(train running)
(train station sounds)
(plane noise)
- [Voiceover] Melanie!
Hi!
- Oh my God!
Hello.
- Hi
We have arrived at our apartment, oh my God.
Oh, my God.
- O-M-G. - Let's explore.
- Hannah, it's gorgeous.
Bring the light.
Hahhhh, oh my God!
Can we live here forever!
Kitchen, dining room,
I kind of just,
oh my God, is that a bed?
Ahhhh!
Alright we have gotten ourselves ready,
it is 11pm, and we're about to go out
and get dinner and drinks because,
that's how the Spanish do it.
(laughs)
Woo hoo!
Welcome to the end of the evening.
It's not the end of the evening just yet.
Welcome to part two.
- Don't tell them lies Hannah!
- We have made it to a rooftop bar,
- It's very lovely, very lovely.
- We've got mojitos, cheers. - Mojitos are very strong.
Very strong.
Too strong.
Oh, oh,
oh shit, ha haa!
Seen any ditties?
Come on Hannah, I want you to just describe some ditties.
- Ooh, I can see a lot of lights and houses.
- I thought she was gonna say ditties.
Set alarm for 8am.
(phone talks back)
Oh it's on! - Oh it's on!
It is on Siri!
I love the fact that there are two beds
in this apartment and we're just like no-vees.
(laughing)
- Screw that!
This is the best one,
we're not gonna fight over it,
it's just easier.
- Also we'll just feel weird like,
being like oh goodnight,
here we go - yeah, farewell,
- Bye!
No.
- Have a nice one.
(laughter)
- We have a very busy day tomorrow and,
won't tell you exactly what we're doing right now,
but you'll find out tomorrow,
it's very exciting. - All in good time!
- There are people sleeping in Boston at night Mel.
(laughs) - They don't matter.
- Anyways, goodnight.
See you tomorrow. - Goodnight lovies.
- Good morning!
- Hello!
- Waaaaa!
So, we are doing a very exciting thing today.
Today is the day,
someone is coming to collect us from the apartment,
to take us to set.
- I thought you were gonna say to sex.
- Well!
- Well.
- Speaking of which,
it's an Erotic Film Set.
I'm really excited to kind of find out,
more about what Feminist Porn is.
We're going to see Erika Lust who is,
an Erotic Film Director and Producer.
- I'm really excited to meet her because,
she just seems my kind of lady.
- And action!
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And cut!
- One of the things I've noticed that is
super cool about being on set is that,
most of the crew are women which,
is really refreshing and really cool,
especially in like, the adult film industry.
You know like,
I think it creates a very different, different vibe.
- Yeah, it's very relaxing,
we're like a big family here,
cuz we've worked together here so many times.
- I'm a woman too.
(laughter)
- Yeah, Mel's great!
This is Erika Lust.
- It's me.
- The great.
- I'm here with my cup of tea.
- No, it's not tea, it's iced coffee.
- Oooh! - Oooh!
- So those who don't know,
- Who am I?
- Who are you, what do you do?
- Wow, eh well,
so I'm an Erotic Film Maker you could say.
I do movies based on fantasies by ordinary people.
- Yes.
- Cuz I have this website online.
- I love that concept so much,
the fact that it's based on real peoples,
fantasies and experiences.
- This is Mickey.
- Yeah.
- He's a male performer on today's film.
- Yes, yes I am.
Those are correct than-ki-ng.
(laughter)
- How long have you been doing this?
- Um, let's see I've been working on adult films for,
a little over two years now, yeah.
Been um, yeah, it's been quite awhile.
- What's your favorite thing about it then?
- I think my favorite thing about it is,
like being able to kind of like talk explicitly,
and like openly about sex and like,
you know--
- It's quite liberating actually,
being able to talk about it.
- I, I think this,
you know this environment,
gives people permission to kind of talk about,
you know things that they're into you know I've,
you know you have a conversation with like,
the people you're in scenes with like,
what do you really like,
what gets you off and--
- And like validate that as well.
- Yeah, yeah.
And you get to know that like you know,
like that encounter is like,
you know, going to be good,
because you've like,
kinda talked about it and discussed it,
you know what someone likes,
that a lot of people, even in relationships,
don't even know.
- So you see the water,
and then you kind of clean out the water,
and then you get down to your kiss,
and there we start.
So you would take that and then,
you would blindfold her.
- Do you want me to blindfold her from the front,
or from the back?
- I think I would do it that way right?
From the back.
I'm screaming.
Owwww!
(laughter)
- And I can lay down,
and she can get on top of me.
- Yeah, yeah, that could be nice.
- That can work.
Your good?
- [Voiceover] For the camera, if we have many--
- [Voiceover] Perfect.
