An adult film star who was brought up in a feminist household has said porn is 'her calling' and a 'dream' career.

Berlin-based Paulita Pappel says she has always wanted to work in the sex industry and loves getting paid to travel the world to film on location.

Appearing in the BBC Three show What I Wish I Knew About Porn, she said: ‘You go somewhere, you have a great shoot on location with a great group of people, and you have amazing sex, then you get food, then you’re being paid really well.

'I think “this is so gorgeous, why would I not want to do this?” It is a f***ing dream. It was absolutely my calling to go into porn.'

Berlin-based Paulita Pappel is a feminist porn star who says it's her dream career and wouldn't want it any other way

Originally from Spain, the performer and director has dedicated her life to making the porn industry a better place for women.

Listed as a 'pornographer, performer and filmmaker' on Twitter, Paulita also runs a pay-for-play site called Ersties, which features work produced by female film students and photographers.

Paulita insists she is on a mission to make the traditionally macho industry more 'authentic' for women, explaining: 'I don’t want to live in a world where shooting porn has a negative impact.

'So if that’s the way we’re living, I am going to do porn and I am going to try and change that world.

'What I wish I’d known about porn from the very beginning is how empowering and wonderful it can feel personally.'

The adult film star said she knew from a young age that she wanted to become an adult film actress

Growing up, Paulita was told that becoming involved in sex work amounted to patriarchal exploitation, which left her conflicted, because she wanted to pursue a career in porn but didn't want to betray her upbringing.

‘I always felt a huge fascination for porn but I was raised as a second-wave feminist, so I thought every kind of sex work, like pornography, was to enable the patriarchy to exploit women,' she said. 'I thought that it was wrong.'

Having a good relationship with her parents was important to Paulita and when she decided to share with them that she had become a porn star they were initially worried, she said.

'I came out first to my father last year who was really supportive and really understood. With my mother it was a little bit more difficult because she was worried of course, for me, for good reasons.'

Paulita wants to help shed the stigma attached to working in the sex industry by making it positive

As a young teenager, Paulita was desperate to get into the adult industry but struggled to find work she felt safe in after initially having tried webcam work and a sex phone line job.

‘The people that I encountered did not give me the feeling that I was in control of everything that was happening, so I didn’t feel safe enough to do it,' she aid.

‘And that is a contradiction, like when we are talking about feminism or talking about the empowerment of women and sexuality does play a big role in our lives and that is what all kinds of systems have been oppressing.'

Paulita wants to help shatter the stigma surrounding porn, and insists it is not a contradiction to be both a feminist and a porn director.

'I think it is very problematic to always differentiate between feminist porn and mainstream porn, because that somehow reinforces the idea that mainstream porn is bad,' she said.

What I Wish I'd Known About Porn is available to watch now on BBC Three’s YouTube channel