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Rachel is a 41-year-old doctor in Bergen County, New Jersey. She has a strong, loving marriage to a fellow MD, two boisterous youngsters under seven, and one methodology that she makes use of to keep sane:
Prestige porn.
Specifically, the sort of intellectual erotica with the same express content as a softcore video, but made by award-winning filmmakers and novelists, and starring Oscar-winning actors instead of OnlyFans ladies.
“It’s become like my therapy,” said the household drugs specialist, who performs XXX-rated audiobooks like “Helpless” by Jessica Knoll and “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas when she’s driving alone in her household SUV, and watches films like “Baby Girl” and exhibits like “Industry” on her iPhone while doing laundry.
Olivia Colman in a scene from “Wicker.” YouTube
In another technology, Rachel would doubtless need to keep her sex-positive programming under wraps. Not today.
“My group chat is full of moms who trade [sex content] recommendations,” Rachel told The Post. “It feels like you’re watching any other good movie… just with bondage.”
Rachel and her associates are reaping the rewards of prestige porn, a new style where 40+ ladies are centered in intellectual erotica about inappropriate dominance and want — in films, in books and at upscale fashion and magnificence boutiques.
Think “Fifty Shades” for ladies who have a mortgage, a profession and no endurance for pretend baggage… or pretend orgasms.
The period of prestige porn means Oscar winners like Nicole Kidman, 59, and Olivia Colman, 52, can have interaction in once-unthinkable graphic acts for au courant film studios like A24.
Jessica Knoll, who has made tens of millions writing crime thrillers, is now a Gen X Anais Nin writing about unspeakable — but delightfully readable — sex acts in her bestselling new e book “Helpless.”
Meanwhile, Bloomingdale’s now sells $108 “arouse stimulating serum” alongside its Louis Vuitton purses; at Revolve, there are anal beads and Isabel Marant. And the $60 erotica app Quinn tells bedtime tales spicier than Blue Ribbon’s wasabi, read by Emmy nominee (and Dior darling) Andrew Scott.
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in “Babygirl.” Courtesy Everett Collection
The latest entry into these clever new movies got here this weekend: “Wicker,” an “absurdist romantic comedy” starring Colman as a annoyed spinster and Alexander Skarsgård as a man made of straw who offers her a roll in the hay.
When its steamy trailer debuted in July, it went so viral that docs had to warn people against pleasuring themselves with “trees or shrubs.”
The film opens nationwide on Oct. 30, but advance screenings for the show — including a number of with “vibrating and motion seats” — bought out across the nation.
Reddit experiences say the theaters are full of older ladies. In Florida’s Palm Beach Gardens, The Post noticed an whole screening room full of feminine retirees.
“Very enjoyable,” said one 74-year-old lady named Joyce after the film, under the condition that she withhold her last title. “My kids read your paper.”
Why is our period so ripe for prestige porn?
A rose-shaped vibrator at Fleur du Mal. Courtesy Fleur Du Mal
“People are totally disconnected from their bodies right now,” said Brianna Makówka, MSEd, LMHC, CST, a licensed sex therapist who specializes in kink therapy. She told The Post that between social media, relationship apps and distant work, “we’re living in screens so often that our bodies are reminding us how important they are to our full being.”
Prestige porn, she argues, is letting us body sex as not just fascinating but luxurious, which provides people — particularly ladies — permission to have interaction in it more brazenly.
“This new wave of luxury sex products and more artful erotic content is letting more people engage with sex, and pushing us to ask, ‘What is the type of sex worth having?’”
Putting kink in a luxury setting, she said, lets people explore inappropriate want without stigma. “It’s giving a lot of people permission to get curious about asking, ‘What is it that I want from sex?’” she explained.
Maude creator Éva Goicochea with business associate Dakota Johnson, who starred in “50 Shades of Grey.” Courtesy Maude
Theater director Rob Ashford thinks his new Off-Broadway show, “Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen,” is a hit because it depicts themes like inappropriate position play and bondage with “curiosity instead of judgement” — and with an eye toward the eerier results of Ozempic
“We’re so obsessed with body control and weight. We have GLP1s. We have a doctor that can make anything bigger or smaller. But the corsets in our show, they give our characters this instant gratification, no shot, no scalpel. There’s a pleasure in that, especially for Gen X women who have been told their whole lives that their bodies are not enough.”
NYC designer Jennifer Zuccarini runs the upscale lingerie model Fleur du Mal, which has designed peek-a-boo items for Taylor Swift and Zendaya. (She is also the creator of the viral $128 Knicks All-Star bra in blue satin and orange lace.)
Designer Jennifer Zuccarini of Fleur du Mal. Courtesy Fleur Du Mal
Zuccarini says her three New York boutiques — in Nolita, the Upper East Side, and Williamsburg — are routinely “crowded” with older ladies coming straight from luxury shops like Chanel and Dior who are looking for “the same type of designer experience in the bedroom.”
“intimacy is such a luxury right now because we’re on devices constantly,” she told The Post. “We’re disconnected. We say ‘touch grass’ but there’s also touching someone else. When you have that feeling with somebody, there’s no better drug out there.”
Zuccarini said it’s common for customers to go to her store asking for a simple bra or lace panty, but depart with a pair of $300 leather-based handcuffs. “Luxury helps legitimize inappropriate taste and preferences,” she explained.
Prestige porn even comes with its own luxury lube, as created by Éva Goicochea for her inappropriate wellness line Maude. Goicochea thinks that sex is “the final frontier” for grownup ladies who have already conquered the boardroom, constructed dream wardrobes, and often had households — but not with whole satisfaction in mattress.
“Elevated design gives people permission to view sex as something they should feel good about wanting and exploring,” said Goicochea, who counts the Hollywood bombshell Dakota Johnson as a business associate.
Maude was one of Sephora’s first-ever inappropriate wellness manufacturers; today it sells lube and vibrators at Ulta Beauty next to Naomi Watt’s inappropriate wellness line, Stripes, which was created particularly for post-menopausal libidos.
Sophia Anne Caruso in “Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen.” Andy Henderson
Gwyneth Paltrow, 54, sells her own lubrication — called “intimacy Oil” — through her Goop wellness empire for $55.
“Buying an intimate oil or a sex toy should be as mundane and shame-free as buying a face cream,” Goop’s editorial director, Kylie Gilbert, told The Post, including that frank chats on inappropriate pleasure have been half of “Gwyneth’s vision of Goop from day one.” She notes that the Goop lube is a longtime bestseller.
Perhaps the big hook for prestige porn is that it refuses to call itself porn at all. In press interviews for “Wicker,” both Colman and Skarsgård are cautious to call the film a “romance” despite its express content.
“Industry” is described by HBO as a “gripping and provocative” drama despite its penchant for strap-ons and fellatio scenes. And the Nicole Kidman hit “Babygirl” options the Oscar winner on all fours, pretending to be a canine, licking sweet out of her 20-something intern’s hand before getting thrashed in mattress.
Courtesy Maude
Makówka, the sex therapist, says all this is fairly great.
“A lot of people might have a curiosity of a power exchange dynamic —a dominant and submissive relationship that’s about leadership and surrender,” she said.
“Films like these are giving a lot of people permission to get curious about asking, ‘What is it that I want? What have I not been seeking? Maybe it’s okay to seek this out.’ That is healthier, psychologically, for everyone. It makes people happier and more connected.”
Tech devices don’t do that, says Makówka.
“Good sex does.”
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