Nov 2, 2020The Pleasure Principle — on ethics & desiresA transcription of the talk I gave for the keynote speech at the first Bean Flicks festival (18/02/20) on their theme of Ethics and Desires. My name’s Vex, and I am a full time pornographer. I’ve been making films with sex for the last 6 years, I’d studied Art at…Sexuality12 min readSexuality12 min read
Dec 6, 2018Porn on Tumblr — a eulogy / love letterI started taking my clothes off on the internet in 2011, I was 21 and at university looking to make extra money and explore my exhibitionist streak, I found a home on Tumblr.com. The site’s tolerance for NSFW content had introduced me to a global community of Internet Naked Girls™…Pornography6 min readPornography6 min read
Dec 6, 2018End of an Era — porn on PatreonFour Chambers is an independent, performer led porn DIY porn project which started funding on Patreon.com 4 years ago, with the goal to expand the aesthetic and conceptual potential of pornography a medium. This is the break up letter we wrote to our supporters upon getting the news we were no longer welcome to be there. When we started out we hoped that we might raise enough money to be able to pay performers and maybe have the project be self sufficient. Our initial goal was $250 a month and until then we’d just been funding production costs with my sex work online and our other…Pornography6 min readPornography6 min read
Sep 6, 2018RISK / REWARD(originally posted here 26/08/16) Porn means risk. Putting your naked, sexual, pornographic self online still can and will have consequences. Not physical ones like cum in your eye or carpet burn or whatever — societal consequences. The shame and stigma attached to selling/documenting/exploring sex is still a clear and present…Pornography3 min readPornography3 min read
Sep 5, 2018Can Pornography be Good for You?(opening statement as part of the discussion ‘Can Pornography be Good for You?’ at Edinburgh Science Festival, April 2016) My story in porn isn’t maybe what you’d think, but it’s not that uncommon. I didn’t sit on a casting couch in LA or answer a vague ad for models from…Pornography11 min readPornography11 min read
Sep 5, 2018Scare Quotes(from the archive, originally posted here 21/09/16) I’ve been invited to speak at the Scottish Queer International Film Festival, to show some of my films and to present a workshop discussion about my experiences in porn making. SQIFF (cute acronym right?) is described on the site as “not-for-profit and run…Sex Work4 min readSex Work4 min read
Apr 24, 2018S-EXYou have to be trying really hard not to pay attention if you can’t see what chaos the online community of sex workers is in at the moment. FOSTA/SESTA passed in the US, this decimated the ability of full service sex workers to advertise, organise, screen clients directly. It also…Feminism4 min readFeminism4 min read
