the joy of (tristan taormino’s) sex (positivity)

by admin on June 8, 2008

The whipsmart Penny Flame, brilliant Sinnamon Love, smiley mastermind Tristan Taormino and articulate sexbomb Adrianna Nicole (no personal website – yet).

Last thursday I had a total blast with Tristan Taormino. We went to lunch and for the first time, had time to just chat, and we really really hit it off. I LOVE her. She’s funny, animated, tells gangbang stories way too loud in Mission hipster restaurants (which is an asset in any friend, I think), is crazy-excited about the sex-positive work we do and is one of the warmest and most passionate people I’ve hung out with in a long, long time. I just wanted to keep hanging out with her. So I did. After lunch I went to the hotel where she’d wrangled three stars from her recent film Chemisty 4 and I shot a couple of videos — and I have to say, I’ve never seen or heard performers talk about the sex they had for a film so longingly. When I was leaving, Sinnamon Love just sort of looked at me and reflected that she’d never enjoyed doing a film that much and that it took her a few months to really come down from the experience. Wow. Then I ran home and missed their release party while I got ready, then met up with everyone again for dinner at Foreign Cinema, along with Susie Bright and a few others. Dinner conversation was exciting and inspiring: so many brilliant people at one table talking about sex… so amazing. Here’s a live video I shot from the hotel room — soon I’ll have another video where they talked explicitly about the fucking they did for Chemistry 4 edited and ready for prime time, along with a longer audio podcast of our conversations, which also included talk about exciting upcoming projects for Vivid Ed. Watch this and see what I mean about these smart and sexy women, and why I wanted to spend as much time around them as possible:

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1 Max Royale June 9, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Yes yes, Would have been nice to have joined you guys for the dinner part and perhaps after. What fun, maybe next time.

:-)
max

2 Nathan June 8, 2008 at 6:49 pm

What a wonderful interview. All four women are as gentle and as sweet as they are intelligent.

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