By Peter Berton

MINNEAPOLIS – For those who fantasize about chaste Mormon lovelies having solo and lesbian sex, MormonGirlz.com is a … ahem … godsend.

Brooke Hunter is the driving force behind the niche website. A self-described Mormon lesbian, Hunter said she launched the online destination as both an erotic adventure and a political statement.

YNOT.com: What is Mormon Girlz all about?

Brooke Hunter: Mormon Girlz is the only place where you can find high-quality videos of beautiful sister missionaries having sex, solo and with each other. When you spend all of your time with another beautiful young girl and are forbidden even to kiss, it’s inevitable that the pent-up desire will explode. Mormon Girlz takes you behind the scenes as sister missionaries explore their sexual fantasies with each other.

Do Mormon girls have a special appeal?

[Lesbian sex between Mormons is] secret and unexpected. Mormon girls are raised to believe that they must remain chaste until marriage. Sex is only to be enjoyed between a husband and wife. Sexual purity is demanded of every girl who goes on a mission.

Mormon sister missionaries are wholesome girls who have chosen to spend 18 months serving the Lord full-time. Most of them are 19 years old when they begin their mission.

Sister missionaries are virgins when they begin their mission, and while they serve they are expected to remain pure in thought, word and deed. During their mission, there is no dating, no flirting, no masturbating and absolutely no sex. But sister missionaries have the same sexual urges as other girls.

You couldn’t make up a more erotic scenario.

As a self-identified Mormon lesbian, you must have special insight into the culture and the sexuality.

For sure. I’m very familiar with the strict rules, the obsession with a clean-cut and modest physical appearance, the spiritual longing and sexual repression, the guilt, the self-loathing and the confessions. All of that makes its ways into what I’m interested in filming.

Do you have actual Mormons on your site, or do models play the roles?

Both.

You also define yourself as a Mormon feminist. How does that play into the site’s content?

I want to document the sexual liberation of Mormon women and acknowledge the desires and fantasies Mormon women are often too ashamed to admit.

I think Mormon Girlz will open a public conversation about sexual taboos and restrictions within Mormon culture. The Mormon church forbids homosexuality. Masturbation is considered sinful. All sex outside of marriage puts one’s salvation and one’s church membership at risk.

Mormon Girlz hopes images and videos of Mormon girls enjoying various kinds of sex will break some of these taboos and model a healthier attitude about pleasure. Mormon Girlz is on a mission to “perfect the saints” — and to get them off, too.

What kind of reaction have you received from other Mormons?

Most Mormons think porn is inherently, evil and porn depicting Mormons is by nature blasphemous. They don’t want to see Mormon women represented this way, least of all their sweet, hard-working young sister missionaries.

Mormons are pretty secretive about the underwear — called garments — they wear. They don’t like to see them on the web. On the other hand, garments are so taboo that the concept turns a lot of people on. Some of the people who object loudly on message boards are also subscribing to the site.

We’ll see what the officials of the [Latter-Day Saints] church have to say about it. The release of the videos is particularly bad timing for the church, which has suffered recently from negative press surrounding its exclusion of women from church leadership and other sexist policies and beliefs.

A group of Mormons calling itself Ordain Women has staged a series of highly visible protests this year, and the church has responded by threatening the organization’s founder with excommunication. The disclosure of sister missionaries engaging in explicit sexual activity is sure to rock the faith to its core.

Have you tapped into a niche that could be extended to other religions and belief systems?

Absolutely. Breaking the rules is universally sexy. Add religious guilt of any flavor into the mix, and it’s even hotter.

Anytime you try to regulate people’s desires and impulses, you run into the same thing: erotic fascination around the taboos.