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Porn pride
April 07, 2005
Yesterday, after holding a conference on What to Do About My Pubic Hair (which you may remember was harshly butchered a few weeks back) with my doppelgangers, , I spent some time doing prep for a solo girl shoot. Although I really want to have some friggin hair down there again, we decided that the post-wax growth was just looking too scraggly, so there had to be some shaving into a landing strip configuration. It will grow back, it will grow back - patience I must have.
After my resentful grooming session, Jane went along for the ride as my escort - this shoot was actually the first one I’ve used an escort on. Although using an escort (a friend to hang out and make sure no creepiness ensues, and then eat sushi with afterwards) is highly encouraged (especially for naked stuff) I typically use the check in system instead, which is what I do when I’m working: give Jane the photographer’s name, address, phone number and time frame of the shoot, call when I get there, call when its over or if its delayed. It was interesting to have another person in the room who wasn’t involved in the shoot, plus I appreciated the help in straightening the seams on my stockings, which I generally manage to get horribly crooked. More than that, it was fun to have Jane as a witness to the photographer himself - when we left the shoot, the first thing Jane said was, “There’s a guy who really needs a good person to talk to about sex.”
It wasn’t a full on bad shoot though it easily could’ve been – it was just kinda sad, as it was pretty clear that the photographer didn’t want to be shooting porn. He kept making disparaging “jokes” like “Look at me now, getting paid to ask girls to spread themselves open for me” and saying things like “Let’s just get through this. It’s not like the artistic merit of these pictures is important at all.” Now, I may be just a dumb porn girl, and a hooker to boot, but fuck, man – I love what I do, and I take pride in it. While I’m not so misguided to believe that more artistically produced “erotica” (or whatever the fuck you want to call it) inspires solely pants-on aesthetic appreciation, I heartily believe that it’s worth taking pride in porn, and making stuff that is sexy in both content and form.
I know I’m extremely idealistic about this – especially because the whole bottom line of porn is to make a buck on representations of hotness, and it’s been proven again and again that the crummy stuff sells. However, I think that one of the advantages of the mainstreaming of porn is that the quality will begin to improve as the industry becomes less closeted. However, I do fear that as porn pushes into the mainstream, it will become increasingly difficult to make good indie porn with diverse bodies, looks and good safer sex practices. I don’t want to see the alt porn disappear, I want to see it grow into something even more awesome – and something that could actually make some degree of financial stability possible for the folks who make it happen. The porn preacher is in, bitches. Maybe later I’ll get up on my handjob evangelist soapbox.
Posted by Dacia at April 7, 2005 10:08 PM
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