#41 G-bangs, blood porn and solo-wan*ers with Four Chambers' Vex Ashley

CRUDE #41 Frank in Berlin is joined by Effie in London to chat with special guest VEX about a very special gangbang with Effie and Elle, before the trio move on to conversations about Vex’s many guises and her fascinating professional career, which touches on virtually every facet of the porn industry. Vex also opens up about her sexual awakening in her 30s.The Crudies discuss solo wan*ing, the sex-positive scenes in both the UK and Berlin, and how different cultures approach sexuality, performance, and personal branding. Along the way, they cover industry realities, creative freedom, and a host of other topics that make this episode an open, funny, and wide-ranging conversation.Is solo-wanking breaching consent norms?How can bad sex be good?What's the difference between perverts and sluts?Vex Ashley is an independent porn producer and performer and founder of the Four Chambers project. With a background in analogue photography, art school bullshit and digital sex online, Vex worked as a cam girl before beginning to make films as Four Chambers in 2013. Self-taught in cinematography with an emphasis on collaborative DIY practices, Four Chambers has spearheaded a new wave of creators making contemporary pornographic work from a new perspective with the aim to expand ideas about what porn can say, do and be.Independent, conceptual, creative, porn cinema. She speaks, writes and spends her time talking about making porn creatively and independently, sex as performance, authenticity and the self, art and pornography, technology and sex, camming and online censorship.Vex Linksinstagram.com/vextapeinstagram.com/fourchambers*What we were consuming*[Theory] Noelle Purdue (writer, artist, internet porn historian)[Sauna] Boiler Sauna Berlin[Research] Essay on women's growing interest in violent porn[Film] Maman parts 1 & 2 (mommy kink) can be found on the Four Chambered Heart website.