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Our latest update at For The Girls features an exclusive interview with Spanish erotic filmmaker Erika Lust. I reviewed her film Life Love Lust last week and absolutely adored it. Its three stories are engaging, well executed and very sexy.

One of the more impressive things about this movie is the stunning cinematography. Erika says she shot it in high definition on a Canon 7D. This is the camera that has indie filmmakers raving because it can create such glorious film-like results for very little money. Having seen this film, I now want one.

You can watch Life Love Lust at Hotmovies or via Erika’s own site.

Here are a few pics from the film:

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Chas from The Chaser decides to road test some of your classic porn cliches – the plumber, the pizza boy, the pool cleaner. Good fun.

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“Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you… Fanta Pants.” – Marieke Hardy

It’s been a bit of a whirlwind 24 hours. I’ve got no work done at all because I’ve been glued to Twitter, news sites and the TV as the Australian political landscape shifted before my eyes.

Australia now has its first female prime minister, Julia Gillard. She was not directly elected to this role; rather, she’s now in the top job after a leadership spill that saw members of the ruling Labor party vote for her rather than Kevin Rudd. Our Westminster style of government can be brutal like this and part of me is a little sad that it all had to happen this way.

Nonetheless, as I watched Julia being sworn in as PM by our first ever female Governor-General, I felt a little shiver. I was watching a defining moment in our history. Finally, a woman holds the highest political office in the land. As someone said on Twitter: “At last, Australia has moved in to the 20th Century.”

Australia was only the second country in the world to give women the vote in 1901 so we’re overdue for this. A timeline of other first female leaders shows that 43 other nations have installed women as prime ministers or presidents before us. The very first was Sri Lankan Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 1960; Margaret Thatcher was the 6th.

Julia Gillard has been in parliament since 1998 and was Deputy Prime Minister from 2007 til now. I’m not sure if she’s going to make any of the political changes I desperately want her to make, like dumping the internet filter policy or properly implementing policies to prevent further climate change. In theory she’s a leftie but the last couple of years have shown that she’s really a political pragmatist with a strong predilection for spin. Politically, she could well be a huge disappointment for me.

Still, I’m feeling far too happy that she’s got the job. Only 3 days ago Kevin Rudd was kowtowing to the Christian Right via a closed webcast to churches. Julia has gone on record as saying she’s “non-religious” which means we might see an end to the increasingly disturbing sway of Christians over our government.

Demographically, Julia is also very unusual… and my kind of girl. She’s unmarried (but in a happy de facto relationship) and made the decision not to have children. This is groundbreaking stuff if you consider she’s flouted the prevailing wisdom of “family values”. She’s been abused for being “barren” and therefore not understanding the lives and needs of Australian women and naturally I call bullshit on that. I do think however, that her decision not to have kids has helped her get to the top job. I think politics is such a nasty business that you have to give it all your attention; most men in power leave child-raising to their wives and do this without criticism. She should be offered the same respect. She made a decision that would mean she didn’t have to make compromises with her career or family and I absolutely admire her for that.

Of course, I can’t help but feel supportive of her because she’s a redhead like me. We’re a minority and easily picked on in this country. The twitter feed was awash with bluey, ginger and ranga jokes (”I for one welcome our new ranga overlords” was popular). And hell, even I like to use the term “Fanta Pants” because it’s one of the more amusing phrases. We redheads don’t get that many role models – the best I could do was Sarah Ferguson in the 80s – so it’s great to see one of us up there. Julia even mentioned it in her speech, that she might be the first redhead PM (not true, though, that was James Scullin in the 20s). One of the more amusing cartoon depictions labels her as the Powerfox, a name which seems rather apt.

The hair is one thing. It will be interesting to see if the media gives in and starts making comments on her clothes and general appearance. I hope she doesn’t let them get away with it. Whatever her politics, Julia Gillard is a very clever and powerful woman who does not deserve to be marginalised because of her gender.

Still, she’s already been called an ugly, witchy, shrill bitch. All the usual terms for a powerful woman. I’m sure she’s used to it by now.

So there it is. In spite of my happiness with Julia’s elevation, I still won’t be supporting Labor. I still think anyone who cares about free speech and human rights should vote for The Sex Party in the Senate and the Greens in the lower house.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled smut.

