The volume includes a range of cinematic shorts adapted from community submissions: When Harri Met Sally Nightmare Desire Rain Goddess A Man of Faith A Love Letter to All Those Men Put Some Lipstick on It The Production Philosophy
is available exclusively on the Erika Lust website (ErikaLust.com) and the XConfessions streaming platform. As of 2023, the volume was also released as a limited-edition digital download with a companion zine featuring architectural blueprints of the film sets. xconfessions vol 34 erika lust films 2023 we work
The protagonists are not airbrushed models. They look like actual consultants: tired eyes, rolled-up sleeves, and the lingering scent of dry-erase markers. The chemistry builds during a whiteboard session. Instead of ripping clothes off immediately, Lust directs a ten-minute prelude of verbal sparring—debating quarterly margins and KPIs—which slowly degrades into whispered insults that turn into desperate kisses. The volume includes a range of cinematic shorts
Their meetings were not only about hunger but also about recognition. In the fluorescent world everyone else accepted, they found a place to acknowledge each other's whole selves: the small, private rituals that no HR policy could catalog—how one hummed absentmindedly when nervous, how the other kept postcards in her drawer from cities she'd never visited. Desire became a way of cataloging the human parts that tasks tend to obscure: curiosity, vulnerability, the ache for being observed and held. It was a tender mutiny against the notion that people are merely functions in a workflow. They look like actual consultants: tired eyes, rolled-up
: A modern take on romantic narrative tropes.
"We Work" is the theme of XConfessions Vol 34, and Erika Lust is at the forefront of this exciting new project. This volume promises to deliver an intimate and behind-the-scenes look at the making of adult content, showcasing the hard work, dedication, and creativity that goes into creating these films.
The erotic core of the scene is not the act of sex itself, but the act of teaching and being seen . In one extended sequence, one partner explains a complex technical process (rendering a model, debugging a script) to the other. The camera lingers on hands pointing at a screen, the brush of shoulders, the shared exhale of a solved problem. Lust suggests that in the post-industrial world, intellectual intimacy has become a powerful aphrodisiac. The “work” they do together is the foreplay; the sex is merely the punctuation.