Interview with Laura Méritt

Interview with Laura Méritt

Dr. Laura Méritt has been an important voice of sex-positive feminism in German-speaking countries for decades. With the Freudenfluss network, she is committed to sexual education, feminist pornography and education beyond patriarchal norms. On the occasion of the PorYes Award 2025, she talks to us about feminism, resistance in regressive times and the joy of diversity in sexuality and art.

PORN IS WORK – AND IT MIRRORS THE SYSTEM THAT SHAPES IT

PORN IS WORK – AND IT MIRRORS THE SYSTEM THAT SHAPES IT

Porn doesn’t exist outside of capitalism, patriarchy, or power. It isn’t a lawless playground that invented misogyny, nor is it a utopian space of sexual liberation. Porn is labor. And like all labor under capitalism, it’s shaped by structures of inequality, such as class, gender, race, and desire.