Pics from the SMH, News.com.au and Crikey.

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I might be a little late with this – Ellen and John Stewart have already had a good laugh about this ad. But I might as well post it. It’s PUMPED full of very muscly guys who look like they’re, well, you know. It’s kind of erotic, actually.

I have my doubts about the science behind this. Rapid movement like that looks like it might cause RSI but not actually build muscle. Consumer Search says it doesn’t do a whole lot and “can be embarrassing to use.”

Here’s a parody ad that’s rather amusing as well (although interesting that it has to declare the muscle men to be gay – there’s that male gaze again.)

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There’s a part of me that’s still rather stunned that in 2010, people are conducting research into whether “the vaginal orgasm” exists. Because for a while now, I’ve held the opinion that the concept of the vaginal orgasm is nonsense, and not just because of that lovely 1970 feminist essay The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.

For me, the idea was put to bed in 1999 when Dr. Helen O’Connell published her ground-breaking research that revealed our little friend the clitoris is a hell of a lot bigger than anyone thought. Her anatomical studies showed the clitoris extended deep into the pelvis and surrounded the vagina and that, given the reach of the little man in the boat, any orgasms achieved through vaginal stimulation occurred via indirect stimulation of the clitoris. It’s really the most sensible explanation.

Nonetheless there seems to be a continuing meme that says orgasms obtained via stimulation of the vagina or G-spot alone are somehow anatomically different. I don’t think the anatomy bears this out. If we consider that we don’t talk about male orgasms in terms of “penile orgasms” versus “prostate orgasms”, why do we keep making this distinction with women? Female orgasms originate in the clitoris but other forms of stimulation can set it off.

In any case, this rant has been inspired by the research detailed here which was looking into the relationship of the clitoris and the vagina during orgasm. They performed sonograms on a number of women, both at rest and when performing kegel exercises. The women were asked to identify their G-spot during the sonogram. The researchers found that clenching the pelvis brings the clitoris much closer to the vagina… and the G spot was the place where the clit came in closest.

Which suggests that the G-spot is a part of the vagina that can easily reach the clitoris. The fact that some women can’t find their G-spot can then be explained by natural anatomical differences. Indeed, the whole thing where 30% of women can get off from penetration alone suggests these lucky women won some kind of biological jackpot because their clitorises are closer to the vag.

This is speculation on my part but the research does seem to point in that direction. So, there’s your science lesson for today.

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I remember when I stopped reading Cosmopolitan in my first year of university. It was one of the best things I ever did. The endless fashion, diets and super-skinny models always left me feeling bad about myself so I decided that it would be best if I just disengaged from that aspect of “women’s culture.”

It’s 20 years on and Cosmo hasn’t changed. Still, it’s a hugely popular magazine that many women do enjoy and when they come up with a sex survey, I can’t help but be a little curious. If you can get past the very first question which reveals that absolutely none of the respondents identified as gay, there’s some interesting titbits in there.

Naturally I leapt on this statistic:

Have you ever watched porn?
37% said yes, I love it
23% said yes, but only with a boyfriend
15% said yes, once – but I didn’t like it
14% said no, but I’d be open to it
8% said no, I hate the idea.
3% said no, because it’s exploitative

That’s statistically larger than a lot of other surveys suggest. The average figure seems to be 30% (a la Nielsen Netratings) but UK Cosmo women are keener on their porn – whether enjoying it by themselves or using it as a tool within their sexual relationship. That’s 60% right there. Add the other 14% who didn’t have a problem with the idea and you’re pretty much saying that 75% of Cosmo readers are OK with porn. Quite the impressive statistic.

Also, I think I’ll gloat a bit that not a lot of Cosmo chicks are into Dworkinesque anti-porn feminism – a measly 3%. Seems the Stop Porn Coalition have a long way to go to win over your average woman into their “all porn is bad” campaign.

OK, so this was an online self-selected survey done by a commercial women’s magazine. The page doesn’t say exactly how many women did the survey (beyond “thousands”) or what the demographics were, so it’s not the most scientific bit of research out there. Nonetheless, if we consider the sheer numbers of women who do read Cosmopolitan, it certainly suggests that more and more women are openly enjoying porn.

