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Notes
1 For Camille Paglia.
1 Sasha Grey, as her scene partner reaches for her clit in ‘Teenage Heartbreakers’ (Myne Citation2007). While Sasha Grey says this, she pushes his hand away from her vulva.
2 Part of the paradox inherent in masturbating to ‘Womanizer’ and ‘Can’t Hold Us Down’ and other songs with a semi-feminist message of empowerment is that in these videos, as in most videos, the women are super-sexualized. So at the same time as the videos appear to be sending a message of chastisement towards men who see the women in only sexualized ways, they are also designed to titillate. Complex? Yes! Sexy? Yes, but in a standard hetero predictable sexiness.
3 I know it's problematic to not pay for porn, and has been harmful for people’s livelihoods, and perhaps has made it even harder for those wanting to produce more creative videos, and it may make my methods and ethics seem suspect, but I want to be honest about that fact.
4 In the world of online porn, and BitTorrent porn especially, the origin of a video can be difficult to trace, as it often arrives without a title or originating film production. It's unclear to me where this particular ‘Facial Abuse’ porn originates. I found it via BitTorrent, and it is one of many out there called ‘Facial Abuse’.
5 See Audacia Ray’s (Citation2012) amazing piece on the subject of sex-positive feminist sex workers who have been unable to fully embrace the complex realities of sex work, particularly with regards to class, and how the push towards a conception of sex workers as fully empowered sexual/pleasure/financial agents has in some ways continued to degrade actual sex workers’ rights. She writes wonderfully about ‘defeating the dichotomy’ of the ‘“Happy Hooker” vs. “Exploited Victim”’.