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People seem to have this fascination with Virtual Reality and when we released the first VR 360 movie for women, it got a lot of attention. In this interview Melanie Ehrenkranz talked to us about the difference between VR geared towards men and VR geared towards women. The full article, "VR Porn for Women Means No More 360-Degree Views of Men Laying On Their Backs", appears in both MIC and Yahoo News.

Women like porn, too: I asked Rowntree what the most frustrating thing about the porn industry is. "That everything is geared towards men," she said. "That they almost want to deny that women are an audience."

But that's changing — Rowntree, Candida Royalle, Erika Lust, Jacky St. James and Cindy Gallop are all also paving the way for more realistic depictions of sex, and it's important to acknowledge women's interest in pornography — a survey found that more than a third of women watch porn at least once a week.

Rowntree said that when she started her career in porn in 1999, there was very little out there for women. She would go with her husband, who runs a BDSM site, to trade shows and wonder where all of the content for women was. People told her, "women don't want to spend money on porn." She didn't believe them.

"We really try to focus on mutual pleasure, passion and joy in our movies," Rowntree said. "It's not one-sided. It's not just the male fantasy and the male gaze. It's about what women want as well. I'm not trying to flip the tables around completely. I think there needs to be a balance — two people really enjoying sex. It's as simple as that."

 

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