In Ethical Porn: Feminist Gaze, we return to our exploration of PinkLabel’s ethical porn guide, highlighting studios and filmmakers working within feminist perspectives. For more films from a female perspective, browse The Feminist Gaze.

THE KEYHOLE SESSIONS
“Urban Peepshows”

Sonya JF Barnett founded The Keyhole Sessions to champion healthy sexual expression through various public events, celebrating the union between sex and art. From life-drawing that highlighted kinbaku and simulated sex to paparazzi-style nude photo sessions, Urban Peepshows are TKS’ latest creative outlet. Hailed as one of More Magazine’s 50 Fiercest Women, an Utne Reader Visionary, a TEDx Fellow, and a Toronto Hero, Barnett has been creating award-winning erotic shorts since 2012. Her first series, Drips Clicks Squirts, was Barnett’s debut as an iPhone pornographer, using a 3GS. She has since moved on to an iPhone 5 with Because I Want You to Watch {2013}, and her latest, No Artificial Sweeteners, both honored with a Feminist Porn Award. Barnett creates with a clean conscience and a filthy mind.

BLUE ARTICHOKE FILMS
“Jennifer’s mission to create better sex film is an integral part of her feminist sexual expression. She believes that sexual freedom is an essential component of women’s freedom. And that creating beautiful, hot films that turn women on is possible, safe, and necessary.”

Director Jennifer Lyon Bell has been making waves in the independent film world pairing her superb cinematic quality with her feminist ideals. Her initial inspiration came from the absence of erotic imagery geared toward straight women in mainstream porn. She was soon compelled to cast handsome men who both straight women and gay men could both visually enjoy while prioritizing the portrayal of the relationship within her films. The psychological and emotional context of Blue Artichoke Films are given the same weight as the sexual, which is what makes Bell’s work both incredibly unique and popular.

Ms Naughty’s Bright Desire
“Bright Desire is a small production company working to make quality erotic films for straight women. The result is unusual or often amusing short films dealing with female sexuality.”

This company from down under specializes in exploring the sensual eroticism of sex — where women’s pleasure is of the highest priority. Director Ms. Naughty brings her personal pleasures to her films with believable scenarios, decent acting, good-looking guys and realistic, emotionally connected sex. Her work offers an in-depth and arousing display of the powerful elements within female desire. The rich complexities of vanilla sex have never tasted so good!

Lightsouthern
“LightSouthern produces fresh, beautiful, sexy, real Australian stills and videos. It is our approach that is revolutionary. We put our models on a pedestal. We worship them.”

We’re pretty sure that feminist porn might be one of Australia’s biggest exports. Adding to the canon of ethically and professionally produced work, creative director Michelle Flynn uses her 10 years of industry experience to produce quality product that goes on to ‘tell a story’ of women who feel good about themselves.

NaughtyNatural
“Real California hairy girls shooting themselves.”

NaughtyNatural Studios specializes in body hair focused pornography from a woman’s perspective. Self-made model and pornographer Nikki Silver curates the site/studio and is always looking for new avenues to explore within this fetish. Though NaughtyNatural’s niche is hairy porn, the simple, raw authenticity the models and Nikki bring is appealing to anyone with a penchant for women with a wild streak in them.

PETRA JOY
“I like to show men as the object of female sexual desire as there is a lack of male pin-up culture that is aimed at women, rather than at gay men. I choose to embrace taboo subjects such as male bisexuality and the prostate as an erogenous zone for (heterosexual) men.”

If you are looking for something a little on the wild side and outside the box in terms of the “made for and by straight women” model, consider the work of Petra Joy. Petra has over two decades of film-making experience which absolutely shows in the quality of her work. Joy dives deep into the fantasy world combining her cinematic skills with an adventurous approach to representing the objects of sexual desire. Give it a peek, I dare you.

SENSATE FILMS
“Slow porn.”

It just got a hellava lot hotter down under… PinkLabel.tv is proud to host the award winning work of internationally acclaimed Sensate Films. Founded by Melbourne-based Gala Vanting who is an award-winning erotic film producer, sex worker, BDSM practitioner, educator, pleasure activist, and erotic imaginist. She draws from a diverse background in the sexuality and brings a conscious queer feminist approach to her work. Central to all of this is the core value of intimacy and the democratization of sexy. In the slow porn movement, producers give special attention to the production process, holding themselves to the standards of other ‘slow’ movements and focussing on the wider impact of our work on our contributors, our audience, and ourselves. By valuing the sustainability of energies and ethics in what they create, Sensate Films hopes to change the way erotic imagery is experienced.

For more films from a female perspective, browse The Feminist Gaze.