Throughout my sexual existence one of the subjects I have struggled to cope with is pornography. Any woman that considers herself progressive or even remotely interested in women’s role in society should consider what the proper role of females in porn is. Hell, men who have progressive views on women’s rights need to be thinking about it as well.
It’s nearly impossible to find business practice information about a company that specializes in “adult entertainment.” The only company I have found to be entirely transparent and open about their business is kink.com. Kink has set a standard for what a porn company should be. They have also taken the term sex positive and embraced it full circle.
Easy to find on their website are Shoot Guidelines letting the world know that things like ass to mouth, condom-less sex, and causing actual harm to models is not okay. Another easy to find document is Model Rights empowering models to stop a scene, and ask questions at any time if they are not comfortable. This is all without fearing non-payment for their time.
My goal in talking about this is not to sound like a kink.com fan girl. However, in looking for information about companies that specialize in pornographic material there is nobody else that has followed a similar model. There are companies one of which is Lupus Pictures who are *known* to treat their models well. They however do not make a point to provide easy access to information about business practices.
After business practices are sorted out I realize my last qualm is that it’s all women. You see women all over the place being sexualized, degraded, fucked, there is an obsession with the female body in pornography no matter where you get it from. While I have seen claims that gay porn makes up an inordinately large part of the market I am hard pressed to believe it. The gay porn wikipedia page cites an article from 1997 with regard to the amount of gay porn that exists. Seriously, 1997? Surely things have changed in the last ten years like, say, a huge boom in the use of the internet.
In the end I asked myself “What do you want to see, a woman masturbating or a man?” The answer is a woman. If the choice was lesbian porn or straight porn I would pick the lesbian porn in a heart beat(save a few exceptional films).
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