Introducing Bright Desire

You may have noticed from my tweets that I’ve been working on a new site. I’ve been beavering away at it since March and now, finally, it’s live.

Friends, may I present Bright Desire, my new membership site featuring all the sex scenes and short films I’ve shot in my small porn filmmaking career. It’s also got a bunch of my own erotic fiction, photos, columns, reviews and mini documentaries. Plus lots of extra porn that I threw in there to essentially pad the site out while I work on filming more scenes.

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It’s an embodiment of a newer philosophy that I have regarding porn. I have spent 12 years focusing on, and marketing to, straight women but I decided I wanted to move beyond that. Because I recognise that it’s not just women who want something more from porn. I think there’s a real need out there to move beyond the cliches and the negativity and to see sex depicted in a positive, joyful and realistic way. To show sex as the wonderful thing we all know it to be; something that’s more than just fucking. I wanted to show the cerebral and emotional side of sex, to show intimacy, connection, laughter and fun. And I also wanted to find a new way to depict sexual fantasies and get into the heads of the performers. I wanted to respect the performers as well and ensure their personalities were part of the scene.

Bright Desire currently features scenes with real life heterosexual couples as well as male and female solo masturbation scenes. I’m going to expand this as I go along and include all orientations and genders, although I do want to focus on hetero sex because that’s where I’m personally at. And it’s also an area that’s still neglected, despite the explosion of queer and feminist porn. Straight sex is still stuck in the realm of porny cliche and I want to go beyond that.

I’ve taken a risk by including male solo scenes amid the couples and solo women. Porn dogma insists that this sort of content should be segregated, labelled as “gay” and kept safely away from straight men lest they somehow “catch the gay” or turn into zombies or something like that. I’m not buying into that. I just want to present my films as I’ve made them and I’m not going to make assumptions about the viewer’s sexuality or their fantasies. If guys don’t want to see other men, they can either just not look and enjoy the rest of the content, or they can go away and enjoy the billions of other porn sites that maintain the false wall. Also, women have been happily enjoying girl-girl scenes, classified as “straight porn” for years. Surely it’s time that the same thing happened with men?

Bright Desire is only small, mainly because it’s just me running it and I’m pretty restricted by my budget and location. I can only sigh wistfully at the budgets of some porn companies and there’s part of me that’s horrified at the idea of launching a new site in this current economic client. We all know that porn is dying, right? How can I possibly compete with the tube sites that feature more videos than I can ever hope to make in a lifetime?

It may be that I’ll never break even with this site. The main motivation behind it was not money (although, yes, that will be nice). It’s always been to get my stuff out there, a way to share my vision of what good porn looks like. And to provide something different to the millions of standardized porn scenes out there. Something positive.

I originally envisioned Bright Desire as being both a membership site and a VOD one. Thanks to various obstacles and technical glitches, it’s only a membership site at this point. I opted to get that up and running first rather than spend even more time stuffing around with code. But the VOD is still coming. Soon, my pretties, soon. Meanwhile, the site is in an initial beta phase while I work out various bugs.

So, if you’re curious, please head over and enjoy the free video previews and photos on the tour. And – if you like it – please consider buying a membership. At this stage any money I make will be ploughed straight back into filming more scenes.

And let me know what you think.