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Archive for April, 2010

This, my friends, is the full cover of Petra Joy’s new DVD Her Porn 2 which has been unleashed onto the world.

Aside from the general fabulousness of this movie, which includes short films from famous directors such as Candida Royalle, Annie Sprinkle, Shine Louise Houston and Maria Beatty, it also includes my film That’s What I Like!

Yes folks, it’s finally on DVD, along with the other finalists from the Petra Joy Awards. So this must mean I’m a REAL pornographer now. 10 years online and a hugely successful paysite doesn’t count. I’m now on a hard copy digital format so I must be real.

Here’s the official blurb:

This compilation celebrates the best porn made by women for women: from sensational porn classics by pioneering directors to the latest erotic flicks by new female directors from around the world.

HER PORN seduces with nearly three hours of sensual viewing pleasure.

What do women want in sex and porn? HER PORN has the answer. We hope you will enjoy the many different flavours of female-made porn – from vanilla to kinky, straight to queer and soft to hard.

The film is in the process of being distributed and I can’t really name any online places to buy it beyond the European store Openerotik.com. And of course, you can order through Petra’s site.

I’ll do another post soon with the trailer for the film, plus a bit more information. But for now, just enjoy the cover. Yes. That’s Mia and Andy right underneath the big red letters. Ooh, I feel all funny.

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The Examiner reports that a conservative “family” group operating on the campus of Princeton University has created a petition protesting against a planned lecture by Tristan Taormino on feminist porn.

Tristan is due to speak tomorrow at the campus. Her presentation is called “My Life As a Feminist Pornographer” and will feature clips from her films.

According to the Examiner, The Anscombe Society is a student organization at Princeton University “dedicated to affirming the importance of the family, marriage, and a proper understanding for the role of sex and sexuality.” The anti-porn group has put up posters condemning the event and created an online petition which currently has 274 signatures. They’ve also written to numerous university officials calling for the event to be cancelled and expressed disapproval at the government funding it has received.

The university has responded by saying it’s a legitimate academic discussion, aided by examples. Nice to see the uni standing up for freedom of speech and honest intellectual discussions.

And I bet the Anscombe society is never invited to Porn and Prawn nights off campus.

More details in this report from the Daily Princeton.

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Trying to clean out my office cupboard I came across a Magnamail catalogue from about 1988. Amid its many stunning mail-order items was this ad for a “Cordless Super Massager.”

Yes folks, that’s a great big bendy dong vibrator.

I especially enjoy the line: “Shaped to fit under the skin around the eyes and brows where wrinkles occur.”

At least in 2010 we don’t have to pretend that a big penis-shaped vibrator is anything other than a sex toy.

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Monday, April 26 was the first official Boobquake This strangely viral event was first suggested by atheist feminist Jennifer McCreight on her blog Blag Hag. Jen’s suggestion was inspired by the nonsense spouted by an Islamic cleric suggesting that women’s immodesty caused earthquakes. Her original blog post reads:

This little bit of supernatural thinking has been floating around the blogosphere today:

“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Sedighi is Tehran’s acting Friday prayer leader.

I have a modest proposal.

Sedighi claims that not dressing modestly causes earthquakes. If so, we should be able to test this claim scientifically. You all remember the homeopathy overdose?

Time for a Boobquake.

On Monday, April 26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own. Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that’s your preferred form of immodesty.

Jen set up a Boobquake Facebook page which has since gone viral, with almost 70,000 fans. With the day finished, it seems to have been a success: there’s been no major earthquakes recorded there’s been one relatively big earthquake in Taiwan. But still, since earthquakes happen every single day, it’s neither here nor there. I prefer the way the Register put it: Boobquake fails to destroy planet.

Jen’s original idea was to send up the completely unscientific claims of a religious nutbag. She wanted to thumb her nose at the idea that “modesty” is the ultimate ideal for women and to deny the assertion that dressing “immodestly” causes men to rape.

Nonetheless, that idea seems to have been subsumed in the last week as a number of feminists have denounced the whole concept as against the sisterhood. The Boobquake, they claim, can’t possibly be a feminist event, especially because so many men have jumped on the bandwagon with cries of “show us your tits!” They say that Boobquake feeds into old ideas about judging women only by their appearance. Someone has suggested a “Brainquake” as an alternative.

Showing off your boobs, it seems, is always a capitulation to the enemy. And the enemy is men, of course. Thus, Jen has been cast as a traitor to feminism for coming up with the idea of the Boobquake.

