Submit to Feminist Porn Now
Good For Her has justed posted their guidelines for the 2009 Feminist Porn Awards. Have some feminist sexy porn to submit? Check it out!
“As Annie Sprinkle famously said, “the answer to bad porn isn’t no porn. It’s more porn!” Good For Her couldn’t agree more. We all know that the world is inundated with cheesy, cliche, degrading, no-budget, patronizing and stupid porn. But we also believe that erotic fantasy is powerful stuff, and that women and marginalized communities deserve to put their dreams and desires on film too. As feminists and sex-positive people, we want to showcase and honour those who are doing it right, like filmmakers who understand that people of colour are sexual beings – not sexual objects. Like performers who want to see body diversity, so they shake their ample butts in front of the camera. Like everyone who ever said “why aren’t my fantasies and realities ever reflected in porn?” so they picked up a camcorder and recorded their friends getting it on.
Good For Her wants porn to be held to a higher standard. We all deserve to see artistic expressions that celebrate who we are in all our glory, and artists deserve to have there work recognized. We think these are pretty good reasons to hold the Annual Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards.”
O and yes, there will be popcorn. Go submit your porn!
Oh, and while we are on the subject. Alison Lee, Manager of Good For Her in Toronto has a great article in This Magazine called “The New Face of Porn“:
“I now see porn as a positive extension of human sexual expression, but I still have a lot of questions about big-picture issues around pornography and society. I’ve searched for answers in a lot of ways: as an undergrad studying sex and gender; as a sex store manager trying (unsuccessfully) to get porn in stock because my female customers demand it; and as a staff reviewer for a website that informed readers about where to get the best quality blowjob videos online. I’ve looked critically at sex, society and porn for years now, and I still maintain that sex is an amazingly telling lens through which to view the world. This continues today, with my work as manager of Good for Her, a Toronto-based feminist sex store, where I also organize the Feminist Porn Awards, which honour the hard-working feminists who are revolutionizing the porn industry. If the very idea of someone who cut her teeth on anti-porn theory now handing out butt-plug shaped trophies to pornographers doesn’t make Andrea Dworkin spin in her grave, I don’t know what would.”-snippet from article.
