Special Issue on Performers, Directors, and Producers Although the Porn Studies Journal has been running for almost ten years, it has had very few submissions that focus on particular porn performers, directors, or producers. The journal hopes to remedy this with a special issue next year on porn performance. Short contributions of 2000-3000 words will […]

On Sunday, July 26th, queer film historian Jenni Olson connected via Zoom with Robert Adams, star of Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters, two gay adult films from the late filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. Bressan died of AIDS in 1987. Bressan’s work has been largely unrecognized, however thanks to the restoration efforts of The Bressan […]

Synoptique online journal of film and moving image studies is inviting submissions for an upcoming special issue entitled “Porn and Its Uses.” Responding to the genre’s marginal status in the academy and beyond, this special issue seeks to explore how pornography can be (re) framed as useful — pedagogically, politically, aesthetically, and libidinally. Broadly framed, this […]

FilmForum 2020 Call for Papers – Pornographic Subjectivities: Sexuality, Race, Class, Age, Dis/Ability XVIII Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School Porn Studies Section Gorizia, March 28th-31st, 2020 Deadline for proposals: December 31st, 2019 The 2020 edition of the Porn Studies section of the MAGIS – International Film Studies Spring School aims to investigate pornography as […]

Call for Papers: Trans Pornography TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly TSQ 7.2 (Spring 2020) Editors: Sophie Pezzutto and Susan Stryker For many people, trans and cis alike, pornography is the first point of contact with trans identities, communities, and subcultures. And yet, trans studies has not effectively engaged with the topic of trans porn. Conversely, pornography […]

Call for articles Rethinking Gender and Agency in Pornography: Producers, Consumers, Workers, and Contexts Edited by: Lynn Comella (Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Mariella Popolla (Ph.D., University of Genoa, Italy) Pornography is one of the most popular and profitable forms of popular culture in the world. A multi-billion-dollar industry, it puts on stage […]

A Review by tenerDuende The Training of Poe is film about trans woman Chelsea Poe as she submits to her Mistress Bella. Often this would be a movie which we would watch with certain reservations. As noted in an article by Jes Grobman, in The Establishment: The only problem? Porn— which caters predominantly to the […]

Come together to WATCH a 45 minute showreel of queer porn collated just for us by Shine Louise Houston of Pink & White Productions /// READ the zine with contributions from Jiz Lee, Kate Dawson, Chloe Cooper, Kirsty Kross and Victoria Sin ***rebooted by Hannah Bitowski (Queen of the Track)*** /// TASTE a delicious post-coital vegan dinner courtesy of the Factory Kitchen whilst we DISCUSS the educational potentials of queer porn and DANCE on down with […]

The price for porn, despite what some people want to think, isn’t and shouldn’t always be zero.

by Shine Louise Houston   Coming out stories are huge in queer communities, and they play an important role in making sense of what we’ve been through and in helping pave the way for others. Growing up queer, I was always frustrated with the coming out stories I was hearing and seeing: there were so […]

Filmmaker Radley Metzger has passed away at the age of 88. His work under the alias Henry Paris held a profound impact in art cinema and erotic film genres, and was significant to a number of contemporary artists including Shine Louise Houston (Pink and White Productions), who considers him one of her foremost influences. A press release issued by […]

For far too long, books about pornography have been authored by people either outside the industry or too biased to adequately research the facts. Here are our top recommendations for your sexuality bookshelf, whether it’s learning about porn, sexual health, or sex work in general. (For the Porn Studies Journal, see Taylor & Francis Online.) CRASHCOURSE: […]

Pink and White Productions has been invited to screen select works by director Shine Louise Houston at the Tate Modern Museum in London on October 22nd, 2016. The special presentation is part of the BEDFELLOWS exhibit, exploring the potential of adult film as a pedagogic tool with performance, video, and text work curated by sex […]

by Andre Shakti I recently had the honor of interviewing over a dozen couples for a Cosmopolitan.com profile on their partnerships; in each case, either one or both individuals per partnership were involved in the porn industry. The story was inspired by the recent Porn Kills Love campaign that’s been spreading harmful misinformation about explicit […]

The Porn Studies Journal has released its second volume. Included is the special issue section, Porn Goes to College. While pornography is often criticized in academia, it is rare that artists from within the industry are invited to speak about their work and its intersections. The issue is introduced by editor and porn scholar Lynn […]

