“Crash Pad” and Madison Young win big in Feminist Porn Awards

Posted on April 27th, 2009 in Adult Industry Events, Porn Movies, Porn for Women by Gram

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Good for Her, a Toronto-based couples’-friendly sex shop, honored several titles available on Gamelink last week at its 4th annual Feminist Porn Awards.

See the Flickr gallery here.

I’m kind of a lazy porn viewer because I get all this stuff sent to me (and I’m not complaining), so my frame of reference is limited to companies with hard-working marketing departments. So I’d never heard of a few of these films and am looking forward to seeing them, based simply on the fact that the choices I have seen were so special.

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Below are a few of last week’s honorees:

Hottest Kink Movie
Perversions of Lesbian Lust Vol.1 | Madison Young; Madison Bound Productions

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Steamiest Trans Scene
Crash Pad Series 2- Unlocked | Shine Louise Houston; Pink and White Productions

(San Francisco’s Blowfish Video makes excellent porn, and this series, currently at three titles, is groundbreaking and inventive and sexy no matter what the viewer’s orientation. See my Crash Pad Volume 2 review.)

Sexiest Straight Movie
Intense Desires | Eli Cross ; Lennox Films

Sexiest Dyke Movie
One Night Stand (Pour Une Nuit) | Emilie Jouvet; Hyst Productions

(See my One Night Stand review.)

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Heartthrob of the Year
Dylan Ryan | For work in Strap-on Motel, Sex Mannequin, Crash Pad Series Volume 3, Champion, Perversions of Lesbian Lust: Volume 1 and Lesbian Life: Real Sex San Francisco.

(I’d never thought of having a crush on Dylan Ryan but, Yes – isn’t she a delightful person?)

Heartthrob of the Year
Tyler Knight | For work in Chemistry 4 and Intense Desires

Indie Porn Pioneer
Madison Young

Movie of the Year
Champion | Shine Louise Houston; Pink and White Productions

(We haven’t seen this yet, but people we like say it’s fantastic.)

Honorable Mentions:
Voluptuous Biker Babes | Carlos Batts; Adam and Eve Pictures

(See an appreciation here.)

We’ll be following the Feminist Porn Awards from now on; it’s nice that, even though they think outside of the box, they are still as interested as I am in boxes.

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Porn for Women Finally Arrives (Thanks to Oprah, Sex and the City, and Chronicle Books)

Posted on August 19th, 2008 in GameLink, Porn for Women by admin

Over a year ago Chronicle Books published a book titled “Porn for Women” that engendered so much controversy, that if you didn’t know, you would assume it contained content like the free porn for women list we just published at GameLink. In fact the book featured photos of men, fully clothed doing housework. One of the top complaints they received, as reported on the blog post “Porn for Women (But Apparently Not All Women)” was that readers felt they had assumed that these images
“will appeal to all women because women respond sexually as one robotic Borg.”

Women use Men as a Floormat in this fetish porn movie (NSFW) In the spirit of offering women the full range of options for their sexual pleasure we urge Chronicle to approve our comment for the benefit of readers who were so miffed at their suggestions. Surely this move, like the list we offered this week, will bring about lots more uproar. If you are offended by the idea that women might want to watch actual pornography, please see the above link and enjoy Chronicle’s immensely popular book.

In case you are tempted to write the rest of us off as fringe deviants, I offer this: On August 4th, 2008, Oprah Winfrey hosted a surprising discussion on her daily TV show, entitled ‘237 Reasons to Have Sex.’ On the show she talks to women who watch porn, therapists who recommend porn for the 43% of women who experience sexual dysfunction, and married people who enjoy porn for couples. According to the show, $1 out of every $4 spent on porn is spent by a woman. Well, if porn is like anything else Oprah touches, we expect that figure to rise. Couple that with shows and blockbuster films about sexual liberation of women like “Sex and the City,” and “Swingtown” and we see a new market for porn emerging.

Contrast these events with another milestone for porn…the demise of Playgirl Magazine. Over on Boinkology, one of our favorite sex blogs, there’s much speculation as to why this occurred.

This Is What Life Was Like in the Seventies

Posted on June 25th, 2008 in Porn Thoughts, Porn for Women by P. Weasels

This kind of thing worked. You kids these days, you don’t understand.