I’ve got no time for that kind of anti-sex feminism. When the main point is to give the middle finger to a religious dictatorship that bans women from wearing whatever they want, why are some feminists telling women to cover up?

Women’s rights are human rights. And women should be allowed to wear what they want – and that includes happily showing off their boobs on the internet. If that is her choice, it’s a feminist choice. She may be making a political statement or she may be doing it to make money or she may just be an exhibitionist. Whatever the case, it’s her choice.

What’s interesting here is that it’s the Boobquake participants who are considered to be betraying feminism. Why? Where is the criticism for the men who are making the “show us your tits!” comments? Surely that’s where our attention should go. If women want to show off their boobs to make a political statement, the guys should offer their support, not make inane and juvenile comments.

Yes, women’s bodies have been commercialised and objectified by Western society but condemning any overt display of sexuality is not the way to fight the problem. That’s simply replacing one form of oppression with another.

I’m happy that thousands of women are showing off their boobs as part of a political statement. It’s sending a message to the religious crazies of the world: we’re proud of our bodies and we refuse to be told what to do simply because your dusty old book says something misogynist. In short: fuck off.

Here’s another great post about the feminist response to Boobquake. I love this quote:

Don’t let ideological feminists shame you into covering yourself up, or pressure you into exposing yourself. Your body is YOURS. It is yours to show off however you like, whether physically, intellectually, or otherwise.

Jen also offered this clarification in her blog. She is amazed that what she considered to be a casual joke has gone so crazy.

Update: Here’s Jen’s official scientific analysis of Boobquake. What a shock: all that immodesty did not increase the average number of daily earthquakes.

I love that she has gone to so much effort to turn this into a proper science experiment. She’s a wonderful nerd!

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These lovely little plants are from the genus Clitoria, commonly known as the Butterfly Pea. Obviously the garden term isn’t as sexy as the official scientific name. Clearly the scientists were feeling a little horny on the day they named this flower. According to Wikipedia:

This genus was named after the human female clitoris, for the flowers bear a resemblance to female pudenda. Originally the first described species of the genus was given the name Flos clitoridis ternatensibus in 1678 by Rumpf, a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company. It was regarded as appropriately named by Johann Philipp Breyne in 1747. Many vernacular names of these flowers in different languages are similarly based on references to a woman’s sexual organ.

I like it. Who needs roses when you can have these raunchy plants in your garden?

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I used to be a librarian. Some people are surprised that I then became a pornographer but a newly released survey shows that librarians are actually very sexy people.

Way back in 1992, Will Manley conducted a survey of over 5000 librarians, asking a slew of very personal questions about sex. The Wilson Library Bulletin refused to run it so now, after all this time, he’s posted the results on the internet. YAY!

The survey found that 20% of librarians had actually had sex in a library and that 61% had rented an X-rated movie. 91% had read The Joy of Sex. 20% thought sex without love equated to bad sex. What’s really fun, however, are the tongue-in-cheek questions:

Question 13 – Shakespeare and “the 1st Time”
When asked to pick the Shakespearean title that best described their first sexual encounter, 28% chose Comedy of Errors; 23% chose Midsummer’s Night Dream; 22% chose Much Ado About Nothing; 21% chose All’s Well That Ends Well; and 6% chose Rape of Lucrece.

Question 14 – Genre Fiction and Sex Lives
38% of the respondents classified their sex life as a “romance”; 31% as a fantasy; 22% as a comedy, and 9% as a tragedy.

It’s a great read. It tends to confirm my experiences of other librarians – I’ve found them to be open-minded and less conservative when it comes to sexual issues and they often have a wicked sense of humour. I’d love to see the survey repeated with 2010 librarians.

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LIFE LOVE LUST


This is the trailer for Erika Lust’s new film Life Love Lust. As you can see it looks amazing – really high production values and interesting imagery galore. I think Erika’s films are the real future of porn: good quality, interesting stories, hot sex. And I also applaud Erika’s unapologetic determination to cater to straight women.

The official blurb is:

LIFE: After finishing the day in the restaurant they both work in, a chef and a waitress have an incredible encounter to celebrate his birthday. LOVE: A fourty-something executive seduces a young man she sporadically meets in a city hotel. LUST: Lola uses all her sensual body to give an intense skin on skin massage to a shy and lonely woman, driving her to the most pure extasis. LIFE LOVE LUST are three erotic audiovisual jewels by the acclaimed director Erika Lust. This DVD also features two awarded short movies about fetishism: LOVE ME LIKE YOU HATE ME and HANDCUFFS.

