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For Barrera and Slusher – the ones staring into their vaginas through a mirror – their discomfort with their pleasure is clearly laid out on the show. Barrera’s comes from her strict religious upbringing in a home where sex wasn’t spoken about and lesbianism wasn’t condoned. Now, pleasure makes her feel shame – so much so that her body tenses up when she is about to be touched. For Slusher, her own anxieties about her body prevent her from being able to get out of her head and enjoy sex. Michaela Boehm and Gwyneth Paltrow in a scene from Sex, Love & Goop. Photograph: Courtesy of NETFLIX/AP

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Erika Lust, who created her own adult film company centered around the female gaze, talks about the many issues of the porn industry, including gender roles and racism. Like Hollywood as a whole, adult films need more diversity, she says: “To disrupt the cycle, more women and people of color have to be introduced at the production level” to create a healthier and more positive perspective in the genre.

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