This is about Laura from Laura the Tooth again. This time she talks intelligently about why she wouldn’t appear in the kind of porn videos that are generally available to her.
i watch porn from time to time, and i really admire a few performers like jenna jameson and asia carerra. but while i am willing to consider life as a sugar baby (just a more legitimized form of expensive hooking where the rich “boyfriend” showers hot young thing with money and gifts, where both parties know full well that there would be no pussy privileges without the financial incentives), i could never see myself doing porn for the following reasons:
It boils down to a couple of very good reasons: she breaks out when semen gets on her face, she’s not athletic enough to withstand the “piledriver” and “reverse piledriver” positions, and she’s not very enthused about rectal tears and other injuries common to contemporary mainstream porn models.
First of all, good for her for not wanting to do porn, at least two-person mainstream video/dvd porn. She perfectly articulates what seems to be wrong with all the stuff I’ve seen. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m perfectly comfortable with some porn, and I can certainly conceptualize other porn scenarios I’d really enjoy. I just don’t care for the whole weird ugly guy vs. high-heels-in-bed pop-tart sex-as-aerobics thing that comes out of the southern California porn industry.)
But second of all (since, by my own admission, I’ve been out of the porn-video loop for years) I wonder what makes her think that she’d have to do double anal and/or these piledriver things (which, having just Googled them, sounds about as interesting as unjamming a clogged disposal)?
I know she’s in southern California, and that seems to be where 99% of mainstream porn comes from, but since they appear to produce thousands of videos a year somebody’s got to be doing alternative stuff. (Yikes, or maybe not. I know Dacia, Jane, and others do more interesting stuff but then they’re not doing it in Laura’s neck of the woods.)
Also, while we’re at it (and maybe I’m just to used to the indie rock concept) it seems like her blog is fairly well followed so if it were me (it’s not) and if she were really interested (she’s probably not) she could probably produce her own niche porn, dupe her own DVDs, and hawk them on her website.
Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not, not, not suggesting she do this. It’s just a way of wondering out loud why porn actresses (and actors?) keep submitting to the same old thing. Also I wonder if it’s not more productive to continue developing ideas about what she would do instead of griping (as I do) about what she wouldn’t. :-)
Who knows? The internet’s a big place. Somebody somewhere might take the hint. (Think of it as putting the million-monkeys-at-a-million-typewriters effect to good use.)
—-
Meanwhile, if people are looking for new ideas for posts (which happens to almost everybody sooner or later) you could always help brainstorm the sort of porn you’d be willing to appear in (in an ideal, no in-laws, no incensed boss, no STDs and social opprobrium world of course.)
Bonus. If you post something like that, leave a comment here and I’ll update this post with a link to yours.
Update: People who’ve responded
Laura Tooth: is it possible for smut to be fair and feminist?
Meanwhile Tony Comstock appears to have gone way beyond theorizing! :-)
