This February, we celebrate five incredible years of changing the landscape of one of the most provocative industries on the planet and becoming your go-to destination for all things sexual.
Since our launch in 2017, Bellesa has become the most visited porn site by women in the world. Our online community is now home to an ever-growing collection of free adult videos from Bellesa’s award-winning, female-run studios. Beauty house And Beauty movies, erotic fiction, Articles on sex educationas well as our award-winning sex toy store: Bboutique.
Of course, none of this would have been possible without you. From day one, we’ve been passionate about creating a safe and inclusive space for our community to explore their sexuality and thrive while celebrating their unique identities. What we never could have imagined is how much you’d be willing to give back to shape this space.
Because Bellesa wouldn’t be what it is today without YOU. From the countless emails and private messages with comments, suggestions, love and support over the years to saving our beloved Instagram account, you all are the true MVPs.
Now, we look back at the moments that have defined the last five years for us and reflect on the incredible time we’ve had so far.
2017: Beauty is born
From the beginning, our goal has been to break down barriers around female-centric sexuality by changing the way sex is represented online. Bellesa was created to answer the question: “If adult entertainment was created with a woman’s vision in mind from day one, forgetting all the frames, norms, and scripts, what would it look like?”
And so the first version of the Bellesa website was born, which kicked off this story. Before the end of the year, the first film studio project Bellesa Productions was announced.
2018: Presentation of the store
As we wrapped up our first year, Bellesa also celebrated a first Valentine’s Day with you! And what better way to honor this partnership than by giving back. For every hour spent watching videos or reading erotica on the site that day, $1 was donated to Planned Parenthood.
It was during this year that we also opened the virtual doors to Bboutiquethe online sex toy store, and introduced Bellesa’s flagship and best-selling vibrator, Dawn.
2019: Critically acclaimed
In 2019 we took new steps. Bellesa partnered with the famous and incredible Jacky St Jameswho became our Director for Bellesa Films and has been the woman behind the camera for all of Bellesa’s video magic ever since.
That year, at the 37th AVN Awards, Bellesa Films received five nominations. Following the success of this first AVN Awards presentation, the next project was announced: Bellesa House.
2020: A WAP-er Year
As a subsidiary of Bellesa Films, Bellesa House took the porn revolution a step further, inviting actors to choose their own partners and set the tone and pace of their shoot.
The goal was to bring together on set people who really wanted to work together without any dialogue or fuss; just to have a good time having real sex, without a script, in any way. they The results were nothing short of magical, and others agreed. Bellesa won the AVN Award for Best New Production Banner.
This year has also been full of sex toys and partnerships. We teamed up with Buzzfeed to create one of our most popular sex toys yet: the AirVibe. And after offering Cardi B a Five-tiered WAP cake and dozens of luxury vibratorswe teamed up with her to make her 28th birthday a WAP success — by send all his guests home with brand new vibrators.
And as if that were not enough, to close this year, we launched Beauty PlusBellesa’s Netflix of Porn streaming service, featuring over 50 premium porn channels including Bellesa Films and Bellesa House, the full library of written and audio erotica, interactive sex education, community groups and VIP sex toy offerings at the BBoutique.
2021: Leading partnerships
In February, we unveiled our “Pay what you want” payment plan for Bellesa Plus, which allows users to pay what they want for their porn. Because we believe everyone should have access to ethical porn, regardless of their budget.
Around the same time, we had another awesome collaboration with Buzzfeed in the form of Pebbleprobably our cutest suction toy yet. We launched Audio Erotica on Bellesa Plus. Our BIPOC Creators Program was announced to empower creators of color to create the content they to want to achieve, by providing them with the resources necessary to achieve this. Bellesa Blind Datea concept studio that takes authenticity and the “whatever happens on camera, happens” principle even further by hosting on-set blind dates with porn actors, has debuted.
Another big year for community expansion as well, as we partnered with powerhouses like Ashley Benson And Jumped up. Not to mention the fact that the Bellesa community as a whole really showed their power: Instagram tried to take us down, but this Bellesa community is too powerful. The bbs came to the rescue and restored our Instagram account in record time.
And before we wrap up the year, we were thrilled to announce our biggest and most exciting partnership yet — teams up with Demi Lovato to help them create their own sex toyWith them, the Half baguette was designed to empower everyone, regardless of gender. Because your pleasure is your birthright, no matter who you are.
2022: On the road to the future!
So here we are at the end of Bellesa’s fifth year, and there are absolutely no signs of slowing down.
Our BBoutique won the AVN Online Retailer of the Year Award and the XBIZ Progressive Pleasure Products Company of the Year Award. We just launched our brand new Erotic Beauty Podcastwith the hottest erotic stories in audio format for your listening pleasure. And we can’t wait to celebrate another Valentine’s Day with you — we have all kinds of great deals and bargains here to help you get in the mood this year!
We’ve come a long way together and we’re really looking forward to what’s next.