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I’ve just spent a couple of days adding over 30 new film listings to Porn Movies For Women.

I’ve created several pages for individual filmmakers and studios including Madison Young, Sweet Sinner and Libido Films.

I’m actually a little embarrassed that I hadn’t added Libido Films earlier. The movies made by Marianna Beck over the last decade truly are good quality porn for women starring real-looking people having real orgasms.

I want to point you towards a great interview done with Marianna and Jack Hafferkamp called Libido Films Laid Bare.

An excerpt:

Are your movies designed to help guys get feminist nookie?
MARIANNA: We think they’re designed to help guys realize what women’s sexual pleasure is really about. And here’s what it really is about . . . clitoral stimulation! So we almost always try to integrate a vibrator in scenes involving partner sex. Vibrators make some guys nervous. But as our friend Betty Dodson puts it, “a smart guy soon figures out that the vibrator is really his best friend.”

What’s the way to a feminist’s heart?
MARIANNA: Showing signs of intelligent life . . . and remembering that clitoral stimulation. If you mean by feminist a woman who is interested in sex and wants to see an erotic story with a storyline, dialogue, and real sex, that’s a good start.

Great philosophy.

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The Independent has a piece about a new women’s erotica magazine being launched in the UK. It’s called Filament and it’s tagline is “the thinking woman’s crumpet.”

Suraya Singh is yet another woman who felt that porn wasn’t offering her what she needed so she’s made her own. She’s got fairly negative things to say about existing women’s erotica, so she’s put me offside somewhat, but all power to her for doing a whole bunch of research into what women want to see.

The Filament version of “what women want” is not Playgirl-style beefcake but “toned men with oval-shaped, often quite feminine faces.” The first issue of the mag features pictorials of said men, found through asking guys on the street if they wanted to pose. There’s no full frontal nudity, although that possibility hasn’t been ruled out.

I do applaud the mag for their list of what they won’t do: diets, celebrities, “men are from mars, women from venus” crap, makeovers, shopping etc. Sounds like the old Australian Women’s Forum ethic that I always found so appealing.

Naysayer Rowan Pelling says he believes making erotica for women is “notoriously difficult.” I do enjoy it when people say that. It thins the herd.

What’s puzzling me is this: why take a risk with a hard copy magazine? If this journal is supposed to be wank material, they’re pushing shit uphill. Meatworld porn just can’t compete with the privacy and instant, easy availability of internet porn. Even if your nude guys have feminine faces. And if you’re not even going to show peen, forget it.

So, what would inspire a woman to buy a magazine with semi-nude male pics in it and wait for it to arrive in the post? I’m really thinking it’s gonna have to be something along the lines of “artistic” in the same way that Black + White magazine can do arty nudes. Then you can buy the thing and just admire the shadowy moody photography and put it on your coffee table.

Either that or the pictorials are a few sexy pages to flick past on your way to the interesting articles, which in the Playboy tradition, is what you’ve really bought the magazine for (no, really, you do). Thankfully, the sample article on the site discussing the ethics of pornography looks well worth reading.

A few years ago Sweet Action was touted as the hip new thing in porn for women. They only made it to 3 issues. I’m very interested to see if Filament can stay the distance.

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I’m updating Porn Movies For Women with a whole bunch of new movies and filmmakers. One new and exciting studio I’m adding is Sweet Sinner run by Nica Noelle. I’m waiting on review copies and really looking forward to seeing the films as they sound really promising. The Stepmother is the first film from Nica.

I went surfing around several online stores to see where the film was available and was struck by the radically different descriptions provided.

Here’s the blurb from Hot Movies:

Stepmothers have been associated with bad, even evil behavior. Which is why young Tera Dice is more than a little suspicious of Dad’s hot, new wife (Michelle Lay). When Tera brings her fiancés Alan Stafford home to meet the family, Michelle can’t hide her burning attraction to her young future son-in-law.

Will husband jay Huntington learn of Michelle’s secret passion? Or will vengeful housekeeper Ann Marie have a different plan in store? Stephanie Swift costars in a scorching encounter with Johnny Castle, in this tale of seduction, forbidden desires, and passion.

Sounds interesting, no?