The movie is officially released on May 1 but you can pre-order it from the official site here and score extra goodies. You can also watch another trailer and view pics from the movie. Erika’s blog also makes for great reading.

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Sexy genderqueer porn star Jiz Lee has started a special side project for charity called Karma Pervs. The idea is that each month she’ll be offering an exclusive photoset of herself plus a number of extras to members.

She’ll then use the money raised for worthy causes, such as the Stop AIDS Project. The price is $7.99 for a month. Because it’s new you won’t get many back issues for that money, but think of it as a donation with benefits. Here’s a peek at the April photo shoot.

I’m an unabashed fan of Jiz Lee. She’s smart, articulate and very sexy, the perfect lesbian for any straight girl’s “conversion” fantasy. Last night I saw her in Madison Young’s The Thin Line Between Art And Sex. Her sex scene is amazing and the film also features a lovely interview with her. Did you know she’s originally from Hawaii and used to do hula dancing?

You’ll find out more about Jiz on her official site.

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I’m helping a friend out with his online bookshop today which means I’ve spent several hours cataloguing books and wishing I had time to read them all.

I’m pleased to say I’ve encountered a number of great books about sex but the one I’m dying to get my hands on is Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex & Science by Mary Roach.

This is a book that offers you a huge number of weird and wonderful scientific facts about sex and at the same time aims to make your sex life better. What more could you want from a book?

Here’s the official blurb:

If you can transplant a face, then why not a penis? Why doesn’t Viagra help women or, for that matter, pandas? Does an orgasm boost fertility? Cure hiccups? Do the earlobes swell during sex? Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Can Kegeling cure erectile dysfunction? Can Broadway musicals cause it? Is vaginal orgasm a myth?

The study of sexual physiology – what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better – has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci, James Watson and Napoleon Bonaparte’s great grand-niece Marie. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centres, pig farms, sex-toy R & D labs, and Alfred Kinsey’s attic. Mary Roach has devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. The result is Bonk – everything you wanted to know about sex but couldn’t imagine that someone in a white lab coat had studied. Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as satisfying sex. Bonk is both an ode to a fascinating and vital pursuit and a reminder that there is still much to learn. Sexual arousal and orgasm are two of the most complex, delightful, utterly amazing scientific phenomena on earth. Sexology, as Roach approaches it, is right up there too.

So the amazing bookshop I’m helping out is Embiggen Books which is a science, art and reason-celebrating bookshop. If you’re Australian you’ll find it cheaper to order from this shop than Amazon thanks to the reduced postage.

They’ve also got a surprising amount of books about sex – but they’re all guaranteed to be smart, sexy and engrossing.

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This is too amusing to not blog about: figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research show that more assaults, thefts and sexual assaults occurred in churches than in adult entertainment premises in Australia in 2008.

A breakdown of the figures showed that 85 people were assaulted in places of worship, compared to 66 at an adult entertainment premises.

According to the report, places of worship include churches, synagogues, monasteries, mosques, convents, cathedrals and chapels.

Premises listed under adult entertainment included strip clubs, sex shops, brothels, massage parlours, homosexual clubs, gaming houses as well as gambling clubs.

Places of worship were also ahead on sexual offences (16), theft from motor vehicles (33), resisting arrest (7) and liquor offences (10).

Harassment and threatening behaviour at places of worship (30) was more than double that of adult entertainment (13).

Funnier still, 20 people were charged with possession of marijuana in a church in 2007.

I’m looking at these figures and wonder whether our current laws have it right after all; you can’t have a strip club within 500m of a church. Maybe because it’s so dangerous in them thar churches and may cause offense to strip club patrons.

