Back when we went to Palm Springs for The Dinah 2012, Ginger and I had the awesome luck to run into porn performer Dylan Ryder! Dylan was at the event supporting the efforts of DildoDr.com, a website mainly for high-quality glass toys. She was super sweet and took a break from the sun to sit down with us and do a video interview (which we did in my room… what can I say, sometimes you just have to bring pretty ladies back to your room, right?
Anyway, here is a little what Dylan has to say about herself, from her bio:
I grew up in a small town in California, and I’m a sweet girl with a frisky side who also happens to have the best family. I love to have fun and I am so thankful to have my life. I have the most amazing kick-ass job, being a PORNSTAR! I love life and having fun. I am such a lucky girl!
My idea of fun is cooking or BBQ, going to the beach, Disneyland, traveling, watching baseball, going to the lake, just having fun! I love to sleep! I gotta have my beauty rest! I used to have a regular day job, but decided I enjoyed modeling and the spotlight more.I think it is awesome to have fans!
I am very social, a huge flirt and love being with people. I am very sexual and love knowing people enjoy watching me. The sexiest thing about me are my eyes when I’m doing a scene I love getting into it and then looking at the camera with in a very lustful, lascivious, libidinous wanton, way! I love sex and embracing the moment and enjoy the feeling and rush of being on camera.
Sounds pretty great, right? So without further delay, here is part one of our video interview with Dylan Ryder!
This interview was so fantastic and long that we had to break it down into 3 parts, so be sure to come back for more!
Our kinky sister-site FetishMovies.com just posted an awesome interview with the amazing Julie Simone and we knew we just had to post it here as well. I mean really, Julie Simone is one bad-ass lady. Not only is she an awesome pro-Domme and lifestyle fetish lady (meaning she is a kinkster on and off the screen), Simone is an award-winning rigger (knotting and tying ropes during bondage), porn performer, director and editor – and even sometimes camerawoman. I know, right? Her fingers are in so many dirty, dirty pies.
Anyway, we had the great fortune to score an interview with Miss Simone last fall, and since Ginger Leigh is the one who put together the interview for FetishMovies, we talked about the questions beforehand and decided not to ask the same 20 we ask on this site, so that we could pair the interviews up to make one giant Julie Simone interview explosion. Pretty clever, huh?
We are back with the forth and final piece of our video interview with the fabulous Erika Lust. I’m not sure I need to spell out who this amazing director is, since I did in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, but for those of you just catching up with us now, here is the quick and dirty lowdown on Lust.
- She is an amazingly talented feminist porn director who makes beautiful erotic movies with women in mind.
Here we are at Part 3 of our video interview with the fantastic Erika Lust, feminist porn director extraordinaire! We’ve already offered up Part 1 & Part 2, and we didn’t want to leave you all in a lurch with the weekend coming up, so we figured that it was time to give up the third piece.
For those of you not in the know, Erika Lust is one of the most exciting erotica directors to date. Each movie she creates is full to the hilt with thoughtful, engaging action that is pulsating with beauty and the power of sexuality. Seriously, this woman knows how to bring the heat! Don’t believe me, just watch her films. And clearly we aren’t the only ones who feel this way, because Lust has won THREE Feminist Porn Awards “Movie Of The Year” Awards, including the 2012 title for her latest film, Cabaret Desire.
Alright, take a minute to refresh yourself with Part 1 & Part 2 and then click play for more Erika Lust!
And we’re back! After giving you a few days to get acquainted with the first part of our awesome video interview with director Erika Lust, here we are with part 2! For those of you who are not in the know when it comes to Lust, a quick recap…
(photo credit: Caterina Barjau, via ErikaLust.com)
It’s no secret that everyone here at HotMoviesForHer has a total crush on feminist porn director Erika Lust. She consistently offer us thoughtful, sexy movies that capture the beauty and power of sexuality, and instead of churning out movie after movie (though that’s not a bad thing either!), Lust takes her time getting every last detail just right and making each video as amazing as possible. Seriously – everything this lady touches turns to pure porno gold.
We were both recently in Toronto for the Feminist Porn Awards (where her latest movie “Cabaret Desire” won Movies Of the Year!!), so we had the chance to sit down and chat. Take a look at part one again, then come back here and hit play!
It’s no secret that everyone here at HotMoviesForHer has a total crush on feminist porn director Erika Lust. She consistently offer us thoughtful, sexy movies that capture the beauty and power of sexuality, and instead of churning out movie after movie (though that’s not a bad thing either!), Lust takes her time getting every last detail just right and making each video as amazing as possible. Seriously – everything this lady touches turns to pure porno gold.