OK then, try the same film described at Gamelink:

Don’t miss this twisted tale of family intrigue and smoking sex as The Stepmother makes life jhard for everybody – in more ways than one. Stephanie Swift stars as a conniving older woman whose new family can’t even imagine the depravities she is capable of. Dolores is a bitchy harridan with a yen for cock, and she doesn’t care where she gets it or who she crosses, but she’s not the only one with a secret. Her daughter Paige’s fiancé is walking into a web of lust and deceit, but he’s well equipped to handle all the women in the family. Besides, Paige has some secrets of her own to take care of, including a steamy romance with the maid. Everybody gets what they deserve in The Stepmother, starring Stephanie Swift, Tera Dice, Michelle Lay and Ann-Marie Rios and directed by Nica Noelle.

Ever dream about fucking your stepmom? Well these guys are living it. See these stepmoms take it deep in the babymaker and try to give these men a son and a step brother all in one.

Excuse me Gamelink, but WTF?

Way to take a film designed for women and couples and make it sound like the same old sleazy, macho pile of bullshit coming out of 99% of US porn studios.

This, my friends, is why I go around waving my “porn for women” flag. That description embodies the way the porn industry constantly assumes the viewer is male – even if the film is made for women. Sure, maybe the terms “scorching”, “passion” and “forbidden desires” are all a bit Mills and Boon but it sounds a hell of a lot more appealing to me than “bitchy harridan” and “take it in the babymaker.”

Sheesh.

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Buckback Mountain: Clip 4

This is a relatively softcore clip from Buckback Mountain which stars female-to-male transsexual performer Buck Angel. I’ve been a fan of Buck for several years, especially since I interviewed him for For The Girls.

His website is well worth checking out because it does such a damned good job of messing with your head. Buck’s porn challenges ingrained ways of thinking about male and female roles… and it’s also very very sexy.

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Once again I’m neglecting my blog in favour of Twitter, so here’s a lovely naked man photo to keep you amused. I was perusing some older pics today and found this photo of Sebastian. It’s one of my favourites.

You’ll find the full set at For The Girls.

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Romance novels have long been considered to be trashy, something that plenty of women read but should not brag about. Now there are feminists standing up for their right to read good romantic fiction. Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches Guide to Romance Novels recommends the good stuff. There’s a great interview with the author here.

I liked this quote.

MV: Why should feminists read romance novels?

SW: It’s a 50-plus-year-old industry comprised mostly of women writers operating their own businesses and producing a genre about women’s self-actualization, pursuit of autonomy, and acquisition of sexual agency for an audience made mostly of women, who buy over $1.4 billion dollars worth of books a year. No, no, nothing feminist or even subversive about that.

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Here it is, the little film that kept me very preoccupied last week.

“Paddling The Pink Canoe” is a fun look at euphemisms for female masturbation. There are 44 individual slang terms used in the video. If you want the full list, visit the Pink Canoe page at FTG.

I originally only intended to make a short 30 second fun video as a promo for For The Girls but then things started to escalate. I felt like I needed more, so I scanned existing lists of euphemisms for filmable options. The shot list kept growing.

And then I went shopping for props. I went on an exhaustive but unrewarded search for a toy beaver. I found a paper lily but spent two hours looking for gold paint. We couldn’t find a clam at any of the seafood shops or supermarkets so in the end I used a shell from a local river shellfish (and we had rather a lot of fun sticking eyes and a beard on it). I also got very artistic when painting a taco pink and nearly crashed the car looking for signs with a “Y” on them.

After a while my husband and I became slightly deranged, always on the lookout for something euphemistic that we could use. We started to see masturbation everywhere.

The pink canoe was the biggest challenge. I had originally planned to use a toy boat but… well, do you think I could find one? I really didn’t expect to find a real pink canoe but, as luck would have it, a local kayak operator had just got one in the previous day. It was kind of weird to ring up and ask if he had a pink canoe, but he was very cool about the whole thing and even gave us a few euphemism suggestions of his own. I realise that a kayak is NOT a canoe, but we make do with what we can.

Yes, those are corned beef curtains, not ham. We obviously couldn’t do a full sized pair of curtains so a friend helped out with a doll’s house from their shed. That bit is probably the most over-the-top part of the video, but by crikey we giggled a lot when filming it.

So there it is. Not the most professional of movies but a bit of fun. If you like it, please tell your friends!

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If you’re not Australian you’re probably unaware of the big news story from last week involving footballers and rape.

It goes like this: Football team goes on holiday in 2002. A woman meets some of them while out drinking, including Matt Johns, who has since become a TV celebrity here. The woman agrees to have sex with him and one other guy. All goes well… until the rest of the football team climbs through the window and get their respective cocks out. Matt Johns leaves the room, assuming the woman is OK with fucking the rest of them. Six guys have their “turn.” Afterwards the woman complains of rape. The police say there are no charges to answer, the case is dropped.

