We require STI tests completed 30 days before the shoot date. For example, if a shoot occurs on March 31, we would need results from STI tests completed no earlier than March 1.
There are many options available. Feel free to choose any option that works within your budget and healthcare access.
You can get tested with your primary care physician. Although there are many doctors who drag their feet about STI testing, it is preventive medicine, your legal right, and it is in the best interest of public health. Don’t hesitate to advocate for yourself.
Public health departments also offer some STI testing. Appointments are often booked out far in advance, but if you have the time to wait, it’s a good low-cost alternative if you’re uninsured.
Depending on what area you’re in, there are community organizations that offer free STI testing. For example, Hawk’s in Portland and Gay City in Seattle are both good options.
If you have the money and would prefer anonymous testing, or need to expedite the results, we recommend a 10-panel test purchased through STDCheck.com. After paying online, you can complete your blood samples and swabs at a variety of local labs. It costs about $140 and, depending on location, takes 1-3 days to process.
Although Talent Testing Services (TTS) is considered the fastest and most industry standard protocol, it is also the most expensive at approximately $350. We do not require TTS.
No, we do not accept at-home testing because it cannot be verified.
Since there is no way of verifying someone’s sexual activity, the only way we can promote the safety of all participants is to require proof of STI testing.
No, we still require STI results. If you want to use condoms, you are very welcome to do so. We offer latex-free condoms for those who want to use them. However, with or without condoms, we still need STI results sent in advance to promote a safer environment.
You can send your STI results to Vanessa (253-792-1401 or vanessa@cliffmediaproductions.com) or Hannah (503-415-9860 or hannah@cliffmediaproductions.com) as a picture, screenshot, google drive link, or video of you opening your results on your computer. Please make sure your STI results include your name and the date of the test.
The event will be filmed and posted on this website, as well as other clip sites, tube sites and subscription sites. Consider that attending means your role in adult content will be all over the internet.
The release forms say you are over the age of 18, understand how the content will be used, and are participating with fully informed, enthusiastic consent.
Pictures of your ID are required to prove you’re of legal age and are the one signing the form. We ask for your ID in advance so that we can prepare the multiple page release form packet in advance. You will still need to bring your ID on site to take pictures holding your ID and the signed release forms. This is required by many porn sites as proof that you are the one signing the forms.
Yes, you can. We prefer that people show their faces because we aren’t just about dick-in-hole porn. We think facial expressions and eye contact among all participants convey a lot about joy, connection and arousal, so we love capturing that when we can. However, we know that everyone’s life circumstances are different, so masks are at your discretion.
If you want to wear a mask, just let us know and we can provide you with one of our pink masks. The reason we provide pink masks is so that masks don’t accidentally look like those worn by ICE agents and thereby cause unintentional trauma for some folks. As far as we know, no U.S. government agency rocks pink.
No. We don’t blur faces, we don’t ask the videographers to avoid specific people, and we don’t cut people out after the fact. If you show up, you will be on camera and on the internet.
One of the goals of Cliff Media is to show the world what enthusiastic consent, woman and queer-led porn and inclusive sex-positive community can look like. We post content all over the internet – including on Cliff Media’s website and tube sites like PornHub and xHamster. Please don’t come if you aren’t 100% comfortable with that.
No. A lot of people pour a lot of time, emotional labor and money into planning a shoot, including outreach, communicating with applicants, tracking STI results, preparing release form packets, developing scene scripts, prepping directors, sourcing costumes, and more.
Participants also engage sexually in scenes based on the understanding that it is for the purposes of producing content that will be shared online.
Asking to be taken out of a scene or asking that content not be shared publicly after the fact not only disrespects the people who put work into producing the scene, it also means asking to turn the filmed sexual activities of other participants into off-camera sex, which was not what people consented to doing. We value everyone’s prior, informed and enthusiastic consent about all aspects of production and sex.
We know that participation in porn is not for everyone and doesn’t fit the circumstances of everyone’s lives. If you don’t want to participate on camera, we still love you and strongly support you expressing your boundaries. We simply ask that you express your boundaries in advance.
