A recent article about porn director Erika Lust at Refinery 29 was titled Porn That’s GOOD For Women. I like the thought, but I wish they’d explained what porn that’s good for women means, exactly. I agree that porn can be very good for people of all genders and orientations for a lot of reasons.…
If you’re a woman who has never really seen pornography, admitting to yourself that you want to watch porn or explicit sexual imagery may take some — or a lot of — forethought. And if you think that all porn is nothing more than pool boys and women with poor payment negotiation skills and eternal…
This is an interesting item, especially on the tail end of discovering that the poster girl for today’s feminist anti-porn charge — Gail Dines — has had her own (now former) research assistant publicly oppose Dines’ anti-porn arguments. After working with her former boss and mentor for an unspecified amount of time, female research intern…
For most people, the idea of a woman being shamed, degraded or sexually harmed for someone’s viewing pleasure is not acceptable, nor is it in the least bit arousing. This is especially true for porn viewers. However, a frequent accusation is that watching porn, participating in porn, and creating porn are all facets of directly…
Do women like porn? Is there really “porn for women?” Do women read sex blogs, cruise porn sites and watch sexually explicit videos for their own pleasure? Are our fantasies just as much about fucking, as they are supposed to be about shopping? Are we tired of lame, insulting, stereotypical porn? The answer is yes…
So, you think you might be interested in watching some explicit sex online? You’re not alone, and it’s not a new concept — for any gender. Typically when we think of the people who watch porn, we think of sleazy men in raincoats and all those stereotypes — and while that may be true for…
A reader asked About.com’s Cory Silverberg if her porn watching habits were interfering with her libido. I think a lot of us have put significant thought into our porn viewing, from what we watch to what it means for us. We love how well it can work to get us off and give us fantasy…
UPDATE: See the note at the bottom about porn’s legal status in Australia. As Violet mentioned in a Nibble earlier this week, anti-porn crusader Gail Dines‘ May 18 piece in the Sydney Morning Herald got negative responses not just from many of our fellow sex-positive writers but from commenters at the Herald itself. From the…
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Photo by my dear friend, Steve Diet Goedde. I’ve been wanting to see this happen for a very long time; at one point I even approached friends at Kink to crate a “best practices” based on their own spotless safer-sex guidelines and put them out for all to see (and hopefully follow). They did not,…