Meet Erin O'Hara — The Genuine, Glamorous, Ginger Erotic Artist, Photographer & Pornstar from Ohio
Estimated Time of Arrival — Issue #24 Making porn, male photographers having more control over images of female's bodies than they do & staying authentic amid the chaos.
Morning sexy people,
Welcome to E.T.A.H, your Wednesday newsletter where yours truly, Paula Romeu-Garcia, introduces the hottest artists from around the world and asks them uncomfortable questions…
Our next guest is a true inspiration.
She’s the embodiment of beauty, sensuality and confidence; like a modern-day, ginger Greek goddess. Upon reflection, I may have a little crush.
But how not to?
The first time we met was in a Tesla, on our way to shoot a porno together. We were talking about her Only Fans and she kindly let me scroll through her feed.
I was in awe.
Yeah, it’s hot. But it’s also incredibly thought-out, stylish, artistic, and beautiful. Every photo and video is pure art, not just sex for the sake of it.
You can check it out with a cheeky discount HERE 🔥
Perhaps that authentic artistic eye capturing the inherent beauty of the female form is what’s making her so successful on the platform, despite being at least a decade older than a lot of the creators on there.
On the day of the shoot, she wore this incredibly sexy aquamarine lingerie set with suspenders.
But it wasn’t just her physical beauty that made her incredibly attractive.
It’s also her naturality, her professionalism, her ability to push outdated cultural stigmas and not take life too seriously while building a small empire, one tasteful nude at a time.
I’m honoured to introduce Erin O’Hara, erotic artist, photographer and empowered pornstar as our next guest at E.T.A.H.
What are you most looking forward to in the next 30 days?
A lot of cool projects coming down the line, and things like this interview is what I'm talking about….
I’m working on another podcast called “Stranger Sex” I'm a co-host on, that's about fun sex stories. Also, I have a lingerie design collab coming up this year, which I'm super excited about.
And travelling more!
If you had 48 hours left on Earth, where would you go to?
Bali!
What bugs you about the world around you but feel we're not allowed to talk about? Or we're not talking about enough?
Men have more control over images of my body than I do.
I can't post a photo of myself that another male photographer can post of me. I'll get deleted, they won't.
The male photographer is an artist, but the model that he shoots, is a whore.
That’s not what I think, but it’s how it’s still viewed.
We've come a long way in so many ways, but it's still just pretty puritanical and patriarchal. I'm not allowed to share a lot of myself. And I'm not allowed to even talk about where people can go support my work…
Describe the world today in 5 words or less.
Vast, tender, heartbreaking, resilient, sacred.
This is a research question for our upcoming short film “So Much Laundry So Little Soap” — “Open Relationships”. What’s your experience with it? Thoughts on it? Or what have you observed in your circles?
I experienced it quite a lot. I'm 36, and I was married a long time ago.
Even after that ended, I didn't know that non-monogamy was an option at all. For a long time, I just thought I was a bad person because I was desiring more than one person at a time. So I spent a lot of years kind of making myself feel guilty.
Society tells us we’re supposed to find this “one person”.
I'm currently in an open relationship. It takes a ton of communication. You've got to check in and things change. But it has been a really wonderful opportunity to realize that I'm not a bad person because I like more than one person or more than one gender at a time. And has allowed me to take opportunities that sometimes people might be excluding themselves from.
I enjoy being monogamous too, by the way. I am not anti-monogamy. But it’s pretty cool when I didn't have to say no to something I wanted to say yes to because I had the autonomy and the ability to make that choice for myself.
Favourite swearword?
My partner and I started calling each other dingle or dingleberry as a sweet derogatory term; it’s very innocent and neither of us thinks the other one is actually stupid but it’s both adorable and a little mean, which I love.
What’s your experience and thoughts on psychedelics and more specifically microdosing.
I’m a huge fan of psychedelics even though I don’t; do them super often.
There's a lot of science about this and I'm a very logical and science-based person but I also want to experience the more emotional and spiritual sides of things and I love that psychedelics are actually the perfect marriage of these
I’ve experienced both micro and macro dosing but I’ve gotten more of my growth and learning from the macro experiences.
