LOS ANGELES—As the coronavirus pandemic continues and social distancing rules remain in effect through most of the country, porn shoots have — like numerous other business activities — come to a sudden halt. But one producer, Himeros founder Davey Wavey, now says he’s figured out how to shoot a sex scene safely, without violating the distancing rules in place to slow the spread of the virus.
According to a report by The Gay UK on Wednesday, the producer has “worked out how to continue shooting during the lockdown” by filming a “voyeuristic” scene through a window.
“We’re going to have glass between us and the couple, it’s about finding creative ways,” Wavey said on a recent edition of his Episode 101 podcast. The performers in the planned scene will be making their Himeros debuts, and are actually a “local gay couple,” according to the Gay UK report.
Wavey said that his studio is simply looking for new ways to add to its library of content at a time when many others have been forced to cut back.
“We’re in a good position because we have a lot of content already filmed, but we want to keep added to the stockpile of content that we have,” he said on the podcast.
Himeros plans to release the scene later this year. But Wavey is not the only producer taking out-of-the-box approaches to creating adult content during the pandemic-induced shutdown period. As AVN.com reported earlier this week, Barcelona-based producer Erika Lust just released a new film, Sex and Love in the Time of Quarantine, shot entirely by performers themselves, in their own homes.
Lust then edited the footage into a documentary-style feature in her own home in Spain. The film is scheduled to be released Thursday on her XConfessions site.
For both Wavey and Lust, the process of creating new porn during the coronavirus shutdown entailed maintaining distance from their subjects, and using performers who are real-life couples and who therefore should be safe from transmitting the virus between them.
Though coronavirus is not specifically a “sexually transmitted disease,” meaning that it is not transmitted primarily via sexual contact, the virus lives in saliva and mucus, meaning that even casual contact — including simply being in the same room as an infected person — could pass the disease from one person to the next.
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