Most will simply assume that it is because I am a man with a dick who simply thinks too much with....his dick.
OK, so I plead guilty on that....sometimes. However, that's pretty much the point of being a sex performer, isn't it?? After all, you don't dress down in mini skirts, thongs and lingerie to sell detergent, now do you??
Some will say that I must be a loser addict, who spends waaaaay too much time on the Internet and not enough time outside in the real world going after real women.
Forgetting the fact that these women on screen and online happen to be as real as the women I see outside, that ignores the fact that you can only spend so much time inside....there are still only 24 hours to a day, and most of that time is exhausted by sleeping, eating, and working to pay your bills. Not exactly leaving me with that much time to go out, isn't it??
But even that ignores the main reason why I truly adore and respect porn starlets: they risk so much and sacrifice such a great deal and literally reveal so much of themselves -- and not just sexually, either -- to deliver a product for their audience. It's not quite as easy to take off your clothes and engage in sex with people who might be considered to be strangers, let alone all the other distractions, hazards, and other inanities (changing positions, screaming directors, hot lights and production staff staring at your naughty bits, exhaustive and exhausting preparation for scenes, the fraility and transiency of the work, the possibility of injury). And yet, the best of them get through with basically a smile on their face and the satisfaction of a job well done, sealed with an orgasm or two (or five).
And there are more than a few of them who become legends, role models, and trailblazers for their erotic craft, and intelligent, literate voices for a profession that has been seriously underestimated and often criticized (sometimes deservedly, sometimes not so) for chewing up and spitting out women and men like dogs use chew toys.
As much as mainstream society scoffs at sex performers for their "illicit" craft, there is no doubt that their art is as legitimate and as functional to a viable society as comedians, dramatic actors, athletes, and other more "mainstream" entertainers are...and they should get the same and proper respect as "mainstream" actors and actresses do. Heck, they probably, if the world were fair and just, should get a share of the revenue, too, considering how sex and sexual desire is used to sell everything from jeans to cars to laundry detergent.
I would simply settle, however, for sex entertainers being treated as human beings, with brains, hearts, souls, working brain cells, ambitions, and feelings just like other regular folk have. The only thing that is different between them and other more "legitimate" professions is that the muscles they use the most, and the emotions they induce aren't nearly as valued in our society.
Given all that, here are two entertainer legends who epitomize the best tradition of sex performance combined with intelligence and ultimate beauty, as profiled in recent online articles. Consider this my sincere "fuck you" to the likes of Gail Dines who consider all sex performers to be mindless "victims" of rape who don't know how to use their brains for anything other than to kneel in front of Teh Cock....as if they weren't capable of liking sex to begin with in the first place.
I. Alan Mercer does a detailed interview with longtime porn legend Ginger Lynn at his blog, where Ginger discusses the full length of her career and life, including her ill-fated relationship with Charlie Sheen, her legal troubles with the Sex Police and the Tax Authorities, and her motivations for her comebacks. Some snippage:
Alan Mercer: How has the adult industry changed since the time you entered up to now?You can see the interview in its entirity here.
Ginger Lynn: When I got into the adult industry it was taboo. There was no fame, no fortune. It wasn’t cool to be in the industry. It was actually illegal. There was a very, very small group of us, in all, including cast and crew, about fifty people. It was very, for lack of a better term, incestuous.
AM: Because you all knew each other?
GL: We all knew each other on a very personal level, on a friendly level, on a family level. We hung out before we filmed, while we filmed and after we filmed and it was fun. We had fun! I made films for 2 years and three months from December of 1983 until February of 1986. During that time I made 69 films, and most of them were shot on film, with real budgets and real scripts.
AM: I didn’t know that.
GL: Basically what they would do is take a real script and add sex. When I left for thirteen years and came back in 1999 there were three page scripts that were just scene one, scene two. We would have to adlib the entire dialogue. Instead of having this small wonderful family it turned into a thousand and fifty people. A thousand of those people were just there for fame and fortune. Then it was cool to be in the industry, well it was transitioning in 99. I left again after another two years and came back about a year ago and I’ve got to tell you it sucks.
AM: Why do you say that?
GL: I’m bisexual and if I had to choose, and I don’t want to, but if I had to, I would choose men. I don’t even want to do films with men in today’s market. They have no clue what they are doing. They are all robotic and do everything on queue. They have no idea what passion is. They can’t look you in the eyes. You literally have to hold their heads still and force them to look at you because there is nobody home.
AM: That doesn’t sound like fun.
GL: They are performing the most generic, systematic, programmed, act that you can imagine. This is intimacy and they have taken out everything that is intimate. It’s all by formula.
AM: How are you dealing with this?
GL: Basically I have become a professional lesbian now. I only want to do films with girls because the female directors and the films I do with women today are so much better. They are like, ‘Ginger do what you want’. We have fun and we laugh and we have the intensity and the reality that is no longer there between the men and the women.
AM: I have heard that women have taken over the adult film industry. Is that true?
GL: I wouldn’t say that they have taken it over. I would say that there are so many different niches now. Because it used to be illegal, everything we did was so vanilla. Today everything that is out there is all fetish. So when you say that women have taken over I think it is…women have taken over a certain niche for girl/girl films. It’s a healthy natural niche. No matter what is out there, there will be an audience for it
II. AVNLive.com recorded a video self-interview with Lisa Ann -- world-class MILF performer, first-class agent, and the infamous spoofer of a certain Republican governor/Presidential candidate named.....ahhhh...Paylin?!?!
[Courtesy of AVNLive.com; includes trailer for an upcoming video about deep-throating titled Throat: A Cautionary Tale produced by Vivid Video]
III. And finally, because no essay on legendary sex performers would be complete without the obligatory mention of THE Original Goddess of Sex herself, here's a YouTube clip of Nina Hartley being interviewed by a local New Hampshire website following a debate on porn at the University of New Hampshire:
May these fine women forever live -- and come -- in our hearts and spirits.
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