Porn For Women In 2025
It’s been almost 25 years since I started ErosBlog, and the world of porn has changed immensely over that quarter of a century. So much so, that if you were not already back then a porn-enjoying adult who was paying a lot of attention to your erotic media, it’s very hard now to describe the scope and intensity of all the changes, not only in the porn “industry” but in the diversity and community of people who buy and enjoy porn.
One thing I said pretty early on, in various places and different ways, was that ErosBlog was intended to be a place for unabashed and unapologetic male-gaze porn, without also being a loutish cesspool of misogyny, which unfortunately was the norm for most internet porn sites in 2002 when ErosBlog was new. At that time I had never heard of porn for women, and indeed it was widely believed among mostly-male pornographers that “women aren’t visual creatures” and also that women didn’t like or enjoy watching porn. That last, of course, was the most self-fulfilling prophecy that ever fulfilled itself. If you make visual entertainments in which women are mostly treated like worthless cum-dumpster garbage, what reasonable person would expect them to line up to enjoy your oh-so-pleasant motion picture spectaculars?
Luckily for me, sex blogging has always been an eye-opening and a horizons-broadening experience. This broadening, no pun intended, was facilitated for me in those early days by a female friend and co-blogger known here as Aphrodite, whose early posting about Sssh.com introduced me for the first time to the porn-for-women idea. Although I did not know it yet, Sssh.com’s Angie Rowntree had by then already for some years been making sex-positive cinematic ethically-produced porn movies to scripts inspired by the fantasies of the site’s women members. In the decades since, the work has expanded to include many other award winning directors, and Sssh has helped pioneer the development of ethical porn practices, which “back in the day” were something that directors and producers of goodwill struggled with individually.
Obviously, any porn site with roots going back to 1999 offers extensive photo galleries to supplement its flagship movie products. If you, like me, were at first somewhat slow to realize why the women of the world were so faithfully devoted to their e-book readers, the answer is “smut” and you will correctly deduce that a porn-for-women offering will include a considerable library of erotic stories and novels, too. What you might not realize is that they also offer audio content such as audiobooks and erotic podcasts.
Ms. Rowntree describes her site these days as “your source for ethically produced, sex-positive indie adult cinema.” I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Angie, but we’ve exchanged friendly emails over the years about mutual porn industry interests and frustrations, such as my obsession with reporting on the pornocalypse and her steps a decade ago to keep porn performers safer on set than the industry norm. In my opinion, she does amazing work!
Image credits: All photos from the current Sssh.com tour.
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