TORONTO (April 8, 2013)—The First Annual Feminist Porn Conference was held at the University of Toronto on April 6, 2013 and drew nearly 250 attendees. This one-day conference brought together academics, cultural critics, performers, directors, producers, sex workers, activists, students, and fans to explore the emergence of feminist porn as a genre, industry, field of study, and movement. The event, the first ever conference devoted exclusively to feminist pornography, featured 45 different presenters from around the world.

Presenters included leading professors whose work spans multiple disciplines from history, sociology, film and media studies to comparative literature, sexuality studies, and feminist studies, including Kevin Heffernan from Southern Methodist University, Lynn Comella of University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Ariane Cruz of Pennsylvania State University, Jill Bakehorn of UC Davis and UC Berkeley, Nicholas Matte of University Toronto, Emily Nagoski from Smith College, and York University’s Bobby Noble as well as scholars from CUNY, UCLA, Northwestern, and Ohio University.

Several panels featured some of the most well-known producers and performers working in feminist porn today, including Jiz Lee, Courtney Trouble, Madison Young, Sinnamon Love, Dylan Ryan, April Flores, Carlos Batts, Loree Erickson, James Darling, Carrie Gray, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Tina Horn, Arabelle Raphael, Quinn Cassidy, Jes Sachse, and Bianca Stone. The international conference drew presenters from around the world, including Liesbet Zikkenheimer and Marije Janssen from Dusk TV, an erotic TV channel for women in the Netherlands and Australian webmistress and director Ms. Naughty of ForTheGirls.com. Carol Queen, PhD, co-founder of the Center for Sex and Culture and Good Vibrations’ sexologist, spoke on two panels: “Conspicuous Consumption: If We Sell It, They Will Come,” about the connection between feminist porn and sex-positive retail stores and “Feminist Perspectives on Sexual Identity and Sexual Health in Educational and Feminist Porn.”

Award-winning filmmaker Shine Louise Houston of Pink and White Productions screened her documentary Shiny Jewels to a huge crowd. A screening of Lesbo Retro: A Dyke Porn Retrospective, a clip show of lesbian porn from 1960-2000, was followed by a question and answer session with its curator, Shar Rednour and special guest Nan Kinney, co-founder of On Our Backs and Fatale Media and recipient of the 2013 Trailblazer Award at The 8th Annual The Feminist Porn Awards on April 5.

The keynote was delivered by feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino and Professors Constance Penley and (both from University of California-Santa Barbara). As three of the four co-editors of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure, recently published by The Feminist Press at CUNY, they discussed how feminist porn has shifted sexual representation and pondered what the future holds for feminist porn. “The goal of our book was to put academics and sex industry workers into conversation with one another to discuss critical issues about feminism, sexual media, representation, sexual agency, and labor. This conference took those conversations to the next level,” said Mireille Miller-Young. “We hope it mobilizes academics and sex industry workers to create coalitions to support each other’s work,” said Constance Penley.

“The event exceeded my expectations,” said Tristan Taormino, who produced the conference. “I was inspired by the diversity of voices from professors and students to performers and fans. The enthusiasm for dialogue about feminist porn issues was overwhelming, and I am already planning next year’s conference.”

The Feminist Porn Conference was sponsored by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, Good for Her, The Feminist Porn Awards, and The Feminist Press.

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Mighty Tanaka presents:

“Seeing Double”

Featuring the artwork of Ellen Stagg & Hiroshi Kumagai

Spring is in the air.  The sun is out and a warm breeze gently blows through the newly budding trees.  It is a time to rejoice, as the world reawakens to the sunshine after a long winters nap.  Springtime allows us the freedom to release the shackles of a cold and dark winter and gifts us the ability to be completely rejuvenated within an upbeat new world.  Yet, as the flowers rise once again to meet the changing climate, so does our pulse with the temptation of desire.  Restrictive clothing is shed and the essence of pheromones drifts through the air and entices the soul.  We are reawakened to the most instinctual of desires, that of eroticism and temptation.  Mighty Tanaka is pleased to bring you a sexy new show for the Spring called Seeing Double, featuring the tantalizing photography of Ellen Stagg and the captivating vinyl work of Hiroshi Kumagai.  Together, these two artists are sure to blow your mind.  

Seeing Double pairs two erotic art powerhouses side by side within this uninhibited exhibition.  Mutually influenced by one another, both Ellen Stagg and Hiroshi Kumagai represent different approaches to analog art, as they each represent a unique perspective to the erotic art form.  Together, they create an abstract realism that plays with the senses and invigorates new ideas within the interpretation of the art form.

