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• 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 economics of independent adult studios: a Mylfed case study — A working overview of how a single mid-tier adult production house — Mylfed — fits into the post-tube, post-OnlyFans, post-payment-processor-pressure economy of the independent adult industry, and what its catalog structure reveals about studio-led production at scale in the mid-2020s.
• The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media — How a sequence of Mastercard, Visa, and platform-policy decisions in 2020–2021 restructured the compliance, distribution, and labour landscape of the legitimate adult industry — and what the new equilibrium looks like five years later.
• Tube-site economics and the consolidation of adult video distribution — How the free-to-view tube-site model that emerged in 2006–2007 reshaped adult video distribution, what the consolidated ecosystem under MindGeek/Aylo and its peers actually looks like in mid-2026, and where the structural pressure points sit going forward.