This interview appeared in the Future of Sex Tech magazine and focused on our VR movie, Empowering Ava.  Being the first "Porn for Women" site to film a VR movie, the movies created quite the buzz in the sex tech world.

1) When deciding on the plot of the VR adult film, why did you decide to have it be the fulfillment of a pegging fantasy between a married man and woman?

All my movies are based on fantasies and visions for scenarios submitted by Sssh fans and members (mostly women). In the case of Empowering Ava, I broke it down into three acts in different locations, in part to afford myself a chance to experiment with various settings which were conducive to AR. I wanted to tell the story well, and at the same time give the viewer a means to engage with different environments in which to immerse herself/himself.

2) I've read the director/editor commentary, which gives some background on why certain filming decisions were made such as using only one camera. It also mentions that you plan on using two cameras for your next VR adult film. Are there any details on this next VR film that you could share regarding when it may be released, plot details, or special considerations you have learned from creating and releasing Empowering Ava in making this next film?

So much of my next AR project is still up in the air, I’m hesitant to say much about it at this point. I decided to wait until I’d acquired some new equipment before tackling my next AR challenge. In the meantime, I’m shooting a film for which the more traditional, two-dimensional medium works better.

3, 4, & 5) I find it very interesting that press materials promote Empowering Ava as being a film shot from a woman's perspective, although it is not a POV film. However, I've watched many POV VR porn videos shot explicitly from where the female performer's line of sight would be and got the feeling that the storyline, sex acts, etc., followed traditional heteronormative scripts and the videos weren't necessarily produced for women BY women. Can you explain to me some more of your reasoning for not filming from the female performer's line of sight? And what does it mean to you to have filmed Empowering Ava from a women's perspective? Does this refer to you more specifically as being the director or is there a larger point being made here about creating erotica for women? As a feminist director who has worked in the adult industry since the 1990s, I'm assuming you're familiar with the concept of the male gaze. If so, has the notion of the male gaze influenced your choices in creating pornography?

I’m answering your third fourth and fifth questions altogether in a single response because as I see it, these questions and the responses to them are inextricably related and entwined.

In this context, by “female perspective,” I didn’t mean for it to be interpreted literally as the perspective of the female lead; I meant it as sort of the counterpart to the “male gaze.” Most porn is made from a male perspective, regardless of whether it’s literally shot from the point of view of the male characters. The same sort of thing can be said of my work, only with respect to the female perspective instead of male. (to be continued)