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Stereotypes Of Black Women In The Porn Industry

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The porn industry creates a hostile environment for black women to work in. By using stereotypes of sex and lifestyle against black women the porn industry manipulates how black women are used and portrayed in porn. The adult entertainment industry sexually others black women into specific roles and lesser paying jobs. This problem then forces change to be made by these women rather than to rework the industry by those who have the most power to control what is being made. Miller-Young refers to a sexual revolution as challenging stereotypical norms of images and behaviors in sexuality being shown to the public. She depicts revolution as being aware of the history of how the public sees and understands black women in porn and to in turn be …show more content…

While these interviews do not center around the porn industry it is still the same idea of having a society perceive a race as hyper sexualized and as a result limit what is believed as natural sexuality amongst a group. However, these negotiations allow for the stereotyped group to experiment with their sexuality along with restricting it, “Ironically, then, while negative sexual stereotypes might legitimate control over Filipina women in Lebanon, these same stereotypes might also permit these women to exercise more choice in how they express their sexuality.” (Seidman p. 537), so while this is a sex negative view being placed on a people it does allow for a form of sexual freedom that involves the women’s choices of how to act on and interpret their sexualities. The same idea was expanded upon by the in-class speaker Enmanuel Martinez when he talked about using imagination to change one’s …show more content…

136) Sexualized racism is also a limiting factor for sexual freedom due to it’s creation of societal sexual roles both in and out of porn. These types of sexualized racism can also allow for recreation and expansion of various roles but at the same time still limit a large part of developing freedom to explore one’s sexuality. Also, most of the time the actors in these productions have some say in what they want or don’t want portrayed so then the actors can determine how they want the situation to be interpreted. We can see this idea play out in “Latina Sexual Fantasies, The Remix.” where racist sexual roles can allow for physical enjoyment and at the same time reflection on what is being shown to the

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