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Eros Shine Awards 2011

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

On the 23rd November I attended the inaugural Eros Shine awards night in Melbourne. I went for a couple of reasons. One was to meet other industry people and do a bit of socialising/networking. The other was because For The Girls had been nominated for Best Website.

Alas, FTG didn’t win, although it seems we were a runner-up of sorts. The award went to Adult Voyeur, a new startup that is far more obviously Australian than us (they’ve even got an “AU” in their domain). I was happy for them and it was good to meet the guys behind it.

The night itself was something of a mixed bag. The highlight was definitely the burlesque and strip performances which were innovative, classy and a lot of fun. Suzie Q and Toby’s trapeze act was truly breathtaking and Sina King’s quirky performance with paint was sassy. Unfortunately the Hunkmania strippers – the token “women’s entertainment” – only took their shirts off and the act resembled a boy band. I found myself longing for some real male burlesque, something not so cliched and more genuinely artistic.

The evening was let down by the compere who took every opportunity to make sexist, sniggering jokes. At one point he announced that all women over 30 were unattractive because our boobs went saggy. That’s when I got mad. He really lowered the tone of the night, a shame given that this was an attempt to showcase our professional, grown-up adult industry.

The show also featured a number of American porn star imports such as Jessica Drake and Michelle Bombshell McGee. I grabbed Jessica towards the end of the night and got a very short comment from her – as you can see on the video, the sound is atrocious. I was only using my little Cybershot camera.

Overall the event felt incredibly “mainstream” and I felt like I didn’t belong there. Australia has made a name overseas as the place for realistic, natural, alternative porn but there was no hint of that at the awards night. Maybe next year will be more inclusive.

In any case, have a look at the vid. I’ve tried to highlight the performances and give an idea of just how impressive they were.

Here’s another view of the night by filmmaker Gina Hanrahan.

The Thought Of Her – Trailer

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

The Thought Of Her - Trailer from Louise Lush on Vimeo.

A month ago I made a new short film. It’s a male-masturbation video called “The Thought Of Her” and it features the gorgeous Adam. I tried to go beyond the standard jerk off video and include something of the mental processes involved in self-pleasure. I did this via a monologue, detailing what might go through a man’s mind as he masturbates.

I also decided to go for more arty close ups and strong cross lighting with a black background, similar to Fucking Is The Only Prayer. What can I say, I like how it looks.

The film is currently available in full at For The Girls. I’m also going to create a longer version of it in the near future.

Porn For Women (?)

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

I thought I’d have fun today and thus made a little promo video for For The Girls, messing with the idea of “what women want” – the men doing housework, the bridal stroll along the beach, the romance novels…

I have to say, it took a lot longer than I expected because I had to only use sexy videos that weren’t remotely explicit, while still giving the idea of sex. No nudity, no nipples, nothing beyond kissing. I still suspect the video may end up banned somehow. Even though there are a heap of vids on Youtube with nudity and far sexier content.

Nonetheless I thought I’d at least try my hand with Youtube. You never know how they’re going to interpret the terms and conditions on any given day so I might be fine.

Room 33 Director’s Cut

Monday, March 28th, 2011

ROOM 33 - Director's cut from Erika Lust on Vimeo.

Erika Lust has released the more explicit director’s cut of her short film “Room 33″. It features some yummy boy-boy-girl sexytimes. Enjoy.

Two Very Short Films To Make You Smile

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

GPS – 60 seconds long, so very worth watching. It’s like the perfect short film.

This is from an as-yet unmade comedy series called Angry Pinatas. Another 60 seconds, a HUGE laugh. Share it if you can, I want to see this series on our TV!

Fucking Is The Only Prayer – Trailer

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Fucking Is The Only Prayer - Trailer from Louise Lush on Vimeo.

I finally got around to making a short trailer for Fucking Is The Only Prayer which screens at Cinekink in New York on March 4 and is available in the member’s area of For The Girls.

