The truth is, porn is actually quite silly.
That probably seems like an odd take, coming from people who make and sell it for a living – but the thing is, spanking is silly. Sex is silly. Human beings spend a lot of time dressing it up as though it isn’t: the outfits, the emotions, the longing, the mystique. When it really comes down to it, though, sex is just a squishy biological function with excellent PR.
That doesn’t mean we don’t love all the bells and whistles. Those bells and whistles are our bread and butter, and there’s a deep truth to them that we stand by utterly. Exploring the darker recesses of the sexual psyche is healthy and important and hot as hell. Even so, we’d hate to lose sight of the fundamental truth that, at its heart, porn is utterly ridiculous – and so every now and again we release something like Willow’s Warmup, where we get to giggle maniacally while pointing directly at the fourth wall.
This kind of chaos, incidentally, is one of the reasons we love working with Willow as much as we do. Tongue-in-cheek silliness is built directly into her brand: she understands the sexy/ridiculous dialectic on a gut level, and she does a great job of making it as much fun for our viewers as it is for us. The result is gloriously stupid, genuinely sexy, and an oddly pure expression of our artistic philosophy. Because what good is a fourth wall if you can’t bend over and wiggle your bum at it from time to time?
