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Ethnic pornography is a genre of pornography featuring performers of specific ethnic groups, or depictions of interracial sexual activity.

Productions can feature any type of ethnic group; however, the most commonly marketed ethnic genres involve Asian women, Websites explicitly depicting Latina or black women are also commonly found; however, ethnic pornography featuring white women tends to be more obscure and found within the ambiguous "interracial" category; few websites mark "white" as a distinct racial category.

Hijab pornography

2022 content analysis study

In a 2022 study published in Violence Against Women (Sage Journals), Mirzaei et al. investigated the increase in interest for HPVs ("hijab pornographic videos", defined by the authors as films portraying at least one female performer as wearing a head covering in a way that "accentuates Muslim women's culturally specific way of dressing"). The authors contended this type of pornography to be distinct from "race porn", due to the potency of head coverings in such films as a marker of religious identity rather than what the authors identify as inherently racial (skin colour given as the example).

Using the search term "hijab porn", the authors gathered 50 professional-looking HPVs from four named popular porn sites. The videos were restricted to exclude non-English-language speech. not as students, models, tenants, waitresses, or employees. They noted that 16% of the depictions contained survival sex and 32% contained nonconsensual sex. They noted that nonconsensual sex "rarely occurred" in other studies.

American stag films dated to the 1930s depict acts between black and white performers: Di Lauro and Rabin point to The Handy Man, The Hypnotist, and A Stiff Game, the last of which identifies its only male character as "Sambo".

Behind the Green Door (1972) was one of the first pornographic films to feature sex between a white actress (Marilyn Chambers) and a black actor (Johnnie Keyes).

In the past, some of American pornography's white actresses were allegedly warned to avoid African American males, both on-screen and in their personal lives. One rationale was the purportedly widespread belief that appearing in interracial pornography would ruin a white performer's career, although some observers have said that there is no evidence that this is true. Adult Video News critic Sheldon Ranz wrote in 1997 that:

Lexington Steele told The Root in a 2013 interview that white female performers who appear in interracial pornography may conceal their careers due to social pressure from their intimates. According to a survey by Jon Millward, while 87% of porn actresses are willing to take a facial, only 53% will do interracial porn.

Alleged role of agents

Sophie Dee, prominent figure of the genre, said in a 2010 interview that she thought agents often pressure white female performers not to appear in interracial pornography. Dee said that they will be paid better for performing with black men and their careers will not be damaged in any way, pointing at positive examples of some Vivid Entertainment actresses.

Aurora Snow noted in a 2013 article that the major factor preventing several white actresses from doing interracial scenes is "career anxiety" imposed by agents rather than their own racial bias. Tee Reel, male porn star and one of the few black agents in the U.S. industry, had a concurring opinion, saying, "In the business, some girls who say they don't do interracial, I've actually had sex with, off-camera." Porn star Kristina Rose has alleged that some agents tell younger actresses that they will earn less from performing in interracial pornography to bar their involvement, although the opposite is true on a global level.

Scholarly criticism

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In Chapter 3 of her book Porn Studies, Linda Williams, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, examines the film Crossing the Color Line starring Sean Michaels, a black actor, and Christi Lake, a white actress. In the interviews portion of the film, Michaels and Lake express how being "color-blind" is a progressive approach to interracial porn.

See also

  • Asian fetish
  • Cuckold fetish
  • Miscegenation
  • Misogynoir
  • Pornography by region
  • Racial fetishism

References

  • American Porn
  • Mireille Miller-Young, Hardcore Desire: Black Women Laboring in Porn

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