From the 22-year-old creator of FurryGirl.com and VegPorn.com comes a new slant on adult entertainment that mixes porn and sex-positive politics: EroticRed.com. While not the first to venture into the taboo world of menstruation, the site aims to be the best in showcasing a variety of personal red content from a pool of smart, sensual models.
Erotic Red contains a growing collection of homemade period porn and writings by amateur models of all shapes and sizes. Photo shoot themes vary from steamy sex and masturbation to fun with chocolate cravings and defacing “feminine hygiene” ads in teen magazines. The site features the images and words of models who are passionate about menstruation, healthy sexuality, and independent porn, giving unique perspectives not found in mass-market adult material.
Most existing content in the period niche focuses on awkward scenes of women covered in fake blood or eating dye-soaked “used tampons,” catering to what male photographers think male fetishists would like to see. Erotic Red is operated by women who want to show off their own real-life sexuality and personal thoughts on bleeding, sex, and menstrual products.
“From a young age, women are taught that their bodies are dirty and messy,” Furry Girl says. “As we grow up, so many of us forgo sex during ‘that time of the month.’ These stigmas exist to this day, and I hope that Erotic Red can help all genders to see that there’s nothing gross or shameful about cyclical bleeding and getting off on any day of the month.”
As well as tackling cultural taboos against menstruation, Furry Girl hopes to ruffle some feathers in the sex business, which she feels self-imposes rules against periods in porn.
“It’s unfortunate that the adult industry’s love affair with pushing the limits in ‘extreme content’ only means creating material that is as violent and degrading as possible,” she says. “Our society already loves watching violence, so it’s hardly innovative to include it in porn. Erotic Red represents the best in what the ‘extreme content’ and ‘alternative’ niches can be: unique, fun, and actively challenging nonsensical stereotypes of what is and is not allowed to be a part of consensual sexual expressions.”
