via Jezebel (and the babes at Hotmoviesforher.com), I just found out that HBO is planning a series starring Diane Keaton as a feminist who attmepts to invigorate feminists and the movement by starting a dirty magazine.  My first reaction was excited - Feminist porn hits the mainstream!  Something I’ve been dreaming about since I started working at Good For Her (and long before, too).

But now I’m worried.  How is this going to work?  How is porn for women going to be depicted?  Is it going to be tongue in cheek, Porn for Women -styled (courtesy of the humour-fuelled Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative), or full of Candida-Tristan-Shine-kinda goodness?  How are other issues around porn and feminism, like sex worker’s rights, sound labour practices, and positive and diverse representations of women’s sexuality going to be handled?

This news is also especially interesting hot on the heels of Violet Blue’s story that made the front page of CNN, “Are More Women OK with Watching Porn?“  It seems that more women are willing to admit that they like porn as much as guys do, and that we are all looking for quality adult entertainment that doesn’t insult us along the way.  With coverage like this, it’s only a matter of time that the mainstream media looks at ways to grab a hold of these porn-lovin’ ladies as a primetime audience, too.

I hope that the writers and producers of this new show are talking to people involved in the business, because I really don’t want to groan my way through this show.  There is no way an HBO comedy series is going to be particularly true to life, but it would be nice to see some realistic representations of what it’s like for women to work in the adult industry, and how the business can be re-molded through a solid dose of feminism.

And you know that no matter what, I’ll be watching - this is too juicy to miss.