I’ve noticed something over the years: when people say porn for women, what they usually mean is “porn that doesn’t make me roll my eyes.“
Sometimes it means female-produced: women directing, producing, and defining the creative choices of an adult movie.
Sometimes it means female-consumed: movies curated to feel safer, less performative, less hostile to women’s pleasure, and more realistic than the average tube-site shagfest.
I’m sure you know the feeling: “Can I get a real orgasm in here?”
In this guide, I’ll be focusing on the latter, but we’ll see that the two types of porn are very much intertwined!
How Female-Friendly Porn Is Shaping The Adult Industry
For many years, the traditional porn formula has been skewed towards male viewership.
It’s a pretty formulaic scenario; men get to be the studs, women are compliant and tend to be givers rather than receivers.
Female performers are usually overtly glamorous with high heels, stockings and flawless – yes, Hollywood looks, even if they are doing the housework!
It’s mostly produced from the male fantasy viewpoint – and for women, the prospect of watching other women faking over-the-top screaming orgasms and writhing for the benefit of men… just isn’t appealing.
This marks one of the key divergent paths of truly “female-friendly porn”.
Yes, fantasy is a big turn on… but reality is also an important factor. Some women may fantasise about getting seduced by a colleague – but their dreams probably don’t feature them wearing fishnet stockings and being slammed on the copier whilst the office cleaner watches from the windows.
Maybe, for some, they do… but even if the fantasy squares up, how it’s produced and filmed rarely aligns.
Female viewers tend to prefer an authentic erotic experience. Instead of leaping straight into pounding action, we want the seduction, the build-up, a juicy slice of a storyline. (I mean, just any story will do!)
To be clear, I don’t use “female-friendly” porn as a moral badge.
When a site earns the label, it is usually doing most of the following:
- First, it centres pleasure… without humiliating the people having it.
- Second, it treats performers like stakeholders in the production.
- Third, it showcases many different types of performers and body types.
Thankfully, over the last decade, we’ve seen the emergence of many excellent platforms that tick these boxes.
What Are The Best Porn Sites For Women?
So, these are the sites that strike a balance well – producing female-friendly porn at scale, and offering it at a purse-friendly price.
Some picks here are straightforward women-led studio platforms (where the production ethos is the big sell).
Others are carefully curated libraries; that just happen to be dominated by customers who are mostly female.
Either way, we might call them the Anti-Pornhubs.
1. Lust Cinema
First up, we have Lust Cinema, the flagship premium platform from the Erika Lust universe… and tbh, if you’re talking about female-friendly porn and you don’t start here, you’re pretty much skipping the blueprint.
Founded by Erika Lust, a Swedish-born, Barcelona-based filmmaker, Lust Cinema sits at the heart of the modern ethical porn movement. Erika has spent the past two decades openly challenging what mainstream porn looks like – who it centres, how it’s shot, and who it’s actually for. She is a feminist icon.
With Lust Cinema, her ambition is cranked all the way up to the nines.
Lust’s feature-length movies are beautifully shot with gorgeous camerawork and a rotating cast of “real people” acting on “real desires”. The big sell here is the pacing, the way that sex scenes hit like an actual climax.
Far from being “just for women“, their erotic content is intelligently produced and eschews those damaging stereotypes of gender and sexuality.
Instead, the focus is on beautifully crafted, cinematic films with high-quality production. Content has engaging and immersive narratives (LGBTQ+ inclusive), devoid of reductive typecasting and with no traces of prioritising male pleasure.
Performers signed to Lust Cinema are equally diverse – the casting ranges from women and men in their late 50s and early 60s, to models in their 20s. You can find all sorts of body types represented here, from stars sporting tattoos and piercings, to plus-sized ladies, muscled men, petite girls and skinny guys.
As well as Erika Lust herself, Lust Cinema also features the work of plenty of talented adult industry directors including: Justin Santos/Joybear, Jacky St James, Holly Randall, Madison Young and Kay Brandt. And it’s all brought to you in a beautiful Netflix-style interface that makes binge-viewing a breeze.
