FROM VIRGIN TO ADULT PERFORMER (SARAH ARABIC)

Doppelgängers Salma Hindy and Sarah Arabic (who share the SAME 9/11 birthday) finally sit down face-to-face to talk about everything sex. Sarah grew up in Baghdad with no sex education and a family that never spoke about periods, pleasure, or intimacy. After moving to Dubai for college, she found freedom in her dorm room, exploring porn as an unexpected form of sex education. At 18, she discovered her first orgasm through Tumblr blogs, teaching herself piece by piece. Later, she earned a master’s degree in finance, only to leave corporate America behind to follow her curiosity into OnlyFans, Fetlife, adult conventions, and eventually the adult film industry. Today, three years in, she has over a million Instagram followers and 53M views on Pornhub.

In this conversation, Sarah gets candid about the self-conversations that helped her shed guilt and shame and the way she’s built a career entirely on her own terms. She shares her philosophy that curiosity - not clout - is her compass, and why “the second prn feels like work is the beginning of my downfall.” We talk consent, boundaries, and risk, with Sarah’s refreshingly practical view: there’s always risk, in life and in sex, but each person gets to decide how much they’re willing to take.

Highlights include:
- How exploring the kink community shaped Sarah’s boundaries in porn
- What happens if you change your mind mid-shoot
- Sarah’s perspective on what makes sex sacred
- Her experiences traveling to shoot
- Why she loves staying single with a wide net of partners
- Why she won’t perform acts that aren’t her kink
- Her aftercare rituals
- Her perspective on Mia Khalifa’s legacy
- Whether the community will ever “take you back” after stepping outside its norms

Plus: Salma admits to watching one of Sarah’s videos, and Sarah shares her wildest DM request. Salma also opens up about her celibacy and the fears she carries around sex. They also dive into the only moral regret in Salma’s career, and her dream of one day directing feminist porn.

Sarah’s wish for other women is that they see her and think, “I can do whatever I want.”

CREDITS:

Host & Creator: Salma Hindy
Executive Producer: Salma Hindy
Cinematographer: Ian Ritter
Studio: 30 Irving Studios
Editor: Salma Hindy
Artwork: Rana Omar

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