Cue to last week, when the woman airs her grievances on current affairs program 4 Corners saying the incident has ruined her life. Matt Johns maintains it was all consensual and doesn’t apologise to her until after he’s been excoriated in the media and loses his job on TV. Many opinion pieces are written decrying the behaviour of Johns and wondering why the other men involved haven’t been named.

I should also mention that this isn’t an isolated incident. There have been at least six or seven similar cases of women pressing rape charges against one or more footballers. There is a culture within rugby league known as “bunning” which is apparently a team-building exercise that consists of the whole team having sex with one woman… whether she wants to or not.

The most recent rape case involving a football team occurred when a woman went to check on her sister who had gone into a hotel room with several football players. This woman was consequently raped by them. Not just one or two guys, but a bunch of them, all at once.

Now folks, does this sound like OK behaviour to you?

Well, apparently it does to a lot of people. Because there’s a backlash. And this is what’s prompting me to write this post. I keep hearing friends and relatives saying “Poor Matt Johns, he’s got the rough end of the stick, it’s not his fault, give him his job back. That stupid woman, she consented to it, why is she playing the victim now? She should have known better, she was drunk, she was having sex with 2 guys, that’s risky behaviour, what did she expect.” Etc Etc.

Even the former sex discrimination commissioner Pru Goward helped to blame the victim:

Ms Goward said women had a responsibility not to put themselves into potentially harmful situations.

“If there is a young woman in Australia who does not now know that having sex with one or two men at once is not risky sexual behaviour she perhaps needs to go back and look at a bit more television,” she said.

“Risky sexual behaviour … does not lead to a white wedding.

Yeah, thanks for nothing, Pru.

It seems that plenty of people in this country subscribe to the idea that saying “yes” to 2 guys means you’re automatically available to fuck the whole football team. The idea of the “slut” is alive and well in Australian consciousness. If a female goes out, gets drunk and seek out sex, then she’s fair game. She’s voided her right to dignity or respect.

And it’s tied in with the whole “good bloke” thing. Footballers and other sportsmen like to cultivate a larrikin, good-fun image, they also like to be perceived as hard drinking, tough-guy “real men”, the epitome of admirable masculinity. No poofters, thanks, and hand me a meat pie, I’m a real Aussie.

And this “real man” idea also seems to include the concept of displays of sexual prowess, one that involves getting your rocks off in front of your mates. (No mate, they’re not poofters, I tell you, it’s a very macho thing to do!).

Interestingly, some of the media commenters were happily saying that it was group sex that was the problem – Pru Goward being one of them. Obviously women should only have sex with one man at a time, because anything other than that is far too kinky and slutty and therefore she deserved what she got.

The whole thing has me shaking my head.

Here’s the fact of the matter:

A woman has the right to have sex with whoever she wants. And that can include 2, 3 or more men at once. But it’s a question of consent, always. And if that woman says she didn’t consent to it… then she fucking well didn’t consent to it. So it was rape.

And my friends who are defending the guys… well, they’re upsetting me. Because I know several women who have experienced rape. And not dark alley, stranger rape. I’m talking about situations that started out OK but that turned into unwanted sex, and consequently caused emotional damage.

The people who are defending “poor Matty Johns” are denying the experiences of those women, saying it was their fault, not the rapist’s. And they’re also encouraging a culture of rape, by saying that what happened in that hotel room in 2002 was really OK. Even if that women is upset now, too bad, she should have known better.

That is an attitude we should not be encouraging. It’s one that needs to be denounced, loudly. This culture needs to change.

If you want to read more, here’s a bunch of articles and opinion pieces on the whole thing.
Sex, thugs and rotten role models: it’s not right if she’s not enjoying it – a great piece by Adele Horin
Betrayed by a moment of passion
Why sports stars like group sex – the gang bang is apparently standard
Two more players named in NRL sex case – more women coming forward with rape stories
Talk of Johns’ return as journos take sides – the bogans want him back.
No justification or defence for league’s sex scandals
Ethical men must fight for change: “A person must freely and voluntarily give their consent before sex. They must be able to give consent. They cannot be drugged or drunk. Consenting to a kiss does not mean consent to intercourse, and consenting to have sex with two men is not consent to have sex with 12.”

Pic is of a terribly offensive t-shirt that somehow sums up with too many people think. From this post on Feministing.

