1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:03,560 (Intro music) 2 00:00:19,070 --> 00:00:21,070 How did you enjoy the shoot today? 3 00:00:22,020 --> 00:00:24,020 I had a lot of fun 4 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,520 I really tried to come into it without 5 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:30,700 like, any expectations 6 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:32,900 Or, you know... 7 00:00:33,570 --> 00:00:36,410 anything like that cause it's been a while since we've 8 00:00:36,610 --> 00:00:38,610 done anything for anybody else 9 00:00:39,570 --> 00:00:41,230 so, um 10 00:00:41,490 --> 00:00:43,490 I really wanted to 11 00:00:43,690 --> 00:00:47,840 just come in and have, like, the experience again and everything. 12 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,040 I don't know, there was almost like a sense of like, uh... 13 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,450 going back to the 'before times' and everything for me 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,640 Yeah - You know? 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,819 So, I think that's what I was feeling. 16 00:01:05,110 --> 00:01:07,110 Yeah. How about you? 17 00:01:09,230 --> 00:01:11,230 What did I like, about the shoot? 18 00:01:13,140 --> 00:01:16,240 I liked everything about it. I thought it was - it flowed really easily 19 00:01:17,750 --> 00:01:20,320 You know, similar, like not having expectations, just like... 20 00:01:20,590 --> 00:01:23,770 Yeah, just kind of like, flowing with the energy of it all. 21 00:01:23,970 --> 00:01:25,970 Yeah - It was really nice 22 00:01:27,930 --> 00:01:29,930 (Shine Louise Houston, off set) The next question is: 23 00:01:30,530 --> 00:01:33,190 "What did you find challenging about the shoot?" 24 00:01:37,150 --> 00:01:39,150 What did you find challenging about the shoot? 25 00:01:40,610 --> 00:01:41,370 Um... 26 00:01:44,470 --> 00:01:45,130 I think... 27 00:01:48,330 --> 00:01:50,330 I don't know, I think for me, it's um... 28 00:01:53,930 --> 00:01:57,630 it's kind of like the delineation between my two spaces and everything 29 00:01:57,700 --> 00:01:59,700 that's what I was experiencing 30 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:01,900 which, I just haven't had that feeling in a while 31 00:02:02,290 --> 00:02:03,520 Mhmm - So...um... 32 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,870 That's kind of something that I'm like still processing, I guess. 33 00:02:10,669 --> 00:02:11,510 How about you? 34 00:02:11,710 --> 00:02:13,170 Did you find it challenging? 35 00:02:13,990 --> 00:02:16,480 Um, I think for me it's always 36 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,710 like trying to stay present, you know? 37 00:02:18,940 --> 00:02:21,920 Trying to stay present, I've been getting better at it. 38 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:27,040 And also, like, being present in my multiplicities 39 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,220 blending, sex, kink, and my spirituality 40 00:02:31,420 --> 00:02:33,650 that's something I'm still moving through 41 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,150 and I feel I'm always going to evolve with 42 00:02:37,820 --> 00:02:40,290 Um, so I don't think it was necessarily a 'challenge' but 43 00:02:40,490 --> 00:02:43,510 I think it's something that I'm evolving in, you know. 44 00:02:46,970 --> 00:02:48,970 (Shine Louise Houston, off set) Um, can you ask each other: 45 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,600 "What are your safer sex practices and why?" 46 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,910 What are your safer sex practices and why? 47 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,280 I think always, first and foremost are enthusiastic consent 48 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,480 is always like a must 49 00:03:04,780 --> 00:03:10,220 and especially with quarantine, like you and I, we've been sleeping together in our pod 50 00:03:10,420 --> 00:03:13,640 that's a part of our safer sex practices currently 51 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,090 always enthusiastic consent 52 00:03:17,290 --> 00:03:19,290 making sure the other person is comfortable 53 00:03:20,310 --> 00:03:21,900 Um, yeah. 54 00:03:23,550 --> 00:03:29,770 And, using barriers and different types of protection that people want to use, too. 55 00:03:31,910 --> 00:03:33,290 Yeah, um... 56 00:03:33,490 --> 00:03:37,600 I feel like my safer sex practices are similar, for sure. 57 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,430 I... I also really like to be super transparent about what's going to happen. 58 00:03:45,630 --> 00:03:47,630 you know, talk about 59 00:03:47,830 --> 00:03:49,830 the mutually agreed upon... 60 00:03:50,030 --> 00:03:52,030 ..practices 61 00:03:52,230 --> 00:03:54,230 with whoever. 62 00:03:54,420 --> 00:03:58,210 But yeah, we've been together, you know, so... It's been um... 63 00:03:58,420 --> 00:04:00,420 ..an easier practice, 64 00:04:00,620 --> 00:04:02,620 than it has been before. 65 00:04:02,820 --> 00:04:07,780 And I think another safer sex practice that I would say you and I practice is 66 00:04:07,980 --> 00:04:13,990 we have fun at the same time, so it's not like this very serious endeavor 67 00:04:14,190 --> 00:04:19,279 like we allow that, the energy and the mood of it to flow. 68 00:04:20,410 --> 00:04:22,100 and in that way, it's healing. 