The downside?
It’s not cheap – a premium pass costs $34.95/month; reduced to $11.95/month if you pay annually.
2. XConfessions
XConfessions is another of Erika Lust’s highly successful projects, in which she invites her audience to share their fantasies with her. Each month two are made into erotic short films and released for subscribers to enjoy.
At present there are more than hundreds of titles available (280+) ranging from sex slave auctions (not all the themes are ethical!) and lesbianism, to kinky domination and getting friendly with your neighbours.
Just like with Lust Cinema, the platform is beautifully presented with slick, glossy thumbnails and a Netflix-style UX. If you remember what porn tours looked like in the Nougthies, we’ve come a long way!
XConfessions explicitly frames itself as sex-positive and inclusive, and it states that shoots take place in a safe-sex setting where every aspect is addressed and agreed upon in advance with all the cast members.
So, while you have some pretty deep subject matter, it’s presented artfully by performers who are clearly enjoying themselves – and that counts for a lot.
3. ForPlay Films
Founded by Inka Winter, ForPlay positions itself explicitly as feminist porn… and follows through on that claim with some breathtaking, award-winning features.
The sex here isn’t rushed. Far from it. There’s foreplay. There’s conversation. There’s awkwardness sometimes. And that’s not a flaw… it’s all part of the realistic scene-setting that makes for such an intimate viewing experience.
Inka started the studio with a focus on real-life couples performing scenes that tapped into actual female desires, expressed authentically and without the usual tropes of “traditional” porn.
The latest scenes have a distinctly Arthouse feel – all while tapping fairly blunt subjects – like How to Pleasure A Vagina (with Lina Bembe) or Anal Outdoors (Lola and James).
ForPlay does away with gimmicky setups and goes for hard-hitting encounters where the experience speaks for itself. And to that effect, the movies are beautifully shot.
This is one of the cheaper subscriptions on our list. You can grab the All Access streaming pass for just $9.99/month.
4. Make Love Not Porn
It’s easy to walk into the stereotype that female-produced has to be artsy or slickly produced… but sometimes, the scenes that deliver the goods aren’t professional at all. And Make Love Not Porn gets this.
Cindy Gallop built this popular platform around a blunt observation: most of us learned about sex from porn. And most porn doesn’t resemble how real people actually have sex.
So instead of producing studio scenes, this platform curates real-world sex videos submitted by couples. Not sex tapes, as such, but sex filmed to be enjoyed.
If you like your porn viewing deliciously authentic… then you definitely need to check it out.
There’s no scripted dialogue or performative screaming – just real couples having sex the way they like it.
Each of the videos are curated by the MLNP team to ensure they meet the brand standards, but beyond that, it’s a highly personal exploration of intimacy in the bedroom.
The difference with this site is that you don’t pay a rolling subscription. Instead you buy credits to “rent” each video, with half of the proceeds going to the performer.
5. Joybear
Joybear is an interesting inclusion because it isn’t female-owned… but it is explicitly women-focused.
Founded by Justin Santos back in 2003, this British studio’s stated goal was simple: show sex where women look like they’re actually enjoying themselves. That’s immediately apparent on the homepage with a list of testimonials from performers talking about Joybear as “their favourite production team to work with“.
And for a studio that’s been around that long, it has stayed remarkably consistent over that time. Joybear has swept a number of award nominations over the years, including Best Erotic Site (XBIZ Europa 2025). The content ranges from “Watch Me” voyeurism, to Power Play, Group Sex and Bum Fun.
New episodes are added to their collections on a weekly basis, with a lovely modern site that spotlights the latest features – complete with glossy thumbs and teasing trailers.
You can unlock full access (streaming+downloads) for $19.95/month.
6. I Feel Myself
A site dedicated to female masturbation, the site is artfully put together and features women bringing themselves to orgasm on camera.
Some of the content is amateur, some of it professionally shot in studio quality.
