CHATSWORTH, Calif.—Tomorrow, a new imprint, Kennston Educational, will release its first production, Michelle Austin's How to Have Oral Sex With a Trans Woman. The feature is the first in an educational series aimed at trans people, and all will be distributed by VIP Digital Media.
"Kennston Educational is something that I came up with," Michelle Austin explained. "David Peskin from VIP was talking to me a while back and said, 'You know, there's never been an educational DVD line for trans people,' and I kept thinking the same thing because I had for the past few years been hanging around Jessica Drake and I had had conversations with her about, you know, is she ever going to do a trans version of her Wicked educational line? And she said she'd talked about it, and that's pretty much where we left it.
"Then David approached me and said, 'Michelle, I think you're a great person to take this on,' and my career is coming to a point where people know me, and most of my career has been fighting for diversity and change in the trans industry, and I'm kind of the perfect person to start doing an educational line, and so I wanted to start with trans women, but eventually the whole collection is going to include not only trans women but trans men as well and different variations of sex."
As Austin sees it, even those who regularly have sex with trans folk may not know how best to pleasure their partners, or may be afraid to try some positions or techniques they haven't tried before simply out of fear.
The reason Austin chose How to Have Oral Sex With a Trans Woman as her first educational feature is because both she and the trans women who star in the DVD, Kristen Kraves and Betty Black, have all had experiences of having sex with cismen, and they've learned a lot from it.
"The reality is, oral sex for a trans woman is not the same as if you were to have sex with a ciswoman or a cisman, because trans women have different feelings in different spots, and a lot of people don't realize that," Austin explained. "A lot of trans women don't realize that there's a feeling that you have after being on hormones that you don't realize you have, and in this sense, this title can help not only cispeople wanting to be with trans women or vice-versa, but can also help trans people discover new things that they possibly never knew that they also can have done to them to make them feel good. Also, a lot of trans women vary; some don't like their genitalia and some do, so some trans women don't want their genitalia to be touched and some do, so there's two different ways, and how does a guy go about dealing with that situation?"
The series will follow a somewhat familiar pattern. Austin will sit down with one or more trans person and discuss their life, including their transition to their current state and what life has been like for them, and that will be followed by a sex scene involving the person.
VIP sales manager David Peskin has plenty of experience with educational sex features, and he was only too eager to bring Austin's to market.
"I first got a taste of educational titles while I was with Vivid," he recounted. "We launched Vivid Ed, which was the Vivid educational series, done by Tristan Taormino, and it was just an instant success. The way it sold, it was an absolute machine at retail, so I really had a broad taste of the market and the thirst for educational titles, and since then, I've really yet to see any educational in the transsexual genre, and I spoke to Michelle about it; I thought she would be like Tristan was, a perfect spokesperson with the following, the personality and the knowledge to pull it off and make it a success, and I feel that's what Michelle Austin has done with this new Kennston Educational series."
How to Have Oral Sex With a Trans Woman—starring Michelle Austin, Betty Black, Kristen Kraves and Tyler St. Syn—will be released by VIP Digital Media worldwide on January 18. A trailer for the feature may be found here.
For retail sales information, contact David Peskin at [email protected] or call (818) 709-8200.
