Lights! Camera! ACTION! Whether it’s a way to keep your long-distance relationship’s passions burning brightly, give your lover an extra-special, super-sexy treat, star in your own erotic movie, or any of a million other exciting reasons why you might be interested in making your very own, homemade sex tape, here’s our guide to not only having a lot of fun doing it but also several tips on how to do it safely and, most of all, to keep whatever you do private!
Before You Start: Consent and Safety Are Everything
Before getting ready for your (very) close-up, let’s go over the most important things to keep in mind about making (and acting) in your own porn film.
Consent, consent, consent
First and foremost, don’t just whip out your camera and see what happens. Like with every sexual activity involving more than one person, begin by discussing what everyone wants, doesn’t want, and might be willing to do if turned on enough. Negotiation should also include emotional and physical boundaries, aftercare — what each of you needs to happen when your homemade porn shoot is over — as well as mutually agreed-upon safewords for take a break, slow down, or STOP NOW!
Consent can also be revoked at any time for any reason without negative repercussions. Likewise, if you feel you can’t say no, like if your partner says or even just implies they’d be upset if you do so, then you cannot consent to anything — let alone performing in a home sex tape.
Privacy and security
Remember, the Internet never forgets, and that’s why when making DIY porn, you absolutely must agree beforehand how to prevent your homemade sex tape from falling into the wrong hands. Fortunately, there are several apps and sites available that will either automatically delete the content you upload to them or secure it under multiple layers of protection.
We strongly recommend never creating a movie (or sharing anything) with someone you don’t completely trust — and even if you do, make sure to be as safe and secure as possible. A great way to do just that is to bypass the Cloud completely and instead password-protect your amateur sex tape on a hard or flash drive, as it makes it very easy to delete your homemade porn if it only exists in one place. Note: If you use a hard drive, be sure to overwrite it or reformat it. If you don’t, it may still be possible to recover your videos.
Communication
Throughout creating your sex tape, stay in constant communication with whoever’s involved. DIY adult movies can be a whole lot of fun, but they also carry a significant amount of risks. Be open and honest about what everyone wants, needs, or is scared of — while also respecting what others desire, require, and do not want to happen.
How to Make a Sex Tape
Now, onto the hardware you’ll need to shoot your at-home sex tape. Good news: most of this is either extremely affordable if not totally free.
💋 Camera: Have a smartphone? Congrats, that’s perfectly fine for making homemade porn. Just be sure to set it to record in high quality, or otherwise, your nudie movie might look less-than-sexy.
💋 Stabilization: Get yourself a tripod or a stable phone mount. Trust us, handheld, shaky footage is fine for found footage horror movies but terrible for making an erotic masterpiece.
💋 Lighting: Replace overhead lights with lamps or other less-glaring light sources. Lighting can be challenging, but with a little trial and error, you’ll figure out how to make everyone and everything look like a wet dream come true.
💋 Sound: While your phone’s microphone may be good, you might want to consider investing in a higher-quality, external one. Also, do your best to make your shooting space extra quiet. A sex tape with traffic or a television blaring in the background isn’t exactly sexy.
💋 Location: As with reducing noise, please don’t make your DIY porn movie in a dirty or distractingly cluttered room.
💋 Ambiance: Candles, some provocative props, or some well-placed blankets or curtains can do wonders to make your scene pop!
From Foreplay to Filming: Making it Natural
How do you actually have sex that’s as fun as it is exciting to watch? The answer isn’t performing but doing what comes naturally. Don’t act for the camera; instead, pretend it’s not there and let your passions run free. You’ll not only have a more enjoyable time but your audience will too!
If you’d like, you can also experiment with different angles or positions, such as close-ups (for added intensity) versus wide-angled shots (to help set the scene).
To give your at-home sex tape a little (or a lot) of extra VROOM, don’t be afraid to do what way too many professional porn videos don’t: we’re talking foreplay, foreplay, foreplay to provide your DIY production much-needed build-up rather than just leaping to tab A repeatedly entering slot B.
Scheduled sex can be hot, hot, hot, especially when you’re playing producer for your homemade porn, but so can spontaneity.
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After the Action: What to Do Next
What’s next after your homemade adult movies are in the can? Well, now’s time for you and your lover or co-star to lay back and enjoy the fruits of your erotic creativity!
However, now’s not the time to be a critic. Sure, sometimes watching yourself orgasm and all the fun stuff that leads up to it can be a little silly, but that’s half the fun. Besides, you can always shoot more movies or take advantage of most smartphones’ capabilities, and you can also do some clever editing to make your film even more engaging.
Now’s also the time to take a step back and revisit how to ensure what you’ve made stays where it’s supposed to. Do whatever you agree is best for everyone involved— and even then, always go a little bit further. As the old saying goes, “Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.”
Set up mutually agreed-upon passwords, store your movie exclusively on a password-protected flash drive or hard drive, and not in the cloud. If either of you feels uncomfortable or concerned, then delete it once you’ve finished watching it.
The Bottom Line
Creating your very own sexy movies can be a whole lot of very, very, VERY exciting fun, a great method for keeping long-distance relationships hot and steamy, remarkably empowering and sexually liberating, and even a way to further your erotic horizons and open up entirely new, thrilling erotic possibilities.
But making DIY porn can be as emotionally and physically risky as it is arousing — which is why before, during, and after starring in your adult film, you should stay focused on negotiation, consent, and doing all that you can to keep your fun where it belongs and never where it might harm yourself or others.
So grab a camera, set your stage, turn your sound on, and — ACTION! — become the sexy star you were born to play!