The Porn Conversation with Erika Lust

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Adam Silverstein

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Is there any more uncomfortable subject to discuss in a real, educational way than porn? Probably not. Which is exactly why Danielle wanted so desperately to do this episode.Erika Lust is an award-winning, feminist, sex-positive director of adult cinema. Now, she’s made it her mission to educate parents about how we can have these incredibly hard discussions with our kids. Porn is ubiquitous these days. So why are so few people talking about it? Erika breaks down why we can’t wait any longer to dive into the topic and the ways we can do it so it’s not so damn uncomfortable.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to Merge Martinez. This is Danielle. And I am
0:29.7	so thrilled to be putting out this conversation today as a parent who has two
0:36.8	teenagers and a tween. I am completely in the thick of trying to figure out how to
0:42.6	have these incredible uncomfortable conversations about sex and porn and what
0:50.0	consent looks like and all of these areas that I'm trying to navigate without
0:55.1	really ever having any education on how to do that which is why only one of
1:02.0	the reasons really why I was so excited to talk to Erica Lust who is a woman
1:07.0	who I have been so inspired by and as far as trying to spread sex positive
1:18.9	messages and you know to talk about the uncomfortable conversations and she
1:25.8	truly is for lack of a better term an innovator in the porn industry.
1:34.3	Erica Lust is an award-winning filmmaker creating sex positive indie adult
1:40.2	cinema that portrays sexually intelligent narratives relatable characters and
1:45.4	realistic hot sex in an industry that often fails to show true representation of
1:51.3	sex. Erica's focus on female pleasure cinematic values diversity and an
1:58.0	ethical production process have helped to change how pornography is consumed and
2:03.9	now Erica has sort of taken things to a different level and and she has this
2:09.1	other mission on top of all of the ways that she's trying to spread the
2:14.1	message of how there are these different types of porn we we tend to
2:19.4	clump it all together right and and and it has this this one term that we use for
2:23.9	all of it porn but there is ethical porn there's unethical porn there's
2:28.5	feminist porn there is misogynistic porn there is all of these different
2:34.2	levels and nuances and everything that really it's not right or fair or
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