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On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, adult stars Vicky Vette and Julia Ann joined Penthouse Managing Director Kelly Holland and AVN reviewer Shelli Shaulis on the panel of “Women in Porn: A Discriminating Audience,” the latest live event in the online discussion series presented by Mindbrowse.com.“The Mindbrowse ‘Women in Porn’ series is dedicated to tackling issues faced by women working in all areas of the adult industry, piece by piece,” said sociologist Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals, who will moderate the show. “I’m very excited to explore the issue of discrimination – it’s a tiresome and difficult topic, but it’s also something that every woman working in adult entertainment seems to have had to contend with in some way or another.”The panel will discussed their own experiences with discrimination, what they believe the source to be, and what, if anything, can be done about it.The show was live broadcast and available to viewers free of charge on MindBrowse. com. The show was also live-tweeted at @ssshforwomen. Viewers can tweet questions and comments of their own using the #SexTalkTuesday hastag.The theme for the session was proposed by Vette, who approached Mindbrowse producers with the idea after attending the live “Women in Porn” panel held at January’s XBIZ 360 event in Los Angeles.“Discrimination against the adult industry, especially its women, is a topic that has personally tormented me for years,” Vette said. “It affects every one of us and there is no solution in sight.”Angie Rowntree, owner of Sssh.com, the award winning erotica site for women and couples and producer of Mindbrowse shows, said while discrimination affects people who work in all facets of adult entertainment, “performers get the worst of it due to their role being the most high-profile.”“The saddest part is what performers are really being punished for are the hang-ups and issues of those around them, not anything they’ve done on camera,” Rowntree said. “So your co-worker or neighbor is, or used to be, in porn. Is it really too much to ask of people to just get over that fact and live and let live?”

Moderated by sociologist Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals, the discussion covered a variety of hot-button issues regarding the evolving place of women within the adult entertainment industry. Speakers included adult performer/director Ashley Fires, MakeLoveNotPorn.com co-founder Cindy Gallop, Penthouse Managing Director Kelly Holland, and author/attorney Frederick Lane.“Our first show was a smashing success, and we received a lot of really great feedback from viewers, including both people in the industry and the public at large,” said Sssh.com owner Angie Rowntree, who produces and coordinates all MindBrowse events. “Our panel did an amazing job with the first discussion, and we’re very fortunate to have the entire group back for the second debate.”Tibbals said that this installment of the “Women in Porn” series will focus on the intersection of mainstream media and porn.Panelists will discuss the mainstream’s veritable advertisement of tube sites and the impact Hollywood films like “Don Jon” and “Sex Tape” may have on preventing piracy.Mixed messages from prominent public figures will also be discussed. For example, “Girls” creator Lena Dunham’s career is heavily reliant on nudity and sex-related storylines, yet she has publicly blasted adult entertainment as “gross.” The debate will explore what impact these types of mixed messages have on the adult industry, the women who work in it, and attitudes about sex in general.“What we see, how we speak, and how cultural artifacts are spoken about are hugely significant components of social life. Specific issues like those we are going to discuss on this installment of ‘Women in Porn’ shape the way we experience adult entertainment, both within the industry and outside it,” Tibbals asserted. “I’m looking forward to another spirited, smart, and compelling discussion with our generous panelists.”“Women in Porn 2” also was live-tweeted and monitored at @ssshforwomen under the hashtag #WomenInPorn.As with all MindBrowse events, viewers interacted with the panelists, pose questions, and post observations of their own.“Audience participation is something we really want to encourage,” Tibbals said. “Our panel is so amazing, we could go on for hours based just on their interplay, but we want to hear from viewers and from porn fans — and from people who don’t approve of porn, as well. These are big issues with substantial impact on our culture, and we want to encourage discussion. All perspectives are welcome.”You can see the archive of this and other episodes at mindbrowse.com, a production of sssh.com erotica for women.

It was called “Pioneers of Feminist Porn” but in retrospect, a better name for the event might have been: “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Porn, But Were Afraid to Ask.” In a wide ranging conversation expertly moderated by sociologist Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals, multitalented directors Candida Royalle and Jacky St. James addressed some of the most controversial and difficult questions surrounding adult entertainment, as well as the roots, evolution and future of what has come to be called “feminist porn.”

