Throwback Thursday takes us back almost two years – to the sad, premature death of Candida Royalle. ‘The queen of female focused porn’ (as defined by Petra Joy – her good friend) is still relevant today as her legacy of embracing pleasure thrives.
On Monday, Candida Royalle died after a long, painful battle against ovarian cancer.
She was the pioneer of feminist porn. While that medium might not appeal to us all, it’s important to remember women like her.
She portrayed women enjoying sex from a perspective that was completely novel at the time.
She did not concentrate on ‘the money shot’ – instead she showed her female protagonists’ pleasure and eventual satisfaction.
If you have sex now and expect to ‘get off’, if you think of sex as a reciprocal process, if you don’t feel guilty about satisfying yourself, then you have more to thank Candida Royalle for than you know.
Women like her offered people a visual depiction of the possibilities of good sex. That has to have a trickle down effect.
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