Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
One of the good things about working from home is the ability to drop everything (including blogging) if someone comes to visit. And that’s why there hasn’t been much happening around here the last few days. I’m back now and armed with this lovely photo of a firefighter, taken at a festival on Thursday. He was selling charity calendars of half-naked firefighters and so I thought I’d do a quick Read More …
This week’s movie review at For The Girls is of Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex. When it first arrived in my mailbox I must admit to feeling very nervous about watching it. Rough Sex is not exactly my bag, baby. In the end, though, I appreciated it for what it was: a step in the right direction. Tristan has worked her sex-positive magic on a very prickly topic and turned spitting Read More …
In Berlin last year I had the honour of meeting Jennifer Lyon Bell, an American filmmaker with a compelling vision for erotic film. Her film Matinee is a gorgeous work of art, well written, masterfully acted and beautifully filmed. It is a wonderful addition to the growing canon of well-made, female-focused erotic films and I consider it to be part of the new wave of sex-positive movies that are forging Read More …
Here it is folks, down and dirty MRI pornography! Actually, this video features the animated images taken of a man and a woman having sex in an MRI machine. All for research, of course. The sex bit starts at 1.37 if you can’t wait. Funnily enough, it looks pretty much how you’d expect it to look, although I find the way the woman’s insides move around to be rather fascinating. Read More …
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ~Gloria Leonard My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live. ~Erica Jong, Playboy Magazine, September 1975 Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935 Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection. Read More …
Psychology Today has a great article which nicely debunks the whole hysterical idea that children are in danger from sexual predators while online. It refers to the 278 page report by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force which looked at vast amounts of data about whether children were regularly solicited for sex online (as the hysteria would have us believe). The task force, led by Harvard researchers, looked at reams Read More …
A man, with a hairy chest, in the surf. Just for you. Because I haven’t put a lot of pervy pics up lately. And a few quick words. Filament’s erection campaign was a huge success: they made their sales target AND got plenty of mentions in newspapers and online. Meanwhile, this article about why women watch strippers as opposed to men doesn’t give the whole story. What’s not mentioned is Read More …
Erotica authors (and book cover crusaders) Kristina Lloyd and Mathilde Madden have written a great piece in the Guardian discussing the difficulties Filament has had in printing erect dicks. I liked this bit: When set against the plethora of men’s lifestyle and top-shelf magazines featuring scantily clad and open-legged women, the struggles faced by Filament highlight a deeply entrenched sexism: men can look at women but women cannot look at Read More …
Back in June I reported that ABC’s Nightline was going to show a report women’s interest in porn and sex toys. The piece was bumped several times and it’s only just been broadcast. The report included appearances by Candida Royalle and Nica Noelle. For The Girls was initially contacted by the show but we never heard back from them. In any case, there’s a longish article to accompany the report Read More …
My decision has been made. At the end of October I’m going to attend the 2009 Berlin Porn Film Festival and see the European premiere of my film. It’s a shame I’ll miss the Melbourne festival but in the end the Berlin fest is the one more suited to my own work. My mind was made up when I saw that the BPFF will be focusing extensively on the work Read More …
I’ve just finished watching the amazing documentary NA KAMALEI: The Men of Hula which charts the progress of a group of male Hawaiian hula dancers as they prepare for and compete in the national hula championship in 2005. I must admit, it sounds a bit weird to the casual observer, but damn, the doco was amazing. I got to watch a bunch of buff guys without shirts performing ancient dance Read More …
Within 24 hours of one another I’ve received two emails saying my films have been accepted into two separate festivals: “That’s What I Like” will screen at the Berlin Porn Film Festival and also at the Sexy International Film Festival in Melbourne. The above short film “Paddling The Pink Canoe” has also been accepted at Melbourne. The funny and frustrating thing is that both festivals are on at exactly the Read More …
New magazine Filament wants to put hard cocks in their next issue. Unfortunately the printers are refusing to come to the party, saying that “printing these images may offend women’s groups.” They’re now looking for another printer but need more cash so they’ve launched an “erection drive” in the hope of selling more issues. We’re talking about fighting the system here girls! I can only applaud Suraya’s effort to get Read More …
Here’s a short promo video with snippets from my movie “That’s What I Like” – available exclusively from For The Girls.