Just to give an idea of some of the other trends, based on what was most popular:
Your average Cosmo woman has sex 2-3 times a week in the missionary position, doesn’t have an orgasm as often as she would like and rarely has an orgasm from penetrative sex alone (oral sex or manual stimulation is better). She will still fake orgasms occasionally, will rarely have sex on the first date and prefers men who make her laugh.

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This is an ad for a perfume called “Vulva” which is apparently “the intimate scent of a beautiful woman” that a company has bottled “for your own smelling pleasure.”

That’s right folks, these people are selling pussy smell in a jar. I have no idea what it smells like but they’re obviously keen to shift units via viral marketing. What to make of the above ad? It’s a bit like an erotic train smash, kind of alluring and sexy but also leaves you feeling creeped out and wondering if you should call the authorities. If only all weird bicycle seat sniffers looked that good.

The ad is really a testament to good filmmaking; the techniques and models employed make the whole scenario look fantastic. Imagine if we had other weird porny acts shot with this kind of nice lighting? Ass To Mouth might suddenly become palatable.

Actually, no. Scratch that. A-T-M is NEVER going to be sexy as far as I’m concerned.

Thanks to Giselle from Abby Winters for the vid.

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Violet Blue has announced the winners of her video contest at Our Porn Ourselves. Lexi Love’s discussion of porn in Times Square came first and the Ursulaorelse’s video (above), which I really like, came second. Ursula’s movie is short, sweet and does an excellent job of getting the message across.

For The Girls was a sponsor of the contest. It’s great to see so many women come out in support of our right to enjoy sexually explicit material.

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Today we’re launching the official For The Girls 7th birthday contest – The Female Gaze Erotic Film Competition.

The idea is to encourage representation of female perspectives in erotic film. We’re looking for short film submissions, under 10 minutes, that are erotic and embody the female gaze – a woman’s perspective of sex and sexuality. It doesn’t have to be explicit, although that’s always nice. It does have to include the number 7 within some part of the film.

The winner gets US$400 and a screening at Cinekink Film Festival in New York – thanks to the lovely Lisa for teaming up with For The Girls in this. The winner and runner up will feature in the member’s area at For The Girls. We’ll also consider licensing any other worthy films in our shortlist and the top 6 will get automatic consideration at Cinekink.

It’s not officially part of the comp but if I can swing it I’ll look into making the shortlisted films into a DVD. I can’t say that’s definite yet because I don’t know what sort of movies we’ll be getting or whether I can secure any kind of distribution. But it’s a possibility further down the track.

So if you’re an aspiring filmmaker, now might be the time to pick up the camcorder. It doesn’t have to be a hardcore epic or an Oscar-winning masterpiece. In essence, this competition is about encouraging creativity and erotic exploration, about taking a woman’s experience of sex and finding a way to visually depict it in your own way.

This competition follows on from Petra Joy’s awards held in Berlin last year – which I won. Having participated in that and having seen the gorgeous other films that were finalists, I want to see more and I want to encourage more filmmakers like me. Everyone has their own ideas about what is sexy and erotic. Here’s a chance to put it out into the world.

You’ll find all the info and legal details about the competition here. The deadline for entries is mid August so you don’t have long. Get out there and get filming!

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I need to say something. Something that’s pretty obvious really: I’m a capitalist. I make porn to make money. It’s how I earn my living.

And it seems that some would argue that because I’m trying to make a profit from porn, this immediately means that anything I have to say on the topic of censorship or feminist porn is therefore tainted or hasn’t any weight. I got this aggravation from a certain angsty and light-on-for-facts female blogger last year and I’m feeling it again in the wake of the Our Porn, Ourselves conversation.

Audacia Ray, who I very much admire and respect, wrote this in her piece about the current stoush:

…there are plenty of people involved in the mainstream hetero porn world who are proponents of free speech being generously applied to the adult industry (dicey legal construction of “obscenity” be damned!), but their commitment to free speech is more about protecting their business interests than being renegade First Amendment advocates. Violet is very much not one of the motivated-by-porn-profit people, her interest in porn is actually about having an interest in the sexualities of women.

