Filmmaker Erika Lust Brings 'Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On' Pt 2 To Netflix

“Porn today is sex education,” says Erika Lust, a Barcelona-based erotic filmmaker in the first episode of Netflix’s new docuseries, 'Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On'. A spinoff of the 2015 documentary of the same name, this new show explores sex and relationships in the Internet age. 

The six-episode series was produced by Rashida Jones, Jill Bauer, and Ronna Gradus, the team behind the original film. At launch, the project followed a group of teenage girls entering the amateur porn business in Miami. In the new episodes, they expand their content focus from porn into all aspects of human sexuality online. Vogue explains: "One episode revolves around a cam girl and her intimate relationship with one of her customers, whom she’s never met in real life. One chapter explores the question of whether a woman can ever be empowered in the porn industry—the answer is murkier than you might believe. Another centers on a pair of female erotic filmmakers and their efforts to try and challenge the pervasive, and often aggressive, male gaze in pornography."

The producers of Hot Girls Wanted worked alongside researchers at Indiana University, in affiliation with the Kinsey Institute, to produce a first-of-its-kind study on the effects of porn use on relationships and socialization in teenagers and adults. The conclusions of their study -- which drive content throughout the episodes -- confirm that most young adults (even children) are getting most of their information from pornography. Almost 40% of teens have been exposed to porn by age 14. 

The series also explores the racism and classism that is fundamental to the porn industry -- then and now. The majority of young women participating are from poor, rural backgrounds with little hope of a future. Vogue interviews the creators of'Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On'. 

Jonathan Blanks Calls Dana Schutz' 'Open Casket' Painting A Bridge Between 'Us' & 'Them'

2017 Whitney Biennial painting 'Open Casket' by Dana Schutz

The Atlantic weighs in on the furor surrounding Dana Schutz' controversial painting 'Open Casket', a white woman's reflection on the savage 1955 lynching and murder of young African American Emmett Till. The young man's horrific murder and mutilated body displayed by his mother in an open casket at his funeral helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement.

AOC has covered this event in great deal. Our earlier articles follow this update. Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf and Cato Institute scholar Jonathan Blanks explore the issue of cultural appropriation and demands by Britain & Berlin-based artist Hannah Black that the painting be destroyed. Blanks is a researcher at the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice. 

Blanks has no opinion on the merits of the painting, but he fully supports -- not so much her intellectual freedom to paint whatever she wants in a free society -- but her engagement in an empathetic process. Blanks explains: 

In my experience, one obstacle to stopping those injustices is the unfortunate human tendency to conceive of even sympathetic victims from a different racial or ethnic group as "bad stuff happening to them," not "bad stuff happening to us." Even folks who don't want bad stuff to happen to anyone react with less focus and urgency when an "other" is the victim. No one wants any child to be kidnapped, but the little blond girl leads the local news; her black analog might not make the newscast.

The artist who painted 'Open Casket' was trying to bridge the gulf between “us” and “them.” She began with the general attitude that bygone travesties against a racial group to which she doesn't belong were properly of concern to her. And in this particular, she achieved a measure of empathy. “I don’t know what it is like to be black in America, but I do know what it is like to be a mother," she said, explaining her desire to engage with the loss of Emmett Till's mother. "In her sorrow and rage," she wrote, "she wanted her son’s death not just to be her pain but America’s pain.”

If you are not familiar with the 'Open Casket Story' controversy, these articles round out the story:

Kate Winslet Challenges Apple Devices As Being Bad For Family Life

Kate Winslet Rules In Alexi Lubomirski Images For Esquire UK November 2015

One of the acclaimed stars of the new movie 'Steve Jobs', British actorKate Winslet just posted a challenging interview with The Sunday Times, arguing that parents are "losing control" of their children to social media. 

Winslet said that social media has a "huge impact on young women's self-esteem", so much so that it made her "blood boil". 

These are tough-talking, fighting words from the mom of three children, proving that beautiful lingerie and posing in sensual, Alexi Lubomirskiimages for Esquire UK in no way invalidate conscientious parenting.

Today's Young Women Design Themselves To Be Liked

Talking about young women in particular, Kate expressed concerns that "all they ever do is design themselves for people to like them. " Arguing that the entire social media world is designed to create -- intentionally or otherwise -- eating disorders, Winslet says there is no social media in our house. 

Kate is troubled by the addictive quality of the devices Apple designed, saying that people "practically kiss them goodnight." These trends all make for difficult family-building experiences, with modern families separating into camps even in cafes. Do they speak to each other, asks Winslet? No. They look past each other, with heads buried down in their mobile devices. 

“They go into a world, and parents let them. I’m going to get slagged off for saying this, but it takes every member of a family to be a family, and there are too many interruptions these days — and devices are a huge interruption,” Winslet added. 

Kate Winslet is a Smart Sensuality woman who knows her own mind.Read more about Kate's keen desire to join the cast of 'Steve Jobs' and interviews about the movie and its core character Steve Jobs.