Editorial desk
M. Brennan
Editorial contributor — adult media studies
M. Brennan is an editorial desk at Step Secrets Editorial, not an individual writer. Entries filed under it cover Feminist erotic cinema, Queer adult film, Auteur tradition.
Entries are compiled from the published sources cited at the foot of each page. Where a claim could not be sourced, it is not made.
Beats
- Feminist erotic cinema
- Queer adult film
- Auteur tradition
- Pornography studies
Entries by M. Brennan (4)
- Adult industry trade press: AVN, XBIZ, and the trade-press ecosystem 1983-2026
How AVN, XBIZ, and the broader adult-industry trade press built the institutional memory the field now depends on — and why the question of who counts as serious industry journalism in 2026 looks different from the question that produced AVN in 1983.
- How adult-content discovery works in 2026: SEO, AI search, and the directory layer
The traditional path from intent to adult content (search query → SERP click → site visit) has been reshaped over 2023-2026 by AI-search-engine arrival, SafeSearch defaults tightening, and the rise of directory-layer discovery alongside the tube-site dominance. A working overview of the contemporary discovery topology.
- Erika Lust and the rise of feminist erotic cinema
How a Swedish-born, Barcelona-based filmmaker turned a manifesto into a studio, a distribution model, and a two-decade case study in what feminist adult cinema can look like when production, consent practice, and aesthetic ambition are taken seriously.
- The Spanish erotic film scene 2000–2026
From Bigas Luna's late filmography and the Barcelona-centred indie scene of the early 2000s through the Erika Lust era and the present-day cohort of feminist and queer directors — a twenty-six-year survey of Spanish erotic cinema as a coherent national tradition.
Other contributors
- R. Mehta — Editorial contributor — AI ethics & synthetic media
- L. Hoffmann — Editorial contributor — adult industry analysis