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Old 05-09-2014, 03:54 PM  
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Feminist Porn Article

In Toronto with the world?s feminist pornographers

Full Story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27192724


"It's almost 01:00 in the morning in a hotel room in downtown Toronto, and three porn stars in various states of undress are choreographing the sex scene they are about to film.

The performers include a man, a woman, and a transgender man, opening a world of sexual possibilities.

"So what are we doing?" James Darling, the 26-year-old transgender performer, asks his co-stars Wolf Hudson and Zahra Stardust. "What are people feeling up to?"

The trio talk over ideas for costumes and props and negotiate their "dos and don'ts" - sex talk so frank and detailed it made a visitor cringe and stare into his notebook".




"Meanwhile, the crew, Kitty Stryker and Courtney Trouble, set up the lights and the cameras.

They settle on a storyline so implausible it smacks of self-parody, something about a woman hiring a male prostitute only to have Darling and the other man show up at once. The lights and cameras click on, and the clothes come off.

This group were some of the more than 250 porn performers, filmmakers, fans and academic researchers who convened in Toronto last month for an international gathering of feminist pornographers.

At an awards show and an academic conference at the University of Toronto, they celebrated achievements in the small but growing genre - and debated what it means for their porn to be feminist.

"If it's possible to have sex in a feminist way, it's possible to record it in a feminist way," says Pandora Blake, a 29-year-old London-based sex worker, pornographer and porn performer."

Continued http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27192724
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