"I am all for criticizing the sexism in the mainstream porn industry," Pandora Blake, feminist pornographer and sexual freedom campaigner told Sputnik.
"But feminist pornography has been sexually empowering women for over 40 years."
According to London newspaper The Times, Susan Sarandon also admitted during Cannes Film Festival in France that she wanted to turn her talents towards directing porn movies.
"I have threatened in my eighties to direct porn," Sarandon Sarandon told reporters. However she admitted not watching enough "to know what the problems are."
"So I've been saying that when I no longer want to act, I want to do that," Sarandon said, who also thinks that the industry would benefit from a more female input as women directors make on-screen sex more interesting.
However, Pandora Blake believes that Susan Sarandon's statements, "just paint all of pornography with the same brush, which is unfair to the individuals already working in the industry.
"Feminist porn started back in the 60s. Right now in Hollywood, only eight percent of movies makers are women – but in the pornographic movie industry, it's more like 50 percent," Pandora Blake told Sputnik.
"We have journals full of studies in which the theory is manifested in porn.
"It is an arena where women can be much more empowered. At the moment, porn has a better representation of female directors than mainstream entertainment media."
However Erika Lust, who directs pornographic movies in Spain told Sputnik that the industry does need a shake-up.
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"Most people working in the porn industry are the same kind of people doing the same kind of things for the same kind of audience."
"It's middle-aged, white, heterosexual men with the same type of fantasy," Erika Lust told Sputnik.
"When it comes to erotica and sexuality it has to be more diverse and that diversity is much needed right now."
Lust told Sputnik that her approach to directing movies is to make sure everyone working on set — from actors to crew — are all happy with what they are doing.
"I want them to feel good about what they’re doing and feel that they are well treated and having fun – and doing something that we can be proud of."
If Susan Sarandon does "do her research" as suggested, "there are lots of female movies makers wanting to produce what she wants to see," Pandora Blake told Sputnik.
But the industry will have to wait; Sarandon is 69 and if she's serious, her debut directing pornography won't be for another decade, giving her plenty of time to "do her research."
