One for the Girls!: The Pleasures and Practices of Reading Women's Porn

by Clarissa Smith

We usually think of women as the victims of pornography rather than its consumers. Whether appearing in films, peering provocatively from the pages of magazines, or posing on explicit Web-sites, women are considered the dehumanized objects of unseen lascivious male viewers. But in her controversial new book One for the Girls! , Clarissa Smith debunks this myth and challenges women to read, watch, and enjoy pornography on their own terms. Focusing on the British magazine For Women , Smith looks at its readers’ responses to male pinups and erotica and explores the intricacies of women’s unique reactions to pornography.
“Clarissa Smith has achieved something special with her new proffering from her masculinities repertoire. Smith’s text is groundbreaking, multidisciplinary and—equally importantly—extremely readable. It is the last point perhaps that really sets this work apart, as One for the Girls has a great deal to offer both the specialist academic and the general reader. Clarissa Smith’s accessible style allows readers with little prior knowledge of critical theory, cultural studies or the 1980s pornography debate, to not only understand these discourses, but to develop a strong grasp of their impact in this context.”—Michelle Parsons, Transition Tradition

 

 

263 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2007

Reviews

[Praj · Rating 3 out of 5]

**This is to all the gals who never deter from tapping the feral window within.**

If you're happy watching porn
Clap your hands
CLAP!! CLAP!!
If you're happy watching porn
Clap your hands
CLAP!! CLAP!!

If you're horny and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're horny and you know it,
Clap your hands.

If you’re shagging to hot neighbors,
Tap your toes
TAP!!TAP!!
If you’re shagging to hot neighbors,
tap your toes
TAP!!TAP!!

If you're horny and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're horny and you know it,
Tap your toes.

If you have erotic fetishes,
Nod your head
NOD!!NOD!!
If you have erotic fetishes,
Nod your head
NOD!!NOD!!

If you're horny and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're horny and you know it,
Nod your head.

If you’re moaning and you know it,
Stomp your feet
STOMP!!STOMP!!
If you’re moaning and you know it,
Stomp your feet
STOMP!!STOMP!!

If you're climaxed and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're climaxed and you know it,
Stomp your feet.

Yay!!!

[Shane · Rating 1 out of 5]

Junk.

[Ogi Ogas · Rating 1 out of 5]

My ratings of books on Goodreads are solely a crude ranking of their utility to me, and not an evaluation of literary merit, entertainment value, social importance, humor, insightfulness, scientific accuracy, creative vigor, suspensefulness of plot, depth of characters, vitality of theme, excitement of climax, satisfaction of ending, or any other combination of dimensions of value which we are expected to boil down through some fabulous alchemy into a single digit.

[Ali Ajlan]

I'll read it first.