New hyperkinks! I haven't done one of these in a while. This edition is all about porn: performers (with a special showing from the Australian contingent), industry news, politics and good old smut.

Performers

• Damaged Goods Debunked: Study Challenges Porn Star Stereotypes. "Adult film performers are no more likely to be survivors of childhood sexual abuse than the general population."
• Portrait of a porn star - the consequences of coming out as a porn performer.
• Vice Interview with Australian performer Angela White. "My experience of performing has fallen on a spectrum ranging from transformative bliss to the daily grind."
• The Porn Stars' Guide To A Healthy Sex Life, with advice by Dylan Ryan, Courtney Trouble, Satine Phoenix and Stoya.
• Interview with Aeryn Walker about being an independent performer/director, geek cred, her relationship to the mainstream, Australia's fucked up ideas about what sort of vulva is "normal", and being in Game of Thrones.
• Things you only know if you're a porn star - Zahra Stardust talks about orgasms, work, pleasure and the costs and benefits of being an independent performer. "I am very lucky to have had loving and supportive partners who are proud of me and know that porn is an indivisible part of me."

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Ordered to fetch the paddle so he can use it on me. See, I can be a good girl ... sometimes. Full photo story here.

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Cheap cameras and free online tools have democratised porn. Now anyone - performers, their friends, even you - can control the means of production and make and sell videos online. As far as I'm concerned, the more the merrier. The more people produce their own erotic material, expressing their own sexuality and fantasies, the more diverse and representative porn will be. I think that do-it-yourself porn is our best chance of weakening the restrictive, sexist narratives which are all too familiar from mainstream productions. This is the first of a series of blogposts offering tutorials on how to get started selling your own porn online.

Clips4Sale.com is a video on demand distributor which specialises in fetish content from independent producers, often made by the performers themselves. They let you sell video online without paying any upfront fees, avoiding the commitment in terms of time and expense involved in running an adult membership site. Unlike other VOD sites, they let the customer buy the film by downloading the video file to their hard drive, rather than renting it by making it available to stream for a limited time.

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While I was on the plane on the way to the Feminist Porn Awards I watched The Sessions, a film based on the true story of a paralysed man who seeks the services of a sexual surrogate. A few of my sex worker friends were looking forward to this film when it came out, hoping that it might be a positive representation of sex work - something that is all too rare in film, where sensationalism and objectification are very much the norm.

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Compared to the usual treatments, then, The Sessions is a good start. It's not about how sex work is super harmful; it's about the positive benefit one sex worker had on one individual. But don't expect miracles. This is still pretty mainstream.

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This year, especially during my trip to the Feminist Porn Awards, I've become so much more aware of the work of wonderful fellow pornographers who are making beautiful, sexy art and revolutionising the industry. One such is Gala Vanting, an erotic film producer, sex worker, educator, pleasure activist, and erotic imaginist based in Melbourne. Gala is one half of Sensate Films, a high-end independent, feminist production company which is pioneering the concept of slow porn. You can watch some of her award-winning films at PinkLabel.tv.

Gala is visiting the UK for a few days in July, and she is offering 121 and 221 spanking sessions with me and Molly Malone for a short time only. (Or even a 321 with all three of us if you want to really treat yourself!) Gala is a true switch with a love of spanking, power exchange and creative roleplay. She is utterly stunning, very smart and totally charming. If you have sessioned with me I think you will love her. Let's give her a very warm welcome to the world-famous London spanking scene, and send her home with a sore bottom, aching right arm, and some wonderful new kinky memories!

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On Tuesday I had my first session of laser hair removal on my lower legs, bikini line and labia - "Brazilian" style, leaving my usual trimmed oval on the mons. The traditional shape to leave is a "landing strip" but I prefer curves to rectangles. I shaved my muff into a neatly trimmed oval, leaving plenty of hair-free space below for long, languid licks that explore every soft fold and curve. In the future, if I want, I can vary my look by trimming it down to a heart, a triangle, a diamond, the classic landing strip or by shaving it off and going completely hairless. The only thing I won't be able to do is grow back my bikini line and the hair on my outer labia - which I have been shaving on an at-least-weekly basis for over a decade.

The laser treatment hurt less than I was expecting. You're wearing dark glasses to protect you from the radiation, like in a tanning bed I imagine, not that I've ever used one. The machine blows a jet of cold air onto your skin at the same time as the laser, which doesn't so much feel like burning as pricking like a needle as it encounters each follicle. The machine makes a regular "bip, bip, bip" noise which makes it hard to tell whether the pinpricks of pain are in time with the beeping or not.

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