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Visual Stimulation: Missy Martinez’s Guide To Watching Porn With Your Partner
Former adult film star and Cashmere contributor Missy Martinez shares her best tips for watching porn with your partner, in case you wanted to add some visual stimulation to your romp routine.
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How To Get Out Of “Performance Mode” In The Bedroom
“Often originating from a desire to please our partners over staying true to ourselves, performance mode detracts from good sex and prevents honest connection.”
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As A Transgender Man and Sex Worker, My Existence Is Political
“As a transgender sex worker, my body cannot help but be political. I must continually be an activist for my own right to exist.”
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Blackness In Porn is Fetishized and Commodified. Can Performers Like Myself Change That?
“Race and sex in American society have shaped a worldview that extended to our industry. We are exoticized, vilified, underpaid, and partitioned as others in an already sexualized and charged circumstance, our bodies prized for their beauty and power yet divorced from our humanity.”
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Lights! Camera! Wet Wipes! Can Intimacy Coordinators Make Porn Sets Safer?
“Intimacy coordinators can ensure sets are broadly safer – including STI testing and a consent and boundaries list.”
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Content Leaks Are More Than Revenue Loss For Sex Workers —It’s a Violation of Consent
“Paywalling one’s content is not just a way to earn income for many adult workers, but also forms a privacy buffer between themselves and the rest of the world.”
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Looks Good For Her Age: Aging In (and Out) Of Sex Work
“Being okay with that means moving into a different phase in our life. We no longer have to pick out our outfits to go grocery shopping. We’re no longer on display. It’s freeing, a sheer relief to blend in after spending so many years knowing we didn’t.”
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Asian Men Are Marginalized In Porn. Gay Male Performers Are Changing the Narrative
“I find it to be very problematic in that these people have these preconceived notions of how Asian men will act, be it submissive, bottoms, very demure,” says Cody Seiya.
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Lights, Camera, Satisfaction: Tay Allard Dissects The Intersections of Art and Pornography In Their Work
“I had dreams of creating something.”
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I Had Mixed Feelings About My First Threesome: Confronting The Good, Bad, and Ugly
“Threesomes exist in the context of fantasy and porn, depending on the person you encounter. As a fantasy for myself, I pictured two men taking the utmost care of me, going slow, and satisfying my every need as two are better than one right?”
