Follow-Up: Ethical Porn Recommendations
The options have exploded, no pun intended.
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Happy Friday! This is a follow-up by popular request to my August 29th premium Q&A post, "Should I Stop Watching Porn?" I felt like it was worth linking to these ethical producers in public – You should be able to follow along just fine.
When I wrote about choosing (and paying for!) ethical, feminist porn, people asked for examples, and oh boy do I have examples. I’m not endorsing any of these are better or worse than any other ones, but these are the companies among those that I cited when I gave a talk at the 2013 Feminist Porn Conference, which was hosted, not coincidentally, by the authors of the Feminist Porn Book, which is a great resource if you’d like to know about the origins of feminist porn, though, like anything from the early 2010’s, it’s not without its problems.
Anyway, I wrote a paper about heteronormative representations of desire and arousal in feminist, queer porn, and my research—no, honestly, it was research!—led me to these folks.
I’ll offer just a barebones descriptions, since I can’t possibly know whether something will be for you or not. You just have to look at what they have to offer and see if they do it for you.
NOTE: None of the links below are safe for work. I recommend not clicking anything in this post if you are on a work computer or someone else’s computer.
Also, should not click these links if you're not the appropriate age to do so where you live, she said for legal reasons.
Pink and White Productions, which makes the Crashpad series. Their work is deliberately queer, diverse, and inclusive.
Blue Artichoke’s work is cinematic, story-driven, and feminist. If you like sex as part of a plot and if you like filmmaking, here ya go.
Lust Cinema, led by Erika Lust, is deliberately feminist and you’ll find a lot of conventionally attractive people doing interestingly non-conventional things.
Trouble Films, founded by Courtney Trouble, who also leads queerporn.tv. They have a particularly wide range of performers of size.
Of course the world of erotic media on the internet has expanded in the HOLY MOLY IS IT 10 YEARS since I did my deep dive.
Aorta Films is among the most experimental and artistic of the companies, and have strong commitments to safety and diversity of both bodies and sexytimes.
And for those who want just audio, surely by now you’ve heard of Dipsea? They’ve taken on the enormous challenge of creating erotic audio content that will appeal to a wide array of tastes. It’s targeted toward women, but pleasure has no gender my friends!
If y’all know of producers or studios that are doing great, ethical, feminist erotic work, you can let me know in the comments on Bulletin, or email me and I can write an addendum of y’all’s recommendations!
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