This article in the Observer concludes with four quotes by “feminists who have rocked the boat.” The quotes included:
“In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent” - Catherine MacKinnon, feminist author (attributed)
“When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is [...]
Annie Sprinkle has published the transcript of a cheerful conversation held with anti-porn feminist Mae Tyme.
Annie is a legend of sex-positive activism. Mae is a radical lesbian who feels that porn is a tool of the patriarchy. It makes for great reading.
Mae: The truth is that you and I do view pornography very differently. You [...]
The Sydney Morning Herald has a blog called All Men Are Liars which discusses men’s issues. In the beginning it was a bit of a lad’s mag, but one year on it’s become one of the best reads in the paper. The author Sam De Brito often initiates discussions that the best feminists would be [...]
This month’s feature article at For The Girls is about body hair and hair removal. In reading various articles on the topic I saw it described as “the battle that feminism lost” and I found myself musing about the current state of play when it comes to women and their furry bits.
Fact is, depilation has [...]
Surfing Google news I found this article at the UK’s Metro Magazine about women enjoying porn. It’s got all the usual semi-amazed discussion about the idea of women actually enjoying smut, plus a short interview with Anna Span.
Nothing new there, although it has brought to my attention a new academic book by Clarissa Smith called [...]
Damn, it’s getting hard to keep up. Today’s ranty article about the Porn for Women* book is at Jezebel.
In this case the author has sent an email to all her friends asking about what porn they like. There’s a bunch of varied responses, most of which are quite cynical, but I had to laugh at [...]
You know, I’ve got to hand it to the alleged Cambridge Women’s Pornography Co-operative, authors of the book Porn for Women. Just by using that title, they’ve got the attention of a plethora of newspaper columnists, bloggers and feminists. I keep finding articles about it, frenzied discussions, outraged rants and cosy recommendations.
Nice free advertising. Nice [...]
Rachel Kramer Bussel has an opinion piece in the Huffington Post looking at that alleged comedy book called Porn for Women and asks if “porn for women” is a legitimate concept.
She also asks whether a man doing housework is stroke material. I would say yes, but only if he’s naked (in which case, the book [...]
Here’s some photos from the 2007 Feminist Porn Awards held in Toronto on June 1.
Anna Span receives her award for Indie Porn Pioneer.
Feminist porn awards organiser Chanelle Gallant poses with special guest Anna Span.
Simone Valentino, star of Afrodite Superstar and winner of Best New Star award.
All the award winners are in this post.
An article by Martha Irvine of AP has popped up in newspapers everywhere in the last couple of days.
The article is discussing the sexualization of popular culture, in particular the influence of porn, and it’s main focus is the behaviour of young women.
Many agree that the trend has had a particularly strong influence on [...]
Good For Her’s Feminist Porn Awards are over for another year. 350 attended the ceremony and party, which featured guests Anna Span, Simone Valentino, Peggy Comstock and Shine Louise Houston.
“We came up with the idea for the Feminist Porn Awards because people don’t know they have a choice when it comes to porn,” said Chanelle [...]
“We knew more about each other than most of our friends knew about us.”
This is a quote from Naked On The Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing In On Internet Sexploration. It’s by a sex blogger, talking about how she cultivated friendships with other women online.
As I flicked through Audacia Ray’s new book, the statement rang [...]
Today is the 30th anniversary of the US release of Star Wars, a fact that no doubt has millions of Generation Xers such as myself feeling rather old.
Naturally this has started me musing about the impact Star Wars had on my life, especially as I became quite obsessed with it when I was 10. And [...]
It’s getting closer to Good For Her’s Feminist Porn Awards which I blogged about here. They’ve updated their site and details are here.
They’ve added a few more details to the guest list:
Roundtable Guests
Anna Span, UK’s first female porn director (Anna’s Mates, Pound A Punnet)
Shine Louise Houston, the only queer woman of colour with a distribution [...]
I was just perusing Amber Rhea’s blog and, amidst the many interesting musings on feminism and blogging, I discovered that she has graduated from her pole dancing school with a purple garter.
I tried pole dancing, once, over two years ago. And I was absolutely crap at it.
Jane and I from For The Girls attended [...]
The BBC tells me that scientists are working on some kind of superpill that, get this, not only boosts a woman’s libido, but also reduces her appetite.
The sensible feminist part of me frowns at this, thinking that it’s yet another attempt to pharmacologically mould women into something they’re not.
The evil capitalist part of me wants [...]
Xtra.ca has a great interview with Betty Dodson, the “Mother of Masturbation.” It makes for great reading, but one bit stood out for me:
DW: Is there a distinction, in your mind, between sex-positive erotica and porn, or is this a false divide?
BD: That debate successfully divided and conquered America’s feminism in the ’80s. One woman’s [...]
There’s a truly delightful, angry post about that Porn for Women book at OnlyMagazine.ca.
Porn for Losers thoroughly puts the boot into the idea that the only thing that turns women on is housework.
A few choice quotes:
Finally ladies, a book that properly sanitizes and legitimizes pornography in a way that allows manufacturers to continue selling us [...]
This is meant to primarily be an entertainment blog, but today I read something that raised my feminist hackles so much that I have to post about it.
You may not be aware but on March 31 the Eritrean government banned female genital mutilation (FGM, also known as female “circumcision”).
In looking up this story on Google [...]
My red skirt is hitched up to my waist though no higher. Below it the Commander is fucking. What he is fucking is the lower part of my body. I do not say making love, because this is not what he’s doing. Copulating too would be inaccurate, because it would imply two people and only [...]
The recent news about the two female students suspended for using the word “vagina” when performing The Vagina Monologues at school had me feeling peeved - once again - at the way so many people use the word “vagina” instead of “vulva” to describe a woman’s genitals.
Hell, if I was the principal, I’d feel tempted [...]
The US FCC has banned a television commercial by Dove cosmetics because it shows too much flesh.
The ads feature older women who are nude but discreetly posed, accompanied by the slogan “Too old for an anti-aging ad.”
Adland also reports that conservative groups are upset by the campaign because it is “contributing to the sexualization of [...]
The Sunday Mail reports on new research into the sexuality of women over 40. It found that women were far more likely to reach orgasm when masturbating alone than with their partner.
55% of women with no partner could achieve orgasm every time alone, compared to 24.6% with a partner.
The study, called “What does sexuality mean [...]
It’s International Women’s Day. I thought the best way to celebrate it at this blog was to whack up a photo of a naked man. See, feminism IS fun.
Actually, I found this bit of information on the IWD site quite interesting:
Many women’s groups around the world who understand, respect and chose to honour the history [...]
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