15 Facts About Erika Lust

Erika Lust was born on 1977 and is a Swedish feminist pornographic film director, screenwriter and producer.

Since the debut of her first indie erotic film The Good Girl in 2004, Lust has been cited as one of the current leading participants in the feminist pornography movement, asserting that an ethical production process sets her company apart from mainstream pornography sites.

Erika Lust went to Lund University, where she studied Political Sciences.

Erika Lust graduated with a BA in 1999, with a specialization in human rights and feminism.

Erika Lust shot her first film, the explicit short The Good Girl in 2004, which became an instant hit.

Erika Lust has produced erotic short films and compilations steadily from then on.

Erika Lust's films are characterized by carefully cast actors and high standards of production in adult film.

In 2010, Erika Lust opened an online erotic cinema called Erika Lust Cinema, exhibiting her own films and those of other authors of the new wave of explicit films.

Erika Lust started the first crowdsourced project in the history of adult cinema in 2013, calling it XConfessions.

In 2019, Erika Lust was named as one of the BBC's 100 Most Influential Women of the Year.

Erika Lust Films was nominated for Global Studio Brand of the Year, and her online streaming platform XConfessions was nominated for Erotic Site of the Year.

Erika Lust held two sold-out screenings of the XConfessions Theatrical Cut at Kino Babylon in Berlin in February 2016, and went on to win the Best Narrative Short CineKink Award for short film An Appointment with My Master.

Erika Lust was one of the female filmmakers featured in "Women on Top", the first episode of the Netflix documentary series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On, focusing on the filming of "Hysterical Piano Concert".

Kat Banyard states that "feminist porn" as promoted by Erika Lust is another brand that does not challenge the mainstream, but serves as another entry point for potential customers.

Alvaro Martin Sanz, professor of film studies at the University of Valladolid, while recognizing Erika Lust as pioneering the rejection of the heteronormativity present in traditional pornographic cinema, finds limitations in the pursuit of beauty and the focus on fantasies rather than more realistic portrayals.