Back In The Closet Like A Porn Star
It’s almost ten years since I had a chapter published in Coming Out Like A Porn Star. Meanwhile, I’ve been back in the porn closet for six years. And it’s starting to chafe a bit. Read More …
Category: Porn
Good porn, bad porn, new developments in the industry, gossip
The Age Verification Bullshit Continues
Why age verification of porn is a bad idea. I’m so tired. Read More …
“What’s Your Honest Opinion On Pornography?”
A thread on Reddit Ask Women has a lot of negative comments about porn. I posted my own long essay but it was deleted. So I’m just putting it here since I went to all the effort of writing it. Read More …
I’m Running ForTheGirls.com Again
I’m back running For The Girls again. Porn for women has changed in 19 years and FTG is one of the oldest sites offering it. Read More …
Making and Curating Porn In The Time Of Corona
To help out our sex worker friends, I’ve offered to feature their previously existing films at Bright Desire. I’m going to add a new performer-produced film every week starting this Friday. Read More …
Alternatives to Patreon for Porn Creators
Patreon is deleting porn creators. Here are some alternatives for people who want to keep making money from their porn – paysites, cam sites and more. Read More …
Berlin Porn Film Festival 2017
My annual roundup of the Berlin Porn Film Festival. The 2017 edition was super busy with a lot of great short films and much socializing. I also did a LOT of shooting. Read More …
The Bellesa Affair: Piracy, PR and Porn For Women
This week free porn site Bellesa came under fire for offering pirated content while claiming that they were ethical and feminist. Beyond the issue of content theft, this affair shows how PR has increasingly become the thing that can make or break a porn website. Read More …
6 Things Today’s Internet Could Learn From Old School Porn Websites
My ranty list of 6 things that today’s websites are doing wrong and lessons that could be learned from old school porn sites. Read More …
About That “Porn Objectifies Women” Thing
I was recently interviewed for an ABC news article which appears today: Ethical porn: does it exist and who makes it? I had a long chat with Kellie Scott who wrote the piece but alas, I feel like my quotes only really skim over what I was trying to say. Still, it’s always nice to get a mainstream media mention. The reason I’m firing up my long-neglected blog today is Read More …
Bright Desire and For The Girls Nominated for XBiz Award
I’m pleased to say that both Bright Desire and ForTheGirls.com have once again been nominated for an award in the Adult Site of the Year – For Women category. This is the second year in a row we’ve received this nomination. Read More …
The Berlin Porn Film Festival 2016
And thus is came to pass that October whizzed around again and that meant it was time for the 11th PornFilmFestival Berlin. So we got on a plane and spent 3 days in transit in order to visit our Berlin porn family and be inspired by a bunch of clever, entertaining and sexy films. Read More …
If You Think Porn Performers Should Be Made To Wear Condoms… Read This
The Californian Prop 60 bill ostensibly aims to make it compulsory for performers in adult films to wear condoms. In reality, it’s a drastic legal overreach that threatens the privacy of performers, allows anyone to sue adult film makers and will decimate the CA adult industry. Read More …
Chilling Effect: Youtube Bans Erika Lust’s SFW Erotic Film
Erika Lust’s SFW film has been deleted from Youtube 2 days after the media wrote about it. This post discusses ongoing censorship by social media sites and even “respectable” well known erotic filmmakers aren’t immune from it. Read More …
Mainstream Media: Oh, We Couldn’t Possibly Link To A Porn Site!
A website asked me to write about porn for them but they absolutely refused to link to my porn site. Thus perpetuating porn stigma and the ongoing pornocalypse. Read More …