The release form pages you sign indicate that you are fully aware that the scenes we film are meant for sharing all over the internet and your participation will be shared publicly. These forms are legally binding. Please do not sign the release forms or participate in any scenes unless you have given it thought and are absolutely sure that sharing your beautiful sexuality with the world is what you’re excited to do.
We accept most people who apply through the website, provided they submit recent STI results, sign the liability waiver, and send a picture of their ID.
In some cases, a clear misalignment in values or vision may require us to uninvite an applicant.
In rare instances, we receive more applications than space allows. In these cases, we prioritize applicants who are LGBTQ+, BIPOC or a person with disabilities.
Nope! We work to undo junk narratives, rooted in inequities like racism, ableism, transphobia, and fatphobia, that some people are more desirable or worthy than others. We are excited to welcome people of a diversity of identities, abilities, backgrounds, body sizes and appearance.
The only pictures we need to see are pictures of your STI results and the front of your ID for the purpose of creating safer spaces, informed consent and legal compliance.
If your intent is to watch off camera, you may do so at one of our live porn workshops. Otherwise, we only have space for people who wish to participate in the production in front of or behind the camera.
The nature of your participation in front of the camera is always up to you, and no one is ever expected to engage sexually unless it is enthusiastically consensual. However:
We do not screen applicants by appearance. Moreover, we encourage everyone participating in Cliff Media shoots to come ready to be thoughtful about the ways that racism, transphobia, fatphobia, ageism, and ableism show up in our sexual practices. That includes being thoughtful about how stereotypes in society might subconsciously influence your understanding of who is considered “attractive”.
While you don’t have to do anything sexually or interact with anyone unless you enthusiastically want to, you do need to be kind and welcoming to all. Sexual attraction is not necessary for having a great time together.
Because some people submit STI results on the week of the shoot, and not everyone who says they are going to come shows up, there is no way to know with certainty in advance who or how many people will attend.
If you have applied to a shoot advertised on the website, that means you are applying to participate in an orgy scene. We usually schedule 8-20 performers per scene, although some shoots, like Fuck-A-Palooza, have more.
We give out the shoot location to people who have submitted their test results. If you have submitted STI results, you will receive logistics details no later than one week before the shoot.
When you walk in the door, we’ll ask you to sign a release form packet. These include Cliff Media’s standard release forms, as well as release forms for each content creator. Since we require ID in advance, we prepare most of the packet for you and just need your signature on each page. Then we’ll take pictures of you with your release forms and IDs. This process confirms that you legally and enthusiastically consent to participate in porn shared all over the internet.
As long as you arrive on time (meaning within 30 minutes before the shoot start time), you are welcome to grab drinks or snacks, go to the bathroom or whatever you need to do to take care of yourself. Ten (10) minutes after the shoot start time, we will close admittance, wrap up the last of the release form pictures and gather in a circle for the opening.
During the opening, we will discuss Cliff Media values and approaches, what to expect at the shoot, and the plan for the day. We’ll do a grounding exercise then go around in a circle in which each person introduces themselves, shares aspects of their identity, and their sexual enthusiastic “hell yeses” and “nos” for the day. Finally, scene directors will explain the scene.
Although this opening circle can take a while, we believe it’s important for culture setting, helping everyone understand what to expect, and allowing people a chance to get to know each other and their boundaries before we film.
When it’s time to start filming, scene directors will open and lead the scene. You are welcome to improv and participate in the acting if you want, but you don’t have to. When you’re interacting sexually, you never need to do anything unless you really want to and find other people who want to do that with you.
After the scene is over, we will gather for a final closing circle, then many people choose to participate in some forms of aftercare, including cuddles, water, food or other activities that may feel right for you.
Sex, especially sex with multiple people, is always a risk. Many folks at Cliff Media have decided that the joy they get from sex with multiple people is worth the risk to them. But everyone has different circumstances, priorities and risk tolerance.
Although there is no such thing as “safe sex”, we do strive to promote safer sex. That’s why we ask everyone to submit the results of STI testing completed within one month of the shoot. We also encourage you to choose for yourself whether you want to use condoms.
