Ever notice how you very, very, very, very rarely see a black in porn unless the colour is referenced in the title? Makers of porn find it unfathomable to cast black talent unless it constitutes a bankable niche; in other words, perpetuates a stereotype they have fostered.
Every reason given on the lack of colour in porno stinks of repressed racism. They claim: there are no black models (yeah right! In Iceland!); the females don't want to work with black guys (then ditch the barbies and hire some black girls...for a change); black models can't perform (huh?!); they're unclean or unclean-looking (the Jew, Ron Jeremy, anyone?!); blacks don't contact them for work; or blacks just don't sell.
Every one of these lines of bullshit were once de riguer in Hollywood; And we know the racist history of the silver screen the small screen, the stage, the Vaudeville stage, and Las Vegas spectaculars. In step with show biz fifty years ago, the porno industry maintains racist preferences. So why give them a free pass?
Look closer at the studios. Vivid, Vixen, Falcon, BrazzersNetwork, Sean Cody, Jake Cruise, Cocky Guyz, Perfect Guyz, Future Works, Lucas Entertainment, Corbin Fischer, Sensual Box, Dirk Yates, Adam & Eve, Metro, Jet Set to name a few.
Not eight token blacks between them. Lily white!Lucas Entertainment works out of NYC. Surely there are black performers in the Big Apple, but, nope, its videos remain lily white...with a Latino butt thrown in for good (brown)measure. As far as Cocky Guyz or Perfect Guyz go, it's left unstated the casting couch only has room for cocky WHITE guys and perfect WHITE guys.
Black performer X could fuck just as well in "Sheepless In Montana" or "Space Balls" as he can in "Black Sheepless In Montana" or "Black Space Balls". If porn really wants to puff its chest about being mainstream and open-minded, then it needs to first take the, apparently, big step into the 21st Century and stop denigrating/relegating people of colour to gang-rape parts.
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I have photographed a lot of African American models who say the same thing about the major porn companies. Sad to say that discrimination still occurs in 2008.
ReplyDeleteWish more models (and consumers) raised their voices to complain.
ReplyDeleteMost product cranked out by the porn industry is dreadful, it's not a vocation full of visionaries.
ReplyDeleteThe challenge is to search for a few gems in the muck of the adult business. And even then it comes down to personal taste.
There is a market for interracial porn, that has been proven. That doesn't mean the business is delivering quality product though... but neither are all the other sub-genres of porn.
I truly believe porn follows the dollars though... if the public vote with their wallets, the adult industry will react.
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