LOS ANGELES—Lustery, an adult platform for couples around the world to share their intimate videos, has partnered with sex-positive and body confidence bloggers Florence Bark and Reed Amber to produce YouTube videos offering sex advice.
The effort, meant to coincide with Sexual Health Month, will feature the two bloggers who operate ComeCurious, a UK-based sex-themed YouTube channel. The videos aim to provide a discourse on the past, present and future of porn and an attempt to normalize the stigma behind watching porn.
The first episode features sex tips from Lustery’s real couples. To watch, click here.
The videos aim to be an alternative to many sex education programs that focus largely on inducing fear and stigma, but neglect to teach anything about the desire, pleasure and enjoyment of sex are failing young people the world over. For more content from ComeCurious, click here. The two bloggers also host their award-winning podcast "F**ks Given," where they provide ethical and educational sex, porn, nudity and mental health advice.
In their new partnership, Lustery and ComeCurious aim to focus towards rebuilding and reinforcing their kink-celebrating, and diversity-embracing knowledge about sex and sexuality.
“The more you talk about these things, the better you feel about them. No shame, no judgement," Amber said. "It’s just about feeling empowered within yourself.”
Bark added, “We just want to put the conversation about sex out there because people should be talking about it.”
Over the next three weeks, ComeCurious plans to release three more YouTube episodes, one on each Saturday, where they will talk with Lustery couples, Lustery founder Paulita Pappel and the everyday people who watch porn and don’t want to be ashamed about it anymore.
For the second video, Florence and Reed interview Lustery founder Paulita Pappel for a conversation about important changes in porn and the industry's future. To watch that video, click here.
In the third video, Bark and Amber will visit one of Lustery’s UK-based couples and provide insight into the life of an amateur porn couple.
The fourth video will look at the stigmatized people who actually watch it. Showing some of porn's consumers and giving them the opportunity to discuss the topic in a shame-free space will hopefully normalize the discussion around porn consumption.
“Porn is a topic where outdated ideas about sexuality are still pervasive," said Lustery's Pappel. "We’ve advanced tremendously in the last decade in other areas like female pleasure, yet porn is still a taboo topic and keeps being treated with Victorian views. All the talk about porn addiction is no different than when people were made to believe masturbation will make you blind. We must talk openly about pornography in order to educate and fight stigma.”
For more information, visit Lustery.com and the ComeCurious YouTube page here.
