Today is a super exciting day! The 2010 Feminist Porn Award nominees have been announced!! So many of our favorite flicks from the last year are on the list and we really couldn’t be more proud of our lady porn community.
Showcasing the best of the best in porn made for and by forward-thinking feminist folks of all genders (though the movies have to have a woman’s hand in the production, writing, directing, etc.), the Feminist Porn Awards are the do all and say all when it comes to porn created specifically with women in mind.
HM4Her is so thrilled to be sponsoring the awards again this year! We are literally counting the days to the ceremony! That’s right, I (J.D.) will be at the awards in Toronto, April 8 & 9th representing HotMoviesforHer! Plus, the actual awards celebration will be kicked off with an evening of film screenings and round table discussions the night before. Find out more info here.
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Welcome to our first Retro Review! Over the years, we’ve reviewed almost 1000 hot movies and decided it was time to take a look back at some of our favorites. We’re going to be highlighting one review every Saturday in an effort to make sure no one forgets these great films.
Afrodite Superstar is one of the quintessential XXX movies for women, in my opinion, and is also a Feminist Porn Award and AVN Award Winner. Check out what what our friend Essin’ Em had to say about it back before she left HotMoviesforHer and the East Coast behind!
I heard Simone Valentino speak at a $pread Magazine (a magazine by, for and about sex workers ) event in NYC earlier this year, and was entranced by the way she talked about how she prepared herself for a shoot, and was intrigued at how personal and sensual her preparation was. Her description of her tasting herself before she had to douche for a scene was vivid, and her presence was something to behold. Since then, I’ve been desperately wanting to watch one this film, and I’m so glad I have finally been able to do so.
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Sitting on the edge of the Love Tub pulling on a pair of light pink long johns, I am beset by two fairly sad thoughts: 1. Seven a.m. is decidedly too early to be awake and ambulatory, especially when I went to bed at 4 a.m.; and 2. Leaving Las Vegas is sadder now than maybe it has ever been before. Why? Looking back at the sleeping faces of my cohort in debauchery these last 72 hours, I realize that the two sleeping lovelies curled up in our king-sized bed are my family and that they helped to make this moment in time a particularly special one.
Porn appears glamorous. And in many ways it is. Getting paid to have sex, especially if you are really into sex, is a dream for many people. The money is good, the hours can be short and sometimes the life feels and looks like living large. But porn can be harsh and seriously unglamorous in the best of times. As with any other work place, there are in-fights and hard words. There is backstabbing and underhandedness not to mention the constant effect of the burn-out and fade away.
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Sitting in a corner booth at the 24 hours buffet, Jiz Lee and I are exhausted. She is slowly munching on shrimp while I sip my miso soup and we cover the details of the last few months. Its so pleasant to catch up and in amidst the jawing we express our enthusiasm for what promises to be an outstanding 72 hours. That being said, I’m wondering how I’m going to harness my mojo for the next 4-6. Tonight is the Good Vibrations/ Good Releasing party at the Venetian (sponsored by HM4Her!). It’s mustache themed, which is just my style and is going to be full of some of my favorite people from porn land and the world of sex.
We decide to finish up after our second go-round at the food line and scramble back to our luggage. Alas, because we haven’t been able to check-in to the Deluxe Love Tub Suite we are going to be sharing with Courtney Trouble, we grab our glamorous night garb and get ready in the bathroom of the Imperial Palace. Glamorous indeed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Here comes Trouble… with a digital video camera in tow. Courtney Trouble that is, queer porn director and star extraordinaire. The San Francisco-based Trouble has been making a name for herself since 2002, with the creation of her baby NoFauxxx.com (now the oldest running queer porn site on the web) and in more recent years as she has taken the reins on a bunch of avant-garde feminist porno flicks.
When she’s not accepting awards and accolades (including SF Guardian’s 2009 Best of the Bay Queer Porn and a Feminist Porn Award for “Most Deliciously Diverse Cast”), Trouble is behind the camera, giving direction to some of the hottest stars to grace the porno screen, including Jiz Lee, Syd Blakovich and April Flores, to name a few. Her first movie, Roulette, has just hit HotMovies4Her and we couldn’t be more excited to celebrate this fabulously fierce femme queer pornographer and the super hot fruits of her labor.