Alright, I know that I am gushing a little bit, but honestly, look at this woman’s repertoire and you tell me that you wouldn’t be waxing a little poetic. And clearly we aren’t the only ones who feel this way, because Lust has won THREE Feminist Porn Awards “Movie Of The Year” Awards, including the 2012 title for her latest film, Cabaret Desire.
While we were both in Toronto for the awards a few weeks back, I had the great fortune of sitting down with Erika Lust for a chat about the work she does, her ideas about the industry in general and women’s sexuality in general. And lucky for you all, I got the whole thing on video. In fact, the interview was so long, we had to break the interview into four parts!
Before I post the video of part 1, I really have to say that Erika Lust is one of the sweetest, most down-to-earth folks I’ve ever had the pleasure of interviewing. She was nervous about being in front of the camera, but once she got going, her passion and obvious love for what she does took over and her amazing energy lit up the whole screen. See for yourself!
Boy, oh boy, that Erika Lust is one feminist porno bad ass! I love it!
This past weekend, I had the great fortune of returning to Toronto for the 7th Annual Feminist Porn Awards! This awesome ceremony celebrates all the fantastic folks who are working hard to make porn as ethical, diverse and downright sexy as possible. For the last four years, HotMoviesForHer as had the honor of sponsoring the awards and to show our support, I’ve (JD) got the chance to go and help ring in the festivities.
Each year the awards weekend gets more and more exciting, with 2012 beginning on Wednesday, April 18th with Buck Angel’s ‘Sexing The Transman’ workshop (which I’ve been to in Philly twice and is awesome), then moving into Thursday’s Public. Provocative. Porn: The Year’s Best In Feminist Film screening and panel, Friday’s 7th Annual Feminist Porn Awards Gala, Saturday’s ‘Making Your Open Relationship Work’ with Tristan Taormino and Sunday’s “Dirty Talk” with Tina Horn. Plus Drew DeVeaux dance party on Thursday night and play party on Saturday night, hosted by Aslan Leather. Holy hot weekend, right? I’m getting warm under the collar just thinking about it all.
On Thursday morning I got up bright and early at 4:30 am, got a ride to the airport from one of my dear friends (seriously, Kira, you are a mensch!) and hoped an early flight into Toronto, where I dropped by bags at the hotel and met up with the lovely Alison Lee (the fabulous woman who previously put the awards together) for lunch and a date in the park. Afterwards I was able to check into my room, get ready and head out to meet up with fantastic feminist director Erika Lust for an interview (which will be up on the site asap!).
Getting a chance to sit down with Erika Lust was one of my porn blogger dreams. Not only is she extremely smart and passionate about the work she does, she is one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. Seriously awesome. I won’t go into all the stuff we talked about, because it’s a long interview and will be up on the site shortly. I’ll just say that the whole experience was all I ever could have hoped for and I can’t wait to put the video up!
After our interview, Erika, her partner, Pablo, and I met up with Buck and Elayne Angel and Nenna (the amazing director of Tight Places: A Drop Of Color) to go over to Good For Her (the fabulous shop that puts the FPAs on) for a pre-screening/panel party for all the porn folks in town. There I got to meet Carla who put together the awards this year and a whole bunch of other fun folks from Good For Her. I also had the chance to meet a few other porn people that I haven’t meet before, including Lily Cade, Ela Darling (who is, in fact, darling), Arabelle Raphael and James Darling (swoon). And I got to see a few old favorites, like Courtney Trouble, Tristan Taorminoand Jiz Lee.
While we were at the party, I pulled a few folks downstairs to chat and interview with my little flip cam. First up was Lily Cade, who was at the awards with a few nominated films and a nom for her website, www.lilycade.com.
Sorry about the shaky videos – I am far from a photographer or videographer. Next year maybe I should invest in a tripod…
Courtney Trouble, Nenna, Arabelle Raphael
I also got to spend a little interview love with Courtney Trouble and Nenna, both who shared about the awesome new projects they had up for awards. Take a look!
Nenna
Courtney Trouble
After the gathering, we all walked over to the theater for Public. Provocative. Porn: The Year’s Best In Feminist Film screening and panel, where Nenna, Erika Lust, N. Maxwell Lander and Buck Angel all showed snippets of their nominated works, as well as took the stage for a little Q & A.
Left to right: Moderator CoCo La Crème, Erika Lust, N. Maxwell Lander, Nenna, and Buck Angel.
Each movie was hotter than than the next and I was able to get a little footage of some of the folks doing their own intros.
Erika Lust
And Buck Angel
And a little clip of the panel action. Again, clearly I am not a videographer.
