What I would hope is for them to see that sex is something that probably will accompany them during all their lives, and to stop obsessing so much on that it's only something for young people. I'm not going to send my daughters to a bar without talking to them about alcohol and drugs and the risk of leaving your glass somewhere, but we tend to leave children with access to the Internet without talking to them about what that involves. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. ERIKA LUST: I find them to be two interesting people with a lot to say, and we have a lot to learn from their relationship. True to form, about 12 minutes in, Annie Campbell, 71, and John Campbell, 72, are both naked, their arms and legs wrapped around each other.

I had also wanted to shoot an older couple for years, but there are not many active people in pornography over the age of 35. People Annie and John's age are having plenty of sex — an October 2017 study by the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging reported that more than half (54 percent) of adults between 65 and 80 agreed that sex is important to their overall quality of life — but you wouldn’t know it. ALLURE: Back to John and Annie: You wanted to make a film with an older couple because you felt that they're often left out of the sex conversation, but also because your audience requested it, right? The first frame of indie-porn director Erika Lust's new sex documentary, Soulsex, shows two clasped hands; one is amply freckled, and the other appears soft and delicate. When you truly focus mindfully on your own sensations, you're nurturing yourself, but, in a sense, that means you're nurturing your partner.I wanted to show that sex can be absolutely beautiful and wonderful and sexy even with older bodies. This is one of the problems that we need to talk about, because in all other aspects of life, we don't let that happen. We don't have as many black performers as you have here in the United States, and it's still expensive for us to fly people here for a shoot. Trans people want to be included, too, but I think that they are better at representing what they want to see than I am.

They now teach courses like the Art and Science of Loving Relationships, and they have sex every day.ALLURE: I think of porn as a film showing explicit sex with the intention of titillating the viewer. People need to start thinking a little more about this whole concept of slow sex, "soul sex" — mindfulness in your sexual experience. But, in our society, porn has all of these bad connotations; most of us, when we close our eyes and think about porn, we see boobs and ass and the tube sites. If you know how Lust's sex docs work, then you know that after the interview portion of this piece, we're going to see this couple have sex.

There's no series that really showcases that when you have that age and experience, there's a tremendous amount of sexual power and sensuality that come with it," says Bree Mills, who runs Gamma Film, one of the largest and most active porn production companies in Los Angeles. If we make it to 100, we'll still be making love," Annie tells me via Skype from the Canary Islands home she shares with John. ALLURE: We’re living longer lives than ever before, so watching John and Annie gives me hope that my sex life will be long, too. Go to Redtube or Pornhub and you will see things like "tiny teens getting destroyed,""nailing my pervy sis," and "slutty Latinas. Porn has somehow gotten the right to exist in this space where free speech is so open that we are letting it get into racism and misogynistic language.It’s a powerful approach, especially in this world we live in, where everything is so fast and furious. But no — later on in life, you can have other experiences with new people and evolve, sexually and as human beings. At some hours, in some countries, the traffic driven toward pornography sites makes up one-third of Internet usage. Video: Couple in their 70s make adult film to showcase senior sex 'Soulsex with John and Annie' is adult fimmaker Erika Lust's first mature film - she hopes to show that intimacy doesn't end just because you age. ALLURE: In the past 10 years, mainstream pornography has lost the beauty of filmmaking and eroticism.