For Lucie Bee, the strangest thing that has ever happened on a porn set was the time a pair of window washers materialised at a high-rise window.

"They stopped, we stopped," she says.

"We just stopped in place for a really long time."

"I waved, which is awkward when someone's face is between your thighs, they waved, washed the windows, waved again, down they went."

A majority of young Australians watch porn but few have been on a porn set or been able to ask the porn stars questions like what they think of their work, whether they have a partner, if their parents know what they do, or how the work affects their sex life.

Ahead of the TV special Australians on Porn, tonight at 9.30pm on ABC2, Hack visited a Brisbane porn set where Lucie was filming a "virtual reality point-of-view" scene with Kim Cums and Ryan James. This is the first time all three have worked together. Kim, who has a partner of four years, first met Ryan when he was the male entertainment at a friend's birthday party.

"And then a few months later I rocked up to my very first porn set and he was there," she says. "The entire adult industry in Australia is quite small."

Ryan, who's parents know about his work, and don't talk about to him about it, first took part in a porn shoot two years ago. "People think you need to be super confident, but that wasn't me," he says. "I turned up, they said all right, take your clothes off, and I'm like what in front of anyone?"

"At the start I was very very nervous."

The interview came shortly after scandal hit the US porn industry, with porn star James Deen accused of rape and sexual assault by nine women, including his ex-girlfriend, Stoya.

Skip Twitter Tweet FireFox NVDA users - To access the following content, press 'M' to enter the iFrame. James Deen held me down and fucked me while I said no, stop, used my safeword. I just can't nod and smile when people bring him up anymore. — Stoya (@stoya) November 28, 2015

James Deen said the allegations were false and defamatory.

Lucie says she has not heard of anything like this happening in the Australian industry, and this was because there were fewer companies and the focus was on "ethical porn".

"The industry is quite female-dominated," she says. "Porn companies have to encourage women to work with them.

"And if those women don't feel safe then that's going to be a problem for them."

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How hard is it making porn?

Ryan: There seems to be an inverse correlation between how cocky a guy is about how well he would do in porn and how good he actually turns out to be.

Lucie: We do struggle to find guys. It's an attitude thing. You really have to be prepared to be a professional and a lot of people seem to think they can come in be like 'yeahhhhh'.

I get emails asking me to how to get into porn. Generally speaking if you want to get involved in porn you should be googling Australian porn companies and then send them a polite email like any other job, introduce yourself, explain why you would like to get involved in porn.

Kim: A lot of the guys do come in and expect an American style, 'oh yeah, I'm big, that's all that's required of me,' type of attitude and then they are quite surprised when the producers say 'hey you need to be really nice and polite and respectful'.

How do you stay aroused?

Ryan: It's a lot of practice. You do get used to it a bit and you do concentrate on what you are doing and you usually are with someone who is quite attractive, so that does help.

Lucie: And there is no such thing as a fluffer.

Is porn either degrading to women or giving guys really unrealistic expectations of what happens in the bedroom?

Lucie: If you are not educating young people about sex and about how to differentiate between fantasy and reality, and the notion that what works for one person might not work for every person you're having sex with, then there are going to be problems. Also, I don't think society gets to dictate what's degrading to me. If something is degrading to me I'm probably not going to do it.

Kim: It's a great way to fulfill those fantasies without putting pressure on your partner to be the one that's fulfilling those fantasies before you.

But I think the other main issue is that people don't separate what happens on camera from what's happening off-set. Which is where things like post scene and pre scene interviews have become really popular say in the last five years. They do pre and post interviews with the performers and they're saying 'yes, I consented to this, I enjoy this'. They are probably genuinely in pain for a lot of those scenes but it was something they are consenting to and something they are enjoying.

Lucie: A lot of people accuse porn of destroying relationships but I think the fact we're not talking about sex and normalising stuff is destroying relationships.

When you are able to sit down with someone and watch porn and communicate about what makes you tick I think that's a really good sign of trust.

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How different is porn sex to other sex?

Ryan: They're two completely separate acts. On camera it's a performance. What you're doing is for the benefit of the camera and what is going to be viewed online.

Lucie: It's not about your pleasure.

I think there's a crossover between the sex I watch and the sex I have. It definitely gives me some interesting ideas.

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What happens when you walk on set?

Kim: There will often be a position run through to say 'hey, here we have three people in the scene and this is the room and the furniture that we are working with,' and we will play out some angles while we're still clothed.

Lucie: Even guys might need to go into hair and make-up.

Even if you are using condoms in a scene, out of respect you will be getting sexual health tests done, usually within about two weeks of the shoot.

Everyone will see each other's tests, sign a lot of paperwork, release forms. And then we'll do on-set photos. We'll do a whole bunch of photos that will feature us in all of the positions we plan to do in the scene.

Ryan: It might be really intimate and then they're like freeze and you're like kissing someone or actually having sex with someone. And they're like move slightly.

Kim: Just pull out.

Ryan: You'll do it in like every position and they might take 30 - 50 photos.

Lucie: And it never always goes entirely to plan. When you're getting to the actual sex itself, generally speaking, it turns into a bit of a free for all. You might have planned to do doggystyle over the back of the couch, but you probably won't end up doing it that way.

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How much do you get paid?

Kim: The industry is quite small here in Australia so there aren't a lot of companies that film to begin with and there aren't a lot of companies that film that regularly. There are only about two companies that film full time and even then you're making a few hundred dollars typically per scene.

Lucie: Guys get paid less.

Do any of you have partners?

Kim: I do, for four years now. He's like really really supportive.

I started doing web-camming when we were still long distance in different countries and then he supported my steps into the adult industry after I moved here.

So he's been with me the whole time.

We came together in kink and since I've always been a bit of an exhibitionist and we have quite an open relationship my job fits in quite well. He likes to hear stories about what's happening on sets and he would be quite disappointed otherwise.

What do your parents think?

Lucie: My mother has known about my adult career since it started. I was really panicky talking to my grandmother about it. I honestly thought she was going to disown me and then I burst into tears, told her, and she looked at me and said, 'I know.'

She said I'm not here to judge you, that's not what unconditional love is, as long as you're safe and you're happy and you're healthy that's all that matters to us.

Kim: I haven't told them yet. I've been working on my master thesis for the past few years. It's an anthropological piece on the Australian sex industry. I haven't exactly told them what I've been so busy with. I'm planning on mailing them a copy and turning off all my emails and phones for a few weeks while they freak out.

Ryan: You just want to capture the look of realisation on their face.

My parents know what I do. It's not what they would pick for me. But I'm doing quite well for myself. We don't talk about work.

Skip Twitter Tweet FireFox NVDA users - To access the following content, press 'M' to enter the iFrame. My teachers always said I could never finish what I started. To prove them wrong I made a career out of finishing. — Ryan James (@ryanjamessydney) October 13, 2015

What do you love about porn?

Kim: I'm a big exhibitionist so I really quite like being on camera and getting to express my sexuality and getting to share that with a larger audience.

Lucie: I'm a hedonist, so I love pleasure. I love to be involved in the creation and the realisation of people's fantasies. But porn has done a lot for me personally, I've never felt more confident in my body or in my own skin and my own sexuality than I do now.

Ryan: I like creating something. I enjoy meeting all the people, or the community that there is and getting to meet all different sorts of people, getting to travel around Australia, even around the world, meet a whole variety of people I wouldn't never otherwise have met.

And, at the end of the day it is just fun to make.

Interview has been edited for clarity.