Could introducing a kitemark change working practices in porn? Nichi Hodgson believes so and she’s out to build it happenI first meet Nichi Hodgson in a suite at the Soho Hotel. We’re fraction of a small group of women,and one man, brought together by Libertine and Sass Intimate Skin Care to talk about intimacy in the 21st century. The group consists of academics, or authors,campaigners and those with just a general interest in the topic. And Hodgson, a former dominatrix, and current journalist and founder of the Ethical Porn Partnership (EPP),one woman’s attempt to bring a minimum standard of working practices to an industry that governments either ignore or censure. “I’ve been covering the sex industry as a journalist for about five years now,” she says. “What became obvious to me was that while there were lots of wonderful people working in it, or there was also lots of what I would consider not malpractice,but dubious practice: people turning up on set not always knowing what they were going to do before they did it, and no transparency around the pay. Just a general sense that even the people who were comfortably making it, or making enormous profits,had misgivings on a deep level about what they were doing. Nearly everybody I’ve met in the porn industry has some kind of anxiety about the work.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com