Erika Lust celebrates 20 years of pleasure

Celebrate 20 years of equal, diverse, and cinematic adult movies by watching The Good Girl, Erika's debut movie, completely for free!
This year marks two decades since Erika Lust made her first-ever erotic movie, embarking on a mission to expand the narrow perspective from which pornography was being made. In 2004, she decided that she was going to challenge the social perceptions of what porn could be and harness its power to upend patriarchal norms. Today, Erika Lust has produced over 300 erotic movies.

The Good Girl: The movie that started it all

20 years ago, Erika released The Good Girl online, and within just a few months, it gathered 2 million downloads. This eye-opening experience showed her that she wasn't alone in her belief that the world was hungry for more female-focused adult cinema. The Good Girl holds a special place in Erika’s heart—it was the movie that jumpstarted her project and started a new wave of ethical adult cinema.

The Good Girl won Best Short Film of the Year at the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival (FICEB 2005), attracting large international media attention.
Since making The Good Girl, Erika Lust has grown into a company that blurs the lines between porn and cinema; challenges gender norms; gives artists a platform to create without the restrictions imposed by data-driven algorithms; and has been an advocate for sex workers' rights, sex education, and sex positivity.
Over the last 20 years, Erika Lust has shown how cinema can be a tool for feeding the sexual imagination, building empathy, and shaping the way we perceive others; how representation on screen can foster inclusion and normalization in real life. Erika's intention from the start has always been that her films serve as valuable references and catalysts for meaningful conversations, nurturing a deeper understanding of the nuances and intricacies of human sexual experiences.

"I believe that everybody deserves pleasure, that all bodies are inherently desirable, and their very existence is cause for celebration. I believe that pleasure is power and that by showing people of different genders, sexualities, races, sizes, and ages enjoying themselves, we can all begin picturing ourselves in control over our own sexuality. And dare to explore our desires more deeply." – Erika Lust

The life of Erika Lust

Erika was a wide-eyed, enthusiastic political science student in her native Sweden at Lund University. While studying, she recalls reading Hard Core, a book by Linda Williams that opened her eyes to how pornography could communicate ideas of gender and sex. From this feminist thinking, she realized porn was mostly made by men, from a narrow perspective of middle-aged, heterosexual men, and this had to change.

Between 2004 and 2013, Erika Lust became a pioneer in the world of feminist pornography. Her early career saw the cultivation of her passion for crafting authentic and empowering erotic movie. In 2004, she released her inaugural short film The Good Girl, laying the groundwork for her mission to redefine the industry as she sought to empower women and challenge societal expectations by showcasing authentic female sexuality and pleasure on screen.
She launched an online platform and blog in 2006. Throughout this period, she remained dedicated to producing independent, feminist-driven content that celebrated diversity and challenged societal norms.
These pivotal years shaped her trajectory, establishing her as a prominent figure in feminist porn and laying the foundation for her groundbreaking projects, including the influential XConfessions series, which debuted in 2013.

In the years following, Erika continued on her mission to change the face of porn with her unique vision.

In 2015, Erika gave her essential TEDx talk 'It’s Time for Porn to Change'. Her story was featured in the Netflix documentary series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On (“Women on Top”), directed by Rashida Jones, and Principles of Pleasure, directed by Niharika Desai.

In 2023, Erika Lust successfully produced and launched 19 XConfessions movies and over 30 series and chapters, which she launched globally. She has also collaborated with 85 esteemed guest directors to date and shows no signs of slowing down, with many more projects in the pipeline for 2024.

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