Mindbrowse: Ethical Porn in Practice
The most recent Mindbrowse event -- "Ethical Porn in Practice" -- was held on Tuesday Jan. 16, 2018 at the Andaz Hotel as part of the XBIZ 2018 event series. The ...
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Eva Lovia -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Eva Lovia Ethics to sum it up are culturally derived rules of human conduct and decency. Ethics are applied to work, to moral dilemmas, even to food nowadays. ...
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BellesaCo: An exploitative piracy-based website
By Nate Glass Editors' Note: One of the most elementary aspects of ethical porn is ethical content consumption. Nate Glass writes below in response to Bustle.c...
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Critical Consent: The Tricky Task of Saying Yes
By Ava Mir-Ausziehen I have worked for the porn studios Wasteland.com and Sssh.com for probably about a decade. I started as a performer for the BDSM website ...
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Ethical Porn Consumption on 'Sex With Emily'
We get super excited when spaces outside the adult industry talk about ethical porn, especially when it's an on-point discussion of ethical consumption of adult ...
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Porn Ethics from a Writer's View
By Rich Moreland After submitting an article a few weeks ago on how the "person on the street" defines ethical porn, I got to thinking about what it means to me ...
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Review -- 'Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On' by Rashida Jones
By Angie Rowntree More and more, it seems like everyone knows a whole lot about porn. Wired describes a mission to get more women into porn, a response to mainstream production companies creating “the same boring stuff... managed by the same kind of narrow-minded men.” TeenVogue claims “most mainstream porn shows thin, white, hairless, cisgender people having straight sex in which the women don’t experience pleasure.” HelloGiggles explains that Hollywood, specifically Rashida Jones via her soon to be released docu-drama Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On, wants to ...
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Chanel Preston — Why Ethical Porn?
By Chanel Preston at APAC There are two qualities that, to me, ensure porn is made ethically: the performer should be an informed and consenting adult, and the performer should be treated ethically on set. The Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC) created the Model Bill of ...
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Why it's important to talk about ethics -- Q&A with Le Tag Parfait
We recently corresponded with Le Tag Parfait -- they asked us some great questions about our ideas leading up Ethical.porn and why it's important to talk about ethics, both in terms of adult entertainment and in society at large. You can read "Trois Questions a Angie Rowntree, ...
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'Dreams of Spanking' Shutters in Light of Digital Economy Act
One of the Digital Economy Act's stated intended purposes is "to provide for restricting access to online pornography” via age verification, among other provisions. Though how age verification actually happens has yet to be determined, the British Board of Film Classification ...
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Angela White -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Angela White On the ethical production of pornography in general. I have shot with companies that claim to produce “feminist” pornography that treated me poorly. On the other hand, I have shot with “mainstream” companies, that produce pornography that perpetuates gender ...
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VICE Interview (Part 1)
Our site curators recently did a group interview about ethical porn, what's the point, and the point of this site overall for Mark Hay, writing for VICE. Portions of the interview appeared in the piece “Makers of So-Called Ethical Porn Hope to Clean Up the Industry” (published ...
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Mark Spiegler -- Why Ethical Porn?
The following interview was conducted with Mark Spiegler on 27 May 2017. Ethical.porn: What does ethical porn mean to you? Mark Spiegler: Ethical porn means to me that [producers] respect the talent on the set. It’s really basically how it’s shot, and I think that -- ...
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Review -- Pornocracy (2017)
By Angie Rowntree Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals premiered [this month] at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festival in Austin, TX. It’s a must see. The documentary film was spearheaded by French feminist filmmaker, author, and former adult performer Ovidie. Via Pornocracy, Ovidie investigates changes in the international adult entertainment industry, ...
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