CALL FOR PAPERS: INSIDE GONZO PORN Porn Studies Special Issue: Inside Gonzo Porn This special issue of Porn Studies focuses on contemporary gonzo pornography. Emerging in the United States in the late 1980s and pioneered by directors such as John Stagliano, Seymore Butts, Ben Dover, and Rodney Moore, gonzo constituted both a low budget response and an […]

In this guest post, filmmaker Jennifer Lyon Bell shares her philosophies behind SILVER SHOES Jennifer Lyon Bell, winner of “Movie of the Year” at the 2014 Feminist Porn Awards. My General Approach I try to make the sex films that I myself wish I could find. It’s so hard for me to find erotic films that are […]

Porn Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which publishes original research examining specifically sexual and explicit media forms, their connections to wider media landscapes and their links to the broader spheres of (sex) work across historical periods and national contexts. Porn Studies Special Issue: Porn and Labour Guest Editors: Jiz Lee and Rebecca Sullivan Critics […]

By Shine Louise Houston My name is Shine Louise Houston and I am producer, director, and founder of Pink and White Productions. We have produced four explicit queer feature films, and we run two queer pornographic websites, CrashPadSeries.com and PinkLabel.tv. We will also be expanding our operations in the next years. I want to start […]

Fuck Dolls is a new short porn by Zahra Stardust and Emerald. From it’s description: In her book, Barbie’s Queer Accessories, Erica Rand, examines the ways in which Barbie “can be subversively refunctioned for women’s pleasure.” She examines how “wholesome,” “family-oriented” Barbie is deliberately subverted by what consumers do with her in practice. Fuck Dolls […]

Reposted with permission from KoKo Hotbus (@misstrgendered) on Fancy Gendered. I had the distinct pleasure of getting a review copy of the new FTMFucker film from James Darling. The most exciting feature of this film by far was for me that it was almost 2 hrs of a broad diversity of gender presentations, bodies and […]

Porn Studies Special Issue: “Canon Fodder: Reappraising Adult Cinema’s Neglected Texts” In the inaugural issue of Porn Studies, Linda Williams (2014) notes that the films explored in her pioneering book Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible” (1989/1999), the first major study of pornography as a distinct cinematic genre in its own […]

A short reflection by Shine Louise Houston. PUT the NEEDLE on the RECORD is one in a series of shorts that I’ve been writing that fictionalize my early twenties, also inspired by my love of 70’s erotic cinema, especially Radley Metzger. Some of the stories that I’m writing are really explicit, while some of them […]

I hardly blame porn for any of the missing or twisted parts of my young straightboy mind, and I see straight porn as mostly just a reflection of the world we live in, with all the troubling parts included. I’m never going to call straight porn the problem, but watching Bed Party, I’m ready to say that queer porn is the solution.

San Francisco has a deep history in adult film. As the Sexual Revolution was gaining momentum, the city was at the forefront of pushing what was socially acceptable in sexuality, with live sex shows and erotic film screenings quickly earning it a nickname as the “Smut Capital” of the United States. This positioned pornography on […]

Narrative film’s increasingly frequent emulation of CCTV and surveillance footage has engendered a dialogue about the intersections between cinema and surveillance, and their historical and theoretical antecedents. Most of the dialogue revolves around formal changes and the ontological and political ramifications of the overlap between film and technologically mediated surveillance. Despite this growing exchange, work […]

Hank reviews Heavenly Spire, a project by Shine Louise Houston which focuses on masculine beauty and sexuality, and how it manifests on different bodies, in a unique cinematic style. The short review: I totally dig it. The long review: Who am I? My name is Hank and I am a sex educator. I work in […]

The new academic porn journal sensation Porn Studies announces a special editorial issue focusing on gay male porn. Fans of Shine Louise Houston’s “masculine beauty” project Heavenly Spire and other cinematic reflections of male sexuality will rejoice with the recent call for papers. It is now approaching 30 years since Jump Cut published the essay Men’s Pornography Gay vs […]

by Syd Blakovich Hot off the heels of the passing of Measure B in Los Angeles, known as the County of Los Angeles Safer Sex In the Adult Film Industry Act, comes bill AB 1576 which would extend mandatory use of protective barriers in adult films made in the state of California. Measure B passing and […]

by Shanna Katz I think it’s really important to look at the diversity of experience for queer folks around sexuality, and so it was important for me for Point of Contact to include not only the “usual suspects” as far as queer/ethical porn (a butch dyke, a femme, and a queer set of folks including […]

by James Darling Point of Contact was one of the very first opportunities I had to create my own porn. It was my directorial debut and it was incredibly powerful to be able to have complete creative control and breathe life into my fantasies by putting them on video! At the time I started Point […]

