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5 Questions: Trouble from No Fauxxx
March 10, 2006
So as a part of my obsession with community building and dialogue, I’m starting a new series of interviews, called “5 Questions,” which as you might guess, are five question interviews with people I think are interesting. The interviewee also has the option of asking me five questions in return. I can’t say how often I’ll be posting these, but hopefully it will be a fairly regular feature.
Trouble, the brain behind No Fauxxx, is the first up. Also, be sure to check out today’s SugarClick review of No Fauxxx. My answers to Trouble’s five questions will appear on her yet-to-be-launched latest blogging adventure.
Before you decided to start No Fauxxx, you’d been running a site called Fat Girl Breakdown. When you decided to start making porn, what were the reactions of people from the community at FGBD?
FGBD (which you can see the remains of here) had a certain amount of sexual exhibitionism to begin with, and when I decided to move on to No Fauxxx, I just had to remember that this may not be my audience’s natural progression, but it’s mine. I felt like I was extremely selfless for FGBD, and like most heart-felt activism, you get burnt out eventually when the activism becomes your life. And like most activist communities - when the leader burns out and closes shop, the community is usually quiet non-understanding and pissed. There were some angry girls, believe me, but in the end - I feel like I did the right thing. This is what I have to say to them: If you’re still angry about FGBD closing, then why haven’t you started your own fat girl community? Let’s take turns leading each other, instead of resorting to catty girlcomp(etition).
What kind of support is there between the body/fat positive communities and altporn/sex positive communities?
I don’t really label what I do “alt porn.” I don’t buy the word “alternative” anymore - alternative is a kind of music from the early 90’s, not a genre of porn. That being said, No Fauxxx is an institution of sex positivity, and I think of body positivity as well. I believe that any truely sex positive project/space/person should be inherently body positive. Isn’t that what it’s all about, learning and fighting for our right to be ourselves and find the right love/support/space for who we are? If sex positivy is about coming out as your own unique sexual self and finding youself in a welcoming community, then being fat shouldn’t even be an issue. In the real world, that’s not always the way it is - but that’s what I’m trying to teach people here.
To what extent do you think radical politics are compatible with capitalism?
I read an interview with Diane DiMassa (who wrote the Hothead Pasian comics, paints, etc) in Bitch magazine (#25) where she quoted her girlfriend Stacy Sheehan: “If there’s gotta be crap in the world, it might as well be ours.” I’m not completely anti-capatalism. I think that we all want to own our time to pursue our own dreams, and not have to sell-out or take too much from the earth or our communities to achieve that. I’ve been thinking alot about this lately, and I haven’t come to any conclusion, except perhaps that small businesses, radical organisations, and projects that truely give back to the community, really fuel radical politics and there needs to be more of that? There definitely need to be more radicals starting thier own projects, and I think we would all like the chance to support ourselves off of those projects. You know, instead of the alternative of working so hard on YOUR shit, but selling your time to something you don’t fully participate or agree with.
How do you think supply of and demand for content interact in the adult industry?
I think the demand for adult products and services is endless - every adult has an adult demand of some sort. The supply, unfortunatly, is lacking for anybody who isn’t a man.
Do you think people learn and take seriously sexual behaviors (condom use, gag-fucking) from porn, or is porn only fantasy for most people?
I think it’s a little of both. Mostly, it’s just fantasy. It was created as fantasy, unless it’s one of those couple-friendly instruction videos (Yawn!). I think most sources of entertainment, especially porn, are purely for fantasy. If you look at video games, there are plenty of people who play Tony Hawk but never learn how to skate. There are lesbians who watch gay male porn, but they don’t want to go out and 69 with some fags you know? (Maybe except for me!!!)* However, I do hope that people see condom use in porn and learn to eroticize it and take it seriously, or that my viewers can look at my work and learn something new about sex, or thier own desires. If you’re talking about people learning from gonzo or violent porn - Plenty of people, including myself sometimes, watch it and can get off on it as a fantasy. Only a sicko would take that seriosly, and I think they would be into it even if there wasn’t a visual source for it.
*ed’s note: me too.
Posted by Dacia at March 10, 2006 01:11 AM
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“I think that we all want to own our time to pursue our own dreams, and not have to sell-out”
Absolutely. I’d go even further and say that there’s a certain rigor that comes from putting ideas out in the market place and seeing how people respond.
As you related on the demise of FGDB, a lot of people will come to the party when someone else is doing the work and/or footing the bill, but when the hat gets passed, they’re busy or have pockets full of lint.
When you participate in the marketplace, you insist that people be absolutely honest about how much they value your efforts.
Posted by: Tony Comstock at March 10, 2006 09:25 AM
