Pornhub & Pillow Talk are proud to present the CONSENT EVENT video series; intimate, roundtable discussions between a tapestry of influential artists, cultural figures, activists, and academics exploring consent and the multitude of ways it shows up in our lives.
The CONSENT EVENT videos share the personal and nuanced conversations between panel members about this highly debated topic. Examples include Academy Award-nominated actor and director Chloë Sevigny, intimacy coordinator Teniece Divya Johnson (Pose, Slave Play, Succession) and fashion photographer and model Ethan James Green discussing the intricacies of negotiating consent on television, film, and fashion sets; Whore of New York author Liara Roux and adult performer and Pornhub Ambassador Kira Noir sharing the nuances of sex work, pornography, pleasure, and consent; and technologist and author of Cyberfeminism Index Mindy Seu detailing how social media applications use speed and allure to coerce consent from their users.
Filmed this summer at The SOHO Grand Hotel in Manhattan, CONSENT EVENT panelists also include therapist and trans girl suicide museum author hannah baer; activist and artist Lexii Foxx; and musician and mentor Samantha Urbani. CONSENT EVENT was conceived, directed, and hosted by scholar and editor Esra Soraya Padgett alongside Fiona Alison Duncan, the founder of Pillow Talk, a femme and LGBTQ+ centered event series that cultivates conversations on sex, love, and communication.
This is just one video in the Pornhub & Pillow Talk Consent Event series, so stay tuned for more installments here or watch them all now on Vimeo.
Pornhub regards consent as one of its core values and upholds it as part of its operating principles. We are proud to partner with Pillow Talk to make this important and comprehensive discussion possible. See more about Pornhub’s commitment to trust & safety.
CONSENT EVENT was conceived, directed + hosted by scholar and editor Esra Soraya Padgett alongside author and the founder of Pillow Talk, Fiona Alison Duncan in June of 2022.
Pillow Talk is a femme and LGBTQ+ centered event and exhibition series, the spinoff of Duncan’s successful literary salon Hard to Read.
Esra Padgett is a linguistic anthropologist who has written on the subject of consent, censorship and obscenity, as well as sexuality and pornography more generally.
Credits:
Videography by Minnie Bennett, Cruz Mendez, Charlie Freiberg
Graphic design by Chloe Maratta
Photography by Nick Sethi (portraits) + Sam Penn (party)
Illustrations by Elizabeth Williams