Where’s the adult cinema for women? It’s time for feminist porn

How many times has a woman watched a porn movie and wondered what it is all about?

Did you as a woman ever feel repulsed, or felt a sudden burst of fear watching those movies? Did you then weird out thinking why your reaction to it is so different from the hearsay?

Do not worry. If you weren’t aroused by it like many others are, it isn’t unusual.

Erika Lust of the Lust Films, a production company dedicated to making feminist porn, was at your place once before she went on to make the porn she wanted to watch.

Lust was a political science student at Sweden’s Lund University specializing in human rights and feminism when she encountered film scholar Linda Williams’ Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible. The book had a deep impact on her, and after finishing her graduation in the year 2000 she decided to move to Barcelona and start her own film company.

Couple of months ago, at TED Talk Vienna Lust opened up about her experiences, the idea behind her production house and the need for feminist porn in sex education.

Here’s the video that deserves much thought.

Here’s an interesting essay on Lust and her cinema.

You might also want to check out her XConfessions series that Wikipedia calls “the first crowdsourced project in the history of adult cinema”. Under a website by the same name, Lust releases two short films every month based on anonymous confessions arriving at her inbox.