Call for Submissions: Feminist Porn Studies

This showed up in my in-box. I’m really looking forward to reading this book! Check out the info below and feel free to pass this along.

Feminist Porn Studies: Writing by Academics and Sex Industry Workers

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A new generation of women in the porn industry openly identify as feminist and own their own companies, direct and produce their own material, and/or take on politicized identities as sex worker performers. In addition to “porn for women,” a new wave of porn genres emerges today including alt porn, feminist porn, queer porn, amateur porn, and genderqueer and transgender porn.

Given the transformations of feminism, sexual politics, pornography and popular culture over the last decade or more, our book, Feminist Porn Studies, moves past the pro/anti porn …

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10.14.10 | %% Category: pornography, sex & culture | Leave a comment

Why Aren’t There More Men in Sex Ed?

This post appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.

The fabulous Greta Christina wrote an article the other day, in which she speculated on the reasons why there aren’t more men writing about sex. It’s a great piece and I highly recommend it. Actually, I recommend pretty much anything Greta writes.

My observations pretty much match hers. There are a lot more women who write about sex than men. She hits on some of the factors that contribute to that, and I think that there are some others that are worth delving into. I’m going to talk about sex educators and sex writers together because I see many of the same influences in both of these arenas. Anyway, I consider thoughtful sex writing to …

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03.17.10 | %% Category: sex & culture, sexual politics | Leave a comment