CYBERSPACE/MAGAZINE RACKS—Talk about your coincidences! No sooner does Cosmopolitan magazine post an article (like yesterday!) on the "15 Best Porn Sites for Women" than Morality in Media the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE) sends out an email on why people should browbeat supermarkets into putting the magazine behind blinder racks and refuse to sell it to minors, even though it doesn't contain nudity or anything sexually explicit!
"We have joined with Victoria Hearst (her family owns the magazines) to ask major retailers to put this pornographic magazine behind blinders and to stop selling it to kids," wrote NCSE's CEO Dawn Hawkins in an email to supporters. "We've already had some success with local retailers and are going after the major retailers as well ... We have made it easy for you to participate too! We have flyers you can print out and give to your local store managers. Or you can email a handful of the retailers we are targeting right from the project web page.
"We hope that you'll add your voice to ours," she concluded. "Many don't realize that this once inspirational women's magazine is now filled with dangerous and pornographic sex tips. In recent years, they have started to include actual depictions of nudity and these acts and they are blatantly targeting young girls with their marketing."
Take that, Cosmo, one of the few "women's magazines" that doesn't think a woman's body stops at the shoulder blades and continues below mid-thigh!
Not only that, but they seem to have reasonably good taste in woman-friendly porn as well!
"As we all know (because we are women), women enjoy porn just as much as guys do,"
wrote author/reviewer Lauren Ahn. "But it's shockingly hard to find good porn in which the woman is actually enjoying herself in a realistic way, and doesn't make you feel bad or sad or just not horny at all. If you don't want to mess up your Google search results by getting deep into some porn searches, I've gotten especially picky and reviewed the best 15 sites for woman-friendly porn. Sites are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being Ron Jeremy (sorry, man), 5 being James Deen (mmm)."
And while AVN doesn't usually review adult sites for their content, from what we do know, Ahn has certainly managed to pick some of the best ... and she clearly does seem to have a thing for James Deen.
"Not giving James Deen a 5 on the James Deen scale would muck with the very structure of the universe," Ahn wrote of
JamesDeen.com. "If you are going to be monogamous with your porn, go with Deen. He is fantastic at looking like he's super into the sex and the person he's with. He's also big on eye contact, lustful growls, and is also just really ... big. God, so big. If you feel yourself getting bored — which is impossible! — there are a bunch of categories including 'public sex,' 'emo' and *
whimper* 'tease.' I watched a film of his the other day (It was for work!) and, I swear, afterward, I felt sort of vicariously well-fucked and had a mysterious glow the rest of the day."
Other sites that majorly float her "little man in the boat"—they all got 5s—include
Good Vibrations After Dark ["This rating varies depending on what you order (5 being some hot Euro film I saw, 2 being a lesbian vaginal fisting thing that made me want to airlift ice packs to that poor vagina)..."];
Hysterical Literature ("Artist Clayton Cubitt ... put together a series of films, each featuring a woman sitting at a table reading a passage from a book of her choice. As she reads, an unseen person under the table stimulates her with a vibrator."); and
Orgasmic Tips For Girls ("it's kind of like sitting around with girlfriends, talking about sex, asking questions you can't ask anywhere else, and sharing the hottest stuff you've found.").
One puzzler, though, is her rating for
Kink.com, which Ahn seems to rate as a 5, though the graphic has arrows pointing to both Ron
and James, and the mini-review doesn't help much:
"If you're into kink, you probably already know about Kink.com, but if you're a beginner, it's a good place to start," she wrote. "It's sort of like a Big Box store for BSDM, fetishes, and other kinks—they'll probably have what you want and other things you didn't know you wanted may end up in your cart as well."
We're guessing it's sort of like her Good Vibrations site review: It all depends on what you order—and unlike at least one of the sites on the list where pirated material is often found, Kink shoots its own material, so the bucks the ladies spend actually go to content creators.
In any case, the full 15 sites and mini-reviews can be found
here.
In the meantime, just remember that a "2015 nationwide survey" (
.pdf), conducted by a "research group" whose CEO Chris Wilson apparently
only appears on Fox News, found that "67% said the magazine cover is not appropriate for viewers of all ages"—so run right out and buy a copy!