What’s the silliest or most stupid choice you’ve ever made?
I've made a lot of risky decisions. I don't know if they're silly or stupid though.
Such as?
Picking up and getting rid of everything and moving and starting over, which other people might view as reckless.
But I’ve been so fortunate at least thus far that all those decisions have turned out pretty well for me…
What’s the most useful advice you’ve ever been given?
As a semi-public figure in the adult content world, you get some online haters. People who want to be cruel or harass.
The first time something like that happened I reached out to another adult content creator and she said, their goal is to make you upset or scared or worried. If you don’t give them that, they don’t get what they want.
Shame is a powerful tool, and if you don’t feel ashamed they have nothing against you.
What’s your biggest fear?
Something I think about a lot and I talk to my therapist is ageing.
I’m not exactly afraid of it but I’ve been functioning and operating in a world where we all are. Whereas as a woman especially, your value is highly placed on your youth and beauty and looking a certain way.
I’ve been on Only Fans since 2018 and most of my peers are at least a decade younger so I don't have a ton of people to look at and follow in terms of how to navigate aging through this space.
Like… when do you get to the MILF category? At what point do people not want to see wrinkly saggy skin getting banged in high-def?
Of course, there's something out there for everybody but it’s something I think about.
What’s a secret ingredient that makes everything better?
Being genuine.
It may sound like a cliché but nowadays where everything is so calculated, over-produced and edited I get a lot of people asking what's your method? What's your formula?
I don’t fucking have one. I’m just making shit up as I go. I’m learning to react to what people seem to like but what works is staying genuine.
I'm not a performer. Because I'm a bad actor. I'm just being myself and I feel it goes a long way. When you do, people are drawn to it.
Tell me something curious about yourself you don’t usually tell people or you haven’t thought about for a while.
I’ve had a couple of lives before most people don’t know much about.
One of them I mentioned earlier, when I was married, and I had a whole different life. It was a painful transition, but it was the best decision I ever made.
Sometimes I forget that part of my life existed and even my friends here who have known me since then, are like oh wow it's kind of hard to believe that happened….
It's just like another version of myself that feels really far away and different. But it is cool to look back and see how much I've changed and grown.
What’s the last film or series that moved you? And why? (It doesn’t have to be your favourite, just that made you feel something and what)
Poor Things. I fucking loved this film!
Someone described it to me as the Barbie movie for mentally ill people. Haha. But I feel it reallyt speaks to the female experience.
It's also a movie about sex work in a way that I wasn’t expecting and there are a couple of criticisms I could have of it but overall, I really enjoyed it. I cried a lot after too…
Self-promo station! Go to town! — What are you working on right now? Where can people check out your work?
ErnaBurn.com is where everything will be linked.
I have an OnlyFans (HERE’s a discounted trial link for your readers/listeners!😈) which is the adult, fun, explicit stuff.
And a Patreon, which is my fine art photography portfolio with nude, lingerie and some of my writing as well.
What artist/s do you love and wish them even more success in their field?
Well, first of all, you! The film you did for me was so beautiful. I'm like really excited to work more with you.
Also a good friend of mine, Mistress Fae, they are a dominatrix here in New York and also has an incredible background in tech knowledge and cybersecurity.
I've also been working with this photographer Valeria Kalabina, you'll see her stuff on my Instagram a ton. She’s so talented and such a fun, interesting person with a unique perspective.
I’m so grateful to have this scene of femmes here that I can be inspired by.
If you had one message to share with the world what would it be?
We're just so small.
This little moment, this little whatever thing stressing you out, even if it's really big, and not to discount or invalidate the big struggles people are going through, it’s just such a tiny little dot on the surface of time and space.
This too shall pass.
We’re getting close to 50% funded on Kickstarter and I believe we can get there by the end of the week!!
A group of queer females we're making a film about a woman’s hard choices to self-empowerment.
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Love, light and libido,
Paula x