By Rachel Sanoff for BUSTLE. Originally published on July 9th, 2015.
Make Love Not Porn recently released an edition entitled MakeColin/GrayLoveNotPorn to provide even more videos produced by the humorous couple. Besides the obvious love and passion shared by Colin/Gray, here are seven more reasons to check out their work:
1. Their Videos Have A Mission To Promote Healthy Relationships, Consent, Communication, And Role Equality
While Colin/Gray’s videos are clearly fun explorations into pleasure and sexuality, as Sarah Beall (MLNP’S Madam Curator) writes, “they’ve… never lost sight of showcasing non-performative #realworldsex in all its messy, funny, unscripted glory.” Colin/Gray recognize that portraying their sex lives in an honest, consensual, creative, and #realworld way can have a greater impact than just entertainment. They write that producing MLNP videos creates a “platform for us to work together on, talk about and show what we believe is important in relationships (communication, consent, together time, alone time, and humor).”
They actively challenge tired, mainstream porn tropes like ridiculous plots, graphic ejaculation scenes (or “money shots”), and sexualized represntations of gender inequality. Gray writes, “I am on top as much as Colin is and same goes with oral sex. In our public and private lives we want it to be apparent that we have a healthy, consensual relationship.”
2. Their Sexuality Includes All Of the Complex, Weird, Humorous, Unique Parts Of Their Personalities
Colin/Gray celebrate that sex can be funny, and a shared sense of humor often makes sex a lot more fun. Humor motivates a lot of their video plots, and they are planning a mini-series called Sex Work, which is “about our many day jobs and fantasies we can have at them to make them more interesting.”
Head over to BUSTLE to read the original article and check out all of Colin/Gray’s videos to see what all the buzz is about!