Anyway, It was a fantastic evening that ended with a dance party hosted by 2011 Feminist Porn Heartthrob of the Year Drew DeVeaux. What a lovely welcome to the 2012 awards!
Keep a look out for Recap 2 – the actual awards gala!
You know you live a charmed life when you can take work home for the weekend and really not be bummed about it at all. I’m not trying to brag or anything, but I can’t say I was too upset about getting a chance to hang out with Buck Angel this weekend. Tough work, but someone has to do it, right? Anyway, that’s right, I was lucky enough to spend some time with the trans porn pioneer a few times this weekend, including going to his “Sexing The Transman” workshop on Friday (for the second time – it was that good), having a little brunch on Sunday (where my hot trans partner happens to cook delicious food) and spending some time hanging out while Buck shot footage for the second volume of “Sexing the Transman XXX.”
(Buck and JD, from last year when he was in Philly)
Before I even got a chance to sit down with Buck and chat for a bit, I was able to nab some time with Rude Bwoy, Buck’s newest star and subject (as well as one of my friends and fellow Philly queers). Rude Bwoy was nice enough to hang with me for a minute and talk about his first experience in front of the porno camera.
How cute is he, right? Totally adorable… and definitely one to look out for when the movie comes out. When I did the interview I didn’t realize that Rude Bwoy hadn’t actually shot his masturbation scene yet (oops, since I asked all these questions assuming that it had already happened!), but it ended up that he was about to jerk off when I stopped by, so we did the interview first. But all’s well that ends well because it ended up that Rude Bwoy wanted a little extra dirty visuals, so I pulled up the mobile HotMoviesForHer on my phone and was able to provide a little porno action. Yes, I know that it totally sounds like I am a commercial for HM4Her, but really, it happened and I was so excited to play with the mobile site (because really, how much porn can one reviewer watch?).
After hanging out with Rude Bwoy, Buck went to go shoot his jerk off scene and I hung out with the fabulous photographer, Rude Bwoy’s friend, and a lovely gentleman that turns out to be the SoloSuck.com Video guy (which is hella impressive!). Once Buck was done – or should I say, when Rude Bwoy was done, we sat down for a few to chat about the projects he has been working on.
It’s always such a pleasure to hang out with Buck Angel. I’m thrilled that I got a chance to spend some time with him this time around while he was in Philly. We are actually both off to Toronto later this week for the Feminist Porn Awards, so hopefully I’ll actually remember to take a picture with him!
You know what I like almost as much as watching porno movies? Getting to know behind-the-scenes stories and juicy details. And what’s the point of hearing awesome stories if I don’t pass the goodies along to our HM4Her friends?
You said you wanted to know a little about the work I did with Bree. I guess the most remarkable set was with Sasha Grey, shot Feb 2, 2007. It was Bree’s first girl/girl scene and was scheduled as an anal s/o scene (strap on scene). This particular set was the first and only time I’ve ever been summoned to the dressing room. I don’t like to go into the dressing room, it’s for the girls, plus I got a lot of other stuff to do – lighting, etc. Anyhow, someone came and got me.
Kathy (left) & Shoosh of Triangle Films
“Kathy can you come to the dressing room?”
“I’m busy, can’t you handle it?”
“No Kathy, you need to get in there… now.”
[This was Ariel X. Ariel can and will handle any situation that arises on set at TF. Therefore I knew someone was ready to throw down and I had a good idea who.]
I told Ariel I’d be there in a minute, (I didn’t want anyone thinking Ariel told on them.) When I walked in the room there was dead silence. Sasha was standing in the center of the room, folding clothes on a small table and Bree was on the other side of the table, rared back, hands on her hips, looking like she was gonna start spitting fire. Their eyes were locked, neither acknowledged my presence – other than the silence. I walked around the room to the opposite side, I guess to give them a minute to settle down?
Me: So, what’s up guys?
S: Nothing
Me: Looks like somethin’ to me. What’s going on?
B: Everything’s fine.
Me: I can tell there’s a problem.
B: I brought an outfit to set and now it’s gone.
I have no idea whatsoever if this was the root of the problem or not, but really, that’s not important. I yelled for Shoosh and she took Bree to locate the missing outfit. I talked to Sasha for a minute or two about nothing and left.
Bree comes to me and says she doesn’t want to do anal. That’s fine with me; if anything I was a bit relieved. It was a great scene – mastered and manipulated by honesty.
Flash forward an hour and we’re standing together getting ready to begin the scene.
Me: This won’t be an anal scene.
S: Okay. Just straight strap on?
Me: Yea
B: Do I get to use it on her then?
