Holding a BA in political sciences with a specialization in human rights and feminism, Erika Lust is screenplay writer, director, producer and author of adult entertainment. Her films are characterized by carefully cast actors and high standards of production in adult film. Erika Lust believes pornographic film can be an educational tool besides being pleasurable and can help us better understand our sexuality, to live more freely and naturally. In addition to shooting her own films, Erika is director of an online erotic cinema, where films from other authors of the new wave of explicit films are exhibited; she also maintains a blog and an online store, both focused on the female point of view of sexuality. Her ongoing project XConfessions, the first crowdsourced project in the history of adult cinema. Each month, Erika releases two short films based on the anonymous confessions submitted to her website of the same name. She has already published three compilations of shorts.