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Sex, Not Porn

By on October 27, 2012

Cindy Gallop Article 4

Gallop’s project is interesting because it highlights the many different ways that there are to have sex–romantically, angrily, lazily, bored-ly, with seven other people, alone, blindfolded, with toys, whatever–and suggests that people can move, fluidly and without too much angst, from any one of those categories at any time, and that doing so says exactly nothing about you as a person or even as a sexual being. Meaning: sometimes I want to eat apples, sometimes I want to eat pears, and sometimes I want both at once. To read too much into that would be a waste of your time.

Next, I’m interested in the notion that this project–if successful–might help debunk hardcore porn’s most invidious suggestion: that sex is for thin white people. Non-white porn stars are called out, constantly, for being non-white. They’re not people who fuck on camera, they’re “horny Asian schoolgirls” or “slutty Latinas” or a “thick chocolate cocks.” In porn, white is the default, the apex: Faye Reagan has never once been described as a “horny white schoolgirl,” and even Joanna Angel doesn’t get labeled “slutty Jew.” She appears white, which, porn would like us to believe, is the norm: White people getting it on, just like on mainstream TV. Similar attitudes apply to body types. Porn stars with–wait for it–natural bodies are called out for it, relegated to the realm of “fetish,” as though it is an unnatural kink or perversion to be into a woman with a little junk in the trunk, or a flat chest, or full-body tats.

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