Just as “safe sex” doesn’t exist, there also are not emotionally “safe spaces”, only safer places. One of our core values is remembering that it’s okay to be messy, awkward and human. Although we work hard to undo harmful power dynamics in society, we know that we’ll all mess up and accidentally say or do the wrong thing and hurt someone sometimes. We strive to be gentle with ourselves and each other as we learn and grow together.
If something comes up during a shoot that makes you feel physically or emotionally unsafe:
Finally, we encourage you to read our Code of Conduct and Liability Waiver. This waiver outlines the risks associated with participation in more depth. All participants sign this waiver prior to attending a shoot.
There are two primary reasons we hear from people that they feel nervous to participate in porn and I believe each reason merits a radically different response.
If you’re just nervous because you don’t think your body is “good enough”, sufficiently in alignment with the normative expectations of how mainstream porn says bodies are “supposed to” look or work, then that is all the more reason why you are needed and valuable in adult media.
Your confident presence in porn is a righteous “fuck you” to every junk societal narrative that says bodies like yours are not good enough.
It’s a much-needed love letter to everyone who may struggle with insecurities just like yours about how their bodies look or work.
If that’s your reason, we encourage you to transmute those nerves into excitement and know that, at Cliff Media, you are unconditionally loved however your perfectly imperfect body shows up.
Then don’t participate. If you’re just horny, go fuck in literally any other space. If you just want to fuck me or some other Cliff Media member, if you want to join an orgy or be part of kinky or queer community, I SO get that, I love and relate to that desire, but that’s not enough reason to join. You can still come to our clothed community days. Or you look for any of the other off-camera, sex-positive community spaces out there.
Like many artists with the vision of ultimately having a large-scale social impact, we intentionally share our work as far and wide as possible, moving toward ever increasing visibility. Even if we didn’t intentionally publish the content everywhere ourselves, porn is also perhaps the most permanent art you could make. No other art form gets immediately ripped and perpetually circulated all over the internet as fast as adult content does.
I’m so proud of what we do and I know with certainty that I’m going to be proud of this forever, even in the unlikely case that I return to more vanilla work. Starting porn work was a very deliberate choice I made, even years before Cliff Media existed. I spent a long time – a lot of sober, day-time thinking and researching – about whether I wanted to do this. I waited until the thirst for the adventure of creative sexy performance and production was louder for me than the roar of social stigma.
If societal stigmas, family judgements, the potential of employer backlash or uncertain personal values weigh on your mind, don’t participate. Join us only if you’re SURE the joy and purpose of the work means more to you than the shit people might say.
As much as I value our work, it also isn’t for everyone and I completely understand that. As much as I long to undo whorephobia and shout out the value of sex work and porn from the rafters, it also isn’t work to take lightly. Enthusiastic consent isn’t just about sex acts; it’s an ethos for all of life.
So if your nerves aren’t about body insecurity (your body is amazing) but about hesitation about being in porn more generally, take care of yourself and your future, in whatever way feels right for your circumstances, gut instincts and priorities, and we’ll love you from across the screen.
That’s absolutely okay! You don’t ever need to do anything you don’t want to do with your body.
At the beginning of each shoot, we remind people that it can feel awkward asking people if they want to sexually engage (“may I play with your tits?” / “may I suck your dick?”), but your ask is a compliment to the other person, expressing that you would like to interact with them. Likewise, saying “no” is a gift because it tells you that the other person is expressing their boundaries and respecting their own needs.
We also take time before filming for everyone in the room to introduce themselves and share the sex acts they enthusiastically do want and what they don’t (what we call “enthusiastic hell yeses and nos”).
Feel free to play with anyone else in any way that works consensually for both of you!
If anyone is violating your boundaries, you can always say the universal safe word – “pause” – and all action and cameras pause while we sort it out. It is not only okay to use the safe word, we strongly encourage it and love it when people say it. Saying “pause” allows us to help everyone feel safer and more comfortable in the space, and creates opportunities to learn and grow together as a community.
