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May 3, 2006
Would you do interracial?
(Warning: some of the links here are NSFW.)
First off, I would like to say that I would like to see Tristan Taormino's House of Ass (HoA), if only for the interview with Mr. Marcus where he discusses racism in the porn industry. I've heard so much about this work as groundbreaking that I am compelled to rent it, skip the sex bits and listen to the interviews, like Susie Bright did. Susie and her commenters make a few points that I would like to discuss here.
HoA is a porn flick/reality show where, as Taormino says "people stop being polite and start getting naked". Joanna Angel seems taken aback when she was asked if she would do interracial. She said no, because she hadn't done it in her real life. Fair enough, but then it [almost immediately] occurred to me: Is fucking a black person (if you're white at least) on the same level as assfucking? Just another kink? Is having sex with a <lame> cock-asian </lame> person a sexual practice or a sexual preference? In particular, it seems to me that sex performers, as those in front of the porn camera actually are, would be concerned about things such as how many cocks they can fit inside themselves rather than skin colour. Think of it this way: A skater wants to be in the Ice Capades. She should probably think about whether or not she can pull off that triple-triple than about whether or not her co-skaters are black. Or Scandinavian, for that matter. At least, it should be much more of a concern.
Now I realize that that this is sex and not skating, and that people have their own tastes that greatly influence who they have sex with. However, Angel gave the lame excuse that since she hadn't done it in real life, she didn't want to do it on screen. She wasn't asked whether or not her coworkers were of German origin, Canadians or Slovaks, though, and I doubt that she's fucked ALL Caucasoids, and even if she has, did she know that this guy was Armenian and that girl Czech? So why, even in the apparently sexual free-for-all known as the American porn industry does it matter whether or not a performer, particularly a male one, is black?
More broadly, are white people that date black people seen as a) progressive; b) kinky; c) racist; or d) traitors (another brand of racism)? All of the above and more I imagine, depending on where you are from, what your socio-economic class is and other factors. I can tell you from experience (although my humility and other less noble traits force me to deny it; that's a whole other post) that there is a definite, largely unwarranted and undeserved kinky curiosity that arises from many white women towards black men.
I would like to know what Mr. Marcus' experiences are in the industry, as well as what the performers think about what they are doing and to whom they are peddling when they appear in movie series such as the "Blackzilla" series. I would like to hear from the producers and directors, and even the consumers as well. I would guess that most of these people don't really think about the racist overtones in porn any more than they do in any other entertainment medium* or any aspect of life. They probably think that interracial porn is cool because hand-picked big dicks (there's a tagline) slamming into small white bodies is seen as intense, which it is when you consider the casting a direction of there movies. Don't forget, though, that the porn industry is simply much more honest about how it views minorities than the rest of society. I doubt that it is a whole lot different outside. I bet that mainstream actresses get asked about doing sex scenes with black men. That reminds me, where would I find mainstream interracial sex scenes? And are there any black porn directors?
Well, until we stop seeing everything through a white lens, I suppose this type of thing has to continue.
Posted by JonasParker at May 3, 2006 2:07 AM
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