Ellen Stagg and Hiroshi Kumagai utilize a number of techniques to achieve a low-fi medium within a digital age.  From the lens of a Lomokino camera that mirrors the grainy qualities of the Super 8 home movies to the steady hand and exact nature of precisely executed vinyl work, Seeing Double displays the qualities and flexibility of the way we choose to interpret eroticism and the ability to expresses ourselves.  

Opening Reception April 12th, 6-9pm

Closing Reception May 2nd, 6-9pm

Mighty Tanaka
111 Front Street
Suite 224
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12pm - 6:30pm
Phone: (718) 596 8781
Email:contact@mightytanaka.com

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JOHN STAVROS, in association with Blood Moon Productions, (an independent NYC publishing venue dedicated to exposés about How America Interprets its Celebrities) requests your presence at a celebration of the release of the most comprehensive biography of an Adult Entertainment Star ever published.
Thursday, March 28th Time from 7pm – 11pm
Location
320 Studios. 320 West 37th Street, 14th Floor, NYC, NY 10018 www.320studiosnyc.com
PLEASE NOTE: This is a closed event. RSVP is obligatory. Please let us know your confirmation of presence by March 27th.
E-Mail Pmpstudios@yahoo.com
“It would be difficult to write a history of entertainment in America without mentioning Linda Lovelace and the role of her famous movie, Deep Throat, in changing the movie industry forever.”
—Darwin Porter | Blood Moon Productions

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in Venice in a hotel room that reminds me of church Daddy teases me with the tip of his cock by rubbing it up and down and over and under and round and round my sweet little virgin pussy and i writhe underneath wanting it deep inside of me but Daddy says we aren’t married yet so it can only be the tip just the tip baby and he says this over and over in my ear and gets behind me and on the wall next the bed hangs a large mirror and he has me look into it as he works the tip in and out and i swell around the head and Daddy keeps saying just the tip baby just the tip and makes me watch myself and my lids are so heavy and my lips puffy and red and i feel like a flower and other worldly and i watch him reach around and play with my nipples and it is Spring and the white lace curtains sway in the breeze and i can hear the canal that sits directly beneath the window and think of gondola that is parked alongside it and he pulls out his teasing cock and on the stone grey streets i am in a sex haze it is thick and my lids still cannot open fully and i hold on to the back of his neck with intensity and float into a cafe my feet have not touched the ground yet and am high everything is elevated and he asks if i did drugs and i laugh and so no Daddy and my eyes then get big and bright and innocent and i slowly roll my tongue over my upper lip and let it linger on the corner and Daddy smiles big and asks me to open up and show him my big girl mouth and i do and pasta and clams and tiramisu and thin corridors for streets with no cars and bells sound and we pass a lace factory and over a small bridge and then another and i am still floating although i can hear my heels smacking on the wet rock beneath them

and back at the hotel it is now evening and we close the shutters it has grown cold and the room smells of water and mildew and Daddy has me put on my wedding dress a thin beige slip that is both soft and silky and it clings to my breasts and pubic mound and it is time to get married and we give our vows in front of the priest and he tells Daddy to kiss his bride and he spreads my mouth open with his tongue and deep throats me and i can’t help but grind my pussy against his body and the priest watches because he is a pervert and i like the attention and am up against a dark wooden table which is up against a wall and Daddy makes me spread my legs and says now we are married so we can have our honeymoon and buries his face in between and eats me out until i almost orgasm but he doesn’t let me and the priest is still watching and Daddy says he can watch the priest can watch Daddy take my virginity in my white wedding dress and i nod and say yes Daddy and his hand is down there warm and slippy and sugar and spice and he enters his fingers inside slowly and reminds me this is okay this is good and it isn’t wrong and i’m such a good girl and deserve a reward we are beyond and he pulls up the slip and ask me if i’m ready are you ready are you ready baby are you ready to take Daddy’s cock are you ready for it baby are you ready for Daddy’s cock and i cannot speak words are no longer i can only nod and short heavy breaths and he fills me up and i scream and melt and take all of it like a big good girl and he brings me to the bed and fucks me hard and deep in Venice in a hotel room that reminds me of church.

By Natasha Gornik.

For more of Natasha Gornik’s writings and photography, go to Natasha Gornik & NastyByDesign.

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