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Back in 2008 a censorship controversy erupted over Bill Henson’s photographs of nude teenage girls. Police raided the gallery and shut down the exhibition, the Prime Minister called the images “disgusting” and a lynch mob mentality generally prevailed. Eventually the images were classified “G” (suitable for children) by the censors.

Since that time the art world has become increasingly paranoid about censorship and have been self-censoring images of children, including closing down an exhibition because it included a painting of a young boy without a shirt (mischievously called “above the waist nudity” by the religious nutjobs who support censorship).

Now the issue is in the papers again. A right-wing Christian senator (due to lose his seat in a few months) has chaired an inquiry into the Australian classification system and accepted submissions calling for art to be classified and possibly blacklisted if it contains nudity. The are also calls for films with full-frontal nudity to be banned. The Australian Christian Lobby have said “there are dangers to children everywhere” posed by images and bemoaning the fact that “it will be argued that adults should be able to see whatever they want, even claiming photos of naked children have artistic merit.”

(Yeah, like photos of your children in the bath. Or images like this one of Mary breastfeeding a naked Jesus.)

Naturally, the art community isn’t impressed.

Some shuddered at the thought of bureaucrats or religious groups controlling what art lovers could see. And others feared it would have a chilling effect on boundary-pushing art.

Welcome to my world, I thought.

In my original blog post on Henson I wrote my defence of his work from the position of “Come ON, people. It’s ART!”

The post incited a lot of comments including criticism from Tony Comstock who pointed out the flawed logic in my post (and I’m grateful for it). He wrote:

If you want controversial work to be protected because it’s “art”, then you are opening the door for controversial work to be supressed because it’s “not art”.

His comment is ringing true at the moment because I’m seeing all sorts of people up in arms about the idea of censoring art (and rightly so). Unfortunately it’s often couched in terms of “But you can’t censor us, it’s ART! Not porn!”

The subtext is obvious: art is good, porn is bad. Some censorship is OK… as long as it’s not of MY work. Because what I do isn’t nasty pornography! I am tasteful and intellectual and upstanding and I make ART, not PORN.

This page on the ABC website says:

We live in a time in history when more than ever before, all sorts of images are available to us. Some are beautiful. Some will make you smile. Some are confronting. Others are downright disgusting.

So how do you make that judgement about what is just a naked body – and what is pornographic? Is it about context? Is about whether or not you can see genitalia? Is it about positions, facial expressions, intent? And who do you trust to make those decisions for you?

Notice how that paragraph automatically makes a number of assumptions, mainly that pornography is inherently bad, that someone ought to be making decisions for you about what you can see.

This kind of porn/art dichotomy is ultimately harmful to the cause of free speech. It goes against the old saying, attributed to Voltaire, of “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

I’m writing this post to make an appeal to artists and people who enjoy art. My appeal goes like this:

Thank you for being appalled at the idea of censorship. You are, quite rightly, upset at the idea that some government body would want to ban artwork or prevent you from seeing something, thus taking away your own agency to make decisions about what content or media you wish to consume. You want to change this. You want to fight it. Great.

Because if you don’t stand up for speech you don’t agree with, you open the door for the kind of censorship the art community is facing today.

Someone on Twitter has suggested sending Senator Guy Barnett hundreds of photos of Renaissance nudes to make a point about the stupidity of his anti-nudity stance. I like the idea but I doubt it will make much difference. The man is a dyed-in-the-wool religious conservative who probably believes that seeing nudity is harmful to children. He’s also a fan of using child pornography and “protecting the children” as an excuse for curtailing the rights of adults to freedom of speech.

He’s not the only one. Modern day prudes like Melinda Tankard Reist and “Young Media Australia” are also pushing for censorship in their crusade to “protect children”. The Australian Christian Lobby have their tentacles everywhere in government. They too are waging a moral battle to “save the children”.

Don’t be fooled. This isn’t about protecting kids at all. It’s really a campaign to inflict a certain religious moral agenda onto adult Australians. This “morality” is ultimately anti-sex, anti-reproductive rights and anti-feminist. It’s about returning Australia to a repressive time when information about sex was hidden, when children were seen and not heard, when women knew their place and had no access to contraception or safe termination.

These people want censorship because they fear sex. They think images of nudity or sexuality are inherently corrupting. They believe that repressing sexuality will somehow create a better world. They have no peer-reviewed scientific evidence to back up their claims of “harm”. All they have are religosity and an unshakeable belief that they are righteous. They are the Western version of the Taliban.

We have to stand up to them.

