Described as being “made by women, for the world,” Quinn was designed to help listeners be a main character in their fantasy, with stories putting female pleasure at the forefront. Now, the app has recruited Hollywood stars.
Amid a growing demand for romance content, the collaborations offer all the titillation of a traditional bodice ripper with the extra spice of having a well-known voice spin sexual scenarios directly into your ear, with lines like, “I wanted her to strip me, straddle me, lay me bare,” “Can you open your legs for me?” and “That’s my good girl.”
Talk Dirty to Me: Inside Hollywood’s Audio Erotica Craze
Stars from Andrew Scott to Katherine Moennig and Chris Briney have been enlisted to moan, groan and narrate steamy stories for the booming audio erotica app Quinn.
“You deserve to be loved and thoroughly ruined” is not necessarily something The Summer I Turned Pretty fans would expect to hear the show’s star Chris Briney tell them. But in a world where celebs can inspire parasocial relationships and fan fiction, the 27-year-old actor and other hot stars are giving voice to such fantasies.
Briney, Andrew Scott, Manny Jacinto, Tom Blyth, Jamie Campbell Bower, Victoria Pedretti, Jesse Williams, Lucien Laviscount, Thomas Doherty and Katherine Moennig are among the actors who have sultrily lent their voices to original audio erotica stories on the app Quinn.. .
[. . .] While there are numerous platforms and approaches for audio erotica, Quinn is composed of entirely creator-driven content with a Spotify-like model of letting users follow favorite creators and offering curated recommendations. Adding collaborations with stars has given it mainstream appeal.
Says Spiegel: “It’s storytelling without a prescriptive visual. It’s very freeing. For sexually explicit content, it’s really important because sexy looks different to everyone.” The intent of enlisting Hollywood talent was to offer a way to share audio erotica that “felt approachable and not intimidating.”
Having raised $13.5 million from venture capital firms and launching in 2021, the app now has “hundreds of thousands of subscribers,” she says, 80% between the ages of 24 and 30.
In each of the stories, the actor directly addresses the listener, who is thereby cast as the main character and sex-scene partner. Stories can vary from a sapphic spy drama to a medieval romance to a passionate tryst on the beach.
Quinn tends to pitch to stars “with a large, engaged female fan base.” Topping app listeners’ wish list for narrators, according to user feedback? Pedro Pascal, Dev Patel, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jensen Ackles. The most successful narrators thus far have been Briney, Williams and Bower, says Spiegel.
With a growing roster of celebrity narrators, Spiegel says getting top talent to say yes is still an uphill battle. “Around 50 percent of our pitches get entertained. But we are improving that every day,” Spiegel adds. “I would say people either get the message or they don’t.”
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