Audacia’s dichotomy makes me rather uncomfortable. It suggests that any effort to protect free speech should be somehow pure and untainted by the profit motivation. It’s a troubling assertion because it seems to suggest that those of us making a living from porn and protesting censorship (as I do regularly) are only motivated by a desire to protect an income stream. That’s a little too black-and-white for my liking.

Yes, I hate the idea of censorship because it means I wouldn’t be able to earn a living making porn. But that’s not the only reason, nor is it the biggest motivation. I hate it when other people tell me what I can and cannot read, see, hear, film or say. It offends me as a human being. Running a commercial adult business does not change that motivation. And I don’t doubt that John Stagliano, who is facing obscenity prosecutions, feels the same way.

The same applies with regards to the discussion of adult material, what it means and whether it may be a problem in our society. I’m a webmistress who is part of the adult industry but that doesn’t mean I don’t strongly believe in the ideals of feminist porn or automatically reject any valid criticism of porn. Yes, I have commercial issues to consider but it doesn’t negate my ideals or determination to make porn better. I’m not a saint, but then, is anybody?

Gail Dines, the organiser of the Stop Porn Culture conference, has dismissed me, Violet Blue and any other women who enjoy porn thusly:
“Women defending porn are likely deluded by the near trillion dollar industry.”

Ah, false consciousness is fun, isn’t it? You can dismiss almost anything by patting the other person on the head and telling them they “just don’t understand.”

I’m not deluded. I’m also not engaged in a purely cynical exercise just to make a buck in this alleged “trillion dollar industry”. If I were, I would have been selling Jenna Jameson products from the moment I started, not making porn for women like myself.

And I seriously doubt that all the women who are coming forward to defend the idea of freedom of speech and sexual expression aren’t just dupes of the evil porn industry. No doubt most of them have spent time thinking about porn and also struggling with the idea that women aren’t supposed to like it, on top of fact that so much of it is just plain bad. A woman who is brave enough to say she likes porn has given the issue some serious thought.

Unlike Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan who happily wrote an entire column supporting the anti-porn conference without bothering to do a skerrick of research.

In any case, my point is this: Yes, I’m a capitalist but I also care deeply about feminism and freedom of speech. And I think that one should not preclude the other.

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History Eraser Button

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Fresh from saving us all from “spams and scams coming through the portal“, Minister for Communications Senator Conroy has come up with another brilliant idea to save the kiddies from all the horrors of the internet. A nice shiny red browser button.

Based on the Adobe Air platform, the security device, notionally referred to as a “big red button” will either occupy the Windows taskbar or sit prominently on the desktop.

Clicking the device will permit a child experiencing trouble to either access assistance to report issues to a social networking site or to connect with Police.

Sounds a lot like the Porn Siren, a cunning idea I came up with quite a few years ago.

Ridiculously, the panic button is said to have cost $100,000 and a team of 8 programmers to create. Junket, anyone?

As IT wire points out, either kids won’t know when to push it or, like Stimpy in the History Eraser Button video above, they’ll be sitting there feeling incredibly tempted to push it. Hell, I’d like to push it just to piss people off.

What is wrong with simply talking to kids? Educating them about their media environment? Parenting them. Being in the room when they’re on the internet. Instead, this government is wasting my hard earned tax dollars on pointless things like the big red panic button.

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I’ve written a guest post for Good Vibrations magazine. It’s called What Oprah Didn’t Tell You About Porn For Women.

I wanted to give a back-to-basics rundown of what I think are the main points about porn for women and what it encompasses. One of the things I wanted to point out is the ongoing blind spot the media has when it comes to websites. The Oprah show happily quoted the Nielsen Netratings statistic that one in three viewers of online porn are women… and then went on to only talk about films and DVDs. The freedom of the internet is one of the main reasons why women’s erotica has grown so much in the last few years.

Anyway, here’s a few paragraphs.

In November 2009 the Oprah show went to air with a controversial topic “Why millions of women are using porn and erotica.” The show breathlessly reported that one in three users of online porn are women and dispatched Lisa Ling to investigate this apparently shocking statistic.

