Adult filmmaker Vex Ashley on feminist porn, sex work and the female gaze
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I've Been Making Art With My Naked Body and Using Myself as a Subject for Years and Years and I'm Surrounded by People Who Respect Me
I'm very lucky I am surrounded by people who, you know, respect me and respect my agency. And so I don't think it was the biggest surprise to my family. I've been making art using my naked body and using myself as a subject for years and years like up until that point. Yeah, I really wanted to see if I could kind of push the aesthetics and the concepts that I was kind of putting into the work that I was making. For me what makes my films maybe a little bit different to other stuff that's out there is. The way they're produced and the idea behind them isn't necessarily just the type of sex that somebody would normally seek out in porn
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