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On Saturday the 10th in Toronto, Good For Her announced the winners of the 2010 Feminist Porn Awards. They are:

Best Bi Movie – Fluid: Men Redefining Sexuality | Madison Young | Reel Queer Productions
Hottest Dyke Movie and Hottest Kink Movie| River Rock Women`s Prison | Kathryn Annelle | Triangle Films
Most Deliciously Diverse Cast | Dangerous Curves | Carlos Batts | HeartCore Films
Hottest Feature Film | The Band | Anna Brownfield | Hungry Films
Most Tantalizing Trans Film | Speakeasy | Courtney Trouble| Reel Queer Productions
Sexiest Short | Handcuffs | Erika Lust | Lust Films
TheSmutty Schoolteacher Award for Sex Education | Tristan Taorminos Expert Guide to Anal Pleasure for Men | Tristan Taormino | Vivid Ed and Smart Ass Productions
Best Direction | Des Jours Plus Belles Que La Nuit | Jennifer Lyon Bell & Murielle Scherre | Blue Artichoke Films + La Fille’ D’O
Sexiest Straight Movie | The Deviant | Nica Noelle | Sweet Sinner Video
Good Releasing Emerging Filmmaker Award | Tobi Hill-Meyer
Heartthrob of the Year | April Flores
The Boundary Breaker | Jiz Lee
The Visionary | Shine Louise Houston
The Trailblazer | Tristan Taormino
Hottest Website: Rubysdiary.com

Honorary mentions
Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn
Women Love Porn
Sensual Massage for Pregnancy
Cocksucker

Congratulations to all the winners. You’ll find more info about them and their films on the GFH website.

For The Girls was nominated for Best Website but I’m not really surprised we didn’t win. Maybe when this bastard of a new member’s area is done and we are finally able to forge ahead with all our plans for new content… next year we’ll get the gong. And even then if we don’t, not to worry. To me, seven years of amazing success and happy members is reward enough.

Edit 13th April: Here’s a couple of news stories:
The New Pornographers – Torontoist
San Francisco’s 2010 FPA Winners – The Examiner
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Stanford Magazine reports on the extraordiary discovery of a sex survey conducted in the 1890s by Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher, a professor at that university. The good Dr. collected questionaires asking women to reveal their intimate thoughts on sex. It’s now the earliest known sex survey on record and reveals some surprising information about Victorian-era women.

The Mosher Survey recorded not only women’s sexual habits and appetites, but also their thinking about spousal relationships, children and contraception. Perhaps, it hinted, Victorian women weren’t so Victorian after all.

Indeed, many of the surveyed women were decidedly unshrinking. One, born in 1844, called sex “a normal desire” and observed that “a rational use of it tends to keep people healthier.” Offered another, born in 1862, “The highest devotion is based upon it, a very beautiful thing, and I am glad nature gave it to us.”

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Slightly more than half of these educated women claimed to have known nothing of sex prior to marriage; the better informed said they’d gotten their information from books, talks with older women and natural observations like “watching farm animals.” Yet no matter how sheltered they’d initially been, these women had—and enjoyed—sex. Of the 45 women, 35 said they desired sex; 34 said they had experienced orgasms; 24 felt that pleasure for both sexes was a reason for intercourse; and about three-quarters of them engaged in it at least once a week.

Dr. Mosher was a very determined woman and an early feminist. The article is well worth reading.

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That’s right… this is supposed to be a porn blog. My apologies to all those who come here looking for juicy smut. I’ve been a bit remiss with posting pics lately.

So here’s some lovely photos of completely naked, rock hard erect men in the great outdoors. Most definitely not safe for work.

You’ll find the full sets of these photos at For The Girls

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Here he is again, my favourite silly flash animation, Mr Tweak A Thon. Press 9!

I wish I knew the title of the song or who performed it.

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I’m a very grumpy blogger this week, as you’ll know if you’ve been reading my Twitter stream. I had every intention of flying to Canada to finally attend the Feminist Porn Awards this year. I’ve supported the awards since the very beginning and wanted to be there, especially as For The Girls is nominated for best website.

Alas, our best website is what has kept me here. I’m now into the 5th month of a long running battle with a design company to re-do the FTG member’s area. I won’t go into details; suffice to say it’s a cluster fuck. Trying to get it finished has kept me here. And my goodness, it’s made me very unhappy.

Still, I thought I’d best do a blog post and add a few links to some of the pre-show press given to the awards this year.

The best in feminist porn is an overview from Xtra which is Canada’s gay and lesbian news.
Tristan Taormino: A pioneer in porn is an interview and feature of the direct by the same site.
The Feminist Touch – an overview in Varsity.ca
Feminist porn awards selects New Zealand films – a report on NZ director Astrid Glitter’s 2 nominations. Astrid is attending the awards.
Porn reporter Gram Ponante has a sly interview with Alison Lee here.

So best of luck to all the nominees. Wish I could be there. Dammit.

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