About

Louise Lush is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. She’s been writing erotica since 1997. She got her start writing for The Sydney Morning Herald before regularly contributing to erotica magazine Australian Women’s Forum in the 90s.

Since 2000 she has created and curated erotica online for women. In 2003 she co-created ForTheGirls.com, an adult site for women where she regularly published her stories, columns and other writing. She also edited numerous erotica contributions for FTG. In 2012 she launched BrightDesire.com and continued her writing and editing there. The site was named Honored Website at the 2015 Feminist Porn Awards

As Ms. Naughty (her alternative pseudonym), she has shot and edited over 100 scenes and short films for Bright Desire. Her work has screened at over 100 international film festivals and won over a dozen awards. In 2017 she was named Indie Porn Icon at the Toronto International Porn Festival. Since 2004 she has blogged about porn, feminism and censorship at MsNaughty.com

Offline, Louise Lush has had her short stories published in Best Women’s Erotica 2009, Best Women’s Erotica 2012 and Best Women’s Erotica Of The Year Vol 9 (2023). Her non-fiction essays have appeared in The Feminist Porn Book, Coming Out Like A Porn Star and the Porn Studies academic journal.

Louise Lush has spoken about her work at international conferences including The WOW Women Of The World Conference in 2015, The Feminist Porn Conference in Toronto 2013/14 and The Erotic Screen and Sound Conference in 2011. Her work has also been referenced in numerous academic publications including After Pornified by Anne Sabo, Indie Porn by Zahra Stardust and Ethical Porn For Dicks by Dr. David Ley.

Louise Lush originally worked as a librarian. She took up making adult websites in 2000 and never looked back. Self-publishing via her own sites allowed her to write her own style of erotic fiction and to find her own audience, outside of mainstream publishing.

It’s taken over two decades but Louise Lush is finally creating ebooks of her written erotica. You’ll find links to all of them here.

Louise Lush is happily married and lives in a beach town in Queensland, Australia.