A former Catholic school student says she feels “empowered” working for an all-female porn production company - after never getting any sex education.
Cat Gately, 30, says she had to rely on her mum to “fill in the blanks” growing up, which inspired her to become a remote sex educator herself.
She taught for free on social media and Zoom before she saw a social media marketer vacancy for Ersties - a small, woman-led porn production company - and decided to go for it.
Cat says their films show “beautiful, magical sex” - they include chats about consent and boundaries, as well as “woman-dominated BDSM and anal”.
Cat, from Berlin, Germany, even claims they "turn men into better loves" and said: “I love working for an ethical, female-led porn company - it’s my mission in life to empower everybody.
“I watch and listen to the acts going on in the shoots and I just think - ‘these are things everybody could learn from'.
“In school, I just didn’t get anything. But I was curious about female pleasure, so I had to learn about it myself.”
Cat went to a Catholic school between 2004 and 2011.
Despite having a natural curiosity about sex and what happens - her sex education was “non-existent,” and she had to ask her mum for information instead.
Once she was taught about “condoms, penetration and pleasure” - she started feeding it back to her friends, who found it disgusting at first.
But eventually, she became the safe sex advocate for her friendship group, giving them advice for their first times having sex, as well as masturbating.
Cat said: “I got a lot from my mum - we can’t really rely on schools.
“I got my friends talking about masturbation and what it would be like to lose our virginities and what would happen if the guys don’t put the condom on correctly.
“My friends could be wild - I was definitely the sensible one!”
Cat began making sex education videos for Instagram and teaching masturbation classes for free on Zoom in March 2020.
She kept at it for a year and a half before spotting the vacancy for Ersties on Facebook.
Despite not having any experience in marketing, Cat applied - and her knowledge of sex made her the perfect match for the job.
She said: “At the end of 2021, I saw a job on Facebook for a marketer at Ersties. I wasn’t that knowledgeable about marketing, but I applied anyway.
“They’re not a huge company - and I had a lot of the right skillset for what they were looking for. I knew there would be lots of room to grow and develop.”
Cat quickly learnt the aim of Ersties was to create amateur porn with ‘natural’ bodies of all shapes and sizes.
The act in the video often centres around what the models want to do - then a vague script is drawn up.
Occasionally a crew member will tell a cast member where to face, and how to position themselves - but Cat says it’s mainly a “hands-off” approach.
She added: “If you’re exploring your sexuality, you want to feel as safe as possible.
“There’s something really beautiful in basing a shoot around what a model wants to do. There’s a script, some framework - we might ask a model to ‘please face this way’, but we try not to disturb the action if we can.
“You get a slightly different type of porn when you’ve got crew members saying things like ‘put this hand there,’ ‘suck that’ or whatever.”
Despite remaining ethical and woman-led, Cat says this hasn’t ruled out the “kinkier” side of things - with their fetish and BDSM content becoming their most-viewed.
She said: “There’s a misconception that BDSM and kinkier stuff can’t be done in this kind of environment.
“Our models are generally quite natural - girl-next-door types. But we still have our Fetish Month, anal shoots - it’s realistic for sex to be diverse.
“With so much male emphasis on BDSM, it’s exciting when we do a shoot when the woman expresses openly that she wants to be dominated.
“We’ve worked with a dominatrix who wanted to dominate two women - her style was very caring, it was a very different side to BDSM.”
Cat says they also include conversations about consent, likes and dislikes in each video - and this approach has even given the crew members an education.
She said: “We love hearing ‘no’ - we’re always reminding our performers to say it.
“If our models are happy - it creates better porn for us. It’s just business sense.
“Listening to the consent conversations is really empowering - you get to hear people staying in tune with their likes and dislikes - these are things we could all learn from.”
Cat Gately, 30, says she had to rely on her mum to “fill in the blanks” growing up, which inspired her to become a remote sex educator herself.
She taught for free on social media and Zoom before she saw a social media marketer vacancy for Ersties - a small, woman-led porn production company - and decided to go for it.
Cat says their films show “beautiful, magical sex” - they include chats about consent and boundaries, as well as “woman-dominated BDSM and anal”.
Cat, from Berlin, Germany, even claims they "turn men into better loves" and said: “I love working for an ethical, female-led porn company - it’s my mission in life to empower everybody.
“I watch and listen to the acts going on in the shoots and I just think - ‘these are things everybody could learn from'.
“In school, I just didn’t get anything. But I was curious about female pleasure, so I had to learn about it myself.”
