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. 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 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. At some hours, in some countries, the traffic driven toward pornography sites makes up one-third of Internet usage. We have this prejudice, as always, about porn stars: We see them as promiscuous, strange creatures who are into orgies and sex parties.

ALLURE: I think of porn as a film showing explicit sex with the intention of titillating the viewer. So many of us have these anxieties about our bodies, and I think watching people onscreen who are strong in their sexuality and personality can help us find more confidence. 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.

ALLURE: In the past 10 years, mainstream pornography has lost the beauty of filmmaking and eroticism. People need to start thinking a little more about this whole concept of slow sex, "soul sex" — mindfulness in your sexual experience. 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. Go to Redtube or Pornhub and you will see things like "tiny teens getting destroyed,""nailing my pervy sis," and "slutty Latinas. 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.

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. 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. They give me critical feedback and they tell me what kinds of films they want to see, and one of the requests I get a lot is more films with older bodies. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Television sex scenes tend to feature teenagers and twentysomethings — an exception being Grace and Frankie, a show that broke ground by focusing on the dating lives of two single women in their 70s — and pornography is similarly youth-obsessed.Trans people want to be included, too, but I think that they are better at representing what they want to see than I am. It’s a powerful approach, especially in this world we live in, where everything is so fast and furious. I wanted to show that sex can be absolutely beautiful and wonderful and sexy even with older bodies. 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. The idea is that these documentaries will show you different ideas around sex, because I think that people — we have so many questions.

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. 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. I had climaxes and multiple climaxes and all those things with conventional sex, but this is so different,” says Annie, who started the practice just over a few years ago.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. 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. 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.