Here’s hoping that this latest censorship assault on the art world will be a quickening for some people, in the same way that the gamers have become organised. And I’m hoping that those who love the arts remember what’s happening here next time they ban an erotic film like Matinee or LA Zombie or Ashley and Kisha.

* The top image is by Rodney Pople. He painted this image of himself being beheaded by his children as a comment on the censorship of art.

* The bottom image is Caravaggio’s “Triumph of Eros” which would undoubtedly be blacklisted.

* Wikimedia Commons has a lovely collection of nude boys in art, there’s plenty of images to help to fire up the moral panic.

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The winners of the 2011 Feminist Porn Awards have been announced. I originally compiled this list from the Twitter feed, which was fun. The official list from Good For Her is now live here.

Sex Experiments: Bisexual Scenes and Sex Interviews – Best Bi Film
A Little Part of Me – Steamiest Romantic Film
Tight Places: A Drop of Color – Most Diverse Cast
Jaiya – Smutty School Teacher
Taxi Volume 1 – Hottest Lesbian Vingette Series
Maybe He’s Gifted – Golden Beaver Award for Canadian Film
An Open Invitation – Sexiest Straight Movie
Billy Castro Does The Mission – Most Tantalizing Trans Film
Lost – Hottest Lesbian Feature
Rough Sex 2 – Hottest Kink Movie
Drew Deveaux – Heartthrob of the Year
Life Love Lust – Movie of the Year

My Own Master – Honorable Mention
Art School Dykes – Honorable Mention
Genderfellator – Honorable Mention
Twisted Getaway – Honorable Mention

Honoured Websites
Heavenly Spire
Art of Blowjob
Queer Porn TV
Padded Kink

Here’s the full list of nominees.

Unfortunately I didn’t win anything this year but it was nice to be nominated. I also want to say that I think Erika Lust deserved Movie of the Year. Life Love Lust is a glorious film and well worth seeing.

I’ve just updated my feminist porn award listings at Porn Movies for Women and made a full list of all the nominations over the past few years.

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In late 2003 I bought SexFantasyStories.com and put a few examples of my erotic fiction on it. I then expanded it to include an AVS site a couple of years later. Since then, however, it’s been horribly neglected. The design was seriously ugly and very much in need of a revamp.

And then I noticed it was getting traffic after Google’s nasty Panda algorithm change on Monday. In the meantime, Ms Naughty has once again been booted to the back of the index (I believe this is officially known as “sad pandas”) Thus, I’ve spent a few hours rejigging the original Sex Fantasy Stories site and making it look much nicer.

If you’re in the mood to read a bit of fantastical erotic fiction, visit Sex Fantasy Stories. Also, admire the css design. I’ll be doing this kind of revamp on more of my older sites, including the Ms Naughty linklist, very soon.

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Quite a while ago I got a little peeved at the whole “Steak and a Blowjob Day” idea. The men behind it reckoned Valentine’s Day was all about women forcing men to buy them gifts and dinner. The whole thing relies on tiresome stereotypes about men and women. So while I could have sat down and written extensive blog posts unpacking the philosophy, I thought, fuck it. Instead I’ll just make a similar day for women a month later on April 14.

Hence, Cake and Cunnilingus Day.

Sure, you could say it’s just as stereotypical but really, does it matter? It’s about eating cake and enjoying oral sex. What’s not to like?

Here’s a little gallery: Cunnilingus In Ten Positions

Or you could check out my major site Pure Cunnilingus which has a huge collection of photos and videos.

A couple of celebratory photos taken from the female point of view:

More pics

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I thought I’d have fun today and thus made a little promo video for For The Girls, messing with the idea of “what women want” – the men doing housework, the bridal stroll along the beach, the romance novels…

I have to say, it took a lot longer than I expected because I had to only use sexy videos that weren’t remotely explicit, while still giving the idea of sex. No nudity, no nipples, nothing beyond kissing. I still suspect the video may end up banned somehow. Even though there are a heap of vids on Youtube with nudity and far sexier content.

Nonetheless I thought I’d at least try my hand with Youtube. You never know how they’re going to interpret the terms and conditions on any given day so I might be fine.

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I’m still very busy with editing the new member’s area of For The Girls. The articles are almost completed and we’re due to move on to the galleries and movies. It’s getting there, slowly but surely. And as you can see, the blog is a little neglected.

So here’s a naked man to tide you over: Sun Stroke: Michal gets nude and masturbates outdoors. He’s got quite the six pack and a rather large cock.

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I’m looking forward to an upcoming TV series about Cleo – the Australian women’s magazine that featured male centerfolds (only a few months after Cosmo had pioneered it with Burt Reynolds). If you follow the blog you’ll have already seen the image of actor Jack Thompson nude in the first ever Cleo male centerfold. The TV series features a scene showing how Jack’s legendary “Venus” photo was shot.

