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Published 18:05 27 Apr 2016 BST
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"Ethical porn", as it's called, guarantees genuine performer choice on condoms, encourages optimal sexual health screenings, promotes transparency around pay rates and – perhaps most importantly – uses strict age verification for performers.
Her trademark brand of indie-film aesthetic mixed with arthouse erotica is strangely mesmerising to watch. She insists on her site that her work is "still entirely feminist":
“Sometimes when people start thinking about feminist porn they don’t understand what they’re speaking about. Suddenly they think feminism is the opposite of chauvinism. It’s not. It doesn’t mean that we should see men as objects, that’s not right. Feminism is a simple idea – people are people.”According to Lust, hardcore pornography addiction has distorted the way an entire generation of young men think about sex and intimacy. And it's not just damaging to women... While wanking won't actually make you go blind, studies do show that regular mastabation decreases sex drive and the desire for social interaction, especially in young males.
Let's be grown-ups about this, we all watch porn, and maybe we have a personal responsibility to be watching the right porn. So why not try it out for yourself?
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