9 June 06 in Roundup
Wankers rejoice! Today we’re going heavy on the porn.
- There’s nothing quite like a little Brazilian amateur porn to get your weekend started. The impromptu snaps and occasional videos on this salacious porn blog are downright mouthwatering. [Brasileirinhas Blog]
- A little while back I mentioned Socialporn, my favorite Porn 2.0 site. It seems they now have a sister site in Israel. If Hebrew is your preferred language of love it’s worth a look. [like.co.il]
- A wise man once said there are only two kinds of people in the world: those who wank it to hentai and those who don’t. While I count myself among the latter group, I find myself addicted to this Flickr-like site for hentai enthusiasts. [danbooru]
- A torrid ethnorotic love triangle in the geeky world of competitive chess? Who woulda thunk it? [MeFi]
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25 April 06 in Commentary
In a thoughtful blog entry, author Susie Bright discusses the interracial question in porn:
It is only asked of fair-skinned women, and it only means one thing: will Miss Anne fuck a black guy? Men are not asked this question. Black women are not asked this question. Asian, Polynesian, Chicano, and biracial actors are not given a rag to bite down on. This is the Mandingo-cliche of the film biz, a throwback to the notion of “the flower of white womanhood.” To see it on casting interviews still makes my eyes cross. It’s part of mainstream movies too—it’s just baldfaced in porn casting, for obvious reasons.
Her interpretation of Joanna Angel’s controversial remarks in the House of Ass video is about the same as mine:
Joanna hasn’t simply foregone a black lover in her history—I doubt she’s had COFFEE with a black person before this shoot. You can tell that her life is segregated, like most suburban teens. It occurred to me that that entering a porn career might be many people’s first social encounter of any kind outside their demographic. Hello Amerikka!
Have a look. The essay is definitely worth a read.
[Via Susie Bright’s Journal]
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7 April 06 in Commentary
Pornography occupies a precarious position in American life. On one hand, social conservatives would just as well do away with it altogether. On the other, social liberals and sex-positive types have profound misgivings about the industry, its practices and its products.
Alt-porn was supposed to get us out of this bind. If its proponents were to be believed, the new sex-positive erotica would undermine the old stereotypes, treat everyone fairly and deliver a product progressives could feel good about. As it turns out, the new porn looks a lot like the old porn plastered over by a clever facade of “cruelty-free” marketing.
I’ve been following the Joannagate controversy closely, in part because I was curious what the pied pipers of alt-porn might have to say about Joanna Angel’s remarks. In her response to Sam Sugar, Tristan Taormino, producer of the video segment in question, was kind enough to quote Joanna verbatim:
Continue reading “Don't shit in my mouth and call it a sundae”...
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6 April 06 in Roundup
Last week’s shitstorm blew in and blew over. This week brings the happy news that racism is no longer racist:
- Sam Sugar reverses his position on Joanna Angel. Tristan Taormino weighs in: “Some female performers’ choice not to work with black men may be fueled by racism, but not every woman who makes the choice is automatically racist.” [SugarBank]
- We should all watch more television, if only for the black hottie upskirts. [TVgasm]
- Hiromi waxes eloquent on one of the lesser-known films in the Kurosawa canon. [Hiromi]
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30 March 06 in Roundup
It’s been “things that make you go hmmm…” week here at ethnorotica:
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29 March 06 in Media
I’m convinced America is the only country that truly loathes its celebrities. We enjoy nothing more than watching our betters self-destruct before our eyes; we erect giant monuments that one day we might yank those monuments down and whack them with the heels of our shoes. So I take it as a sign of great progress in American race relations that nowadays Americans are just as eager to elevate-then-eviscerate non-white celebs, even when the target in question has a funny name like Wilmer Valderrama.
Yeah yeah, Wilmer’s a dick (an eight-inch one, apparently) and he just salted his game in front of a national audience, but it just warms my heart that a young Venezuelan-American can rise to fame in this great country, bang a bunch of A-listers and end up just as reviled as, say, Ben Affleck.
[Via Fleshbot]
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9 March 06 in Media
There’s a great new show that courageously tackles the subject of race in America—a show that is smart, cynical, funny, and at times even heartwarming.
That show is called The Boondocks.
Then there’s this other show—a show that purports to confront racial stereotypes yet promotes the idea there’s such a thing as a “typical” white or black family; a show that lets us wallow in our cherished superstitions without really confronting them; a show that pretends a little spray-paint and makeup can stand in, even on a temporary basis, for something as complex as racial and cultural identity.
I’m talking of course about Black. White. The premise is simple enough: two families—one black, the other white—“switch” races via the miracle of cosmetics, then walk a figurative mile in each others’ shoes.
Continue reading “Black? White? WTF?”...
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6 March 06 in Commentary
The good people at Mixed Media Watch are (mildly) up in arms over a LiveJournal community called Guess My Mixture, wherein nubile camwhores spam glammy photographs of themselves, inviting commenters to guess their racial/ethnic backgrounds:
Riiiight. It’s all about taking back the power from the people who ask “what are you.” Or is this really an excuse for these mixed folks to indulge in some self-fetishizing?
I can’t say I disagree with this sentiment—I’ve always been a little skeptical of the postmodern vanity-as-empowerment model of political discourse. The community founder’s response isn’t terribly convincing either:
I realize if you look at this community from a superficial level, yes, it will seem like self-festishizing “camwhoring.” However, I beg of you to look at it from a much deeper level and realize that we are attempting to defy stereotypes through having people guess what ethnicities people are simply by looking at pictures.
Then again, I’m not one to argue with cute chicks posting pictures of themselves on the internets. Bold political statement or mere camwhoring? I suppose that’s for you to decide.
[Via Mixed Media Watch]
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