over the last couple of days have been sucked into the usual round of news-reading, Twitter feeds and trying not to procrastinate. And, fuck, if it isn’t depressing.

I came back feeling motivated and creative, but in the last few days I’ve felt overwhelmed and pessimistic. A lot of this is thanks to the ongoing bullshit that is the Australian plans for a mandatory internet filter. In the last few days it’s emerged that the “watchdog” is happy to blackban political sites on the say-so of a single person. The people who want the filter are still telling the same lies and it seems that everyday punters continue to believe the nonsense.

And then I find that Britain, Germany and a bunch of other countries are all planning their own filters citing Australia as some kind of magical filter paradise.

Friends, the seige of the free internet has begun. The politicians have realised that the internet has given us POWER. We’re able to make decisions, to muster support and to make our voices heard without the mainstream media getting in our way. We’re mobilising. We’re active. And we’re fucking powerful. They’re going to do their best to try and stop us, and they’re going to use porn and “the children” as their excuse.

That’s the other depressing thing. I keep seeing so many news items about porn lately and it’s always reported in a negative fashion. Porn is the great, amorphous enemy, despoiling lives hither and yon. Never mind that religion does far more damage in the world, it’s our clits and cocks that are the problem!

These are big issues and I want to wave the flag and encourage the fight… but, damn, if it isn’t draining and very, very difficult to be involved. And it makes it hard to do my everyday work, because I’m always spending brainpower thinking about how to argue against the filter and its supporters. At the same time, I feel the future looming like a black thundercloud. We’ve had a wonderful twenty years but now the fight for online freedom is about to begin in earnest.

I do hope the other free countries of the world are watching what goes down here in Oz with regards to the filter, because if it goes ahead it will be like a big green light to other repressive governments.

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The Times Online has an extended article on an elite swingers/sex club currently operating in London – Killing Kittens. It caters specifically for women and aims to take the sleaze out of swinging.

It’s about women — not alpha females who storm up to men — but feminine and sensual ones who can go and dance around in their underwear and drink with no pressure and no expectations, just free to feel sexy and have fun.” This “girls make the rules and only girls can break the rules” ethos certainly seems to work for many of the ones who go. Much of the feedback is positive. Wildly so. “For me, it’s a bit of a journey,” explains a recent female convert.

An interesting idea. Unfortunately the writer of the article attacks the issue with a distinctly sex-negative bias. She questions the idea that anyone would want to have guilt-free sex, suggesting that there must always be something wrong with the participants.

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This week’s update at For The Girls features my new short video “That’s What I Like.” If you’ve been following me on Twitter you’ll know I had a big weekend shooting this movie and an eventful couple of weeks editing it. Now it’s live at FTG and I’m so pleased with it.

The official blurb for the movie is:

“That’s What I Like” portrays one woman’s individual sexual preferences, in words and in the flesh. This short 10 minute film aims to offer an intimate portrait of sensual heterosexual sex. Realistic and arousing, it also affirms the right of women to express their sexuality through the medium of film.

The movie is 10 minutes long and I love the way it looks. Filming was quite a learning experience, challenging but ultimately rewarding. Our two actors were gorgeous, very easy to work with and did a great job.

I’m looking forward to making more great porn for women videos in the future.

In the meantime, you can find this video at For The Girls. Next month we’re uploading a much longer version of their sex scene.

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It’s not surprising, but a study of which US states consume more online porn has found that “red” states are up for it more often. New Scientist has found that those states with more conservative and religious populations tend to be the biggest consumers of porn. Utah tops the list.

Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year’s presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama.

Interestingly, church goers bought less porn on Sundays but they made up for it during the week.

States where a majority of residents agreed with the statement “I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage,” bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behaviour.”

“One natural hypothesis is something like repression: if you’re told you can’t have this, then you want it more,” Edelman says.

As Jesus said: “Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the giant throbbing sticky penis in your own hand?” Or something like that.

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Just spreading the word about two academic researchers that need porn-loving women to fill out their surveys.

Firstly, a Women’s Studies MA student called Hayley is asking feminists for their views on porn. Here’s you chance to kick Andrea Dworkin in the butt again, girls. Tell her what you think here.

Secondly, PhD candidate Susana Mayer needs to know about the sexuality of post-menopausal women – especially those who like porn. If you’re over the hot flushes, click here to help her out.

It’s worth taking the time to help research into women and porn. For so long we’ve been hearing the “women aren’t visual” schtick. It’s nice to get some real science and research on our side!

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