3:10: a non-consensual relationship is very different from rape. I think not. Given that the majority of rapes are carried out by people known to the victim – most commonly their spouse or partner – a “non-consensual relationship” is the circumstance in which rape is most lik… Read full post »

Saw this walking home. I hope Ines loves him back. Read full post »

A little while ago, I wrote a post about the enlargement of the g-spot using the injection of a collagen-based substance into the area, catchily known as the G-Shot. In the ongoing in-fighting over whether or not the g-spot even exists (in my own experience, there are particularly sensitive areas in… Read full post »

I want to be one of them.

Reading the papers this afternoon I came across this specsavers advert. It’s just a picture of a woman wearing glasses, obviously, which makes a change from the usual stupid “should have gone to specsavers” ads in which a horde of bikini models stampede towards a rather fat m… Read full post »

One of the most fascinating talks I’ve heard and it should be mandatory in all sex education. Read full post »

Tuyo Vibromasseur « Lipstick Stains on Your Pillow.

I want one. Read full post »

Fabulous.

Over the past decade, female genital cosmetic surgery has increased by a staggering 500%. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and created by award-winning filmmaker, Ellie Land, Centrefold is a unique animated documentary that takes an innovative and balanced approach to this controversial topic.

The offic… Read full post »

I’m a sex industry novice. I have no personal experience of working in it and know very few people who do. Not that I let that get in the way of forming opinions about it. I thought I had a progressive and feminist view: the industry, to me, was yet another… Read full post »

Female Sexual Dysfunction, Marketing and Disease-Mongering – ScribeMedia.org.

Leonore Tiefer, a great heroine of mine, on the medicalisation of sexuality. Fascinating. Read full post »

The damage done by do-gooders. What happens when morals get in the way of medicine and human rights. Taking the Pledge is a 13-minute film featuring sex workers from Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Mali, Thailand and others, describing the problems created by the ‘anti-prostitution pledge’… Read full post »

Women and girls are taught to be afraid. This would a go a long way towards giving us the power to feel brave instead.

I can’t praise this film highly enough. Read full post »

Porn is posh.  It is not explicit or pornographic: instead it is “libertine philosophy†(review of The Sexual Life of Catherine M in the Times Literary Supplement, no less).  It does not need to be concealed from wives and servants (see Mervyn Griffith-Jones’ Opening Address for the Prosecuti… Read full post »

Fuck yeah. Read full post »

As the title suggests, I’ve been spending quite a lot of time fannying about on pinterest. I’m sort of making good use of it by creating boards like Women Who Rock and More Women Who Rock  for women who’re up to important and exciting things, WTF for appalling things, one thing… Read full post »

Sharon Mitchell: A great heroine of mine.

In this film, Lorelei Lee talks about the treatment she receives when people find out she works in porn.  She wants to be accepted as a person who goes to work like any other – and why not – but this is a woman who’s paid to perform in films… Read full post »

Because I’m sure you’re just dying to know what they get up to and why, my book on flashers will be out soon.

Here are the details: A sexual climate consumed by display ought to be ideal for flashers, yet their actions are taboo and illegal.  While others flirt with… Read full post »

I was recently asked by a journalist to write 100 words about what would or wouldn’t be attractive about Ken on a date.  I don’t know if she’ll use it so I thought I’d put it up here seeing as I wrote it.  Here’s my best shot.

I think the trait… Read full post »

Bitching on the beauty pageant circuit is hardly news, but in attempting to make it a little more political, Jenna Talackova has managed to gain some media coverage as the first transsexual to enter (that anyone knows of) and be disqualified from the Miss Universe Canada competition for failing to… Read full post »

I want to be all egalitarian about this, I really do, but I can’t help finding it pitiful. Disturbing, too, having malnutrition eroticised by these poses. Or, perhaps, I’ve got it all wrong and the women’s bodies are as sexy as any other and the freedom to be emaciated as much… Read full post »