- Not too mad.
- It's so lovely, cuz Erika asked Maria like,
what do you like?
Like, what positions do you like?
- [Voiceover] Yeah.
- And I love that.
- [Voiceover] Yeah, I was seeing her,
I saw her like showing a way that she'd like to do it,
and I was like yes!
- I just think that's really cool cuz then it's like,
actually like taking care of the performance,
and their pleasure.
- We should talk about what,
how did you feel about it?
- I loved it.
- Yeah?
- It was so cool,
we sat where the sex happened.
- It was here.
- It was happening right here.
(laughter)
- I was over there with my mouth opened, she--
- She was like--
- I loved what you said about that it's not porn, it's sex.
That was really nice, cuz it was, it was really gentle.
He kept making sure that she was like enjoying it
and okay and stuff.
- Yeah, it was so cool seeing you like,
direct that scene,
but also like not direct it.
Because you like,
kinda said to them before you start it's like,
this is kind of what's gonna happen.
So then as soon as you called action, that was it.
They're like, left to their own devices.
- Yes, you know because it is really sexy,
it's really happening so,
what I can't do is,
getting in there and disturbing them all the time,
and saying hey I need you to do this and this,
because then they will lose concentration.
- And the pace was so nice as well like
it just sticks out like,
the real pacing of like a real sex session.
(laughter)
It was a session!
- I think that's one of the biggest problems with porn,
it feels so fake.
- Yeah. I think when,
towards the end when you said to the other performers,
you said make her scream.
Rather than telling her to scream.
It was like, come on like,
show us, show us what you've got.
(laughter)
So it was like her real pleasure.
- It's your job to make her scream, yeah!
- It was so nice because you weren't just
telling her to like, put it on,
you were actually wanting them to make her do it for real,
and I really liked that.
- What would you say are like the main differences
between the films that you make and main stream porn?
- Well eh, it's like all of it.
There's so many differences.
I mean I,
first of all I make films.
That's a huge difference because most
of the main stream porn out there,
is just video scenes of sex.
- Yeah.
- So we make, in ex-el-fa-ci-us,
we make short films.
So it's always a narrative,
there's always a story,
there's a complex characters.
You understand who they are,
why they are in to each other,
or the situation they're in.
We film you know,
with an Arri Alexa camera.
- It looks stunning.
- Oh yeah.
- The footage looked amazing, yeah.
- With people who have you know,
education, who have,
went to film school,
who knows how to make it look good.
- Yeah.
- So that's very important.
And then of course, it's the sex.
I think that the sex really is different,
because I feel that it's a lot more intimate,
and it's more like people are having sex,
and less like porn stars are having sex.
- Was it important for you to have like,
a majority female crew?
- Yes, it's very important to me,
it's one of the things that I'm really, really pushing for,
because I have worked with men behind the camera before,
obviously there's a lot of men
who are a camera your-a-a-fers.
What happened, what I felt I had,
I mean some of them have obviously been good or so,
it's not that all men are you know,
just in there to, to portray the women,
but I do feel that they do,
men, behind the camera,
they do focus a lot more on the female body,
on the woman, and not as much on the man.
And me, as a female--
- So it's like voyeuristic, yeah.
- Exactly.
And me as a female viewer,
I want to see the man also.
Because he's sexy to me.
I'm interested in him and his expressions,
and what's happening and what he's doing.
- And you want to experience it through her,
almost as well.
- And then it always end in like, a cum shot.
- Cum shot yeah, it's like get the cum shot like,
- And today there were no cum shots--
- No cum shot today!
- Yeah, what happened?
- I know!
- She got--
But I also loved that,
because sex isn't a means to an end.
- But because it was not part of the story.
You know, it wasn't part of the story,
this was about her pleasure so,
I don't need him to cum.
So I told him already in the morning you know I'm like,
Okay, so today it's not really about your pleasure,
it's about her pleasure.
If you feel that you have a strong moment,
I really would like to do it.
Okay, go ahead, it's not like I'm prohibiting
you to do it.
But if you feel that it doesn't come that way,
and it goes with the story,
then just focus on her.
One of the important things with having a female crew,
it's to give women the voice,
to make films because there's not
so many women making film out there.
And sometimes you just have to,
forget about your fears,
and do it that way.
I'm also afraid.
I'm also nervous.
You know, every time this night,
before this shooting,
I've slept super bad.
Waking up like every hour.
- You did a great job!
- Thank you!
No, but it's about facing your fears.
That's what we need to do.
If we want to do more, we need to face our fears.
- Yeah, definitely.
- Do it!
Face your fears!
Make a film!
(laughter)
- Thank you so much!
- Yes, thank you.
- That was so good.
