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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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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'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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Tim Woodman -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Tim Woodman I admit I’m offended by this term -- "ethical porn." One doesn’t have to say “ethical plumbing” or “ethical food catering” or “ethical book shop” because although each of these business practices has its own code of ethics, they are not viewed as ...
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Lance Hart -- Why Ethical Porn?
By Lance Hart. I do not believe anyone intends to be unethical. I believe good people cut corners when they are desperate. Some people defend those errors instead of owning them and saying “Hey, I’m really sorry I forgot to provide food for our long shoot today. What do I need ...
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Jacky St. James -- Why Ethical Porn?
"Ensuring that ethical, sexual pornography can be easily found by consumers is critical. It not only creates a safer work environment for performers, but also allows the consumer to play an active role in the transformation of the community's sexual health. Content that is produced and ...
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Amarna Miller -- What Is Ethical Porn?
Amarna Miller is a Spanish performer and film director who describes herself as "Porn actress and director, entrepreneur and graduated in Fine Arts. I am 24, bisexual and I love sex in all its forms, I consider it something natural that should not be hidden. I like BDSM, antique ...
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Does the Public Care About Ethical Porn?
By Rich Moreland. Instead of offering my personal view on ethical porn, I decided to ask others for theirs. I went into my community (Washington D.C. Metro area) to talk with the "person on the street" about the topic. I made informal contact with thirty people of both sexes ...
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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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