The thing is, when your short film is only 3 minutes long, a trailer for it is kind of tricky. You don’t want to give the whole thing away; you only want to give a brief idea of what’s happening without spoiling it.

What’s interesting is that I’ve made my erotic film look a little bit like a sexy horror film in this clip. That’s not the intention but I found that I quite liked the result so I’ve left it as-is.

Rest assured, Fucking Is The Only Prayer is not a horror movie. It’s a sensual look at the spiritual side of sex – without reference to deities. An atheist porn film.

You’ll find more detail at my film site Indigo Lush.

Old Spice Guy Returns

Monday, February 21st, 2011

I’m happily giving Old Spice some free advertising space on my blog because I just enjoy looking at Isiah Mustafa with his shirt off. Oh sure, there’s that interesting post-modernist aspect and the way it subtly critiques the idea of the perfect man while also celebrating it. One could consider that it’s one of the few times an ad is directly pitched at the sexual desires of straight women.

But mostly it’s just him. He is, after all, a “ridiculously handsome man.”

Adventures At The Erotic Screen And Sound Conference

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Well folks, I did it. I successfully gave my presentation “Girly Smut: A History Of Porn For Women” at the Erotic Screen and Sound Conference on the 17th. While I was pleased that my voice didn’t get quavery, I did end up turning it into a bit of a shambles because I went waaaay over time. I knew the talk was 22 minutes to begin with but I thought I’d speak quickly due to nerves. Nope. Apparently it’s the other way around. You should only write a 15 minute presentation for a 20 minute slot.

Porn for Women slide In any case, about 20 people were there (not bad for 4.30pm in the smallest room) and I made them laugh. That’s enough to make me happy. I didn’t get enough time for a proper discussion about the complexities of the idea of “porn for women” – they only got a super fast and brief rundown of the various viewpoints and criticisms of it.

Part of the problem with time was my decision to include clips from several feminist porn films. I was originally going to leave that up to Anna Brownfield who was going to discuss them but she pulled out of the conference. So it didn’t seem right to talk about female-friendly porn films and not actually show any. Thus I included short and relatively softcore clips from 4 Candida Royalle films and:

I got the vague feeling that I made some people uncomfortable by doing so. There seemed to be a bit of squirming in the room. It was probably just because no-one is used to watching dirty movies in the company of strangers like that. Or perhaps it was because I was happily showing porn without deconstructing it in any serious way.

Still, I was pleased to be given the chance to present my version of girly smut. If you consider that I was up at 2am the night before suffering food poisoning, it went well.

The conference was very intimidating on the first day, mainly because it was laden with academic presentations rife with jargon and obscure art references. It’s been over ten years since I last attended a university lecture so the intense intellectualism was a shock to my dumbed-down system. Later I discovered I wasn’t the only one feeling a little overwhelmed by the experience. I spoke to one lady who was pleased that she got to snooze without slumping in her lecture seat.

Eventually I tuned in to the various buzz words; this was a conference thick with references to heteronormativities, hegemonies, discourses, texts, the gaze and various isms. This cartoon sums it up, I suspect. It had a distinctly queer flavour and a lot of presentations had plenty of criticism for the usual suspects: the patriarchy, colonialism, conservatism, monogamy and the mainstream media. There’s a blog post coming about all of that.

Beyond that, though, it was good to be challenged. I heard some really interesting ideas that I hadn’t encountered before. The Porn Report’s Professor Alan McKee (who is a young and funky guy, not a bearded Dumbledore as I imagined) spoke about the idea that popular entertainment (e.g. Big Brother) shouldn’t be so derided because it’s an end in itself and is necessarily vulgar and over the top by definition. A PhD student called David Gizzi discussed the phenomenon of “war porn” – a huge online community of people who watch violent real videos from war. Leonarda Kovacic showed us historic nude “noble savage” photos of aboriginal women and challenged us to read them differently to the usual victim/oppressor narrative.

