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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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 ...
[Read More]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 Wasteland.com (as a submissive), eventually become a writer and performer for porn-for-women site Sssh.com, and have also ...
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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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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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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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