1. How (and when) did you get started in the industry?
I’m not exactly sure when my involvement with making feminist, queer imagery became an involvement in the adult industry, because at first it was an art project focusing on expressing “real” desires to equalize my experiences as a full-time fantasy-based (aka not-real) phone sex operator. I can’t pinpoint a decisive moment when I realized that No Fauxxx was a breathing entity in the porn industry. Except maybe right now, with my first film being released world-wide on a mainstream (and yet, extremely sex-positive!) level with Good Releasing, and is being reviewed and promoted by people like Fleshbot, Hot Movies For Her, and even AVN. Since the release of Roulette in July, I have been very busy creating my second, third, forth, and fifth films for Good Releasing (Nostalgia out now, Speakeasy out now, Seven Minutes In Heaven out October, Roulette: Dirthy South out November).
2. If you weren’t in the adult industry, what would you be doing?
I was 18 when I started doing phone sex, working from home. I taught myself web design and digital photo editing and printing in my down time during my 4-5 years. I went to school for photography, I actually have two degrees. I think if I weren’t lucky enough to be surviving (meagerly) off my art, I would still be doing something with photography or web design more commercially.
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We have been very patient smut peddlers here at HM4Her. We have been craving Courtney Trouble’s directoral debut ever since we met with her up in Toronto for The Feminist Porn Awards and got a chance to see a clip. We’ve been quietly sitting with our hands in our laps (heh) waiting for all the back-end stuff to get taken care of and finally all that patience has paid off. It’s here! Woohoo!
Welcome to HotMovies4Her Reel Queer Productions and Nofauxxx Roulette!! We are so ready to check you out and and blog all of your sexy queer goodness. The award-winning (Feminist Porn Award for Most Deliciously Diverse Cast) movie looks like the hottest thing since queer sliced bread and we CAN’T WAIT to see what Reel Queer Productions brings us next.
Forget Christmas, this is totally a Yom Kippur treat!
xoxo
- J.D. Bauchery and the ladies of HM4Her
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Today is my 2 year anniversary with HotMoviesForHer.com. Some days it feels like I’ve been working here forever (we just mesh well) and others seem like it’s only been a minute. I guess it’s true what they say about time flying when you are having fun. And fun is definitely what I’ve been having, peddling the girlie smut and bringing all I know about sexin’ to you ladies. I love my job and know that the pleasure side of sexuality is where I belong.
In celebration of my anniversary, I thought I’d write up some of my favorite HM4Her moments from the last two years. I know it’s a little self indulgent, but hey isn’t indulgence what porn is all about?
So, here goes nothin’!
- My very first sex tips column, Introducing J.D. – Your Newest Sexpert Extraordinaire! It was my first time really writing about sex for people on a larger scale. The beginning of something beautiful!
- Dinah Shore weekends 2008 & 2009. Sponosoring this massive lezzie event is not only an awesome way to help the lesbian community get to know us, it’s a fabulous way for us to really get to talk to tons of women about porn and what things they’d like to see on a porn site just for women. Watching Pat Benetar, Margaret Cho, the Idigo Girls, Lady Gaga and bunches of girls in binkinis is just a perk. Oh, that and hanging out with The Porn Librarian. It’s the only time of the year I get to see her face-to-face, so Palm Springs is extra fun!
- When we started offering Pink and White Productions flicks, including The Crashpad Series. I don’t think my desk will ever be the same after all that drooling… or my chair, to be honest. Read the rest of this entry »
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Diane Keaton is coming to HBO to do porn. Ok, well not DO porn per se, but to star as a feminist icon that tries to restart the movement by creating a porn magazine for women! How freaking awesome is that?! Now that Sex and the City has moved to the big screen, HBO has been lacking for overt female sexuality, especially in the over 30 arena.
I don’t know when it will come out or what it’ll be called, but I do know that I’ll be parked on my couch the minute it comes on the tv!
Also, maybe this will help maintstream folks better understand that yes, porn is for women too and yes it can be feminist. (And there’s even an annual award show for feminist porn!)
Two out of two lesbians definitely agree that they are super excited and think that Diane Keaton is the perfect casting choice.
(via Jezebel)
xoxo
-J.D. Bauchery
ps. One lesbians (me) also agrees that this is totally going to be The Porn Librarian in 30 years. Both the job and the look. And she will still be just as awesome.
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