69 00:04:22,210 --> 00:04:22,740 Yeah - Yeah 70 00:04:22,940 --> 00:04:23,840 And checking in. 71 00:04:23,940 --> 00:04:25,440 And checking in, yeah. 72 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,080 Like, continuously. 73 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:31,880 (Shine Louise Houston, off set) Excellent. Um, Next question: 74 00:04:33,990 --> 00:04:35,990 "Why do you continue to do porn?" 75 00:04:37,380 --> 00:04:39,380 (Big inhale) 76 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Why do you continue to do porn? 77 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,440 I think for me, like 78 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,640 the motivation behind doing porn 79 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:49,840 has definitely evolved. 80 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,040 I think at first it was more around 81 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:57,080 like, I'm in a bind and it's something to like, make extra coin, 82 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:00,230 and I think it's also evolved into a space 83 00:05:00,370 --> 00:05:02,370 where like 84 00:05:02,570 --> 00:05:04,570 I'm also empowering myself 85 00:05:04,660 --> 00:05:06,660 and other folks who look like me 86 00:05:06,860 --> 00:05:10,510 and practice different types of things, that I may practice 87 00:05:10,710 --> 00:05:14,690 and bringing it into one amalgamation, you know 88 00:05:14,890 --> 00:05:20,120 Um, and I do that so that others like me, others different than me can see 89 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,320 that there's so many opportunities 90 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,520 for queer sex and queer healing 91 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,800 and queer kink and how all of those and mush together 92 00:05:29,810 --> 00:05:30,550 I think I... 93 00:05:31,650 --> 00:05:32,600 keep doing this 94 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,160 I think, like it started initially because I 95 00:05:41,180 --> 00:05:43,180 wanted the experience and everything 96 00:05:43,380 --> 00:05:46,970 and I think I keep doing it because it really, like, I enjoy it. 97 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:49,300 It brings me pleasure 98 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:55,510 and I like enjoy the notion of people being voyeurs 99 00:05:56,430 --> 00:05:58,950 and I... I think it's also really cool 100 00:05:59,150 --> 00:06:01,150 to do it in the pandemic 101 00:06:01,350 --> 00:06:10,760 we get to be on the forefront of what queer sex is going to be 102 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,050 in a post-pandemic world, and everything... 103 00:06:15,850 --> 00:06:17,850 I don't know, it's historic. 104 00:06:18,050 --> 00:06:21,960 And I like my kink and my fun to be historic. 105 00:06:23,090 --> 00:06:25,090 And we also like to be watched. (Laughs) 106 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,320 Yeah, voyeurism is sweet as well. 107 00:06:29,650 --> 00:06:31,650 (Shine Louise Houston off set) Awesome, bonus question: 108 00:06:32,410 --> 00:06:36,090 "What has been the best thing about quarantine?" 109 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:40,660 What has been the best thing about quarantine? 110 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,130 Um... What has been the best thing about quarantine? 111 00:06:45,330 --> 00:06:52,040 I think the best thing about quarantine has been the time I've gotten to spend with myself 112 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,810 and with the people that I've chosen to be close to. 113 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:03,680 I think it's really helped me prioritize the things that I enjoy in life. 114 00:07:03,930 --> 00:07:08,040 And what I want to experience or what I don't want to experience. 115 00:07:09,590 --> 00:07:11,590 It's been a lot of that for me. 116 00:07:11,790 --> 00:07:12,890 Choosing what is. 117 00:07:12,990 --> 00:07:17,010 How about you? What has been the best thing about quarantine for you? 118 00:07:18,470 --> 00:07:21,770 Um, I think for me, the best thing about quarantine has been 119 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:24,990 I'm really creating with my hands 120 00:07:25,130 --> 00:07:26,900 Like, I've been making things - Yeah 121 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:29,100 And like, just really... 122 00:07:30,130 --> 00:07:38,650 harnessing that beautiful self-reliant power of being able to manifest with my hands 123 00:07:40,630 --> 00:07:48,240 Yeah, really just like, making stuff making art, doing thing that will keep me sane 124 00:07:48,330 --> 00:07:50,330 during quarantine, and also like... 125 00:07:50,530 --> 00:07:54,890 there's a lot more time to like, masturbate, too. (Laughs) 126 00:07:55,090 --> 00:07:57,880 Figuring out what works for me - Fine-tune 127 00:07:57,970 --> 00:08:00,680 and keeps me sane has been a lot things. 128 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,880 and I'm really humbled to know that about myself now. 129 00:08:03,990 --> 00:08:05,990 Good - Mhmm 130 00:08:07,350 --> 00:08:09,350 (Shine Louise Houston, off set.) Excellent. Thank you! 131 00:08:09,550 --> 00:08:12,040 Thank you! - Thank you so much! 132 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,240 (All) Yay! (Laughs)