Wolf Hudson is bigger than ever: the multi-talented bisexual content creator is more focused, more driven — and more popular — than at any point in his prolific, acclaimed career.
His recent accomplishments include a 2020 XBIZ Awards nomination for Best Actor in Adult Time’s award-winning “Teenage Lesbian” as the cool, confident mentor to a newly out young woman (played by Kristen Scott).
There’s a ton of highly produced porn that looks aesthetically beautiful, but there’s just no connection.
The splashy role in “Teenage Lesbian,” which was tailored specifically for him by writer-director Bree Mills, brought Hudson’s undeniable onscreen charisma to a larger audience and dovetailed with his decision to focus largely on producing his own content and on nurturing his large, active fan base.
See, back in 2016, Hudson elected to retire from adult following a decade of work in gay, straight, trans and bi genres. He felt he’d taken his cross-genre appeal as far as possible within the constraints of studio-shot porn. But Hudson nevertheless kept a toe in the waters.
Several years later, the rapid growth of self-produced content — clips shot by performers specifically for their fans, and funneled directly to them — provided new fuel for Hudson’s creativity. A bi scene he shot purely for fun and posted to Pornhub quickly and unexpectedly went through the roof in sales — and continues to sell, several years later.
It was exactly the proof Hudson needed that his preferred style of authentic, hand-crafted content — created by and starring bisexual people — could find and feed a hungry audience. Learn more about his inspiring story and business savvy, in this exclusive Clip Star of the Month interview.
XBIZ: What are your thoughts on the audience for bi content? Has it always been there or is that audience growing now?
HUDSON: I think the interest has always been there. The issue at hand was how it was being marketed, how it was being produced and presented. And, I feel, a lot of people who have been shooting it, some of them have gotten it right. But I feel most people have gotten it wrong. One of the biggest complaints that I’ve heard from people is that it just feels very stagnant, it feels mechanical.
I mean, people will say that about mainstream porn in general, but particularly that genre, it’s never been seen as something that was fluid [or that] everyone was into each other. It’s been produced for decades; what makes it different today, with society changing and being much more open and into exploring their sexuality, the desire is there but [fans] still weren’t being given the opportunity to see it in an authentic way.
I remember Chi Chi LaRue telling me, “Bisexual porn doesn’t sell in the short term, it sells in the long term.” So, if you were going to do it [back then], you had to have a gay scene, a lesbian scene, a straight scene and maybe one or two bi scenes just to complete the whole package to be able to market it. That always stuck with me. How is that possible? There are so many bisexual people, maybe not open about it, but there’s a definite interest in it.
I’ll tell you this much: when I started making it, it blew up in such a way that it surprised me. I knew there was interest in it. But the response was insane! And it came from a place of, “Thank you for making this available. Thank you for showing this in its true form. There’s nothing out there like this.”
And it’s the reason why I’ve spent almost two years doing it almost exclusively and really pushing it. And, so far, it hasn’t gone down. And that’s because of the platforms that are available: Pornhub, ManyVids, OnlyFans, etc. People are not buying just the porn; they’re buying the performers. They’re buying something that’s unique and palpable and I think that’s what makes it interesting and much more desirable as opposed to generic, studio-based scenes.
XBIZ: You tweeted the other day about looking for authenticity in the performers you hire.
HUDSON: That was the reason I came back to porn. I retired in 2016 and I really had no intentions of coming back. But by chance, I decided to do a few scenes here-and-there, just for fun, not really concerned about the money. And I knew I wanted to do bi stuff; I’d already done straight stuff, I’d already done gay. The bi one, I started seeing a rise in studios shooting it and I thought, “This could be fun.”
I knew that I would do it just for fun and only with people I was attracted to. I did not want to get into the mentality of doing it for work, which makes it mechanical for me. Mind you, my performances throughout the years, whether they were hit or misses, I always try to be as passionate as possible.
XBIZ: You’re known for that.
HUDSON: But there are times where you have to do the work. And doing it the way I’ve been doing it [lately] has been much more pleasurable and much more exciting. Now, making my own content, and applying that same mentality, it’s just been so much more beneficial. I don’t feel constrained to have to do things just because I have to do them. It doesn’t have to be churned out, where you feel if you don’t shoot it, you’re not going to [earn] anything. No! People will go back to it if it’s good.
XBIZ: That’s interesting because you’ll hear other content creators talking about keeping up a regular schedule of updates.
HUDSON: During the pandemic, I didn’t really update for four months. But my scenes kept selling. And that’s a testament to the quality of the content that I was producing. It’s not fake. It’s completely authentic. The performers I’m shooting with — we’re literally hooking up. And you can tell, as a viewer. You can tell when it’s real and you can tell when it’s good.
XBIZ: What platforms are you on?
