- Can Porn Stars Stay Faithful? (The Daily Beast)
Porn stars handle monogamy differently than most. Even though going to work means having sex with various partners, porn stars in committed relationships often consider those monogamous. Paid sex counts as work, so any sexual encounters on the job shouldn’t count. Not emotionally, anyway.
Porn star Aurora Snow has a really interesting take on monogamy while working in the porn industry. It can be hard to be in a relationship with someone who doesn’t want to hear about your day at work, because then you’re not sharing your life with your partner. It can be easier to date a fellow porn star for that reason, because at least they understand the industry and you don’t have to defend or explain your work to them. On the flip side, some porn stars prefer dating civilians, because as it turns out they wouldn’t be able to handle dating someone who was having sex with multiple partners.
“I struggled with the reality of telling my family about my increasing involvement in the adult industry,” Lee writes in the Introduction.
“Were others out to their parents? How did they talk about it to their siblings? What could I learn from their experiences? In asking the questions, I’d hit a nerve. Everyone had a story to tell.”
Adult performer Jiz Lee has a book due to be published in September called “Coming Out Like A Porn Star.” You guessed it, it’s about how porn stars talk to the friends and family about being in the porno industry and how they handle it. It contains coming out stories from more than 50 professionals in the XXX biz and is sure to be a hit. I personally can’t wait to get my hands on it. Plus, that book cover is absolutely bitchin’.
Even within the last two years, Griffith sees some change in the industry. “It is starting to come up where people are doing just porn.” She laughs, “With people of different races! Would you look at that!” The fantasy of color-blind sex may seem unattainable, but figuring out how to market adult entertainment in a way that resists racism could be a force for good. Griffith suggests that part of it is simply, as she says, “a focus on making the [performers of color] seem more human.” She pauses, “Like, we need to remind people that we’re human.”
Janice Griffith is of Indo-Caribbean descent, but within the porn industry she is often fetishized for her skin color and classified as Latina. Actually, it depends what site you look at and what category you are looking for, because Janice has been classified as Egyptian, Dominican, half-black, and half-Chinese. It all depends on which label is the most marketable.
Like a lot of people, in and out of the business, Janice isn’t cool with the fetishization of ethnicity, but Internet search terms make it almost impossible to do away with that sort of classification on porn sites. Porn sites create categories based on the terms people use when searching for porn and if classifying everyone with brown skin in the Latina category will attract more viewers that’s what they will do. The problem isn’t that the porn industry is racist, but that society itself is racist and the latter influences the former.
Image: Janice Griffith & Danny D in Fine, I’ll Just Fuck My Stepdad! by Brazzers
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