Shere Hite Goes Conservative
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...
View ArticleBut What If Stereotypes Turn You On?
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...
View ArticleMore “Porn For Girls” At Gluck Magazine
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...
View ArticleKramer-Bussell on Fucking and Feminism
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...
View ArticleThe Girl Has Been Outed
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...
View ArticleControversial CAKE Article In Elle Magazine
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...
View ArticlePorn And Young Women: Double Standards Bonanza
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,...
View ArticlePole Dancing Ad Survives Complaints
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...
View ArticleA Weird Feminist Critique Of Porn For Women
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...
View ArticleA Backlash Against Female-Focused Erotic Fiction
Bam. Two negative, almost hateful diatribes against female-focused erotic fiction books in as many days. Instead of being condemned as a cheapjack book slut pandering to male fantasies, you will be...
View ArticleIn The Wake Of The Boobquake
Monday, April 26 was the first official Boobquake This strangely viral event was first suggested by atheist feminist Jennifer McCreight on her blog Blag Hag. Jen’s suggestion was inspired by the...
View ArticleNaomi Wolf Talks Porn… Again
A couple of years ago I expressed disappointment that Naomi Wolf had come out and declared “modesty” in the form of religious veiling to be feminist. Before that I was sick of her endlessly recycled...
View ArticleQuestioning The Moral Panic About “Sexualisation Of Children”
It keeps popping up on TV talk shows and is used as a debate silencer by right-wing pundits. Religious groups use it to put pressure on politicians to create greater censorship. It’s the term...
View ArticleRevisiting The Rudeness Of Hot Gossip
And here’s my favourite: Muscle Bound, with a fabulous introduction by Marcel Wave. A Twitter conversation has made me revisit some of the sexy Hot Gossip dance clips on Youtube, so I thought I’d post...
View ArticleThe “Pornified” Woman?
So while I’ve been off enjoying a break and then enduring flooding, anti-porn author Gail Dines has continued to wave her promotional flag, heavy as it is with assumptions and untruths. Unfortunately...
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