HUDSON: I primarily use Pornhub and Modelhub. I do have an OnlyFans. But Pornhub has opened up an audience for my content, an audience that was looking for it. It opened up a whole new audience for me, in general, an audience I didn’t have before. It also gave my existing fans the ability to see my stuff and in a much more accessible way.
XBIZ: And you’ve found they were willing to wait during the pandemic, so you didn’t have to crank out scenes to keep them engaged.
HUDSON: No. I have more than enough scenes in my library that I haven’t released. I had more than enough to sustain me through the lockdown. But I just felt that I could sit on it and not have to worry. Sure enough; people were still buying it during the pandemic. The desire to buy porn is always going to be there. And when you get a whiff of something that looks good and looks interesting, people are going to buy it. I just updated last week, my first scene in four months, and it sold as if it has been any other time.
XBIZ: There’s a lot of discussion now about the difference between studio-shot and self-produced content. Apart from the technical look of it, the key difference seems to be that the performers are more engaged with each other in self-produced content.
HUDSON: I think when you see that there’s not a lot of personality in the [studio-shot] scenes, there’s a lot of different factors. It doesn’t have to be that the performers aren’t into it. It could also be the environment. Being on a porn set is intimidating, especially if you’re new. You want to do a good job and you might just be in your head. Just the mechanics of it — it’s a lot of work. It’s very demanding and a lot of the time you’re focused so much more on your performance [rather than] personality coming through.
There are so many different factors. I’ll tell you this much – I’ve been doing this for so many years, I know what I like about shooting and I know what I don’t like. And when I decided to shoot my own content, I wanted to throw away all the stuff that made it difficult for me and add in the things that did work and also the things that I enjoy in my personal life.
So whenever I shoot with performers, I always tell them, “Listen, I’m gonna have the camera on, but don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about opening up to the camera. I don’t care if we don’t see a single penetration shot. Let’s have sex and enjoy each other. If you don’t want to do something, you don’t have to do it. There’s no pressure. We’re just having fun.” And whenever I say that, the reaction is, “Oh, thank god. Really? We can just have fun?” That changes the whole dynamic. Now you’re seeing a real expression of someone enjoying themselves [and] really wanting to be there and take it to the next level.
XBIZ: Taking it back to your fans, how much do you think the actual type of content matters? Does that desire for authenticity sometimes override the fact that it’s a bi scene?
HUDSON: Absolutely. When I watch porn, that’s the first thing I notice. And I’m a little more particular, too. I actually look at body language, I look at eye contact. There’s a ton of porn out there and a ton of highly produced porn that looks aesthetically beautiful, but there’s just no connection. I can look at a bunch of bi scenes that bore me to death, and everybody’s gorgeous and it’s a beautiful setting and whatnot. And it just doesn’t connect; they’re just going through the motions. And I’ve seen amateur scenes with the worst cameras, the worst lighting, with people that were so into it that I climaxed in under 30 seconds! You know they’re doing it for fun and that’s the difference.
XBIZ: I’m thinking of that short little clip you posted to Twitter the other day right after you had sex for the first time in a few months because of the lockdown. You were celebrating and it was hilarious and hot and it wasn’t even sexually explicit.
HUDSON: Whenever people talk to me about how they want to shoot porn, they almost exclusively go into, “Oh, I’m going to get this camera and this lighting and all this” and they always forget the main thing: it’s the sex. Nobody cares how you shoot it or where you shoot it, as long as the sex is good, and that should always come first.
I want to make sure that every single performer is comfortable, that they know exactly what we’re doing, that they have complete autonomy over their body and they can say “no” at any point, because consent can change at any time. And it makes such a wonderful, positive and safe environment where they can explore. And I know, in my personal life when I have sex, that’s what brings out the best moments, when my world is completely engulfed with just them.
XBIZ: It seems like clips and self-produced content are setting the pace here.
HUDSON: Clearly in the past two, three years, [studios] have been seeing the interest. But most people just disregarded it [in the past] because they thought it didn’t sell, and if that’s true, [it’s because] they didn’t know how to shoot it, how to market it, how to really show true representation. And the only people who can really do that are the ones that are immersed in it.
I’ll just tell you this much: I don’t ever want to take credit for the popularity of it, but I will say that I tapped into something and I rode it to glory. And I’m just so thankful that people still want it, people are still happy and it’s affected them, not just in terms of their own satisfaction, but it’s also opened them up sexually and given them the license to be themselves. That holds a lot of weight.
I never intended to do this as a political movement; I just wanted to do it for fun. But I understand the responsibility that I hold and the effect that it’s had on people. And I take it very seriously. I take people’s enjoyment seriously. I never lose track of that. If it’s not fun for me, then it’s not fun for anybody else and it’s not worth doing it.
