ALLURE: This is your main motivation for doing the work you do, right? So many kids are learning about sex from watching this stuff. E.L.: I definitely made this film with the intention to arouse, because that's what I do. It's just another kind of arousal than what we are used to. Most of the XConfessions stories are fictional, but lately, I've been making films in which we get to know real couples and we get to see the kind of sex they have in their ordinary lives. The idea is that these documentaries will show you different ideas around sex, because I think that people — we have so many questions. E.L.: They watch it and then they reproduce in their real lives what they see. We need to educate children better. I'm not going to send my daughters to a bar without talking to them about alcohol and drugs and the risk of leaving your glass somewhere, but we tend to leave children with access to the Internet without talking to them about what that involves.

ALLURE: We’re living longer lives than ever before, so watching John and Annie gives me hope that my sex life will be long, too. Also, I love that they both got turned on to this particular form of lovemaking later in life. ALLURE: In the past 10 years, mainstream pornography has lost the beauty of filmmaking and eroticism. It’s all videos showing body parts. We lost the idea of actually seeing people have sex, which is really about connection, right? E.L.: Exactly. That's not at all what I wanted to do. I just wanted to make an honest movie showing two people and their wonderful relationship. John and Annie’s concept of "soul sex" is such a powerful message. It’s really about the importance, for a long-lasting couple, of touching each other every day. When we stop doing that, we stop desiring each other, and we stop having this special relationship. It’s a powerful approach, especially in this world we live in, where everything is so fast and furious. "Four minutes! Bam! Bam! Bam! Go! Go! Go!" Through the lens of mainstream pornography, sex has become something so aggressive. It's only about hard penetration. E.L.: Yes, after other people dying around them, even. Annie lost two partners to cancer. She and John met five years ago, so they’re still a new couple, in a way. When you see people of that age, you tend to assume that they've been together for a long time. But no — later on in life, you can have other experiences with new people and evolve, sexually and as human beings.