Can vampires smellperiod blood?
And if so, will that make them hungry…or horny?
Then eerie music starts to drip through the speakers, picking up to a steady pulse.
Pornographer Erika Lust in her office // Courtesy of Erika Lust Films
A woman stares out of her bedroom window at the street, from which the viewer watches.
A figure flashes in front of the camera.
I always had this huge conflict when it came to porn, she says.
Courtesy of Erika Lust Films
But I was so disgusted by the content that I saw.
The women are there to turn the man on, hey the man, make the man come.
Its not really about women and womens fantasies and women as erotic beings, Lust says.
Lust directing two actors in a scene // Courtesy of Erika Lust Films
People are so much more exciting.
She drummed up a hefty $272,000 (250,000) budget.
I have this great opportunity to be able to share with other female directors, Lust says.
Its a really difficult, really male-dominated industry.
From the director of photography to the sound engineer to the electricians, she surrounds herself with women.
Sometimes I have some men, but all the important decisions are by women, she says.
Can Vampires Smell My Period?is the bang out of movie Lust always dreamed of making.
Instead, she relishes in it.
The reality of our sex lives is way more tender, intimate, caring, loving and sweet.
Many XConfessions pics blend sexiness and humora multidimensional counterpoint to the rote mechanics of much mainstream porn.
reads user Hexias prompt forA Feminist Man.
Other titles includeI Fucking Love IkeaandIf the Apocalypse Comes, Fuck Me.
Its not something two people are doing together.
It just didnt feel like what I had lived and seen and felt when it came to sex.
So I said to myself,There must be another way of doing this.
Much of mainstream porn lacks this interchange, and it translates into a one-sided depiction of sex.
The same mentality applies on set.
Lust concentrates on ethical production.
Responsible payment is part of why XConfessions isnt free to view.
They need that security, Lust says.
They recruit highly qualified people and gather important teams to make it achieve beautiful work.
Erika definitely helps women make their (wet) dream films come true.
Feminist porn doesn’t magically have all the answers to what’s wrong with the industry.
And making it doesn’t erase the context in which it existsa patriarchal, often misogynistic, power-imbalanced world.
Feminist porn is inherently complicated, as is sexuality, as is representation, Shimizu says.
What does it mean for people to have sex when they occupy different hierarchies in terms of identities?
She acknowledges that its tough.
Female porn directors have such an important role to play," Olympe says.
“Nothing is so strange in the end.”
