Erika Lust is a Swedish writer, and director of indie erotica, making waves in a new movement within adult cinema: women making smart, sexy, sexually positive films for women. She is the director of the award winning explicit films Cabaret Desire, Five Hot Stories For her, and Barcelona Sex Project. She's the author of the books Good Porn: A Woman's Guide and the Erotic Bible to Europe. You can see more of her work on her site.
Have you seen the video of Dove's latest social experiment yet? If you can't remember, then you probably haven't since I've yet to hear of someone experiencing a small or indifferent reaction to it.
Sometimes I hate being a natural skeptic. In university, this trait was praised as "critical thought," but away from the world of liberal academia, it's just a killjoy. Like a few weeks ago, when my newsfeed was filled with stories from this...
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Posted September 27, 2012 | 12:51 PM
One of the questions I can rely on being asked during most interviews would be, "what do women want?" As a leader in the indie erotica scene, with films and products aimed at a female audience, people seem to think I'd have...
Last week, amid the ongoing debate of women's rights, there was an international media frenzy on the topic of rape -- how it's defined, prosecuted and who can commit it. As the headlines have already informed, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces an Interpol order for his extradition to...
As a fellow creator in the world of sex and erotica, I'm glad when other women in the industry garner great success for their work. Not only does it help to promote our work within the field as a whole, but it offers more female perspective on the topic of...
Porn is out there, it's accessible, and it's here to stay. Sex and porn are so inextricably linked that it's as impossible to imagine the world without the one as it is without the other. Call me biased, but it seems prudent to me to educate the next generation on...
When people around me learn of my profession, they immediately start asking morbid questions. And even if they're liberal people, they all ask the same thing: how did you tell your parents and how are you going to tell your daughters? I realize that I have a controversial profession: I've...
With the recent popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James -- a book which focuses on the relationship between a recent college graduate, and a young businessman with a sexual penchant for BDSM -- people are asking themselves whether this is a topic that empowers the...
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