Porn for Women, Please!

Posted at 12:11 PM Apr 24, 2008

Every Thursday, Naked City expands your pornographic worldview with tales from the far reaches of the earth. Four international pornographers share this space to tell all about the experiences of being porny and making porn outside of the United States.

In 2004 Barcelona-based Erika Lust started the adult audiovisual production company Lust Films, which produced THE GOOD GIRL, a worldwide acclaimed explicit short story for women, that now is part of the film “FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER,” released in 2007. They are about to finish “Barcelona Sex Project,” an erotic documentary that will be on the market soon. You can keep posted about Erika and her work on her website.

The first time I ever saw a porno film, I had the same reaction that I reckon most women have and it was most definitely not love at first sight. Obviously I was aroused by some of the images but there was so much in it that bothered me. I didn’t identify with any of it: nothing of my lifestyle, my values or even my sexuality was represented in any way.

There was no sign of the women enjoying themselves, and it was as if they were there simply to please the men. The sexual situations just seemed ridiculous and were all based on sexist male fantasies: girl walks into room, discovers boyfriend with her best friend and instead of getting pissed off, she joins them!

And anyway, for my generation, that grew up watching MTV, the audiovisual quality of adult film is totally unacceptable: tacky sets, horrible styling and make-up, non-music, crap acting and even worse dubbing, amateur photography… in general a product left wanting on many levels.

As well as all that, for a modern woman, the character stereotypes that men in the industry have made us put up with for the last 20 years are just plain offensive. I’m sick of slutty Sharons, horny teens, sex maniac nannies, desperate housewives, hot nurses, nymphomaniac hookers and gangbang heroines (these women are men’s ideal sex partners – their sex heroines). And the guys in the movies are almost always mafia guys, pimps, drug dealers, multi-millionaires or Afro-American mega sized sex machines (these guys are their sex heroes).

Despite the fact that I may come off as a total critic of the genre, I admit that although I didn’t like what I saw, there was enough in it that made me want to know more and I came to the conclusion that a different kind of porno was possible… I discovered that several intellectual feminists didn’t just write off porno, they actually analyzed it and saw it as a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Linda Williams and her books ‘Hard Core’ and ‘Porn Studies’ were so inspirational that, after reading them, I decided to become a porn producer and director myself.

There are loads of women out there that would love to see some good explicit cinema but who, after several tries, are always left disappointed with what they find and have given up. However, for those of us who have kept looking against all odds, we have now become what I like to call ‘informed masturbators’, women who know what they are looking for and who know what they want to see.

Thanks to another female porn director, Audacia Ray, editor of this blog, I will be here once a month to keep talking about these matters. We will fight together for a good feminine and feminist porn!

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