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You may have noticed I haven’t been posting much this week. That’s because I’m having too much fun making a little short film. It started out as a 30 second promo and now it’s stretched to 3 minutes and I’m thinking of entering it into film festivals.

Can’t wait to get it finished and out there. The above song by the Divinyls is my ideal choice for the music (which will give you an idea of what the film’s about) but I’ve opted for cheaper royalty free stuff instead.

This is a great song, though and Chrissie Amphlett has always been kickarse when it comes to being aggressively sexy.

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20 years ago today, I first kissed my husband. Yes, it’s kind of obsessive that I remember the date, but it’s one occasion I’ve always thought worth remembering. I was 15 at the time… and pretty new to kissing too. And damn, if it wasn’t a lovely bit of smooching.

It wasn’t love at first kiss, though. The whole thing was a false start. It took us six months to get together, during which time we actually got to know each other well as friends rather than as a potential couple. Turned out for the best in the end.

But damn… there’s a milestone in my life. And 20 years ago. Phew! Hand me my wrinkle cream.

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Found this great video about Candida Royalle on Youtube (via her site). If you’ve never seen any of her films this gives plenty of titillating glimpses into scenes from many of her films, plus a few short interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

I’m surprised Youtube hasn’t deleted it, to be honest. It’s all very raunchy!

You’ll find all of Candida’s films on the Femme page at Porn Movies For Women.

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Sheesh.

I’m shaking my head at this EW article: Is Wolverine the most homoerotic movie ever? The writer declares the whole movie to be GAY GAY GAY because Hugh Jackman takes his shirt off and there’s a naked fight scene. Because male flesh can only ever be shown in a gay context and it’s not like there’d be any chicks in the audience of an action movie, right?

Thankfully a couple of commenters have taken the writer to task, including this guy:

Pete Tue, May 5, 2009 at 09:32 AM EST
Once again we see sexism is alive and well. Why is everything related to MALE perception. If a film shows naked women it’s for straight men. If it shows naked men it’s for gay men. How about all the women who are just looking for a little equal representation in the eye candy?

Bravo, Pete. If that is, in fact, your name.

Meanwhile, this is an excuse to include a photo of Hugh Jackman naked in my blog (even if I did get it from this gay site).

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Here’s a relatively long video report from the Feminist Porn Awards, held on the 25th April. The video is by Xtra which is a queer friendly site and it gives some great interviews from award participants.

What it doesn’t do, however, is give the viewer a complete picture of the awards, mainly because it focuses solely on the queer performers. And I’ve noticed that in the last week, almost all the reports, blog posts and Tweets concerned themselves with the lesbian, trans and queer films that received awards. Even my recent blog post about how the lesbians are creating amazing porn was in the same vein.

But you know what? I feel like this isn’t quite right. Sure, the queer films that won are fantastic and deserve to be lauded, but I feel as if the straight films didn’t really get much of a look in.

Mimi Balfour made an appearance at the awards and her film Man of My Dreams received a special award but she’s rarely been mentioned in the reports I’ve read. Tony Comstock has received his third Feminist Porn Award for Bill and Desiree but you wouldn’t know it unless you check back through the previous award pages. Intense Desires by Lennox Films won Sexiest Straight Film but I’ve got no idea what it’s about and no-one seems to have written about it whatsoever.

There’s a few reasons for the queer emphasis this year. One is that more queer and lesbian films won awards than straight films. That’s not a problem, as the Feminist Porn Awards have always had a large variety of categories that recognise the diversity of new wave porn. The award night itself was heavily attended by the creators and stars of queer and lesbian movies such as Syd Blakovich, Madison Young, Courtney Trouble and Dylan Ryan. Also, the people doing a lot of the blogging about this subject are lesbian or queer so that’s where their interest lies.

Even so, I feel the urge to wave the flag for some of the straight films that won awards and received honorable mentions (especially Jennifer Lyon Bell’s Matinee and Erika Lust’s Barcelona Sex Project). And I also hope that straight women new to the awards don’t write it off as a “gay event”, something that doesn’t involve them. Because that’s exactly the kind of division we don’t need or want.

I love the idea of the Feminist Porn Awards – that’s why For The Girls ended up sponsoring it this year. It’s an inclusive event that recognises ethics and excellence in adult films of all kinds – and yes, that includes straight movies as well.

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I’ve had bad food poisoning for a couple of days thanks to a dodgy batch of salmon. Hence the lack of blogging lately.

Naturally this leads me to quote this scene from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.

“But I didn’t even eat the mousse!”

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