Erika Lust

Saturday, January 12, 2008

I've moved! Me he trasladado!

My blog in English is now here

Mi blog en castellano está ahora aquí

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Amzing female orgasm movies

My friends of IFEELMYSELF.COM are hosting hundreds of fresh, natural, modern and cool clips of women having real and intense pleasure.

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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Undress me!

I love these mugs!

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Second Sexe (France)

Watch this nice teaser of the beautiful online French store SECOND SEXE, where they sell all kind of great erotic products and also my movie, FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Vatican presents a calendar with twelve sexy young roman priests for 2008. They are not exactly naked, instead they are somberly dressed in long, dark robes and broad-rimmed, traditional hats. But as always the sexiness depends on the imagination of the viewer...

You can buy the calendar here.

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Monday, November 26, 2007

CUMSHOTS, a trendy and funny book

In venus Berlin we met the people from CUMSHOTS, a really original book that is a recopilation of porn movie covers, presented in a trendy and designed way.

The Authors, Manuel Grebing and Stephan Scheler. If you like porn, and you want a funny book, or a present to that pornographer friend, buy this piece of art.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Seven Naked Chefs

This is another kind of "porn for women", I mean seeing these guys cooking is kind of exciting, don't you think?

6 more naked guys cooking here here

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Free google video: THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an independent documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its ... todos » effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released into select theatres on September 1, 2006. The Independent Film Channel, the film's producer, aired the film later that autumn.

The MPAA gave the original cut of the film an NC-17 rating for "some graphic sexual content": scenes that illustrated the content a film could include to garner an NC-17 rating. Kirby Dick appealed, and descriptions of the ratings deliberations and appeal were included in the documentary. The new version of the film is not rated.

The film discusses disparities the filmmaker sees in ratings and feedback: between Hollywood and independent films, between gay and straight sexual situations, and between violence and sexual content. Official MOVIE site

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Monday, November 05, 2007

Can't a feminist enjoy a blowjob???

I participated in a debate about women and porn in the last Berlin PornFilmFestival together with other female filmmakers, and as usual when speaking about sex, porn, feminism, porn for women and porn by women we didn’t quite all agree on all matters. I think that it’s great to see new women entering the porn business and showing their points of view behind the cameras as creators, directors and producers. These women should be able to express their sexuality without limits, the same way as male directors have been doing for ages.

But it’s a pity that certain women devote their time and energy pulling down the work of other women, instead of focusing on empowering our different approaches and points of view. It is not the first time and it won’t be the last time that a woman disapproves how other women are obtaining power and voice in a world still dominated by men. This new female porn war is not as the pro-sex feminists against no-porn feminists war, now it’s about what is considered to be the right kind of sex for a feminist... (is there such a thing as “right” sex and “wrong” sex???)

After the debate, Petra Joy, a female porn producer, wrote in her in her Blog:

“I believe that any female filmmaker has he right to show whatever she wants in her films but we should be cautious with our content if we claim to make “feminist porn”. I would like to empower women and this is why I choose to focus on women receiving pleasure rather than just giving it, and I also prefer to show orgasms in different ways such as showing the lover’s faces, rather than ending every scene with a male cum-shot over the woman’s body. If we produce films and call them “female friendly” or “feminist” yet the actual sexual content still focuses mainly on male pleasure and copies a commercially successful mainstream porn formula, then the powerful words that should have a very deep meaning are being mocked and hijacked as a marketing gimmick. Feminism is committed to equality of the sexes, so surely “feminist porn” should show women as equals to men rather than as subservient beings. A woman receiving head, a woman fucking a guy with a strap-on, a guy tasting his own cum and also to feature female ejaculation – those techniques that show a woman in control might be “feminist porn”. If you want to show cum on a woman’s face that’s fine but don’t call it feminist.”

Isn’t it funny? We have a new fundamentalist movement going on here: the Church of the Pure Feminist Porn Producers, and they are declaring that certain sexual practices that me and other women across the world happen to like, are a sin, and that we should be expelled from their pure circle. Well, guess what? I do not want to be part of a club that tells me what it’s ok to do in my bedroom or to portrait in my films, because last time I checked that was called censorship.

Ehh, it all makes me kind of wanna quit feminism and just be a HUMAN BEING, for me this is the goal of feminism anyway. But “being a feminist” is for me as obvious as that white and black people should have the same rights.

I don’t believe that the word “feminist” can be applied on sexual practices. That’s like saying that red is a feminist color and blue isn’t or fish is feminist but not meat. According to Petra, it's feminist to suck dildos, but it's not feminist to suck cocks??? And if there's a man in the scene, he should be fucked up his butt - a man fucked up his butt is feminist, but a woman fucked up her butt is not? Come on!

I consider myself a feminist no matter my sexual activities. I believe that feminism is about equality of the sexes, about women having the same rights and possibilities as men, about women having the right to be looked upon as human beings at firsthand and not defined by what is supposed to be feminine. For me “feminist porn” is porn that shows real women and real men having real sex, not just women obedient to men reproducing classic power structures, not just objectified women, not just women giving pleasure but also receiving pleasure. It’s all about not falling into the stereotyping of characters that most porn filmmakers use, not every woman has to be a prostitute and not every man a mafia gangster. For me feminist porn should portray women’s fantasies and desires – all of them. I certainly know that a woman can be a strong feminist and still wanting to be taken strongly by a man or enjoying blowing a man’s cock or having his cum all over her face.

Erika Lust

UPDATE NOV 9: Audacia Ray has wrote a clear statement in her blog here

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The Best Award

My movie FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER has been awarded with two NINFA awards in FICEB and one E-LINE award in VENUS BERLIN. But those three awards together are less important to me than Linda Williams's words about the movie. (Thank you so very much for your kind words Linda!)

Five Hot Stories for Her has all the requisite features of hard core: hot women, lusty handsome men, real penetrations, even money shots. But if Erika Lust knows how to obey the laws of hard core, she also knows how to build tension around sex acts and how to construct a sex scene around a woman's needs, point of view and sense of play. Most importantly, she knows how to give variety and interest to hard-core sex that can so often feel rote. This compendium of short films is rich and various. There's one about a "good" girl who has to borrow the mind set of her lascivious friend to have good sex with the pizza boy; there's another about break-up sex, another about being married with children. We needn't worry about the future of hard-core pornography as long as women like Erika Lust are working in the industry!

Linda Williams is Professor in the Departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric in Berkely Univerity. She is one of the most respect voices worldwide in porn studies. I met her a couple of years ago in Oslo, and then she visited Barcelona last year for a conference in MACBA.
Linda teaches courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and "body genres" of all sorts). She has recently taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Bunuel, eastern and western melodrama, film theory, and selected "sex genres." Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema, Figures of Desire (1981), a co-edited volume of feminist film criticism (Re-vision, 1984), an edited volume on film spectatorship, Viewing Positions (1993), the co-edited Reinventing Film Studies (with Christine Gledhill, 2000). She has also edited a collection of essays on pornography, Porn Studies, featuring work by many U.C. Berkeley graduate students (Duke, 2004). In 1989 Williams published a study of pornographic film entitled Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible (second edition 1999). More recently she published Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White, from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson (2001, Princeton). Her current project is entitled Screening Sex (forthcoming, Duke). It chronicles sex in movies from Edison’s The Kiss to new media.

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