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stoneblade
Deactivated User

450 Posts
7/16
Posted - Sep 5 2020 : 3:44AM
Hi guys

wanted to make a thread on this as I noticed many studios changed something after BLM.

Blacked and Blackedraw changed their wording to be more politically friendly.

Also there's been a large increase in new scenes for all studios including black female performers.

Do you guys think the pay for an IR scene has dropped?

And are studios just responding to BLM now while its?

What are you thoughts?

AngryPirate
Senior Member

3210 Posts
8/17
Posted - Sep 5 2020 : 4:54AM
The industry doesn't have a standardized wage structure, alluded to in an article written by Aurora Snow about the wage disparity and limited career opportunities black performers have experienced. I would be surprised, if not really impressed, to see such unity from the studios to cease paying white female performers a premium to do BMWF scenes.

AVN may have dropped its interracial or ethnic labelling but I doubt that will set a precedent for racial wage parity across the US industry. I would welcome being proved wrong though by seeing it happen.

snufish
Member

580 Posts
4/14
Posted - Sep 5 2020 : 5:27PM
My thoughts, BLM has nothing to do with porn however to appease the crowd (twitter) and not get falsely labelled as racist, studios go extra hard to push black performers upfront. Fact is, they're more non black people in the industry hence you will see more non black on videos. Pay always come with performance, top black girls get same pay as white girls, thing is flaky diva z list girls complain about racism when in fact, it's their work ethic. On clips4sale, on the right side featured studios, all black studios, on AVN, the "popular performers" are black/poc even though you can't name a movie you've seen anyone of them in. There's a org that only black/POC performers can join. I can say more it might touch a nerve.
I wish them all the best.
AngryPirate
Senior Member

3210 Posts
8/17
Posted - Sep 5 2020 : 9:35PM
^ "In fact". Can you demonstrate that to be categorically true or is the lacking work ethic your opinion you conflate with fact?

It's interesting that you've only pointed out that the "top black girls" get the same pay. Is there a specific reason why you didn't say anything about those starting out but still work hard? Hailing the success of a the black women in porn who've done well for themselves but failing to acknowledge the struggles they encountered at the start sounds like a classic denial of racial reality. Misty Stone has been very successful in her time in but she has pointed out that she earned significantly less than white co-performers working to the same levels when she started out. If pay always comes with performance, why was Misty paid less for the same work asked of her?




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