If you don’t feel comfortable saying “pause” yourself, you can go to any of the Whore’s Nest members for support (please see our “Meet Our Team” page to identify these people) and they will pause the scene for you.
If you need support dealing with anything that comes up for you, you can ask any member of the Whore’s Nest to talk with you before, during or after the scene. If you still want additional support, you can always contact us after the shoot as well.
Consent means you can change your mind ANY time you want, no matter how far into sex you get. We love hearing “no” around here and encourage you to express any boundaries that feel right for you.
Even if you say during the opening consent circle that you want to do a certain sex act, people are still expected to ask you before engaging in any sex acts with you during the scene. We suggest people use the phrase: “May I [verb] your [noun]?” For example, “May I eat your ass?” “May I finger your pussy?” etc. And when the answer to that question is “no”, a response we love: “Thank you for taking care of yourself.” You should never feel pressured to do anything you don’t want to do.
First of all, that’s totally normal! Stepping outside your comfort zone and exploring new things is beautiful and produces exciting opportunities for growth, but it can also bring up big feelings. We have a team of what we call “Emotional Support Sluts”, including a couple of people who are trained in mental health first aid. We always prioritize participants’ health and safety over filming and you are more than welcome to pull one of the Emotional Support Sluts aside at any time, including during a scene, to ask for support.
Sometimes we produce scenes roleplaying that we’re at a party, but, in reality, Cliff Media shoots are much different from parties.
What’s the same:
What’s different:
Sometimes people who apply to Cliff Media shoots ask why our shoots are free. We’ve noticed this most often comes from cisgender straight guys, perhaps because of common gender-based practices at gangbangs and swinger events.
At Cliff Media, we believe:
Friends & joy are great wealth on their own.
On the other hand, sometimes people ask why there’s no payment for participation.
As Cliff Media grows, we will hire additional paid staff who do back-end roles, the work that is clothed, like video editing, data entry, communications, organizing logistics, tech, admin, finances, and marketing. This work is often grueling, tedious and hard, but it’s necessary to sustain the fun and sexy parts of the work.
However, because our work is fundamentally about supporting the growth of sexual spaces and community where people do only whatever brings them authentic joy, paying people for sexual participation in the shoots would undermine our goals.
At Cliff Media, we’re seeking to practice and model genuine enthusiastic consent. We want people to express and ask for their sexual “hell yeses” and only do exactly whatever they want with their bodies. Money can incentivize people to do things they don’t want to do and changes the dynamics of sexual engagement. If twisting someone’s nipples or licking genitals is all you want at a shoot, that’s absolutely okay! You do you.
We love and support sex workers seeking paid gigs and clients. Some of the core leaders of the company came out of the mainstream porn industry where they performed as part of paid employment. That’s great, too, it’s just different from the project of Cliff Media. Rather than transactional relationships, we build transformative community that can take care of each other, both in the scenes and beyond.
We value informed consent in all aspects of life, including in our relationship to money. It’s important to us that you know and can decide in advance if Cliff Media’s community organizing-based model is what you’re personally looking for – and it’s totally okay if it’s not! All participants receive the raw footage, edited content, screenshots and release forms so participants can do what they want with the footage as co-creators, directors, performers and collaborators, but no one is exchanging cash one way or the other.
Having sex on camera is not for everyone. We invite you to join, to fuck, to explore, to play, exactly as you are, perfectly imperfect – but only if doing so brings you great joy.
Absolutely! Shoots are a collaboration and we value lifting up all sex workers to build their career as content creators and put empowering porn out into the world.
Within 3 weeks of every shoot, we send to all participants via Google Drive: raw footage, edited videos, screenshots, and release forms. These belong to everyone to share equal rights to and use however you want to support your career as a creator.
You bet! However, in lieu of the chaos of a dozen content creators trying to individually gather signatures from 20 people in the room, we put each creators’ form in the packet that all individuals receive when they walk in the door. In order to reduce the time spent on release forms at the beginning of the shoot, we prep the packet in advance.
