In 2015, actress Rashida Jones produced the acclaimed Sundance documentary Hot Girls Wanted, which took an honest look at young women working in pornography. After a successful run on Netflix, the streaming service asked for more; Jones returned with Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On, a series exploring different intersections of sex, dating and technology.

 

Working again with directors Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus, Jones said that with a female led crew, the show was able to get young women to really open up about their experiences.

 

“I think we have always gotten access to certain stories that if we were men, I don’t think we could have,” Gradus explained.

 

The show is not intended to be an anti-porn diatribe.

 

"The intention is not to present this skewed, manipulative story or to get people to not enter porn," Jones argued. "The intention was to lift the veil, pull the curtain back on the industry that really thrives from secrecy."

 

Porn, according to Jones, has grown up; we haven't.

 

"It’s a different archetype and that’s part of what’s happening now," she added. "It’s not this dark taboo thing. It’s mainstream but we’re still not talking about it. People are watching it, people are being influenced by it, people are making career choices based on it, people are making sex choices based on it but there’s no national conversation on it.”

 

The series, Jones hopes, will allow people to discuss porn and its role in their lives. But, she adds, the show will be honest and won't pull any punches, which may piss off some porn lovers.

 

She said: “I think there’s some fair criticisms of the show and the movie but I think there’s a certain aggressive thing as if we’re pulling up to somebody at the McDonald’s drive-through when they’re wasted at two o’clock in the morning and being like ‘by the way that’s not real beef and that cow was abused and those fries have been sitting there for 10 years’ and they’re like ‘fuck you, all I want to do is eat that burger and you just fucked it up for everybody.' It’s not for everybody, some people don’t want their porn ruined.”

 

The complete series is now available on Netflix.