I also had the unexpected experience of witnessing some extreme performance art. Rebecca Clunn projected her discussion of art onto a screen while silently threading roses onto a string. She then placed the rose necklace around her neck along with a circle of razor wire. For the next 10 minutes or so, she knelt and rocked back and forth while the razor wire scratched her skin to pieces, causing her to bleed. I ran the gamut of emotions from a panicked urge to run away (ack! blood!), to curiosity, to almost indifference because it got repetitive. Quite a strange place to be. Afterwards she sat casually on the stage and we all had a nice chat. It certainly made a change from the standard situation of sitting up the back and comfortably hearing a presenter speak.

I also got to meet some of – dare I say it – “my people”: pornographers, porn stars, strippers, performers and various kinky people. I think this was one of the strengths of the conference: it was willing to hear the voices of those on the front line of erotic screen and sound. It meant there was a balance between intense theory and real-life experiences. This also resulted in a few interesting clashes such as when stripper Zarha Stardust questioned the assumptions made about porn stars in a traditional feminist reading of mainstream porn.

BDSM presentation In the end, the best part of the conference for me was the chance to network. I got chatting to various lovely people during the meal breaks and have made some good friends. I was interviewed by Clarissa Smith who wrote One For The Girls, a book studying porn for women. I also introduced her to the bearded dragons living in the university gardens and there was a bit of squealing.

I had drinks with Fiona Patten and Anne Frances Watson from the Sex Party and talked to Dean Beck who hosts a radio show about gay sexuality in Melbourne. I met the lovely Angela White who not only makes a living as a porn star but is also a PhD student, and Zahra Stardust who is a stripper, politician and Masters student.

I talked women’s porn with Maureen who runs Bliss for Women in Melbourne. I talked to Rupert Owen (who appears in Anna Brownfield’s film The Band) about ways in which people uploading amateur porn can keep control of their videos through open source principles. And then there was all the fun of Tiara The Merch Girl and her exuberant, very smart presence.

One of the recurring themes of the conference was a lack of space and permission to explore sexuality and the erotic. I think there’s potential for this conference to spin into a broader event, possibly like the Berlin Porn Film Festival. Unfortunately, the law will get in the way. It’s one thing for the “elite” academics to gather and discuss fisting and BDSM, watch videos of facial cumshots and discuss their meaning or analyse photos of objects shoved into the anus. It’s another to be allowed to have a festival where the general public are invited. Showing any kind of adult film is still prohibited in Australia. Gathering to discuss and enjoy sexuality is really only limited to the commercial sphere of Sexpo.

It would be nice to try and I believe the general public would be up for it but I think our “moral guardians” would step in and make it unviable. You can discuss porn in an academic way but you’re not allow to enjoy it.

Still, perhaps this conference is an important first step in created a dialogue about sex, porn, art and censorship in Australia. I’m glad I went.

I’d like to direct you to the presentation by Tiara The Merch Girl. She’s kindly uploaded the whole thing onto Vimeo. In it she discusses the idea that erotic represenations, even when they’re labelled “alternative” still adhere to a very narrow aesthetic. She gives details of her own sexual journey and finishes with a superb burlesque/poetry piece.

Tiara the Merch Girl - Erotic Screen and Sound Conference 2011 Presentation - Not Your Ex/Rotic from Tiara The Merch Girl on Vimeo.

The Full Monty Striptease

Friday, December 31st, 2010

This seems a nice way to round out the year – the epic striptease finale from 1997’s The Full Monty. You can’t not smile when you see this. And yes, it IS sexy.

A Quiet Word About Those Dick Pics

Monday, December 20th, 2010

PSA: An Important Message from Women EVERYWHERE

Now, I love looking at guys and I think penises are lovely. But I do have to agree with the general message of this video: a closeup pic of a cock is not really that appealing by itself. Genitals are much better in context. And if you’re sending said pic over a phone to a girl you don’t know… stop it!

Enormous Penis

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Love this little acapella song by Da Vinci’s Notebook. I can sing every word, though not as beautifully as these guys.

