Porn site xHamster is fundraising for female adult filmmakers (The Daily Dot)

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What do women want? Porn that’s made by them, for them.

As one of the fastest growing categories in adult film, porn for women is something the industry can no longer ignore. Adult website xHamster, known for its political and pop culture stunts, is looking to close the so-called “orgasm gap” by creating a $25,000 fund to help amateur and established female filmmakers expand its website’s “Porn for Women” content.

“We decided to launch the xHamster for Women Fund after noticing that our audience was more than one-fourth women, but there was very little content made specifically for them, and that many websites and communities are outright hostile to women,” xHamster vice president Alex Hawkins told the Daily Dot in an email. “So while women are growing as an audience, they don’t always purchase because there’s very little for them and they are treated with disrespect. It’s circular. Since there are little made for women, women don’t buy, and companies assume women just don’t like porn, and neglect the audience altogether.”