It’s a niche website, somewhat dated compared to our modern studios above, but it covers a good deal of scenarios: fantasy and adventure, plus some (very!) close-up action. Most of the videos are solo, but there are also some twosomes where friends get it on together.
There’s something almost documentary about it. You can see the progression of arousal. The subtle shifts in breathing. The way tension builds and releases. With over 3000 videos on the site, this is like a dedicated shrine to the art of the Big O.
A premium subscription costs $27/month.
7. Ersties
Created in Germany, Ersties’ mission statement is about creating porn featuring all natural girls in all natural situations with no scripts. It started as a messy bedroom experiment with 3 amateurs and 1 camera – but has grown considerably over the last decade to become one of the largest “real orgasms” sources on the web.
The action is 100% authentic with a definite erotic edginess to it.
You might have seen this site advertised heavily if you’ve ever explored RedGIFs – they certainly have an impressive marketing budget!
All of the films are created by women, some of whom are film students and photographers with the result being surprisingly creative and intimate.
There’s a nice mix of original content – from basic intimate moments, to playful “gameshows” and “workshops” where the guests explore their fantasies in front of the cameras. In fact, some of the hottest content on here is actually the Behind The Scenes footage!
A premium subscription costs $35/month.
8. Beautiful Agony
A porn site where there is no nudity?
Yep, Beautiful Agony’s niche is the face during orgasm.
It’s not for everyone, but the content is very unique… and tasteful. Each thumbnail shows a picture of someone’s face captured at the moment of climax but the videos themselves show the full facial build up. It’s surprisingly arousing even without any view of what’s happening below the waist.
No body framing, no thrusting choreography… you’re left with micro-expressions. The thrill here is letting your imagination run wild.
Launched in 2004, the site features both men and women in search of the ultimate high.
You can join for just $8/month – which unlocks access to thousands of HD clips, with new videos added every week.
9. PinkLabel.tv
Next up, PinkLabel isn’t a single studio in the traditional sense. It’s more of a curated archive; a collective.
While the site is mostly known for catering to a queer audience, the content is all independently produced, and therefore diverse – it brings together gay, lesbian and hetero films into a single subscription.
The Feminist Porn Gaze category has dozens of good titles, including some by Erika Lust (see XConfessions above), Petra Joy and Blue Artichoke Productions.
They also have a range of films to view on demand produced by their own studio, Pink & White Productions, which is known for “blurred gender lines and fluid sexualities“.
Popular categories include:
- BDSM: Some Like it Rough
- POC Porn: People of Colour
- Pink Label and Chill: Adult films with a plot
- Porn Verite: Adult Documentaries
- Softcore: Non-explicit films
- Ceci N’est Pas Une Porn: Alternative and experimental
- Edu-Porn: Sexy adult education
- Sexual Sci-fi, Fantasy and Thrillers
A Pink Label subscription costs $29.00/month.
10. Bellesa Plus
Finally, we have Bellesa, which bills itself as the “#1 ethical porn platform“.
Well… there’s some stiff competition in this space, but Bellesa has certainly cracked the code for taking a chunk out of the mainstream market.
Founded in 2017 by Canadian entrepreneur Michelle Shnaidman (who has kept a relatively low public profile compared to the directors we’ve mentioned above), Bellesa didn’t start as a production studio. It launched first as a curated porn site aimed squarely at women.
But Bellesa didn’t stop at curation. It eventually launched Bellesa Films, its in-house studio, to create original content explicitly “by women, for women.”
That move is where the platform really started to define itself, and it has been responsible for some excellent genre-defining content in recent years (Bellesa House, Blind Date). I would say, however, that the platform is definitely more aligned with traditional porn than some of the other choices on our list.
It feels… more porny?!
That said, Bellesa has turned into something of a lifestyle brand over the years – it even launched a sex toy line, complete with obligatory app-controlled vibrators to sync with video content.
This is an ambitious brand that straddles the viewing preferences of both men and women. Good for couples!
Do you have a preferred source of female-friendly porn that didn’t make our cut?
Drop us your favorites and recommendations below. 😊
