Explicit Sex Ed and Diversity in Porn with Lina Bembe and Anarella Martinez

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Lina Bembe, who is a porn performer and director, and Anarella Martínez-Madrid, who is the founder of Sex School Hub, an explicit sex education platform. Lina and Anarella discuss the stigma around working in the porn industry, and how porn represents diversity in bodies, sexuality, and desires. They and Hannah talk about the social media censorship Sex School Hub has encountered, and what happens behind the scenes on a porn shoot. Finally, Hannah, Lina and Anarella discuss the importance of communication in sexual experiences and how porn can help teach us this.

Read the episode transcript here!

SHOW NOTES

What we chat about…

  • What is Sex School Hub and how did it come about?

  • How Lisa and Anarella met

  • How Hannah found out about Sex School Hub

  • The negotiations and aftercare that are part of the Sex School Hub video content that are not filmed in other porn

  • The difference between people projecting fantasies onto mainstream media and onto porn films

  • The potential of porn as an educational tool

  • The problem of focusing on fear as a deterrent in sex education

  • Does Lina still feel like being involved in porn is stigmatised?

  • How did Lina decide to get involved in the porn industry?

  • How do people react when Lina tells them she is a porn performer?

  • How Lina decides who to tell about what she does

  • What has porn taught Lina and Anarella?

  • The importance of communication for safety and pleasure

  • Porn’s role in demonstrating communication in everyday sex lives

  • How Hannah learned to communicate her needs and boundaries in sexual experiences

  • Pushing through awkwardness to have honest conversations about sex

  • Writing lists to figure out what you want and don’t want

  • Figuring out your own conditions for certain sex acts that you might want

  • The censorship Sex School Hub has experienced on different social media platforms

  • Anti-porn trolls on Instagram

  • The responses from Sex School users and the porn community

  • Topics coming up in Sex School season two

  • What we should and shouldn’t be learning from porn

  • Feeling validation from porn

  • Paying for porn and supporting porn creators

USEFUL LINKS

Mentioned in the episode:

More sites:

  • Altshitfxxx

  • Himeros

  • Noelalejandro

  • Carrerosefilms

  • Aorta films

  • Brightdeires

  • Four chambers

  • LUSTERY porn

  • Cinemassinclaire

  • Cinema joy

  • Meow Meow

  • Dreams of spanking

  • Blue Artichoke Films

MORE ABOUT SEX SCHOOL HUB

Sex School Hub is an explicit sex education platform aiming to show the full experience of sex in the way it happens in real life. 

MORE ABOUT LINA BEMBE AND ANARELLA MARTÍNEZ-MADRID

Anarella Martínez-Madrid is the founder of Sex School Hub. Find out more about her:

Lina Bembe is a porn performer and director. Find out more about her:

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