Fumbling Towards Humanity: How Trans Grrrls Helped Me Open Up to My Partner by Amy Dentata I was single by choice for years before I felt the dating itch again. I took to OKcupid and, on the rare occasion someone actually responded, met up with a stranger. Without fail, we would realize we lacked chemistry, […]

Pink & White Productions is proud to add “slow porn” company Sensate Films to its fair-trade video on demand hub, PinkLabel.tv. Directed by Gala Vanting and Aven Frey, Sensate premieres their wildly-acclaimed first film, Amber, and subsequent female fantasy trilogy: Taken, Flare, with the soon to be released third in the series, PreOccupation, staring Feminist Porn Awards’ Heartthrob of the […]

Pink & White Productions is proud to add Toronto-based company Keyhole Sessions to its fair-trade video on demand hub, PinkLabel.tv. Directed by Sonya JF Barnett AKA The Madame, Keyhole Sessions marks its premiere with the 2014 Feminist Porn Awards’ Sexiest Short Film No Artificial Sweeteners and The Keyhole Sessions’ first Urban Peepshows: “Drips, Clicks, Squirts.” The […]

The Porn Studies Forum is a regular section of Porn Studies that provides a space for timely responses to issues and developments within the academic study of pornography. We encourage provocative and open-ended short pieces of 500-1,500 words (including notes). Especially encouraged are works from performers who are students, academics who might teach porn, and short essays dealing with timely or provocative issues.

by Tina Horn I’m ecstatic that Point of Contact is finally going to see the light of day! Usually, when I perform in porn, the video is released within a month or two, and I get to experience my current sexuality on display for all to see (a dream come true for an exhibitionist such […]

The first issue of the Porn Studies Journal was released today. Published by Routledge, the extensive free to read online for a limited time. It’s the first journal dedicated to the study of pornography, and its first issue covers a wide array of topics including Studying Porn Cultures, Finding Gender through Porn Performance, and one which explores […]

The Porn Studies Forum is a regular section of Porn Studies providing a space for timely responses to issues and developments within the academic study of pornography. We encourage provocative and open-ended short pieces of 500-1,500 words (including notes). CFP: “This is not a love song.” Some Thoughts on Pornography and Music In this era […]

The year of the horse is characterized with a hard working and ambitious nature. Combined with a Wood year, we are offered an added degree of stamina as well as luck to help keep up with our best laid plans. HEAVENLY SPIRE While on the topic of horses and wood, power house Shine Louise Houston’s […]

Pink & White Productions will be participating at the 2014 XBIZ 360 Adult Film Conference. Founder/Director Shine Louise Houston and Marketing Director Jiz Lee are slated to speak at XBIZ 360. The XBIZ 360 Adult Film Conference explores every major area of the constantly evolving business of adult movie creation and distribution. Subjects will include […]

This special issue of Porn Studies will promote a discussion about race in the study of pornography. Race remains an underdeveloped area of research in porn studies, and employing racial analytics to the study of pornography’s historical, representational, market, labor, industrial, and technological production is imperative for the field. Race is crucial for the field because it allows us to think through power relations that function in concert with gender, sexuality, and class, to uncover the historical importance of unequal looking relations, labor relations, and access to media authorship, and to reveal the ways in which desire, sexual and otherwise, is inextricably bound to processes of racialization.

