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Hollywood rarely misses the opportunity to sell sex. And one buzzy app is capitalizing on that by combining smut and celebrity \u2014 bringing famous actors\u2019 steamy voices directly into their listeners\u2019 ears. Move over, coffee and tequila endorsements, there\u2019s a new actor side hustle in town.<\/p>\n
Caroline Spiegel founded audio erotica app Quinn when, as a senior in college, she experienced a \u201ctotal loss of libido\u201d while recovering from an eating disorder. After scouring the internet for solutions \u2014 and bemoaning how many sexual dysfunction drugs there were available to men in comparison to women \u2014 she was left disappointed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a dearth of options for erotic content for women,\u201d Spiegel tells me, adding that she had to go deeper into internet community spaces to find erotica she appreciated. \u201cI started thinking, \u2018How can I bring erotica that women would enjoy into the mainstream?\u2019 And I discovered audio erotica on Reddit and Tumblr and was like, \u2018This is the ideal way to consume erotica. It\u2019s so immersive.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Spiegel says she became so obsessed with the idea of audio romances that she wasn\u2019t doing any homework, so she dropped out of college to create her startup, Quinn, which was launched as an app in 2021.<\/p>\n
In 2022, Spiegel released her first Quinn Original, a premium series often voiced by actors and celebrities like Shawn Hatosy (\u201cThe Pitt\u201d<\/a>), Sam Heughan (\u201cOutlander\u201d<\/a>), Andrew Scott<\/a> (\u201cFleabag\u201d) and Jesse Williams (\u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d). The company has released approximately 15 celebrity-narrated series thus far \u2014 a gambit that\u2019s proved so successful it aims to do one a month going forward. Traditionally, the original series have featured one celebrity narrator as a protagonist speaking to the listener in an immersive story. This changed when \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d<\/a> actors Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams broke the formula, starring as two rival fae princes in \u201cEmber & Ice,\u201d Quinn\u2019s most popular series to date.<\/p>\n \u201cWe definitely heard our users that they really liked being more of a fly on the wall, rather than a person in the story,\u201d says Spiegel, so the next few projects will contain multiple voices.<\/p>\n Quinn\u2019s audience is more than 80% women and subscriptions cost $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year. The company currently has 12 full-time employees. Spiegel says they brainstorm ideas for actors and themes based on what\u2019s in the zeitgeist, tying the stories to specific moments in pop culture, then sprinkling in some evergreen stories throughout the year. Spiegel reached out to Storrie\u2019s and Wiliams\u2019 teams after seeing a trailer for their hockey romance series before HBO Max had even made its distribution deal with Canada\u2019s Crave. Spiegel teased that this summer Quinn would also be introducing written projects. She says lately they\u2019ve also been thinking about doing nostalgia-fueled projects, with fan-favorite voices from the early 2000s.<\/p>\n Pedro Pascal is the actor at the top of Quinn\u2019s listeners\u2019 wish list, and Spiegel says the company also gets a lot of requests from those hoping to hear Idris Elba and Matthew Gray Gubler whisper in their ear. She adds that one of the most interesting parts of the job has been pitching Quinn to talent and learning each person\u2019s boundaries and questions. She reveals that some actors want to be in on the details of every line in the script, while others want to be in charge of choosing a story\u2019s message, and some just want to speak to the director beforehand. For example, when Spiegel chatted with \u201cAtlanta\u2019s\u201d Tyriq Withers about Quinn, she recalls, the actor expressed passion about how attractive consent is, so they worked it into his project, called \u201cThe Bodyguard,\u201d about a special agent assigned to keep a U.S. diplomat safe while in Paris.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom the first call when we talked to him, he was like \u2018I think it\u2019s really important to teach people about enthusiastic consent and how consent is sexy,\u2019\u201d says Spiegel. \u201cThat became the theme of his series and we worked with him on that.\u201d<\/p>\n Spiegel says that a big impetus for starting Quinn Originals in the first place was to normalize erotica and make it more accessible for people to share and talk about it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so much easier and more comfortable for people to say, \u2018Did you see the \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d guys are doing a Quinn audio?\u2019 versus saying, \u2018Hey, check out this audio erotica,\u2019\u201d Spiegel explains. She thinks it\u2019s part of a bigger move toward investing in romantic storylines in general.<\/p>\n \u201cAmazon has a whole slate of romance shows like \u2018The Summer I Turned Pretty\u2019 and \u2018Off Campus,\u2019 which was a very explicit book; there\u2019s been \u2018Bridgerton,\u2019 \u2018Fifty Shades of Grey,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cI think we\u2019re seeing the increased visibility and normalization of explicit romantic content, and it\u2019s definitely helping remove stigma and shame from consuming it.\u201d<\/p>\n Her hope is that this can translate into shifting real-world dynamics as well. \u201cOnce we give people the words to be able to talk about what they want and what they like, sex becomes more safe and more enjoyable for people.\u201d<\/p>\n And, as a bonus, listeners get their favorite actors whispering dirty talk into their earbuds as they wait for the next season of their favorite TV series to drop.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hollywood rarely misses the opportunity to sell sex. 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