THERE IS NO SEX - BOOK

Ailunno Erika

There is no sex, 2024-2026

There Is No Sex begins with a contradiction - what appears obvious and yet asks to be looked at

more deeply. We live in a society that consumes the female body while condemning the women

who dare to reclaim it. Sex work is reduced to two extremes: victim or fantasy, sin or spectacle.

Complexity is rarely allowed space.

This project started as a political inquiry, a refusal to let a woman be defined by the projections

that men place upon her. Through Masha, it explores the boundary between performance,

identity and control. The stage is a space where the body is exposed but not therefore stripped of

power; where the gaze exists, persists, consumes - but doesn't possess.

Over time, the work transformed. What began as investigation became intimacy. The camera

stopped being a tool of exposure and became one of listening - gathering what silence makes

visible. From our home in London to New York City, Berlin to the domestic spaces of Hannover,

the project follows what happens before and after the performance: labour, exhaustion, waiting,

tenderness, friendship, and the quiet strength required to exist beyond what others choose to

see.

There Is No Sex is about power, control, friendship, body, freedom. And above all, it is about a

woman who refuses to be defined by anyone but herself.