Erika Lust thinks porn is a lot like the restaurant industry. “McDonald’s is doing food and this restaurant is doing food”—she gestures around her—“but they’re completely different concepts.”
Being the big, bright, volatile and self-destructive balls of gas they are, stars aren’t really just like us. Or—wait a minute.
Do sexy men and smart writing make for good reading? After spotting Filament magazine on my local newsstand - featuring the tagline "the thinking woman's crumpet" - I unwrapped what I thought was a new ladymag and, well, rediscovered porn.
Randall Munroe, the witty cartoonist over at xkcd, has taken on Porn for Women, a book of hunky men working on various chores, and pointed out the obvious: that ain't porn. [xkcd]
"Men Who Do Housework May Get More Sex," the headline of this AP story reads. Well, duh. Anyway, a report released today by the Council on Contemporary Families states that men's contribution to housework has doubled over the past four decades. Let's hope so! Because a modern wives, as the Daily Mail so helpfully…
A story in the Times of London by Nerve sexperts Lorelei Sharkey and Emma Taylor (Em & Lo) suggests that if a man wants to get a woman "in the mood" he ought to start not by groping her — but by cleaning the house or remembering to take the recycling out. Em & Lo mention a recent book called Porn For Women, which…
