Hi everyone.

Welcome back to Terms of Service.

Today's episode features intimacy coordinator and adult industry consultant Ali Upps,

and a longtime friend of mine and the ALO family, performer,

performer, producer, and

former performer, Leah Lexus. The episode gives a behind-the-scenes look at sex on-screen,

both in the adult industry and Hollywood, including things like consent protocols, nudity writers,

and sex scene choreography. Our guests explain the emerging profession of intimacy coordination, performer advocacy,

how it came to be and where it's going, and how much Hollywood has to learn from the adult industry.

Welcome to Terms of Service podcast.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

For those of you who don't know, I'm Alex Kakesi.

I'm Asa Akira.

And our guests are.

I'm Ali Ups.

And I'm Leah Alexis.

And today we're talking about intimacy coordination, which I think is really exciting. It's an episode

that we've been wanting to do for a while, and we have two intimacy coordinators in the house,

which is great. So I guess we'll just get right into it. A big part of what we wanted to do in

this episode is get a peek behind the scenes of what intimacy

coordination looks like. So can you tell us both a bit about your roles? And I guess we'll see

like how they differ and contrast. Do you want to start? Yeah, so I'm actually not an intimacy

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