Talk Dirty to Me
Inside Hollywood’s Audio Erotica Craze
Talk Dirty to Me: Inside Hollywood’s Audio Erotica Craze
Stars from Andrew Scott to Katherine Moennig and Chris Briney have been enlisted to moan, groan and narrate steamy stories for the booming audio erotica app Quinn.
By Lexy Perez
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December 20, 2025 10:00am
“You deserve to be loved and thoroughly ruined” is not necessarily something The Summer I Turned Pretty fans would expect to hear the show’s star Chris Briney tell them. But in a world where celebs can inspire parasocial relationships and fan fiction, the 27-year-old actor and other hot stars are giving voice to such fantasies.
Briney, Andrew Scott, Manny Jacinto, Tom Blyth, Jamie Campbell Bower, Victoria Pedretti, Jesse Williams, Lucien Laviscount, Thomas Doherty and Katherine Moennig are among the actors who have sultrily lent their voices to original audio erotica stories on the app Quinn.
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Described as being “made by women, for the world,” Quinn was designed to help listeners be a main character in their fantasy, with stories putting female pleasure at the forefront. Now, the app has recruited Hollywood stars.
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Amid a growing demand for romance content, the collaborations offer all the titillation of a traditional bodice ripper with the extra spice of having a well-known voice spin sexual scenarios directly into your ear, with lines like, “I wanted her to strip me, straddle me, lay me bare,” “Can you open your legs for me?” and “That’s my good girl.”
Quinn founder Caroline Spiegel — sister of Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel — launched the app in 2021 and began enlisting Hollywood talent last year. The first recruit was Scott, aka Hot Priest from Fleabag. “They sort of started to really be a key marketing initiative for us,” Spiegel tells The Hollywood Reporter of the strategy. “I think it’s been just so much more impactful that we could have realized.”
Audio erotica proved to be impactful too for Spiegel, who after feeling like nothing was “made for women with women in mind” discovered the audio erotica landscape after her personal journey with an eating disorder, experiencing a loss of libido and struggling to feel “connected” to her body. “Visual erotic content made me feel more disconnected,” she explains. But after hearing audio erotica on “niche internet communities” like on Reddit or Tumblr, Spiegel says the difference was notable.
“It was rooted in storytelling and imagination, and it didn’t trigger comparison. That shift was meaningful for me, and it ultimately led to starting