www.lukeisback.comArena magazine has a feature on racism in porn. Clip clip clip.
Arena journalist Justin Quirk writes: "But incredibly, in the US, none of the biggest studio-contracted-stars, Jenna Jameson, Tera Patrick, Devon, Jesse Jane, etc -- do interracial. This anachronistic trend is inextricably linked with the rise of authoritarian Christian republicanism in America."
This is bollocks. The biggest porn stars have rarely done interracial (for the past 35 years, as long as there have been porn stars). This is not a trend. And it has nothing to do with "authoritarian Christian republicanism," whatever that is. What precisely is authoritarian about the Christian Right? They want to diminish your freedom to have an abortion and to consume porn. Aside from that, what established freedoms are they threatening?
The freedom-loving Justin Quirk writes:
Overt racism in US porn is nothing new. Black/white bigotry was evident in a much more base aspect into the early 1990s, with even [Lexington] Steele having his head superimposed on a monkey's body on the covers of some of his earliest films. Thankfully, this kind of rubbish is largely a thing of the past: it's difficult to imagine anyone today getting away with a production like Gregory Dark's Let Me Tell Ya About Black Chicks (1985) which culminated in a black woman getting double-penetrated by two white men in KKK robes.
So Quirk, who earlier argued against Christian authoritarianism, is now rejoicing that filmmakers have less freedom to create today than 20-years ago. Quirk and his leftist ilk do not care about freedom. They care about legislating their morality. That's fine. I and those on the Right want to legislate our morality as well. What matters is the specifics of what we want to legislate. Freedom is a great value. It is not the ultimate one (unless you are a libertarian).
In my 2004 book The Producers: Profiles in Frustration, I learned that filmmakers have far less freedom to create today than in the 1950s. Is the Right behind Political Correctness? Is it the Right that pushes Hollywood to only put cigarettes in the hands of bad guys?
Quirk writes:
Sadly, echoes of this racial stereotyping still exist today, albeit in a more insidious form -- even among the directors who do shoot interracial. Films like Gangland play on the staple right-wing stereotype of white women straying into bad neighborhoods and falling foul of marauding packs of African-Americans...
What if the stereotype is factually correct? Do you hear about gangs of white men raping black women? The instances of black men raping white women are far higher in the United States than white men raping black women.
Even Jesse Jackson said that if he was walking in a bad part of town and he saw a gang of youths following him, he'd worry if they were black.
Is it the fault of whites that blacks in the US commit a disproportionate rate of violent crime?
What do you think would happen if a young attractive women walked alone through a bad black neighborhood? The brothers would want to discuss poetry with her?
I'd love to see Justin Quirk (and those who think like him) send their young white attractive female loved-ones alone into tough black neighborhoods and let these girls walk around for a few hours and see what happens to them.
The biggest problem with that scenario is that the innocent women would pay the price for Quirk's willful stupidity.
Remember the Chris Rock joke -- what do you say to someone who calls you and says, "I'm on Martin Luther King Blvd. I'm lost. What should I do?" Run!
Is it the fault of whites or Christians that most Martin Luther King Blvds (wherever they are in the United States) are not somewhere most people would like to live? The real estate is cheap. I wonder why?
There are many interesting related issues here. Would you like to live on Hooker Alley? Would you like to live on a street where there are lots of sex shops? Would you like to live in a community where the average person spends two hours a day masturbating to pornography? If you are a pornographer, would you like to live among your most ardent fans?
Note how in the Arena article Lexington Steele is portrayed in only the glowing terms. This is typical white leftist patronizing of blacks.
Lex is not a saint.
I've only had positive interactions with the guy. I like him. He's number one at what he does, but he's a complete human being. How many porn girls have started bleeding from having sex with Lex (because he's so big)? A lot. I've seen it a couple of times on set. They bleed, not because Lex is vicious, but because he's abnormally big and many women can't comfortably accommodate his penis.
Why is busting open chicks (white or black) till they bleed a good thing?
Quirk writes: "Meanwhile, in an equally blatant act of discrimination, black female performers are routinely paid 25 per cent less than their white counterparts."
That's because consumers prefer to buy porn starring non-black women. Performers are free to sell their services on the open market. If there's an extraordinary profit to be made from shooting black chicks, plenty of pornographers will shoot them.
Life discriminates. For instance, white women are far more likely to date black men than white men are to date black women. White men are more interested in dating Asian women than black women.
The biggest porn stars have always been white. The most popular beauties and movie stars in the world have always been white. This is not an American phenomenon. Aside from a handful of exceptions, black leads don't create box office either in the US or overseas. Few non-blacks watch TV starring blacks (the Cosby Show as an exception).
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