I open my mouth to speak and there was Sasha, chin lowered, eyes piercing Bree.
S: No
[brief pause for more dead silence]
Me: Allllllllllll righty…anything else guys?
B: Yea, I don’t like to be slapped – not in the face.
Me: Okay. Got it Sasha?
S: I got it
Me: We ready?
S: Yea, we’re ready
It was the beginning of a wonderful relationship with both Bree and Sasha. They’re great women! Sasha, calm as a cucumber, which never changed the entire time I shot her, and Bree, full of piss and vinegar, and that never changed either.
***Later that evening I paid Ariel and had an opportunity to chat w/ her for a sec:
Me: Do you wantta be in our prison movie? [Ended up being Triangle's first feature, River Rock Women's Prison]
A: Our? Who’s?
Me: Ours, mine and yours and whoever else I pick. Maybe Sasha and Bree, but I haven’t decided
A: Sure. When?
Me: I think 2 years, but maybe 3, I have to save my money.
A: Great, I can’t wait!
and the rest is history…
6 months later, (8/3/07), I met Claire Adams and posed the same question to her with the same response.
Me: Ours. Mine and Ariel’s … and yours, if you wantta do it! Justine Joli too. I haven’t told her but she’s gonna wind up there, trust me
Claire accepted. I am extremely lucky to work with the women I do. There’s always a story, always. Give me a scene and I’ll give you a story!
***
Thank you Kathy!! And as a special treat, here is an interview with Bree Olson from the shoot!
Next week HotMoviesForHer and Sinclair Sexsmith will be hosting another Porn Party, with the fabulous Alpha Femmes as our movie of choice. To help us celebrate, Alpha Femme’s director Anna Devia stopped in to answer our 20 Questions and give us a sneak peak into the woman behind such a hot piece of porno!
1. How (and when) did you get started in the industry?
In 1998, I started shooting erotic & fetish art photography and building a body of work. After I moved from Texas to LA in 2000, I continued shooting & started selling content, doing portfolio development for models, head shots, catalogs, private commissions, gallery shows, etc. In 2008, I moved to Oakland and worked as a sex educator for Babeland. Fueled by all the porn I was watching at work constantly, and just the natural evolution of my photography, I decided to start making films. So I created Anna Devia Productions and released Alpha Femmes and here I am.
2. If you weren’t in the adult industry, what would you be doing?
My work is not limited to adult. I do work in the healing arts as well, which is also about “the body” but on the completely non-sexual end of the spectrum.
3. What’s the best thing you’ve learned or best advice you’ve received from industry?
I’ve learned the difference between the “scene” and the “industry.”
4. What’s the funniest thing that’s happened while filming?
Construction workers next door to the house where we were filming were getting sneak peeks of the action through this big picture window during one of the scenes. One guy was standing behind a beam on the second floor peeping around it.
5. What do you think is the biggest misconception about women in the industry?
That we’re victims, rather than warriors
6. What did you do today?
Massage appointment, therapy appointment, hair appointment
7. What would you rather have done today?
I’d rather have been on a yacht in some amazing tropical locale, sipping cocktails while lounging under an umbrella.
8. If you could do a movie with anyone (living or brought back from the dead) who would it be? Kenneth Anger, and with his permission of course lest he curse me, I’d like to title it “Hollyweird Babylon.”
9. Who is your favorite adult performer? Belladonna
10. You’ve got 20 bucks left to your name; what would you do with it?
Buy us a coupla pints?
11. If you were president, what’s the first thing you’d change?
I’d hit the history eraser button.
12.What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done?
If I told you then it might destroy my mystique ~
13. Which is your favorite project that you’ve worked on?
Alpha Femmes was an amazing process from conception through production. I brought 4 of my fantasies to life, down to every detail, and it came out truly beautiful & intense & amazingly fucking hot!
14.If you could have 1 superpower what would it be?
Time-travel, so I could go back and experience different historical periods, and have vintage sex. And also so I could travel into the future, and hopefully have sex with 3-titted aliens. Is that a superpower?
15. Meat or veggie?
Vegetarian for 17+years
16. What is your favorite book? New York Girls by Richard Kern
17. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Lack of manners, it’s my southern upbringing
18. What is your best piece of sex advice for women? Hitachi Magic Wand!
19. What is your favorite adult movie?
Don’t be silly! Alpha Femmes, of course!
20. Tell me one thing you’ve never told anyone else.
Hmm, I find eating sliced peaches in light syrup to be a very sensual act.
We can’t wait for the Porn Party on Monday! Come watch Alpha Femmes with us, and Anna Devia, for FREE! (Check back on Monday for the code!)
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