Some women enjoy the portrayals of women in porn, but many others do not. Especially for women who have sex with women in real life, sometimes the porno version of sex can seem pretty artificial.

Forget about the barely-there plot concepts for most porn video— no one really needs too much of a story anyway. For many women (and feminist-conscious men, for that matter), the interactions just don’t ring true. Women seem rather artificial and tailored to porn images of what a sexy woman should be, silicone tits and all. Some women who endeavor to make lesbian and bisexual porn of their own have found a niche that is sexy and shows some essential truths about women and their erotic lives.

First of all, women of varying shapes and sizes may be portrayed. Abandoning the bleach blonde bimbo image or the overly skinny with big boobs look, Women-for-Women who make their own porn might like a woman with a little more booty. They may enjoy seeing women of different, non-stereotyped cultural backgrounds getting into it. Exceptionally important is the portrayal of different genders. The gender normative look and behavior for women is far from all that’s really out there. In W4W porn, you could find a femme topping a soft butch, two BBW with short hair getting it on, a butch-femme coupling, an all-female orgy, or even a femme-on-femme scene, but one where the women look and act like real people.

Women who should video do it for a reason – to add voices and erotic images to the canon that better reflects them. They presumably want to produce erotica that turns them on. In that quest, showing scenes that are genuinely hot is an important part of the enterprises. The level of arousal in the women is usually palpable. Sounds of sex, the way bodies react to touch, the portrayal of cunnilingus all look and feel like those women want to be with each other, producing happy, powerful orgasms together. There is pussy licking and sex toys, used in a way that as the vibrator enters the well-lubed pussy, it is obvious that is feels good. Sounds of approval are resonant and abundant. Women who do women know how to show it to the rest of us.