Hello Love with Humans, I'm Wiley and you were listening to sex stories, a

podcast where we make the world a sexier, more loving place by interviewing

queer porn directors so we can discover our desires and practice

talking about sex. Our guest today is a filmmaker and the director of Crashpad series, a queer porn

series set in a secret department in San Francisco.

She's celebrating her 10th year in the adult industry.

Fuck yeah, welcome Ava Le Prima.

Hi everybody.

Oh my God, Ava, can you please tell us? If you had to rate yourself on a sexual

shame a meter today right now in this moment with 10 being the most full of shame and

one being zero shame at all, I guess one's a zero, where do you full right now?

Let's go for a full zero. Let's try.

Fuck yeah. Can you say a few words about like why or how shame has ever shown up for you in the past?

Oh gosh, so as a trans woman growing up in San Francisco we've

celebrated diversity and pride and gay pride even growing up in high school we've had stories of the parties in the

Castro and and even Folsom streets so being an adult and enjoying your adult self has always been celebrated.

So shame in that aspect has never really come up or bothered me.

And in your family life though, when you're raised Catholic,

there is that looming dogma over your head of,

you should do this and not that, do not that as it came into my own being

It was challenging, but shame has grown itself out

Of me. That's awesome. Okay, so you grew up Catholic. Did you get a sex talk or did you ever get any sort of sex ed or lesson in consent growing up?

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