- It's been lovely having you here.
- Thank you.
- I'm so glad we got to do this.
- I know!
Make sure you check out xconfessions.
I'll leave the link to the website in the description.
- Wow.
- Good, good.
- See you online.
(laughter)
- So today was pretty epic.
- Oh my God, it was so epic.
- It was so good.
- We're both in this kind of coming down.
- Yeah, we're a bit exhausted,
but we've managed to get home,
do some work, change.
- It was so intense, I can't stop thinking about it.
- Oh I know.
- Literally can't.
Can't get off the brain.
We've just got to be flies on the wall,
where people shagged, it was really lovely.
- We have made it to this absolutely beautiful,
little square plass thing,
and we're gonna eat in here.
La Cazane, which is Catalan for the fifteen nights,
and it was recommended by a friend so,
this better be good.
- And Sangria.
- Sangria and Tapas ahhh!
Also the lighting here is really good.
- I know.
(laughing)
- I'm excited Hannah.
I've grabbed my boobs.
- So, the meal was great.
We approve the recommendation--
- This is an amazing recommendation.
- The same friend also recommended
this Jazz club called Jamboree,
which is like across the square.
We are currently in the bathroom of Jamboree,
- The Durn-a-wee.
- Durn-a-wee, that's not right now, just did it.
- We're done.
- So we go in,
and it's super busy,
there's like this live Jazz band.
Then we come upstairs,
and it's this room playing music that we know,
and no one is in it.
- Dead.
Dead as the Joe-Joe.
And we livened it up a little bit.
- Just hit us so,
we're kind of like not (mumbles) says,
and experience more of the Jazz,
until it gets popular up here.
Okay, we made it.
We did so much dancing, it was so fun.
The dance floor that was empty,
filled up obviously and,
it was so much fun.
- We owned it though.
- We did, we--
- That floor though, was ours though.
- It was ours!
Goodnight!
- Yeah, farewell.
- Are you ready.
- I'm ready.
- Good morning!
- Hello!
- We're heading out to get brunch,
and then we're gonna do a walking tour in Barcelona,
just to see the sights.
- And then the beach!
- And then we're gonna just hang out at the beach!
It's our last day here,
and we just have it to ourselves to do whatever we want.
- I just wanna flop. Hence why,
we've started it at mid day.
Let's do this.
Let's go.
(light rhythmic music)
We just did a bit of culture,
and went to the Picasso Museum.
Wasn't it great Mel?
- I loved it. I--
- I couldn't take any videos or photos in there though--
- I loved all the vagina drawings.
- There were so many vaginas.
- And nipple drawings and penis drawings.
(laughing)
They were amazing though.
- In his old age.
Picasso was a massive perv.
We made it to the beach.
The real question is,
do we go in the water?
Do we go in the water Mel?
- I can't swim, say no.
- Oh, she can't swim?
Yeah, Melanie can't swim.
See you in the water maybe
Probably not.
- Yeah, spank it.
Shake that ass at me.
Look at her.
She's so cute.
Oh!
Fully submerge bitch.
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(rock music)
- Run.
Do James Bond.
Do slow mo, yeah.
(laughter)
- Oooh!
- Yeah!
- I love it!
- Ah, oh my God!
- Yes!
- I've not been able to officially check yet but,
some of you guys have been tweeting me,
that I've hit 200,000 subscribers.
- Ahhh, so wanna be you!
- Currently wet from the beach,
wet in the seat and we're--
- It was beautiful!
- It was so good.
And we're heading back to our apartment.
And we're just gonna watch--
- Leave a comment congratulating her on 200k,
that's amazing!
- I'm so excited.
And what are we gonna do to celebrate Melanie?
- Watch Game of Thrones and go to sleep!
- Yaaay! - Yaaay!
- But seriously, thank you guys so, so, so, so much.
I kind of, in my head,
I um said to myself that I wanted to hit 200k
before going to VidCon,
so like, it happened.
Good morning!
We totally forgot to vlog last night,
but we kinda did what we said we'd do,
we watched Game of Thrones.
But we didn't get an early night.
- We didn't.
But we got so excited like, at the start of it so,
we both are screaming,
cuz we normally don't watch it with like
(mumbles) and stuff, it was an experience.
- I normally watch all-mi-end.
I hope you enjoyed this little Barcelona vlog,
and the stuff with Erika Lust.
Make sure you give the video a thumbs up,
if you enjoyed it and,
would love to hear your thoughts in the comments,
all about what you think of the Erotic Film Industry,
and Feminist Porn and all of that jazz.
Don't forget to subscribe,
cuz I'm making new videos every week and,
I'll see you guys soon!
Bye!
And thanks Mel.
That's all.
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Bye!
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