Chris Briney, Jesse Williams, Kate Moennig, and Tom Blyth Courtesy of Quinn (4) Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment "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. Related Stories TV Jamie Campbell Bower Makes Surprise Cameo in 'Stranger Things' Broadway Play Movies Disney's Live-Action 'Tangled:' Sarah Catherine Hook, Teagan Croft, Freya Skye and Olivia-Mai Barrett Up for Rapunzel Role (Exclusive) 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. 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 Ari Michelson/Courtesy of Subject 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 Quinn. If audio could do that for me, I thought many others might be looking for the same thing," she says. After deciding to cultivate her own solution for the loss of desire with Quinn, Spiegel learned that pitching the idea to investors at the time proved to be a guessing game. "I have found that you can really never judge a book by its cover in this realm. I would go into meetings with certain investors who had a reputation of being cool young investors, and they would be totally prudish and put off by Quinn," she recalls. "Then I would go talk to some older, more buttoned up people, and they would totally get it and vice versa. So, you can't anticipate what people's relationship to sex and shame is." Andrew Scott narrates The Queen's Guard. Courtesy of Quinn Having raised $13.5 million from venture capital firms and launching in 2021, the app now has "hundreds of thousands of subscribers," she says, 80 percent between the ages of 24 and 30. While there are numerous platforms and approaches for audio erotica, Quinn is composed of entirely creator-driven content with a Spotify-like model of letting users follow favorite creators and offering curated recommendations. Adding collaborations with stars has given it mainstream appeal. Says Spiegel: "It's storytelling without a prescriptive visual. It's very freeing. For sexually explicit content, it's really important because sexy looks different to everyone." The intent of enlisting Hollywood talent was to offer a way to share audio erotica that "felt approachable and not intimidating." In each of the stories, the actor directly addresses the listener, who is thereby cast as the main character and sex-scene partner. Stories can vary from a sapphic spy drama to a medieval romance to a passionate tryst on the beach. Quinn tends to pitch to stars "with a large, engaged female fan base." Topping app listeners' wish list for narrators, according to user feedback? Pedro Pascal, Dev Patel, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jensen Ackles. The most successful narrators thus far have been Briney, Williams and Bower, says Spiegel. With a growing roster of celebrity narrators, Spiegel says getting