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 [...]
I just have to blog about this news story because I find it fascinating. The New York Times has a piece about the sworn virgins of Albania. These are women who took an oath of virginity and took on the role of male head of the family when all their men died.
For centuries, in the [...]
Just a quick post. Amber Rhea has hosted the latest Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy with a fab post here. It’s chock a blog (yes, that was a typo but I like it so I’ll leave it) full of great posts about the intersection of sex and feminism.
And yes, I’m listed in there [...]
An article in the New York Times and other media sources today cites new research that suggests straight women aren’t necessarily turned on by naked men. The study, by Meredith Chivers from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto, measured the genital responses of women to various images. It found [...]
I fondly remember the genuine quirkiness of the first episode of Malcolm In The Middle, mainly because of the opening scene when Malcolm’s mother Lois answers the door topless.
Caroline: I’m here because I think there is a tremendous opportunity for Malcolm. Could you maybe put a top on?
Lois: They’re just boobs, lady. You see ‘em [...]
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 [...]
Every time I’ve started to blog on this story it’s escalated, and now it’s just crazy.
Police have seized artworks and are expected to lay child pornography charges against photographer artist Bill Henson and the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney. This is because Henson’s works included several photographs of 12 year old girls in the nude.
In [...]
The newspapers seem to have gone into a gurgling meltdown this week over the upcoming Sex and The City Movie. Which prompts me to rant.
Me and Sex and The City were not friends. It pissed me off. I think I only managed to watch a couple of episodes before I gave up in frustration.
Sure, it [...]
I find it hard to believe that the babies born in 1990 are coming of age this year. To me, 1990 wasn’t long ago at all. It was only yesterday. And it was a bit of a golden year for me. I was 17, I was finishing school, I was freshly in love and life [...]
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 [...]
Last Friday on a whim I decided to attend Sexpo in Brisbane, hoping to maybe make some industry contacts and also just to check it all out. I last went to one of these mega sex exhibitions in Sydney ten years ago, back when I was a “civilian.” That expedition was part of the growing [...]
I’m a bit late with this but it’s worth blogging about anyway. Three Australian researchers have released The Porn Report, the result of several years of research and surveys. The finding that the media have jumped on is that - gasp! - women like porn.
17% of those interviewed for the book were women and the [...]
This article discusses the appeal of a man who likes to do housework and says that the Porn For Women book has now sold 140,000 copies. There’s now a calendar and a sequel book on the way called “Porn for New Moms.” I’ll bet that’s going to cause a feminist furore when it comes out.
In [...]
Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss announced quite a while ago her plan to open a brothel for women in Nevada and it hasn’t progressed any further thanks to planning issues. Naturally her original announcement about the upcoming “Stud Farm” caused much sniggering at the idea that women would even consider using male prostitutes.
Now a green website [...]
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 New York Observer has an interesting article on the increasing pressure on women to have children. One of the quotes therein says: “It’s almost un-American at this point to say you don’t want children… It’s almost like saying you’re a communist.”
Well, I’m not American, but I’m not having children, and I can understand where [...]
NY Time Out’s Sex Issue has heaps of great reading, including Audacia Ray’s personal discovery of double penetration and a whacky article entitled I Want To Have Sex With My Bicycle.
There’s also an online photo survey about what women find sexy. In the interests of science I decided to write down the statistics, unscientific though [...]
A couple of weeks ago Violet Blue wrote about her experience as a guest on the Tyra Banks show which was inspired by her O article about women and porn (Violet’s post, my thoughts on it).
Despite speculation that the show wouldn’t see the light of day, it did in fact go to air on October [...]
Psychology Today reports on a study by psychologist Geoffrey Miller claiming that the fertility cycles of strippers can influence the number of tips they get.
Dancers made about $70 an hour during their peak period of fertility, versus about $35 while menstruating and $50 in between.
Miller links the wage fluctuations to changes in body odor, waist-to-hip [...]
You know, I’m glad I’m a girl. This whole Larry Craig gay foot tapping incident has no doubt got plenty of men feeling even more nervous about what they do in public toilets.
A couple of months ago I wrote a column in For The Girls about Secret Men’s Business - the rather extensive etiquette straight [...]
The ever-fabulous All Men Are Liars column has a great post today about the male experience of being caught masturbating (complete with hilariously apt photo that I just had to include here).
Another of our mates, the Black Rat, liked to stretch himself out on the cool tiles of the bathroom on hot summer days and [...]
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
From Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
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 [...]
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 [...]
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