Erika Lust: on porn, visibility and the ethics of erotic content

This interview was part of a back and forth with Producer, Director and ethical erotica activist and advocate, Erika Lust. I had the privilege of interviewing Erika back in 2021 to inform some research for a piece I was working on.

Since then, I’ve thought a lot about this interview, what Erika stands for and the state of the adult content and entertainment industry today. I found myself revisiting this interview and wondered why I hadn’t published it in its entirety. Erika makes so many pertinent points about pleasure, representation and the ethics of the way we interact with sex as entertainment and as an extension of our own identities, so I wanted to share our Q&A with you.