The Ask Sam blog at the Sydney Morning Herald has published this post entitled “Why Women Hate Porn.”
Unfortunately the article doesn’t actually discuss the whys and wherefores of any negative female reactions to porn. Rather it points out recent statistics that one in three Australian women regularly watch porn. And then the author asserts that [...]
Another day, another book, another news item and survey that says that women like porn.
A book called The Sex Lives of Australian Women says that 1 in 4 Aussie chicks will look at porn at least once a month. The book is based on a survey of 2000 self-selected internet participants.
Naturally, I’m not surprised at [...]
Another statistic to add to my collection. A survey of Swedish women by “yummy mummy” magazine Mama says that 28% of them have looked at online porn. This tallies with numerous other surveys which seem to always conclude that around a third of all women like to indulge in a little smut occasionally.
The survey also [...]
I read on Petra Joy’s blog today that her award winning bi scene from Female Fantasies was cut out of some copies of her film at the behest of a dealer.
Male bi sexuality and female/male role reversal is still a major taboo in mainstream porn. So this scene was censored by one of my big [...]
Something has been bugging me for a long time now, so I’m going to have a little rant about it.
It seems that there are a lot of people out there who don’t like the term “porn for women.” I realise this - and I’ve discussed the ins and outs of it plenty of times on [...]
You may already be aware that Britain is about to pass a law which outlaws the possession of “extreme pornography” (details here.) The law is based on moral hysteria and very bad science and is being shuffled through parliament in a much larger bill full of other issues such as privacy and immigration. Interestingly, the [...]
On October 20, 2003 an article called “The Porn Myth” by Naomi Wolf appeared in NYMag. The article suggests that porn desensitises men to real women and thus ruins relationships. She says that women now have to compete with a porn star aesthetic:
Now you have to offer—or flirtatiously suggest—the lesbian scene, the ejaculate-in-the-face scene. Being [...]
The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, hosted by the BFI, featured a special selection of female-focused and produced erotica. Under the banner “Female Fantasies”, the festival screened a number of erotic shorts by female filmmakers, including Petra Joy. From festival website:
A new wave of feminist pornographers explore authentic onscreen sexuality with humour, edge, and [...]
Delightful columnist Emma Tom had a bit of fun with this column, inspired by the recently released Porn Report. She takes the idea that all porn is always addictive to its logical conclusion.
Unfortunately your frigid female boss (who’s probably a lezzo and not the good kind, either) lacks a sense of humour. You lose your [...]
The recent Cinekink erotic film festival in New York featured a panel discussion called “Women Behind The Lens” featuring Candida Royalle, Audacia Ray and Julie Simone.
There’s a video of the whole discussion here. I haven’t watched it yet because I just don’t have the time today but it’s there if you’re interested.
Audacia has blogged about [...]
The Australian government seems determined to go ahead with plans to filter the internet at ISP level, making people “opt in” if they want to see adult sites.
While the story itself is distinctly biased, the 51 comments listed after it cheered me up immensely. About 95% of them are against ISP filtering, and all make [...]
The Porn Report seems to be making waves at the moment, with most newspapers giving the story a relatively positive spin. The Courier Mail, for example, gives Alan McKee plenty of column space here, with only lip service paid to the conservatives who argue against porn, albeit without any proof, by the sounds of it. [...]
Seems the Israeli girls are all rather liberated, if we’re to believe a survey of over 14,000 women published recently. Apparently 71% of Israeli women consider themselves to be liberal and daring in bed, with the same percentage happily having orgasms regularly.
So it’s unsurprising that half of them say they enjoy watching erotic materials including [...]
The AVN awards for 2008 have been announced and, disappointingly, Candida Royalle’s Afrodite Superstar only received one award, for Best Music, despite receiving a large number of nominations.
It’s a real shame that so few other female-friendly films got up, especially considering the huge number of movies that were nominated this year - I made a [...]
We may have a new government but it looks like they’re going to be just as painfully conservative in some areas as the last lot. On New Year’s Eve (nice sneaky date for it) the communications minister Stephen Conroy announced a plan to filter internet content at the ISP level. This despite the fact that [...]
It’s a little late but here it is, as promised: the Porn for Women Retrospective for 2007.
It was actually a very busy year for women’s erotica, with heaps of movies released especially for straight women and continuing coverage in the press. Statistics and surveys showed that the number of women enjoying adult material is still [...]
USA Today reports on a survey of 813 students about attitudes to porn. The researchers have concluded that young people are more accepting of porn than their parents, seeing it as an “acceptable way to express sexuality.” Naturally the study has prompted much hand wringing about the terrible influence of internet porn.
Most headlines have focused [...]
After yesterday’s post about that Abby Winters beat up, I thought I should post this.
Porn and sex in general often get a bad wrap in the mainsteam media. An awful lot of news stories and articles feature an anti-porn and sex-negative slant that help to create a “bad vibe” when it comes to sex in [...]
On Monday the Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun ran this dodgy article about an unnamed Australian website. The article is long on self-righteous moralising but extremely light on for names.
It asserts that the website is running photos of “teenagers”, that the models are exploited and that the websites charges money to remove photos if [...]
In Australia, “rooting” is a euphemism for having sex. So we’ve long giggled whenever an American says “I’m rooting for ___ to win.” Now I can use it in a title… and I’m giggling.
Anyway, the AVN award nominations have been announced and it’s another year of the same ol’ same ol’. Even the “alternative” category [...]
I’ve stumbled across another dodgy example Christian anti-porn extremism.
This page asserts that the domain just4ladies.com was originally a “pioneering porn site for women” and was in operation as far back as 1995. It then gushingly praises the owner, Michele Washam, for converting it into a Christian site.
Naturally I was curious to discover this when I [...]
GayWired has a long article about bisexual male porn stars that I found interesting. I normally don’t pay much attention to gay porn stars but perhaps I should, given that they’re mostly very good looking guys. The article discusses the idea of “gay for pay” and points out that male stars in gay porn are [...]
Portfolio.com has a long article about the changing face of the porn industry, focusing particularly on YouPorn and the fact that it’s giving away free porn and not making any money, even though the owners want $20 million for it.
The article has a few paragraphs about the emergence of women as consumers of porn, and [...]
There’s been a landslide of depressing things happening here in Australia with regards to censorship and privacy issues.
Depressing News Story 1: Australian police can now tap phones and monitor emails for 45 days if they suspect a person is “believed to be connected with child pornography.” I don’t think there’s a lot of checks [...]
Well, bugger me with a fish fork. Australia’s Eros Association - which is supposed to be the lobby group for the adult industry here - seems to be perfectly OK with the government’s plan to ban Aborigines from owning porn.
The racially dubious laws make it illegal to own adult material in remote Aboriginal communities [...]
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