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 [...]
The Trinidad and Tobago Express has an enlightened article dealing with the idea of “porn addiction”, especially in reference to women. It starts off with a bit of a judgemental tone but then ploughs straight into the facts about what psycholigists really think of the term “porn addiction” (they think it’s crap).
Linz added, “In fact, [...]
Three cheers for 16 year old Tom Wood who, in half an hour, proved that the new Australian government-approved porn filter isn’t worth the smear on an IT expert’s underpants.
He’s shown that spending $84 million on compulsory net filtering software is a complete waste of money because teenagers know how to get around that kind [...]
Good For Her’s Chanelle Gallant has been interviewed about women and porn in the Toronto Sun. Most of the article focuses on the idea that porn can be a problem in relationships however the bottom half looks at the idea that chicks like porn too.
“Sex on film is not anti-feminist,” she now says. “I think [...]
Apparently there are some gay men who get off on watching cunnilingus in porn. In response to a piece of advice by Dan Savage, a number of gay guys wrote in to say they enjoy seeing straight men muff dive.
I love watching them be oral, enthusiastic, and submissive. I love to watch them slobber and [...]
The Age has a lengthy article on the state of the Australian porn film industry here. It’s isn’t a huge business at this point, and very few adult films are made here.
“It is, technically, illegal to make (porn) films in Australia,” says Fiona Patten, executive officer of the Eros Association, Australia’s national adult retail and [...]
It’s depressing, but not surprising. The Australian government’s plan to prevent aborigines in remote communities from accessing porn has sparked calls for more censorship.
Mr Anderson said that by banning pornography flowing into NT Aboriginal communities, the Howard Government had effectively conceded there was a link between watching the material and acting in dysfunctional ways.
“I think [...]
Figleaf has made an interesting post about porn for women here.
He’s suggesting that society thinks that most women aren’t really interested in sex - he’s calls it the “no-sex class” and that this is a reason why it may be difficult to define “porn for women.”
I won’t do a big post here because I wrote [...]
I just had to laugh at the opinion piece by Shaunti Feldhahn proclaiming the serious dangers women face if they read romance novels.
I was concerned to learn that many romance novels are not as harmless as they look. In fact, some marriage therapists caution that women can become as dangerously unbalanced by these books’ entrancing [...]
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 [...]
A Canadian man had the bright idea of putting porn pictures on the bottom of pizza boxes, to be revealed slowly as each slice was eaten.
The big shock-horror aspect of this story is that most of his customers are female.
“It’s about 75 to 80% female that are placing the orders and are taking orders at [...]
Some of you may be familiar with PostSecret. It’s a community art blog where people post secrets in the form of home made postcards.
This week’s list featured the above card.
Funny that liking porn should be considered a shameful secret by some women.
I was musing about the sentiment: “I watch more porn than all of my [...]
Indyweek has an interview with Audacia Ray about feminist porn. They call her a “sexual blacksmith” which is a wonderful term. In fact, I really like this last paragraph:
But with sexual blacksmiths like Ray on the job, forging new cultural standards for what is acceptable in women’s sexuality, the options accessible to little fourth grade [...]
Another classic from The Chaser. This one has the gorgeous Richard E. Grant saying the words “shaved minge.”
I feel a need to use the phrase “shaved minge” in a conversation somewhere.
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 [...]
Here’s Chas from the Chaser testing whether the classic porn cliches (Handyman, Pizza guy and Pool boy) really do turn women on.
Worth watching for the mustache alone.
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 [...]
Amidst a flurry of mainstream media articles about porn recently, Press Telegram has a piece about the growing influence of women in the adult industry.
The article interviews Jamye Waxman and Candida Royalle as well as Anne Semans from Babeland.
Unfortunately the story is short on statistics about how many women are into porn. I guess the [...]
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 [...]
On June 1, 2003 my partner Jane and I launched For The Girls, an erotic site for straight women like ourselves. We pooled together all the good dirty pics and movies we could find, I added a bunch of my articles and stories, and off we went.
Our first tour was fairly crappy, and our [...]
Another adult company has decided to step up to the plate and offer a female-friendly adult film, although it’s probably best described as a “couples movie.”
UK-based Jazmin Media has created a film called Kinky Cock Tales. It’s about to be released in the US with the help of Ninn Worx. That’s the company that made [...]
I finally added some new stuff to my parody site exexExChurch. If you haven’t been there before, it’s my reply to that ridiculous xxxchuch.com site which receives so much positive publicity from the mainstream media. My site basically asserts that church is addictive and suggests ways to overcome that addiction, primarily through porn and masturbation.
It’s [...]
Seems the Sydney Morning Herald is on a roll with the porn. I suspect they’ll be publishing smut stories all week.
The first one reports on the results of Alan McKee’s Understanding Pornography in Australia survey which studied 1000 self-selected porn users.
What consumers liked about pornography was that it was pleasurable, educational, and re-assuring. Less than [...]
This morning’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age both have two major stories on porn.
The first’s headline is One in three porn viewers are women. Adele Horin sites Nielsen Netratings figures about how many Aussies are enjoying online smut (4.3 million in the last month), and says one third are female. Unfortunately, that’s not what [...]
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