Courtney Trouble, Tristan Taormino, Madison Young, Kitty Stryker, and other Fleshbot crushes/skinful sin-spirations assembled from points far and wide (and hard and deep) this past weekend at Toronto's Castefield Event Theatre to celebrate the 2014 Good for Her Feminist Porn Awards.
Image: Kristy Boyce (from left: Kitty Stryker, Courtney Trouble, Wolf Hudson, Drew DeVeaux)
Carlyle Jansen, founder of Good for Her and producer of the Feminist Porn Awards, told the press: "Good For Her began organizing the Feminist Porn Awards in 1996 to celebrate the growing diversity of porn where everyone can see their bodies and desires reflected. Feminist Porn is rapidly eclipsing mainstream options for its fair trade labor practices and inclusivity for everyday people. The festival showcases an increased level of sophistication and cinematography that appeals to both the mainstream porn audience as well as to those who feel left out of porn's traditional style of eroticism."
Beyond just the awards show, the entire weekend was a simultaneously warm and wet occasion bursting with screenings, panels, conferences, and who-knows-what up in everyone's hotel rooms (somebody dish us the dirt—please!).
Image: Soma Snakeoil
Among the globe-trotting, genre-fucking, boundary-obliterating clitterati in attendance were Ovidie (France), Jennifer Lyon Bell (Amsterdam), Zahra Stardust (Australia), and Lucie Blush (Spain), along with homegrown revolutionary hotties Courtney Trouble, Shine Louise Houston, Sonya Barnett, and Soma Snakeoil.
Even coordinators accurately praised the entertainment on hand (and gland) as "selections of films shattered assumptions about the porn aesthetic, from folks who used an iPhone to those with big budgets, from soft to edgy, artsy and political."
The luminous Kitty Stryker provides an up-close (and hard and deep) account on the whole glorious affair on her PurrVersality blog.
So, without further to spew, below are the winners of the 2014 Good For Her Feminist Porn Award.
• Sexiest Short
Trains (Paul Deeb)
No Artificial Sweetener (The Madame)
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• Steamiest Straight Movie
The Temptation Of Eve (Jacky St. James)
Image: The Temptation Of Eve (India Summer, Xander Corvus)
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• Golden Beaver Award for Canadian Content
Power at Play (Carey Gray)
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• Best Direction
Liberte Sexuelle/Sexual Freedom: Sex Stories 3 (Ovidie)
Image: Sexual Freedom: Sex Stories 3
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• Smutty School Teacher Award for Sex Education
Tristan Taormino's Guide to Bondage for Couples (Tristan Taormino)
Image: Tristan Taormino's Guide to Bondage for Couples
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• Hottest Dyke Film
Lesbian Curves 2: Hard Femme (Courtney Trouble)
• Indie Porn Icon
Carlos Batts
Image: Naked Truth (Carlos Batts, April Flores)
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Hottest Straight Vignette
Xconfessions (Erika Lust)
Image: Erika Lust
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Hottest Lesbian Vignette—Women Reclaiming Sex on Film (Madison Young)
Image: Women Reclaiming Sex on Film
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Hottest Kink Movie
Rubber Bordello (Soma Snakeoil)
Image: Rubber Bordello
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Steamiest Romantic Movie
The Submission of Emma Marx (Jacky St. James)
Image: The Submission of Emma Marx (Penny Pax)
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Best Boygasm
Bed Party (Shine Louise Houston)
Image: Bed Party (Sebastian Keys, Eden Alexander)
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Most Tantalizing Trans Film—Trans Grrls (Courtney Trouble)
Image: Trans Grrrls (Maxine Holloway, Chelsea Poe)
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Hearthrob of the Year
Zahra Stardust
Image: Zahra Stardust
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Slixa Movie of the Year
Silver Shoes (Jennifer Lyon Bell)
Image: Silver Shoes
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Honoured Websites
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Honourable Mentions
Something Better: Performers Talk About Feminism and Porn (Ms. Naughty)
Doing It Again: Playful Awakenings (Tobi Hill-Myer)
Best Slumber Party Ever (Samuel Shanahoy)
Image: Best Slumber Party Ever
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