While it was great that such a mainstream TV show wanted to delve into the whole topic of women and porn, the end result was less than illuminating. We didn’t really find out why so many women are into porn and we also didn’t get to find out about the growing genre of porn for straight women, both in films and online. Instead, a great deal of the show was taken up with an interview with ex porn star Jenna Jameson. And despite a valiant effort by author Violet Blue, the type of porn discussed stayed firmly within the realm of big-budget, LA porn valley productions, most of which consider women to be only peripheral consumers. As far as mainstream porn is concerned, women only watch dirty videos with their husbands and spouses, not on their own.

Oprah’s show skimmed the surface but it didn’t really present a clear picture.

So, what’s the real deal?

It’s true that a third of online porn consumers are women. This has been the case for most of this decade; the first Nielsen Netratings survey to reveal the one-third figure came out in 2003. Similar surveys around the world offer the same kinds of statistics and, given the popularity of porn, that equates to an awful lot of horny women.

Few major porn companies were prepared to embrace the female market until recently, and that was only when other revenue options began to decline. It’s still a standard maxim within the adult industry that women don’t watch porn. Plenty assume that women are just “not built that way”, that biologically, we’re more interested in romance or men who do housework than sex. The myth that “women aren’t visually stimulated” remains entrenched in the public imagination.

Nonetheless, women do enjoy erotic material. A study by Northwestern University in 2003 found that most women will become physically turned on by explicit sexual images, even if the conscious mind doesn’t agree. The research reflects what many women experience when it comes to porn – it can be arousing and fun to watch, although too often our brains are rebelling at the stereotypes, plastic surgery, unrealistic sex or bad dialogue.

Head over to Good Vibrations Magazine to read the rest.

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Can you believe it, it’s my 6th Blogaversary! Actually, I’m a day late, I forgot! Anyway, I wrote my first blog post in the old format blog on June 7th, 2004. I’m now on my 2nd script and third design.

Added to that, it’s For The Girls‘ 7th birthday in June. I can’t believe how quickly that time went. I have to admit, I really didn’t think our little site would still be going strong after 7 years, let alone fearlessly soldiering through the collapse of the mainstream porn industry and the general bad financial climate. I’m so proud of FTG, what it stands for and what it’s achieved over the years. The site isn’t going away any time soon; women still seem to enjoy what we offer, even though the range of options available to straight chicks has diversified greatly in the last couple of years.

I’m looking forward to expanding our content with more self-produced movies in the near future. And we’ll still keep adding good quality articles and stories as well.

To celebrate our birthday, we’re going to be running another competition. In the past it’s been an erotic fiction competition but this year we want to do short films. It hasn’t been finalised just yet but watch this space for the official announcement.

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Erika Lust’s new film Life Love Lust is now available to stream via Hot Movies!

This new movie consists of three erotic film jewels by the acclaimed director Erika Lust.
LIFE: After finishing the day in the restaurant, a chef and a waitress have an incredible encounter to celebrate his birthday.
LOVE: A forty-something executive seduces a young man she occasionally meets in a city hotel.
LUST: Lola uses her whole body to give an intense skin on skin massage to a shy and lonely woman, driving her to pure ecstasy.
The DVD also includes two extra short films: Handcuffs and Love Me Like You Hate Me.

For a short time, you can also watch Handcuffs for FREE at Hot Movies. I saw this a while ago, it’s a gorgeous little film, beautifully shot and quite intriguing. It won Best Experimental Short Film at CineKink in New York 2010 and Sexiest Short Film of the Year 2010 at The Feminist Porn Awards in Toronto.

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Want to talk about porn or your kinky lifestyles? An Australian documentary is looking into unusual sexual relationships. Here’s the info:

TV production looking for women to talk about their experience with Porn.

A Sydney-based television company is producing a documentary about different types of relationships and sexual practices. We’ll be profiling a diverse range of sexual choices, including celibacy, swinging, porn, polyamory and hopefully many more. Largely interview-based, the series will be an intimate and respectful look at what goes on behind the closed doors of the average Australian home.

We’re looking for people who want to share their stories with us. In some cases we may consider an anonymous interview. People don’t need to be Sydney-based to participate.

If you are interested in being involved or want to find out more please contact Jamie at jfoxx AT sstar.com.au

The time is short – if you want to be involved, talk to them very soon!

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