This Mindbrowse "Women in Porn: Shattering the Myths" (WIP) debate series was broadcast at XBIZ 360 at The Andaz Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. "Women in Porn: Shattering the Myths" is an interactive panel discussion that brings prominent individuals working in the adult entertainment industry together to debate the nature of women’s’ changing roles and issues that currently confront the industry. Guests included Kelly Holland, Elle Chase, Courtney Trouble, Karen Tynan, With Celebrity Tweeters Jacky St. James, Alex Chance. Moderated by Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals. During the discussion, the panel was assisted on stage by “porn celebrity tweeters” Jacky St. James and Alex Chance who spurred Twitter users by contributing their own observances and perspectives on the debate. WHAT IS MINDBROWSE? MindBrowse is a place where the adult entertainment industry’s ideas go to grow up. Here, various notions are debated, discussed, turned inside out, parsed and reassembled. It’s a place where people talk about issues that affect everyone involved in porn, from the corporate executives who pay for its creation to the men and women who perform in it – and the fans who watch it. Put more prosaically, MindBrowse is a site that hosts live videoconferencing discussions of compelling and challenging topics. For each discussion, we assemble a panel of speakers with diverse backgrounds and opinions encouraging a ranging and balanced discussion of each topic with audience participation via Twitter (#SexTalkTuesday) or on SexTalkTuesday. “Porn has reached a point where it’s just part of the broader cultural landscape now, so this isn’t just a discussion to be had by the industry and its critics” Angie Rowntree (@AngieRowntree) founder of sssh.com and producer of Mindbrowse said. “We’re giving porn’s fans and detractors a voice in the discussion too.”

MindBrowse.com posits that men who work as porn performers are far more than just window dressing and pop shots. To delve deeper into this subject, MindBrowse hosted “Men of Porn - A Peek Behind The Curtain,” featuring three top men working in porn today — Ryan Driller, Steven St. Croix and Tyler Knight — in a panel discussion about what it’s actually like to be a stud in adult entertainment. Moderated Dr. Chantelle Timbals WHAT IS MINDBROWSE? MindBrowse is a place where the adult entertainment industry’s ideas go to grow up. Here, various notions are debated, discussed, turned inside out, parsed and reassembled. It’s a place where people talk about issues that affect everyone involved in porn, from the corporate executives who pay for its creation to the men and women who perform in it – and the fans who watch it. Put more prosaically, MindBrowse is a site that hosts live videoconferencing discussions of compelling and challenging topics. For each discussion, we assemble a panel of speakers with diverse backgrounds and opinions encouraging a ranging and balanced discussion of each topic with audience participation via Twitter (#SexTalkTuesday) or on SexTalkTuesday. “Porn has reached a point where it’s just part of the broader cultural landscape now, so this isn’t just a discussion to be had by the industry and its critics” Angie Rowntree (@AngieRowntree) founder of sssh.com and producer of Mindbrowse said. “We’re giving porn’s fans and detractors a voice in the discussion too.”

Professional dominatrix Rebecca Knox and sex educator/sex worker Ava Mir-Ausziehen lead the discussion in the “50 Shades of Reality: Insights from BDSM Pros” event. Knox and Mir-Ausziehen talked about a variety of BDSM-related topics, from the daily realities of the BDSM lifestyle to the positive and negative aspects of the popular “50 Shades of Grey” trilogy. Moderated by Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals. WHAT IS MINDBROWSE MindBrowse is a place where the adult entertainment industry’s ideas go to grow up. Here, various notions are debated, discussed, turned inside out, parsed and reassembled. It’s a place where people talk about issues that affect everyone involved in porn, from the corporate executives who pay for its creation to the men and women who perform in it – and the fans who watch it. Put more prosaically, MindBrowse is a site that hosts live videoconferencing discussions of compelling and challenging topics. For each discussion, we assemble a panel of speakers with diverse backgrounds and opinions encouraging a ranging and balanced discussion of each topic with audience participation via Twitter (#SexTalkTuesday) or on SexTalkTuesday. “Porn has reached a point where it’s just part of the broader cultural landscape now, so this isn’t just a discussion to be had by the industry and its critics” Angie Rowntree (@AngieRowntree) founder of sssh.com and producer of Mindbrowse said. “We’re giving porn’s fans and detractors a voice in the discussion too.”    

The panel for this event consists of adult film directors Jacky St. James and Will Ryder and performers Evan Stone and Casey Calvert, four of the industry’s brightest and wittiest creative minds. What better way to get behind the “porn curtain” than with a fun, lighthearted conversation that gave audience members the opportunity to get answers from people in the know! Moderated by sociologist Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals.  WHAT IS MINDBROWSE? MindBrowse is a place where the adult entertainment industry’s ideas go to grow up. Here, various notions are debated, discussed, turned inside out, parsed and reassembled. It’s a place where people talk about issues that affect everyone involved in porn, from the corporate executives who pay for its creation to the men and women who perform in it – and the fans who watch it. Put more prosaically, MindBrowse is a site that hosts live videoconferencing discussions of compelling and challenging topics. For each discussion, we assemble a panel of speakers with diverse backgrounds and opinions encouraging a ranging and balanced discussion of each topic with audience participation via Twitter (#SexTalkTuesday) or on SexTalkTuesday. “Porn has reached a point where it’s just part of the broader cultural landscape now, so this isn’t just a discussion to be had by the industry and its critics” Angie Rowntree (@AngieRowntree) founder of sssh.com and producer of Mindbrowse said. “We’re giving porn’s fans and detractors a voice in the discussion too.”