Cleo was ground breaking in 1972. It openly discussed sex and made the ideals of feminism accessible to Australian women. There’s a long interview with original editor Ita Buttrose here. A few good quotes:

“We had the best story conferences,” recalls Buttrose of the early days of Cleo, which she describes as progressive but not pornographic. “We wrote about sex as if we had discovered it.” A great deal of laughter came out of their offices in Park Street, Sydney, as the team of mainly young women (and a couple of men) had disarmingly candid conversations on topics ranging from sex toys to lesbianism.
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In 1972, there were no women in Federal Parliament, they were not permitted to drink in “public bars” in pubs, and had only recently achieved the right to equal pay. There were no anti-discrimination laws, no Family Court or no-fault divorce, and no maternity leave, and abortion was illegal without extenuating circumstances.
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Like many women of her era, Buttrose suffered discrimination. She couldn’t open a department store charge account without her husband’s signature (even though she supported him while he studied architecture). As late as 1976, she was one of the highest-paid women in the Australian media, yet was refused a bank loan.

I don’t have a lot of time for Cleo or Cosmo today because they’re so obsessed with fashion and diets. But in the 70s, they were revolutionary and I’m grateful for them; they laid the groundwork that enabled magazines like Australian Women’s Forum and then For The Girls to exist.

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Wendy Bacon was a campaigner against Australian censorship in the 1960s and 70s. In this amazing article, she details the fight of students against censorship in those heady libertarian days. This was a time when the Minister for Customs justified bans on books by saying “normal healthy Australians would not be interested in the works of DH Lawrence and Henry Miller anyway.”

Wendy and her friends conducted civil disobedience activities to highlight the nonsense of censorship. They included the publication of two poems that I want to include here on the blog. The poems show just how much sensibilities have changed – and how much the reactions to “obscenity” have stayed the same.

The first poem, Eskimo Nell, is a bawdy football poem:

But Eskimo Nell was an infidel – she equalled a whole harem,
With the strength of ten in her abdomen and her rock of ages beam.
Amidships she could stand the rush like this flush of a water closet,
So she grasped his cock like a Chatswood lock on the National Safe Deposit.
She lay for a while with a subtle smile while the grip of her cunt grew keener,
Then giving a sigh she sucked him dry with the ease of a vacuum cleaner.

The second poem is a deliberately provocative anti-religious poem called “Cunt is a Christian Word”:

Think of all the careless girls
who let men touch them there,
Who were foolish and silly
and forget about their immortal souls
Thinking instead of fleshly pleasures
and who have been brought to ecstasy
five thousand times.
But you have been saved from that.
Saved.

But soon you will realise,
That you have been getting fucked all along.
For there is no cock as big and rough
As the one your church has thrust into you.
God’s great steel penis …

Funny how the football poem is almost tame by today’s standards but I’m sure the religious will still be horribly offended by the second. That’s no reason to not publish it, of course. Freedom from offense is not a human right.

Wendy went to jail for publishing both of those poems. I’d like to thank her for her bravery and fortitude. A pity that 40 years later, we’re still fighting this nonsense fight with our government.

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I’ve just finished hand-editing every single piece of erotic fiction at For The Girls. It was a huge job, manually going through eight years of content, looking at every single story (400+) on the site, fixing the text and photos and then adding categories and tags to each one.

I’ve re-read every one of our erotic stories and there’s just so many brilliant pieces of writing. I’ve been immersed in FTG for so long it’s easy to forgot just how good this site really is. Not to mention hot! Phew. It could well be the steamiest bit of data entry I’ve done for a long time.

I’m so pleased we can tag our stories because it will make finding specific interests/kinks a lot easier. And one of the things that’s really become apparent in this process is just how ridiculously diverse our fiction is. A sample of some of the tags I’ve added over the last few days:

69, amateurs, anal, bisexual, blind, blood, CFNM, costumes, cunnilingus, dancing, double penetration, fairytale, female domination, first time, food, games, glory holes, girl-girl, gothic, infidelity, longing, male escort, MFF, mile high club, multiple men, nipple clamps, orgy, pegging, phone sex, pirates, priests, pubic hair, power play, queer, religion, role-play, romance, rough sex, seduction, sex toys, slaves, spanking, swingers, transgression, virgin, voyeur, wet, whip…

Yeah, so all those people who say “porn for women” is just about candles and romance… STFU, OK?

We’ll also be applying these tags to our photos and movies.

It’s such a huge job, but we’re getting there.

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