This is excerpted from an article on the life of a sex and fetish writer (Emily Dubberley) that I found at independent.ie. To read the full article, click here.
I’m freelance. I write all my own books and edit magazines, too. I’m the founding editor of Scarlet magazine which is a sex magazine for women, full of erotic stories, with health and beauty features. I had previously set up cliterati.co.uk, a website for women. And I’ve just written a book called Friendly Fetish: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink. I write about sex for a living.
First thing I’ll do is check my emails. I get about 500 a day. Every morning I have to look through my spam filter and fish out 20 work-related emails, which have been quarantined because of their title content. It could be something about penis extenders or new vibrators. It could be a mail from a porn star I’ve booked in for doing an adult shoot for Knave magazine, a gentleman’s magazine I edit.
When I’m looking for a porn star for a shoot, I don’t tend to go for the spray-tanned, fake, plastic type of woman. I go for the girl-next-door type, all different sizes of breasts and recently we’ve used some fuller-figured women as well. It’s full nudity but not penetration. But instead of it being just a woman displaying herself, our shoots will have themes. The Knave issue I am editing right now has a film theme, so there’s an American Beauty shoot and another one is Cleopatra.
A lot of the time I will talk to the girls on email. If the girls don’t have any other shoots that week, I’ll ask them not to shave and let their hair grow a bit, so it looks more natural. But the landing strip is fine, too, because people are representing all different kinds of looks.
I got into writing about sex because I did a degree in psychology and specialised in sexuality. It was at a time when a lot of adult titles for women were emerging — Playgirl and For Women. I wanted to research male-versus-female attitudes to porn because, from a feminist perspective, I found it really interesting. It turned out that women were just as into porn as men but it had to be done in a slightly different way.
Women are more easily put off, for example, if one of the porn stars has got a horrible moustache or if the girl doesn’t look like she is enjoying herself. Women want more reality in fantasy. It’s wonderfully complex.
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