When was the last time you heard about a porn studio getting shut down because of the offensive, harmful, or degrading content they promote? Never? We haven’t either.

There are plenty of reasons why the porn industry is dangerous and promotes harmful messages in society, but would you expect capitalizing off of racism to be one of those reasons?

Why does porn get a free pass?

Not long ago, international retail store H&M was condemned for a racially insensitive ad. There was a public outcry, boycotts, and celebrities spoke out about the racist message their ad promoted. Recently, the world’s largest porn site released the most watched porn categories of 2018, and racially stereotypical content topped the charts. But there was no outrage or boycotting for this porn site, or any other porn site that hosts dramatization videos of “African slaves” being abused by powerful Caucasians individuals, packaged as sexual entertainment.

The porn industry seems to get a free pass to promote endlessly harmful and abusive content in the name of sexual entertainment to anyone with an internet signal… and it’s a problem.

If the average film or TV show had the same kind of discriminatory content that you see on mainstream porn sites (even skipping the hardcore content), you can bet that those studios would be shut down and condemned for promoting offensive and unwarranted stereotypes, or even glorifying racism.

If this happened on the set of a famous Netflix show, you’d probably hear about it, right?

Bold, in-your-face racism sells

“The racism of the industry is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed,” according to a report by Gail Dines and Robert Jensen. “In an interview with the producer of the DVD ‘Black Bros and Asian Ho’s,’ one of us asked if he ever was criticized for the racism of such films. He said, ‘No, they are very popular.’ We repeated the question: Popular, yes, but do people ever criticize the racism? He looked incredulous; the question apparently had never entered his mind.”

This content is easily accessible. On any mainstream porn site, it wouldn’t take long to stumble upon any number of racist titles that promote offensive and unwarranted ethnic and racial stereotypes. Isn’t it interesting how in porn, so many things are normalized that wouldn’t ever be tolerated in any other scenario?

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