Cat went to a Catholic school between 2004 and 2011.
Despite having a natural curiosity about sex and what happens - her sex education was “non-existent,” and she had to ask her mum for information instead.
Once she was taught about “condoms, penetration and pleasure” - she started feeding it back to her friends, who found it disgusting at first.
But eventually, she became the safe sex advocate for her friendship group, giving them advice for their first times having sex, as well as masturbating.
Cat said: “I got a lot from my mum - we can’t really rely on schools.
“I got my friends talking about masturbation and what it would be like to lose our virginities and what would happen if the guys don’t put the condom on correctly.
“My friends could be wild - I was definitely the sensible one!”
Cat began making sex education videos for Instagram and teaching masturbation classes for free on Zoom in March 2020.
She kept at it for a year and a half before spotting the vacancy for Ersties on Facebook.
Despite not having any experience in marketing, Cat applied - and her knowledge of sex made her the perfect match for the job.
She said: “At the end of 2021, I saw a job on Facebook for a marketer at Ersties. I wasn’t that knowledgeable about marketing, but I applied anyway.
“They’re not a huge company - and I had a lot of the right skillset for what they were looking for. I knew there would be lots of room to grow and develop.”
Cat quickly learnt the aim of Ersties was to create amateur porn with ‘natural’ bodies of all shapes and sizes.
The act in the video often centres around what the models want to do - then a vague script is drawn up.
Occasionally a crew member will tell a cast member where to face, and how to position themselves - but Cat says it’s mainly a “hands-off” approach.
She added: “If you’re exploring your sexuality, you want to feel as safe as possible.
“There’s something really beautiful in basing a shoot around what a model wants to do. There’s a script, some framework - we might ask a model to ‘please face this way’, but we try not to disturb the action if we can.
“You get a slightly different type of porn when you’ve got crew members saying things like ‘put this hand there,’ ‘suck that’ or whatever.”
Despite remaining ethical and woman-led, Cat says this hasn’t ruled out the “kinkier” side of things - with their fetish and BDSM content becoming their most-viewed.
She said: “There’s a misconception that BDSM and kinkier stuff can’t be done in this kind of environment.
“Our models are generally quite natural - girl-next-door types. But we still have our Fetish Month, anal shoots - it’s realistic for sex to be diverse.
“With so much male emphasis on BDSM, it’s exciting when we do a shoot when the woman expresses openly that she wants to be dominated.
“We’ve worked with a dominatrix who wanted to dominate two women - her style was very caring, it was a very different side to BDSM.”
Cat says they also include conversations about consent, likes and dislikes in each video - and this approach has even given the crew members an education.
She said: “We love hearing ‘no’ - we’re always reminding our performers to say it.
“If our models are happy - it creates better porn for us. It’s just business sense.
“Listening to the consent conversations is really empowering - you get to hear people staying in tune with their likes and dislikes - these are things we could all learn from.”
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00:00 My name's Kat. I work for Ursys and we make porn through the female gaze. So we're all about making
00:06 of course fully ethical model consent, like model pleasure first videos and films that are really
00:13 trying to break the norm a little bit from this kind of standard stuff that we probably all grew
00:20 up with and try to show erotica in a more kind of female positive light. I was always interested in
00:28 the topic of porn definitely as I grew up. I seen a job in the marketing department for this company
00:33 and I was like oh my god it's like super cool all women run and it's like all women on set and yeah
00:40 I started working there. I was able to bring in a lot of like my work and my interests outside of
00:46 that into this and my experience and a lot of in perspectives of like people I've worked with in
00:52 social media as well like my followers a lot of their concerns and interests were able to be kind
00:58 of pulled into this new work of mine. We mainly create I would call it kind of amateur stuff. It's
01:04 like it's not scripted, it's not about having this like very porny kind of sexist. We try to make it
01:11 as real and as natural as possible and a big way that we focus on trying to make that happen is
01:18 our interaction and our kind of like direction is as minimal as possible so we really try to
01:24 create a space on set where performers feel very comfortable. It's kind of like real sex with a
01:30 bit of extra a bit of extra production value. I think when you see people that look like you
01:36 that you relate to that are having just like are authentically expressing their sexuality that
01:42 alone is so empowering and I think everybody can benefit from that. I mean it's such a huge
01:47 area that I think everyone should know about and I think actually porn has a great way of like
01:52 it has a great opportunity to teach people about consent so I think it's actually
01:56 something I'm really happy to to be part of.