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episode ... but I’m not trying to
make porn. I’m trying to make series
that include sex.”
Anyone who doubts that it’s possible
to meld indie arthouse sensibilities
with erotic heat will find proof of
concept in dozens of featurettes
created by Bree Mills and frequent
co-director Craven Moorehead for
Pure Taboo, a key component of
Adult Time’s original programming.
For those who are unfamiliar with
these critically acclaimed dramas,
they usually involve harrowing
situations in which characters are
taken advantage of, tricked and
abused in any number of ways. Mills
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offered up some insights into where
these stories come from, and how
she differentiates her stories from
standard porn vignettes.
The discussion about the inherent
darkness in Pure Taboo stories
begins with a featurette titled “The
Allowance” in which Elena Koshka
plays a young woman who’s
gradually cajoled into sex work by
her layabout boyfriend. When asked
about how she came up with the story,
Mills revealed that it was inspired by
how her wife, former adult star Sara
Luvv, got into the adult industry.
“We are pulling back the curtain on
a lot of stuff that happens within the
sex industry and within sexual desire
and even within porn consumption,
and we’re not sugar coating it,” Mills
says. “It’s easy to look at a Pure
Taboo episode and say, ‘Oh, that’s
exploitative. You’re talking about this
subject and you shouldn’t talk about
it because that’s exploitative.’ … If I
put the same character and I stick
her with a lollipop and a teddy bear
and hop-skipping down the street
with bubblegum music, that makes
it better? To me that’s far more
damaging to educate people about
what a young woman is like or what
sex with an 18-year-old is like than
actually telling a real story.”