Erika Lust and the rise of feminist erotic cinema

Abstract. Erika Lust's career, traced across two decades and four overlapping distribution channels (XConfessions, Lust Cinema, Else Cinema, The Store), is one of the more institutionally developed examples of feminist erotic cinema operating as a sustained commercial project. This entry surveys the manifesto-to-studio trajectory, the participatory script-sourcing model that defines her flagship anthology, the reception inside academic pornography studies since the founding of Porn Studies in 2014, and the structural questions her body of work raises about scaling feminist adult production beyond the director-led house.

By Maya Brennan. 1,820 words · 9 min · 6 citations.