Fantastic: Porn for Women Restrospective 2008

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There’s not much for me to add, other than to point you toward the fabulous post Porn For Women Retrospective 2008, where the woman who runs the porn-for-women site For the Girls gives the most complete, incredible, fantastic wrapup of everything related to women as porn consumers that occurred in 2008. And the funny part to me was reading Oprah’s claim about female dollars spent on porn. It’s incorrect — and if she’d read the article I wrote for her magazine, she’d have said something different entirely (it’s higher than she said, and I used statistics for proof in her own magazine; I still want to know where that $12 billion number comes from, exactly…) Anyway, take a minute and truly enjoy this fantastic post — you won’t see this kind of reporting on women and porn consumption/enjoyment in (and out of) pop culture anywhere else — click through for her linkage:

In The News

* The big porn for women event was the demise of Playgirl magazine, which announced its closure in August. Plenty of media scuttlebutt followed, including inside stories from the women who worked at the magazine, claiming they’d be stifled by the men in upper management.

* Oprah drew attention to porn for women again this year with her show “237 Reasons To Have Sex”. The show included the assertion that “in the $12 billion adult entertainment industry, $1 out of every $4 is spent by a woman.”

* The Sex and the City film gave media pundits everywhere an excuse to once again talk about women embracing sex toys and porn. I could do without it, to be honest.

* In Texas a court overturned the ban on sex toys

* Heidi Fleiss made headlines by opening an “eco friendly” brothel for women in Nevada

New Adult Movies for Straight Women

2008 didn’t match the previous year for female-friendly film releases, although there were still plenty of new titles to keep us interested. (…read more, msnaughty.com)