![]() Every lesbian is tall, thin and pretty and has long hair and nails. Beautiful young women just love to have sex with fat, ugly, middle-aged men #13. When a man is choking a woman with his dick, she always smiles and enjoys it #7. In it, she lists such common myths associated with ‘phony, predictable porn for men’, including: #2. Lust has written several books on eroticism and sexuality her first book Good Porn was published in 2009 by Seal Press. In 2019 Erika was named as one of the BBC's 100 Most Influential Women of the Year. In 2017 Glamour Magazine listed Lust Cinema as one of the 15 Feminist Porn Sites That You’ll Really, Really Enjoy. It has become her main source of work in the years thereafter. She started the first crowdsourced project in the history of adult cinema in 2013, calling it XConfessions. In 2010, Lust opened an online erotic cinema called Lust Cinema, exhibiting her own films and those of other authors of the new wave of explicit films. She considers pornography to be the "most important discourse on gender and sexuality". She hopes to influence viewers' conceptions of gender roles in sexuality. Lust believes explicit film can be an educational tool besides being pleasurable and can help us better understand our sexuality, to live more freely and naturally. Lust's films are characterized by carefully cast actors and high standards of production in adult film. Since then she has been a regular on the adult cinema festival circuit, and in 2020 one of her films came to the cinema in the regular process for the first time. Five Hot Stories For Her, an anthology of five vignettes including The Good Girl, won the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival's 2007 Best Spanish Screenplay award, the Venus Berlin Fair's 2007 Eroticline Award for Best Adult Film for Women, and the 2008 Feminist Porn Award for Movie of the Year. The company has produced erotic short films and compilations steadily from then on. In 2005, after this initial success, she founded her video production company Lust Films. The film was shown at the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival the next year and won a Ninfa Award. Released online for free under a Creative Commons license, it was downloaded millions of times in several days and two million times in two months. Lust shot her first film, the explicit short The Good Girl in 2004, which became an instant hit. After graduation she moved to Barcelona in 2000 and started studying filmmaking. She graduated with a BA in 1999, with a specialization in human rights and feminism. ![]() While there, she came across Linda Williams' 1989 book Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", which would influence her filmmaking later. ![]() She went to Lund University, where she studied Political Sciences. She harboured a passion for film and theatre. Lust was born Erika Hallqvist in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1977. In addition to directing and producing a number of award-winning films, she has written several books. Lust has stated that she finds no issue in calling her films porn, since she expects viewers to be sexually aroused, unlike other directors of erotic films who make a distinction between their work and porn even when both types contain sexually explicit scenes. Since the debut of her first indie erotic film The Good Girl in 2004, Lust has been cited as one of the current leading participants in the feminist pornography movement, asserting that an ethical production process sets her company apart from mainstream pornography sites. Erika Lust (born 1977) is a Swedish erotic film director, screenwriter and producer. ![]()
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