Flesh. Breath.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

This is a gorgeous short film that focuses on sensuality, flesh and breath. The cinematography is impressive. It’s one of the feature films at my site Sexy Short Films.

I’m still writing my book, I’m up to 26,000 words. I’m also preparing to shoot a short film as well as an upcoming photo shoot in December and it looks like the new member’s area of For The Girls is about to come to fruition. Then I have a conference to go to for a week at the end of this month.

November has become crazy. I’m probably not going to reach the 50,000 word deadline of the novel but I’m giving it a red hot go.

The Dirk Diggler Dick From Boogie Nights Last Scene

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Boogie Nights Last Scene - Dirk Diggler's dick, Mark Wahlberg

This is a screenshot from the final scene of Boogie Nights, the 1997 film set in the 1970s – the “golden age of porn”. It features Mark Wahlberg as porn star Dirk Diggler, a role loosely based on the life of John Holmes, possibly the world’s most famous woodsman. Throughout the movie, viewers are told all about the huge cock but never actually get to see it. In this last scene, we’re finally given a glimpse of Diggler’s legendary 13 inch penis. Dirk whips it out before a scene, giving himself a pep talk in the mirror.

The cock made the news when it came out, partly because viewers actually got to see a dick in a movie (still rare) and partly because it was fake. The giant rubber dong was made by KNB Effects (who presented Howard Stern with a replica) and was so realistic many still believe Mark Wahlberg really is that well hung.

Turns out that Mark actually kept the prosthesis and was fond of using it for practical jokes.

The actor says he kept the 13in latex appendage he used when he played porn star Dirk Diggler and has only just decided to store it away after previously keeping it to hand to play pranks on his pals.

He explained: “I used to keep it in my desk drawer. And I’d take it out and slap my friends in the face with it. I don’t keep many things from my movies, but that just seemed to have personal significance.” – SMH, via the Times

Alas, Mark is now a devout Catholic and has renounced his penis-slapping ways.

I went looking for video of the final scene and had a hard time finding an uncensored version. I did, however, find this “improved” version which I think is rather hilarious:

“I see your Schwartz is as big as mine.”

Boylesque: Lord Dashwood

Monday, September 20th, 2010

I was trawling about Youtube and found myself looking at male strip show videos. And while I’m quite partial to a good male strip show, they can also be a bit cliched and sometimes the attitude of the dancer can be a bit too agressive or cocky.

And then I found this video. Lord Dashwood is a male burlesque dancer whose routine is a mix of drag and more masculine dancing. He’s quite softly spoken and seems to be an all-round nice guy. His Myspace page says he’s married… and Jewish, in case you’re curious. He won Best Newcomer at the Ministry of Burlesque awards in 2007.

Alas, he’s now retired, if the comment on this news item is to be believed. “I organised a stag do at a burlesque night a few years back, but only because the groom-to-be fancied a go at being one of the acts. He then set up a successful part time stint as burlesque act Lord Dashwood, stripping down to stockings and corsets and what not. He’s retired now because he and his wife have a son.”

I went looking for more male burlesque videos but there’s very few of them and most seem to be performed for gay audiences.

I occasionally have this mad idea that it would be cool to open a male strip bar and host upmarket events for straight women. Sure, I’d feature the Manpower type acts but I’d also love to encourage guys to do something a little different. Cross a few boundaries, wear suspenders, do a Frank N Furter, do acrobatics or pole dance (I think guys who pole dance are sexy). And of course, I’d want to see a range of body shapes, not just the buff muscle bound types, nice as they are.

Jerk Choices

Monday, August 16th, 2010

This is an ad from the Australian Sex Party which parodies the conservative “Work Choices” campaign from a few years ago. It’s not often you get an electoral ad that makes a fairly direct reference to masturbation, even though it probably should happen a lot more often in political advertising.

Yes, the Sex Party ARE serious but they know how to make us laugh.

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