Today is Lady Porn Day!

Call it serendipity or synchronicity. Today I found out, via Violet Blue, that today is Lady Porn Day! And through that link I discovered the Rabbit Write blog ("A public discourse on private matters"). It's also Erika Lust's birthday. Let me explain how this is seems synchronous to me.

*see note below

Last year, after doing the Please, Sir blog tour for Rachel Kramer Bussel, I was offered a chance to review Erika Lust's book Good Porn: A Woman's Guide. I was excited when it came in the mail, and proceeded to read through it. And I enjoyed reading it, but...


I felt totally unqualified to review it, or even talk about it. Why? Because, as a woman in her early fifties, I found myself conflicted when it came to even thinking about viewing porn, much less actually doing so. Oh, I'd seen enough clips here and there (like at the Museum of Sex), that I knew that I found visually explicit images a turn on. But a lifetime of messages that porn is BAD, along with my own issues surrounding my sexuality and all the myriad influences over the years on said sexuality, kept me from actually diving in and watching anything more than just those random clips.


But last night, I finally started working on my "Good Porn" review and sent some questions for Ms. Lust (that I'm hoping will be answered). Why did I suddenly get back on the ball (so to speak) and start working on this?  Because, for the first time, EVER, this past weekend, my husband and I sat down together and watched Erika Lust's first film The Good Girl (2005).


I'll be writing more about that, and about a lot of other things soon. My brain is working overtime. Let's just say that by the time I attend the Momentum Conference in April, I think I'll have gone through a sea change when it comes to what I'm able to write about. Should be interesting!


*Note: Today (Thursday), I just read a great post over at Kristina Lloyd's blog (with some great links to other blogs) about how at first all the promo pix for Lady Porn Day were of women (like the one above). That's been remedied I gather. I have to say, it has me thinking a lot about what I like and want to see. 

"Let's bungle in the jungle"

That Jethro Tull song popped into my head the other day. On Monday, my husband and I went into NYC so I could finally get him to the Museum of Sex. The current exhibition is The Sex Lives of Animals which was fascinating. It's a serious science exhibit that would make a great educational field trip but since you have to be 18 to get in I guess that's not gonna happen. Everything they didn't teach us in Biology 101 - seems there isn't much that isn't "natural" if you believe Nature is natural. Some things I knew -  about panda porn and homosexual behavior in animals and horseshoe crab orgies. And though there was a lot I didn't "know" before - nothing really surprised me - except maybe the banana slug chewing off it's own penis which is as long as it's body. Huh? There was video too. 

I'd like to tell more, but I've run out of time here ... to be continued.