"For Lola Jean, sex educator and mental health professional, ethical porn means porn that tries to incorporate better production practices. Ethical porn creators will try to honor performers' boundaries, give them time to physically and emotionally prepare before filming, and hire producers and writers who are more intentional and content-driven.

According to Ayesha Hussain, a sex and porn coach, porn activist, and founder of The Violet, ethical porn is made in a sex-positive way with conscious business practices. This can mean nixing harmful racial and gender stereotypes, casting a wider ranger of performers, showing consent on screen, as well as pleasure for all. But it can also look like ensuring safe working conditions, giving performers more agency in who they work with, and fair pay for performers.

Danielle Blunt, Femdom Dominatrix, independent porn producer, and tech and sex consultant agrees with Jean, noting the importance of being an intentional porn viewer. "All labor under capitalism is vulnerable to exploitation," Blunt tells Bustle. "But we can do our best to be ethical consumers."

For Blunt, being an ethical porn consumer means paying for your porn, tipping your favorite performers, and working to decriminalize sex work. "It also means funding robust sex education that talks about consent, harm reduction, and queer sex," Blunt says. "Porn is not meant to be a replacement for sex-ed."