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Lisa Ann Joins Jules

Lisa Ann

It used to be that if you received a couple of notices in the mainstream media (and it didn’t really matter what for) you’d made the successful transition from onscreen hooker to bona fide pornstar. Nowadays, though, a female performer isn’t really living the high life until the camera is in her hand and she’s calling the shots. Belladonna, Bobbi Starr, Dana Vespoli, and Asa Akira all topped their already impressive careers by accepting the responsibility for entire features. Finding success as directors has meant these women and others can express their own vision of human sexuality and adult entertainment, a perspective often missing in porn. The latest notable performer to join the ranks of powerful female porn directors, signed last month to the Jules Jordan Video stable of directors is AVN, Urban X, and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee Lisa Ann.

Having shot for everyone from Vivid to Porn Pros to Girlfriends Films to, well, Jules Jordan Video, the newest phase of Lisa Ann’s career is bound to be a comfortable fit for the legendary performer, even if we don’t quite know what form it’ll take. For her debut effort, Ann has turned to a niche familiar to all her fans: mature women. MILF Revolution, released earlier this week, features Ann in every scene, as well as Racquel Divine, Jayden Jaymes, Katja Kassin, and Capri Cavanni; it even has both Ann and Kassin taking double-penetrations in the very same scene! Nabbing such an impressive cast wasn’t difficult for the one-time talent manager, who told AVN she intended to hire as many former clients as possible. “I’m bringing back the people I love that were so good to me when I had my agency,” she said.

Lisa Ann’s directorial follow-up to MILF Revolution, Lisa Ann’s Blackout, hasn’t been given an official release date yet, but it will no doubt be a hit with Ann’s fans and lovers of hardcore interracial sex, as it sees its director and leading lady take on Wesley Pipes, Ice Cold, Julius Ceazher, Nat Turnher, and Mark Anthony in what promises to be a gangbang scene for the ages. Lisa Ann just keeps topping herself!

Christy Mack vs The Race Card: Round Two

Christy Mack

On the popular porn community site, FreeOnes, Christy Mack posted, answering a few questions from fans and providing some insight into her personality and professional agenda. Stating for the record her views on interracial hardcore, Christy seemed to clear everything up, saying “I do not do IR (interracial) because I don’t want to right now. I may do it in the future, I may not. I’m just being real with you all.” And in the minds of many fans it was this comment that solidified her racism? Perhaps Mack just isn’t fond of the way many directors instruct their African American male stars to act, constantly tossing out lines like “Take that big black monster dick, you white slut!” Perhaps her boyfriend, MMA fighter War Machine, simply knows when he’s genitally outmatched and has asked his beloved to abstain while with him. Perhaps (though I doubt it) Christy Mack has some physical limitation barring her from riding any dick over 9″, putting Mandingo, Lex Steele, Sean Michaels, and Shane Diesel out of competition for her cooch.

Most simply, though, Christy Mack is likely holding off on performing an interracial scene because she knows the presiding rule of governing one’s career as a female performer in adult entertainment: avoid an act for years and when you finally give in you’ll make much more than any initial offering. In porn, the bottom line always wins. When it comes to boy-girl, creampie, anal, DP, or gangbang scenes, the bottom line wins. And, when it comes to African American penises entering white women, the bottom line wins again.

Not in my house

Christy Mack vs The Race Card: Round One

Nowadays, the only thing worse than being racist is accusing someone of being racist. ‘Playing the race card,’ generally involves bringing an observation or accusation of racism into a conversation thought to be otherwise devoid of such subtext. Usually, though, the racism is present, just well-hidden (as is historically customary), leaving the now obviously bigoted to resort to shame-avoiding debating techniques like shouting “The race card! The race card!” This phrase immediately makes the subject (the person ‘playing the race card’) a bleeding-heart liberal windbag who should be ignored at all costs and the person who initially roused said windbag’s anti-racist ire a valiant protector of free speech. Oh, the irony!

What to do, though, when a favorite pornstar is accused to harboring racist sentiments that keeps her from fulfilling your most precious fantasy? What to do, though, when Christy Mack openly states that she won’t fuck black guys on camera, denying her fans the hardcore interracial scene they’ve been clamoring for?

Christy Mack

Christy Mack, the heavily tattooed, mohawked vixen who’s taken the porn world by storm of late, has been labelled “a racist” by some so-called fans simply because she has decided not to have sex with African Americans in her professional life. I first encountered such an accusation in a comment (since removed) on a Videobox scene and, some hasty Googling later, found a wealth of outrage from fans pissed they won’t see Lex Steele tear up Mack’s pussy anytime soon. “Racist!” they cried, insisting that any woman who doesn’t fuck black men must utterly loathe them. But could that possibly be true? Does that make me racist ’cause I’ve never boned an Eskimo?

Ballet and Porn: Curious Bedfellows

Ballet and pornWhat makes ballet so boring? According to Tamara Rojo, the newly appointed artistic director of the English National Ballet, it’s men. Men often approach dance in much the same way they approach pornography, Rojo told Time Out magazine, suggesting that she and her female fellows would bring a more sexually egalitarian sensibility to a world of dance currently overrun with male perspectives and attitudes. “Female sensitivity is different,” Rojo said. “And there are issues that I want to see on stage approached by women. Very often we see relationships approached from a male perspective. Like in porn, it shapes the way you look at things.”

Asked to elaborate on her ballet-porn analogy, Rojo told Time Out “It tends to be a more physical approach. Men start with the steps. I find women start with the emotional landscape. They say, ‘This is the situation; let’s find a language for it.’ With men it tends to be, ‘This is the language,’ and then you try to work out the situation through the steps.” Before you cry “artsy-fartsy” at her, though, give Rojo’s observations some credence. How many times have you seen porn briefly revolutionized by a woman? Directors like Belladonna and Dana Vespoli and Bobbi Starr, adventurous and daring performers in their own right, broadened the palette of mainstream hardcore porn almost immediately upon taking up the camera. Belladonna brought more powerful performers to the fore in an often all-female pantheon of decadence involving foot fetishism, tender lovemaking, brutal fisting sessions, and, oddly enough, frank conversation. Starr and Vespoli have followed Belladonna’s lead and are now producing movies far more expressive and original than most of their orifice-obsessed male counterparts. Although, I’m afraid, nobody seems to have alerted Rojo or her dancers.

The recent surge in feminist attitudes in hardcore pornography also seems to have been missed by Guardian columnist Judith Mackrell, who notes some major exceptions to Rojo’s description of methodical males and emotional women choreographers, exceptions like Twyla Tharp and Russell Maliphant. Mackrell continues, “The more important truth for Rojo is that with about 90% of today’s ballet repertory [and pornography -ed.] being made by men, as well as a disproportionate percentage of modern dance repertory, we have only a limited idea of the kind of work that women might make.”

So (continuing the ballet-porn analogy) now that Rojo has essentially landed control over the nation’s foremost adult film studios and while that might be a considerable step above Belladonna’s station as an Evil Angel director, it’s certainly not far off in terms of potential for an artistic, sexual, and industry revolution.