Obsessing about my place in Google once again I found a rather long winded feminist essay about women’s porn, entitled: Rape Culture: Renegotiating Sexual Subjectivity on Porn Sites for Women. The piece takes a rather large philosophical stick to Sssh.com, which is an adult site for women that’s been around for roughly the same time [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Nando’s pole dancing mother ad.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s been the subjects of numerous complaints to the Australian Advertising Standards Bureau. I’m pleased to say that they’ve given the ad the thumbs up.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports:
The board of the Advertising Standards Bureau agreed, ruling that pole dancing was [...]
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 [...]
CAKE is in the firing line again.
This time it’s an opinion piece in Elle magazine by Virginia Vitzthum, a writer whose main interest is the online dating scene.
Ostensibly the piece starts out like a feature, but it quickly becomes a soapbox for Vtizthum’s own views on feminism, and why she doesn’t think CAKE measures up. [...]
The biggest news in the blogosphere at present is the outing of the Girl With A One Track Mind. The Girl has just had her book published and had expressed concern about losing her anonymity.
The Times has tracked her down and published her name. This has meant that The Girl has had to out herself [...]
No one has the right to tell you how to fuck, according to Rachel Kramer Bussell in her latest Lusty Lady column at The Village Voice.
Arguing against those feminist “scolds” Ariel Levy and Pamela Paul, Rachel makes the point that enjoying sex - in any form - does not constitute a betrayal of feminist ideals.
Here’s [...]
Another “porn for girls” magazine has popped up, this time in Germany. Gluck Magazine has just released it’s third issue, chock full of thin indie boys posing nude on their beds. The mag is run by two women, Nicole Rudiger and Elke Kuhlen and has sold out of its first two issues.
The creators say their [...]
Seems I’ve failed the sisterhood again - in Spanish, no less. Today I got a pingback from a Spanish blog called Girls Who Like Porno, commenting on this Erika Lust post. Judging from the garbled Babelfish translation, the post is not complimentary.
I had a look at their “about porno” page which features an English translation [...]
A little over two weeks ago I was quoting The Hite Report on this blog and musing about how important that piece of research was to the feminist movement and women’s sexuality.
Now the Australian has an interview with Shere Hite and I’m disappointed to say that she seems to have become a little conservative in [...]
I’ve been contacted by Anne Sabo, an academic who is researching women’s porn, and the changing face of gender relations within pornography.
She’s co-hosting an academic conference at the University of Oslo in Norway in June entitled Heterosexual desire in gender equality discourse: A point of trouble?
Now, don’t let the title put you off. This is [...]
The SF Weekly has a very long article on the Cake movement… and bits of it have me shaking my head. Overall, it gives a negative view of the Cake women, and suggests that they’re not “real” feminists.
Having just written a huge post about the way some feminists make assumptions about other women’s motivations and [...]
Last week For The Girls published my review of the book A Piece of Cake: Recipes for Female Sexual Pleasure. Written by Melinda Gallagher and Emily Scarlet Kramer, the book is essentially the manifesto of the five-year-old CAKE movement. It tells the real-life stories of women’s sexual experiences and fantasies.
A while ago I posted [...]
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