Mindbrowse Show Discusses Inclusivity in Content
Mindbrowse.com and Sssh.com hosted a discussion on “Presenting Sex: Diversification, Inclusivity and Content Production in the adult industry in 2020,” at the ...
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Mindbrowse at XBiz LA 2019 - Porn Production & Consent
Mindbrowse.com and Sssh.com hosted a timely roundtable discussion on “Porn Production & Consent” at the 2019 XBIZ Show. The event was held on ...
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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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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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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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Dee Severe -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Dee Severe, Director and Co-owner of Severe Sex Films To me, ethical porn concerns the process more than the final product. Ethical porn is first and foremost consensual, where no performer is ever pressured to do something they don’t want to do, where performers’ opinions ...
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Mickey Mod -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Mickey Mod It is assumed that the process is already unethical. It is assumed that people working in the sex industry in any capcity are devoid of agency and consent. The narratives supporting the shame of our sexuality are so strong that we have trouble imagining that people can ...
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Chelsea Poe -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Chelsea Poe It's important to have an open dialog. As a performer/filmmaker I try to put myself in the performer's position when I'm in the filmmaker position and think about their experience from the moment they step on set until the day the finished film is in their hands. I ...
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Kristel Penn - Why Ethical Porn?
By Kristel Penn To start, there should be a distinction made between ethical porn and ethical porn consumption because on the surface it can look exactly the same. Context is key here, as cliches and other stereotypes are subjective to the viewer. Ethical porn is not simply an ...
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Jelena Vermilion -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Jelena Vermilion I have been in the adult industry since 2013, including performing in porn since 2014. I have also been performing dance for over five years, as well as modeling in the fine arts department of a prominent Canadian university. My body and its capacity for labour ...
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Carlyle Jansen -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Carlyle Jansen at GoodForHer.com "Ethical Porn" generally suggests that performers are paid a fair wage with fair labour practices, given a choice about the kinds of sex that they have and with whom, and what kinds of safer sex supplies that they wish to use. Some employ a ...
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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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