Feisty Feminist Porn hits the big screen
Written by:Adriana Rolston
Date: May 25, 2009

Eating popcorn at the movies is a must, even when you’re watching feminist porn. It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting in the Royal Theatre and Feisty Feminist Porn on the Big Screen is underway, the second sexy night following Good for Her’s Feminist Porn Awards. Tonight the audience will get a more satisfying taste of films from the winner’s of Saturday’s awards ceremony, followed by a panel discussion with the directors, hosted by Coco Le Crème.

First up on tonight’s naughty screening is Ryerson media studies student, Joanne Loton’s documentary, “Women Will Come.”

Loton has brought together an array of feminist porn directors from across the globe to discuss what feminist porn means to them, with some titillating footage.

Her clips focus on Anna Span, the first feminist porn director in the UK, who discusses using the "female perspective" to restructure power imbalances in porn. From behind her desk, in a no-nonsense ponytail and a t-shirt reading, “This is what a feminist looks like,” Span explains that when you picture yourself fucking it’s typical to envision the sex from your own point of view, not from your partner’s perspective or a panoramic shot. Unless you have problems, she says.

During an oral scene Span, films bent over an actresses’ shoulder as she is eaten out, looking down at the male lover. Span films an equal amount of female and male oriented camera shots so that women can participate as the gazer instead of constantly being gazed at as an object. Steamy doc score: 8 curved vibrators out of 10.

After the educational portion of the evening we move on to clips from the softcore flick “Man of my Dreams,” by Mimi Balfour. During the panel discussion the hockey mom of three says that she wanted to make her film relatable to mothers who may not have dipped their toes into the porn pool yet.

Salsa music plays as we watch repairman Jim, identifiable by his uniform nametag, as he enters a woman’s apartment and gets to work between her legs. The lighting is low and the actors resemble typical characters from PG porn. Jim is toned and muscular, picking his eager conquest up in his arms. She wears lavender lingerie, has a slender waist, perfect curled do and curves in all the right places. The tone is slow and sensual and although she gets off, I didn’t. The whole thing was too cheesy, too styled and lacked tangible passion.

At first glance the film feels like mainstream romance novel style pornography. What separates this from an episode of Red Shoe Diaries is the camera’s focus on the male body, making him the object of her desire. She receives oral pleasure and the scene ends in an atypical fashion, with the couple resting on the couch, watching television. Tame? Very much so. Realistic? Perhaps, but boring, just the same. Score: 9 granny panties out of 10.

Next is a clip from Nofauxxx.com creator, Courtney Trouble’s film, “Roulette”, which was definitely not what I was expecting. A blonde cat burglar in a black toque heads for the fridge and grabs a jug of milk. At this point it becomes obvious where this is going and that it’s going to get dirty. She lies in front of the fridge, pours the cool beverage into her open mouth and lets it flow over her lips. It looks like a symbolic cum bath. She pinches her hardened nipples between her fingers, letting the milk stream over them, before ripping her fishnets at the crotch.

Cold liquid dribbles onto her black panties. She gasps softly before slipping her hand underneath to dip her fingers in her own cream. I found the illusion to male semen to be a turn off, but more unsettling still is when she bends down to lick the spilt remains off the tiled floor. This scene was too messy for my taste. Score: three used condoms out of 10.

Later, when Coco La Crème asks Madison Young if she is in the business of making dreams come true, the actress and director refers to herself as the fairy godmother of porn. Young says she incorporates the desires of her actors in her work, for example, if they want to peg a bound firefighter in the ass.

On screen tonight Young is making breakfast and getting very hot and bothered in the process. She prepares some toast and leans on the kitchen counter, reaching under her shorts to rub herself before informing her master that it’s almost ready.

Fast Forward. Breakfast forgotten, actress Dylan Ryan has her tongue wrapped around Young’s clit, who wears black rimmed glasses, legs spread in a chair with her head thrown back. In the throes of climax she resembles a nerdy nymph giving short, high pitched cries, her hand clamped onto Ryan’s bleach blonde boy cut locks. “Rawr, rawr, rawr,’ she growls, her climax receding as shouting and laughter ripples throughout the audience, breaking the erotic tension.

Shortly after, Young is on her knees and Ryan is in the chair, smacking her face sharply and demanding that she kiss her foot before leading her off screen. If you’re into sexual control then the assertive, take-no-shit attitude of Ryan and Young’s ripe, eager-to-please desire will get you hot and bothered.

Next scene. Young is naked in a cage on her hands and knees with wide, luscious lips pursed as Ryan circles her in a fishnet body suit. A silver chain runs through her nipples rings and around a bar of the cage, preventing her from moving. As Ryan kneels at her captive’s rear two chained clamps are visibly pinching her pink, distended pussy lips.

“I really want to stick something in your ass. Aren’t you lucky?” says Ryan, producing a peacock plumed butt plug for Young to suck on before slowly thrusting it into her puckered anus. “You’re a pretty little bird. Pretty little birdie,” Ryan coos, while tugging on the pussy clamps as Young’s head turns, groaning. The urgent desperation in her voice is as arousing as Ryan’s cool demeanor. As she rises to leave her prisoner the camera zooms in on Young’s distraught expression through the silver bars, lips open in a frustrated moan.

Out of all the lusty films the dynamic between Young and Ryan got 9 soaked pairs of panties out of 10. Tonight there is no doubt she was a fulfilling fairy godmother.