Therefore, if you want a form for your ManyVids, Fansly or similar site included in the packet, please let us know no more than one week before the shoot and we’ll be happy to include it. We’ll need to know which site and your username on that site.
Because we believe in supporting porn production and group sex accessible to everyone regardless of income and class, we do not accommodate requests to exclude participants who have not paid hundreds of dollars for Talent Testing Services (TTS) results. We accept STI results from any verifiable source, including primary care doctors and public health clinics.
One of our goals as an organization is to build sex-positive community where all people, especially LGBTQ+, BIPOC and people with disabilities, feel loved and wanted.
Producing porn is the primary activity we do together and it’s how we share the culture and leadership we’re building with the world. But we also sometimes (if you can believe it!) leave our clothes on and get together to do other human things, like eating burgers, practicing make-up or talking about movies.
For some people, attending a porn shoot with complete strangers can be a little intimidating. Attending a clothed community day first can be a great way to get to know people and the environment first, before you come to a shoot.
We do encourage:
We do not allow:
Yes, although we appreciate donations for the materials and to help sustain Cliff Media, if you have the capacity.
If you see items in common spaces, like the kitchen and bathroom, it’s because they’ve been put there for everyone’s use. Eat and drink whatever you see, and grab extra hygiene supplies if you’ve run out. You’re also welcome to use the shower if you want.
Illegal drugs are not allowed anywhere near Cliff Media shoots, community days, or at the Cliff House at any time.
If you wish to smoke legal substances, such as cigarettes or marijuana, we ask that you do so on the back patio. Please go outside fully clothed out of respect for neighbors.
We do not allow participation in shoots while intoxicated because of the impact of alcohol on enthusiastic informed consent. If you would like to drink alcohol during social time after filming has ended for the day, you may do so in moderation. Please remember that our shoots are professional porn production spaces, not parties.
The Cliff House is a professional production space. Our focus is on creating safe(r), more inclusive spaces for people to produce fun, values-driven content. We also strongly value enthusiastic consent. Shoot participants have given their consent to participate in a professional production, not a sex party.
When the camera is not rolling, sex is prohibited in common spaces, like the living room.
While sex in private spaces is not prohibited, if you are considering off-camera sex during shoot weeks, please keep in mind that a lot of people put a lot of work into planning a shoot, including developing scene plans, writing scene scripts, outreach, communication with applicants, tracking STI results, preparing release form packets, sourcing costumes and props, and more. Prioritizing your body’s sexual and physical energy for filmed scenes is a sign of respect to the folks who are invested in the scene’s success.
We think of filming as a special container where it’s safe(r) to play with new people and explore new sexual activities. However, just as you would not expect your counselor to be your best friend in real life, even if they’re a great listener during sessions, you should not expect that on-camera connections translate to off-camera connections.
During filming and the aftercare circle, we ask that you do not ask others to exchange personal contact information or meet up outside of the shoot. When the aftercare circle has concluded and people have had a chance to decompress, it is a more appropriate time to ask someone if they want to stay in touch. Please remember to accept if the person you’ve asked said “no” and move on without asking again. Thank you for respecting everyone’s boundaries!
We do not allow illegal drugs, guns or weapons of any kind. This includes sex toys and play guns.
Cliff Media strives to always foster a safer, inclusive environment for all participants, whether at shoots, community days or just hanging out. This means that any threatening behavior or racist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist or fatphobic language will not be tolerated, even if you believe you are just joking.
Depending on the time, place, severity of the language and emotional needs of the person impacted, we may have a conversation with you about the interaction on site and ask you to change your behavior. If it is not an appropriate time for the conversation, we will ask you to leave and discuss the issue with you at another time. Egregious or repeated behavior will result in the individual no longer being allowed in community spaces.
We love and value everyone and recognize that we are all in a process of unlearning the junk narratives of the society we live in. However, we do require that you are present ready to humbly learn and grow from feedback. We also need to prioritize the well-being of people most impacted by inequity.
Respect, compassion and kindness are the language of community – and, we believe, the best way to promote a sexy, fun, liberating space for everyone.
For more details, please review our Code of Conduct here.
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