Heavenly Spire was reviewed by renown sex educator, author, and filmmaker Tristan Taormino! The queer porn revolution is missing a key element: an independent gay male/queer boy presence. Sure, there is plenty of gay male porn out there—a ton, in fact. But most of it is produced by the mainstream gay porn industry. It’s slick, formulaic, […]

It was 2003-2004 and I had moved to the Bay area after college picking up odd jobs, interning at On Our Backs Magazine and other art organizations. Toward the end of the year I landed a young lesbian’s dream job: slinging dildos and education at a local, women’s own, sex toy cooperative…

It comes as no surprise that the models on Heavenly Spire are as varied as they are in any of Shine’s work.

by Alexa Shae This month, CrashPadSeries.com celebrates its 6th anniversary.  The best part about the CrashPad is that there’s value in not talking. The value lies in the sultry looks, the beckoning body language, and perhaps a good prop. If you really think about it, it’s a great film school. Tell a story with out words. Go. […]

There wasn’t one scene in the film that didn’t interest or excite me in some way. I loved all the kinky exploration and playful S/m. All the scenes had a nice build-up of momentum and chemistry between the players. I especially loved the diverse array of bodies and shifting genders. I hope Houston keeps adding more queer kink, interesting characters and maybe adds in an orgy scene at the Crash Pad someday soon.

If you want to make porn, or any other form of arts based product, and have limited funds to begin with, sustainability comes before profit. Most individuals in these fields lack access to large start up capital, so it’s a very DIY beginning and a lot of time and elbow grease. Grassroots business, especially in communities without a lot of financial support rely heavily upon connections from friends and family. A “get rich quick” mentality will not last long in these spaces since it involves community effort which results in a division of labor and profits. It is not about the financial gain of one individual, but rather creating on going financial support for many while drawing from each others skill sets.

Crash Pad Series Volume 4 By Domina Doll If you’ve read my other reviews of Pink and White films and the Crash Pad Series, you will know that I love/lust these films. Each film is different and offers something unique and diverse, which to me is what independent porn is all about. Sure, if you […]

features hot lesbian/queer sex by femmes, bois, dykes, and (this time) trans multi-gender queers. Houston is known for mixing authentic queer sex within a humorous parody framework and “Wild Search” certainly delivers. Houston describes the film as a “pomo-homo-docu-mockumentary,” a statement that mocks filmmaking and documentaries by challenging the preconceived notions of what is “real”. The film stages itself as a documentary filming another documentary crew who are in search of the “truth” about “real lesbian sex” meanwhile questioning lesbian stereotypes and the [ph]allacies of hetero-male produced porn.

The highlights of this film are the scenes between Dallas and Vai, and Michelle Aston and Julie. Vai is a cute pixyish dyke who goes to study at the crash pad. She has an excellent solo sex scene, and then Dallas enters and gets her squirting fountains of come. Their sex is playful, giggling, fun and super wet. Study sex at its best.

Review by Domina Doll “Superfreak” is Shine Louise Houston’s award-winning film in which she cameos as the spirit of a horny Rick James who possesses the revelers at an all-girl party who go wild with sexual abandon and get their freak on. Superfreak features all the raw fuckery and authentic performances of Pink and White’s […]

Queer pornography, despite being a niche genre with relatively low distribution, actually offers an impressively broad spectrum of sexualities, identities, and practices to its viewers. Given this range of possibilities, it would be impossible to adequately explore all of them within the confines of this paper. Therefore, I have limited my examination only to those scenes that feature female-bodied performers; however, it is critical to note that the gender inclusivity characteristic of queer politics is also evident in queer erotica. Transmen, transwomen, queer men, and even the occasional heterosexual couple are featured within the films and websites I will examine. Within scenes featuring female- bodied performers, I focus mainly on those that can be explicitly read and interpreted as lesbian, though I also give attention to several solo masturbation scenes…

Shine Louise Houston is back with Crash Pad Series, Volume 1 (2007), winner of the 2008 Feminist Porn Award for Hottest Dyke Film. Volume 1, which follows the same premise as the original film, includes performances by the hottest gender/queer dyke porn stars in the alt porn industry: Jiz Lee and .

“What I really loved best about this film, is the human aspect by which Annie portrays their story, which is sweet and wonderful to watch. And, Les is totally cool in his biker duds, James Dean hair, and tattooed body. You can’t help but fall in love with him just a little bit too. My only critique about the film is that it is only thirty minutes in length, and I would have liked to see more interviews with Les, and a more in-depth biography of his life. But, the film is about Les and Annie and their love, and is more of an artistic celebration of love, rather than a stale documentary with just talking heads. I’d recommend this film to anyone who loves Annie Sprinkle, to anyone intrigued about FTM transformation, and to those who want to watch a real-life love story that is both intimate and poignant to watch!”