After the shoot, James gives us his perspective on creating contactless porn.

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How was the shoot today?

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It was really interesting.

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I wasn’t sure what to expect for a

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distanced porn shoot.

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I was like, am I going to walk in?

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Is there going to be like two-way glass?

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How is this going to operate?

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But it was really interesting.

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And I think it’s really cool finding creative

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solutions in these really unprecedented

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times.

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And, it was challenging for us, but what was

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challenging to you today?

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You know, I definitely

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it was it was a little unusual to not have

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someone else in the room.

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You know, I think even

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even for a CrashPad, which largely you kind of

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just do your own thing when you do shoots here,

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you’re still having somebody, like in the room

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that’s kind of like, you know, starting and

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stopping and also just having like

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the presence of another person it

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is very different to not have that.

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I think in some ways it does feel

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like even more of like the voyeur

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experience than it usually is.

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So on that hand it was

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kind of like unique in kind of a hot way, but

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also like a little bit awkward.

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I dunno, it was a lot of things.

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Normally we ask

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you about safer sex and products, but not for a

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solo…

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Right.

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Safer sex is right there.

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Really.

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Do you want to talk about why you continue to do porn?

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Like, why you showed up today?

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Well, I yeah, I continue to

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do porn because I think it’s important and

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CrashPad is especially

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so I think there’s very few

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opportunities to show certain types

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of body and safer sex methods.

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And I still have a strong commitment

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to queer porn because it like

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celebrates those things.

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I just spent a very long part

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of my life performing in porn

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and being able to watch

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and have my my life documented in

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this way over time has been really

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beautiful to be able to like have different like

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where I was in different places in my life

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documented through camera and

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through sexuality.

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And I don’t know, it’s also just

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very validating to have other people witnessing

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that process with me and sharing what

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it also means for them to have

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some of their own desires

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and types of bodies and ways of

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having sex being validated by seeing it like

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documented on camera. I think it’s incredibly

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important.

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Any closing statements that you want to

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say about the shoot or porn in general? Up to you.

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Totally. So I don’t do solos

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for porn companies very often.

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I usually I shoot a lot of solo content right

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now just on the different clip sites and that sort

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of thing. And I just you know, right now

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is a hard time. I think a lot of people feel

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really isolated and alone and

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maybe not getting all of their needs met,

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especially in a touch-starved kind

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of way.

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And I think it’s just important to take this time

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to really love yourself, you know?

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And I think that’s one part of

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kind of what I wanted to do coming into this shoot

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is just have it be a ritual about self-love

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and self pleasure and just taking this moment

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to really dive deep into that for yourself.

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I think it’s a really radical, important thing to

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do.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much for having me.

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I love you guys.

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Thanks for helping us

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… it’s been a while.

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Absolutely.