Fri 29 September 2023
Reset — Auditorium — 22:00
According to an urban legend, a third of the internet is devoted to porn. The reality is undoubtedly less spectacular. However, the traffic figures on mainstream porn streaming platforms are pharaonic. If there is one thing that devoting two years of my life to writing a final thesis on pornographic cinema revealed to me, it is that porn is the most consumes. In itself, everyone (or almost) watches it, it has an obvious impact on our society in terms of representations but no one (or almost) talks about it.
La Morrigasme
Poppy The Wild
LESBIAN PORN MASTERCLASS — belgium — 2023 — 15'
According to an urban legend, a third of the internet is devoted to porn. The reality is undoubtedly less spectacular. However, the traffic figures on mainstream porn streaming platforms are pharaonic. If there is one thing that devoting two years of my life to writing a final thesis on pornographic cinema revealed to me, it is that porn is the most consumes. In itself, everyone (or almost) watches it, it has an obvious impact on our society in terms of representations but no one (or almost) talks about it.
Where am I going with this? Every year, the giant Pornhub publishes its statistics and every year, “Lesbian” tirelessly comes to the top as the most viewed category. The consumption of lesbian pornographic content for the majority of our contemporaries is therefore completely banal. To respond to such a demand, predominantly cis hetero actresses reproduce pantomimes of sapphic sex as imagined by directors who are predominantly cis hetero men to satisfy an audience – guess what – predominantly cis hetero and this without asking more than that what really does what lesbians really dream about in bed.
I am far from being anti-porn (which is far from being a monolithic entity) but we must face the facts that without more representations of lesbians in the media, this is the representation proposed by mainstream porn which dominates the collective unconscious.
I notice that in terms of representation, lesbians take the center stage less than gay men, whether in political debate or in the entertainment industry. In mainstream media, we don’t have a female equivalent to “Drag Races” or “Queer Eye” or at least not with the same audience reach.
In the queer scene, the drag king phenomenon remains an extremely minority compared to drag queens. I’m a huge fan of drag queens myself, but that doesn’t stop me from wishing there weren’t more queer women taking the stage to represent us and tell our stories.
The lines are slowly starting to move, we are delighted and we too want to make our contribution.
