We Watched Netflix’s “Money Shot: The Pornhub Story” And Are Sympathetic to Sex Workers (But Not to Pornhub)
Why? Because Lauren and I have created and posted our own consensual, sexually explicit content.
The video, shot in 2004 with a Sony Camcorder, is a little grainy and has a purplish hue but the details aren’t obscured enough to miss even an iota of what’s happening.
Based on a tripod next to our king-sized bed, the camera is carefully angled on a beautiful, blonde 30-year-old woman giving a man a blowjob as he straddles her chest. Her eyes are open and she’s looking confidently — a bit dutifully — at him while orally pleasuring him.
Suddenly the cock releases from her mouth and she pumps the shaft with her hand as semen quickly slathers her face and spurts onto her outstretched tongue and into her mouth.
The woman, delighted, continues pumping the shaft.
Then, to her surprise, a final, unexpected gush of sperm shoots up her left check and into her eye. She closes it just in time.
Unfazed by the eye shot — in fact, she giggles cutely when it happens — she swallows the load on her tongue and in her mouth and rubs the warm cream all over her face while licking her lips.
“Mmmmm, yeah, daddy,” she says softly — aware the camera is on her — before taking the dick back into her mouth and allowing her man to deep-throat her, to her delight, while he softens.
The video ends.
That’s a scene from a 2004 sex tape that Lauren and I shot in our bedroom. We’d only recently started shooting our own sex tapes with our Sony Camcorder, at the time a high-end device.
Despite the purplish hue and the lack of high definition, it’s a stunning video and could still compete with any highly-clicked facial cumshot on any porn website. The volume of semen is impressive and the camera’s angle perfectly documents the explosive ejaculation and the mess it makes on the face of a beautiful woman who is delighted by the moment. The creamy semen glistens and she’s even bold enough to rub it all over her face.
Nineteen years later, amid the hundreds of sex tapes we’ve shot since, this 2004 classic remains one of our most watched. It captures the “perfect” facial cumshot.
This weekend, as we watched Netflix’s newly released “Money Shot: The Pornhub Story,” I was reminded of that 2004 video and of those hundreds of sex tapes we’ve shot, some of them posted to a paid fans site.
As “Money Shot” makes clear — and thanks to the reporting of The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristoff — Pornhub was a platform used for years to upload videos of not just consensual, legit porn, but also non-consensual sex acts (rape), child pornography and other egregious content. On the latter, anyone who’s a decent human being should agree that Pornhub sat by and did nothing for years, except rake in profits, while this awful non-con content was uploaded and people were exploited. Even as Pornhub has since said it’s removed this awful content, the damage has been done and lives have been shattered.
All that said, Lauren and I had to be honest with ourselves after we watched “Money Shot.” Given that we ourselves have been adult content creators and made quite a bit of money from our videos — all of them extremely graphic — we admitted that, had Pornhub or OnlyFans existed when we were much younger, we likely would have set up a verified account and uploaded our own (faceless) content just as many loving couples do today (e.g., Avazev, Martin & Paola, Noratheo, NoFaceGirl, Tanline Journey, Leolulu, TinaWho, etc.).
Who doesn’t want to see a hot couple in their 20s and 30s getting off on each other? Even today, in our late 40s, we’re feeling tempted to get our fans account going again.
Our experience posting graphic videos on a popular fans site gave us a limited view into what it’s like to be a sex worker who makes their living creating pornographic content. From that experience, we’re sympathetic to the online sex workers and the revenue they get from their content — and how devastating the Pornhub scandal had to be for them.
Sex workers are often dismissed, ridiculed and put down even as millions of us watch— and masturbate to — their content. The truth is that they, like almost any of us, need to earn a living and they have chosen to do that through explicit, consensual content shown on sites like Pornhub.
If Pornhub or OnlyFans existed in 2004 when Lauren and I started our sex tape collection, it’s a good bet we would have eventually founded our own enterprise on those or a similar site because creating and sharing explicit content was then — and still is now — not only fun but in high demand and something we really enjoy doing.
We think “Money Shot” explores some important issues related to online pornography, sex workers and sexual expression — along with the unhealthiness of “purity culture,” which condemns people like Lauren and me (swingers, polyamorous)— and we recommend it.
