January 18, 2008 | 11 Comments

Flashbot Fleshback: Everyone’s A Winner

2008_01_18_end.jpgA look back at our week that was …

· We were dazzled by the AVN Awards. For real!
· So much so that we can’t stop thinking about it.
· We even learned what it takes to win one of those darn things.
· Is this the end of Jenna Jameson as we know her?
· Someone else may not have been entirely honest with us. Where’s the trust?
· Still, we’d rather get our advice form Jesse Jane from now on.
· Remember, you can still like porn even if you don’t like it.

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  • libertine/perverted

    Who are the three gorgeous unsung talents on the left? and where are their awards?

  • Anonymous

    Regarding the AVN awards, why are male-male interactions excluded but female-female interactions (which are just as homosexual as male-male) included? Seems to me like a classic case of selective homophobia on the part of the adult industry. There is definitely a marginalization process going on courtesy of the adult industry wherein anything with a male-male content is segregated into the “gay” or “bi” category but anything with a female-female content is included in the “straight” mainstream category.

    The adult industry needs to get over its discriminatory and apartheid-like approach to male-male sexual activity.

  • Dashiell Bennett

    @jonno44: I wouldn’t put that on the adult entertainment industry. “Straight” in this instance refers to the customers, the vast majority of whom are straight males that are not interested in MM scenes. (Just as “gay” porn is for gay men, who aren’t interested in naked ladies.) It’s like criticizing a soda company for not selling you milk.

  • Dashiell Bennett

    @Dashiell: We sell both of course, because they both go great with ice cream!

    But to put it another way, it’s our society that helps creates those gay/straight distinctions, not Vivid’s marketing department.

  • Jonnobot

    @jonno44 – And let’s not forget about the GAYVN Awards, which take place next month (and which we cover pretty extensively as well.)

  • Anonymous

    Tony,

    The straight porn industry is discriminatory no matter which way you look at it. It forbids male-male but permits all other gender combinations.

    Women also need to realize this. If a woman watches a straight porn movie with her husband or boyfriend, she is surrendering her sexuality to his fantasy. She’s submitting to him, basically. She’s dis-empowering herself.

  • Tony

    @jonno44 – forbids male-male? Hardly. It’s more like proportional representation.

  • Nately

    @jonno44: You’re assuming that women want to watch guy-on-guy porn. I think most of them don’t. (A lot of girls just aren’t turned on by it, and those who are know where to find it.)

  • Anonymous

    I’m not saying that the male-male sexual interaction doesn’t get due recogntion by AVN, I’m simply saying that it is marginalized and isolated from the mainstream. This is a very poor paradigm for an industry that often cites sexual freedom in its fight against government crackdowns. I’d go so far as to say that the straight porn industry practises its own crackdown against anything with a male-male content, pushing it to the outer.

    This lends itself to the notion that the straight porn industry promotes female bisexuality as the norm at the expense of male bisexuality. When only one form of bisexuality is regularly included next to heterosexual acts, you know there’s something wrong with the industry.

  • Anonymous

    Dashiell,

    The straight porn industry and AVN frequently promote adult movies containing female homosexual actiivty as “couples” movies, meaning they are promoted to male-female couples. How come they don’t do it with movies containing male homosexual activity? Why is it OK for only the female form of homo/bisexuality to be marketed to male-female couples?

    The industry has a blatant bisexual double standard. It’s hypocritical to say the least.

  • Tony

    I’ve got to agree with Dashiell here. It’s simply a matter of where the bulk of the money originates and has very little to do with discrimination. In short, the bulk of the market who in turn fork out the funds, prefer to view ladies at each other or straight content. Simple. Marginalization and isolation from the mainstream would be easier to argue if there was a lack of male bi and gay material. Its presence just consolidates the truth that the market dictates to the industry. Although male bisexuals and gays may represent a sizeable chunk, the straight man is the industry’s heavyweight consumer.