Saw a post saying that doing black/white alts for nsfw work is cowardly and racist, thoughts?
Youre referring to Bigg's post re: the trend of artists [most commonly 3d, but not exclusively] making b/w skin alts for on-screen stuntdicks yes?
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I feel he's correct. The only thing that is changing is the skin-tone of the [implied] man who is fucking some hentai babe. Even under the most generous of interpretations where we assume it's done for the sake of allowing viewers to pick the penis that most resembles their own, like, Maybe -needing- the on-screen penis to match your race At All Times is a questionable viewer habit to indulge? Maybe that's not a healthy desire to enable in a white-supremacist culture that already has a lot of baked in racism, particularly anti-black racism.
Bigg talked about this too but one of the big tells that these skintone variants are often coming from a place of either cowardice or outright racism is just how -nothing else- will be touched in these pics. We're not getting variations anywhere else, not like size variation, pubic hair, gender, we dont even see skintone variation on the character BEING fucked! Its JUST that one part, and when its JUST that one thing...wellll... it starts to look weird man!
Lotta porn is fucking weird about black people, particularly black dicks! Like, to look at an example in an adjacent field for a moment: my girlfriend was trying to find a skin colored dildo she could use for a strapon a while back, and expressed frustration with how the options for dildos that look like black penises are:
1. Extremely limited wrt color. Youre often either getting the ashiest, light tannest "brown" color, or youre getting pitch fucking BLACK black and nothing else. And even when you DO find a half decent color, you still gotta deal with:
2. Extremely limited dildo sizes. Theyre all doing the racialized size queen shit, when all my gf wanted was like some 4-5 incher in a skintone that actually matches hers!
And it loops back to hentai. Huge, hulking, faceless black bodies with enormous animalistic pitch black dicks fucking tiny pale hentai girls and Thats It, Thats the only option you got to work with. That or recolors of dicks where the white version is clearly meant to be the "default" skintone. Hope you love seeing spades rubberstamped everywhere! And god help you if youre black and trans of any variety, cuz youre getting Actually Nothing.
Its treating the black body as an IDEA, as a prop you can throw in for a bit of taboo spice or w/e, and not as like. Black people being human, as fellow people who want to actually Be Seen in the art, and yes, the porn they view. You know?
Racism and colorism doesnt stop existing just cuz its in porn.
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