Tina Tyler: Ponrification
Vacation Blog from Tina Tyler
For those of you who don’t know, Tina Tyler is an amazing example of just how far talent, brains and a great attitude can take someone. She’s an award-winning performer (And one of the early Gang Bang Girls) who was famous for a number of things including on screen BJ’s that were…well, let’s just say she could give lessons. She is also an award-winning director who has thrilled us with a number of original lines over the years including Fresh Out the Box from Mercenary Pictures. Off screen Tina is one of the brightest and most honest women in the industry. She’s outspoken, unafraid and I always enjoy hearing what she has to say. (Even when I don’t agree with it.) I am proud to have her back as a guest blogger this year. I thank her for her contributions and her friendship.
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Pornification.
*Note. I have said in the past that I am a liberal with a conservative streak a mile wide… this rant comes from within that mile.*
There is currently a discussion on my Myspace page about how today’s singers are more about looks than talent. It all started when I posted a video of Janis Joplin singing Get it while you can with the caption ” It’s been way too long since women could just be talented and didn’t have to look like porn stars to get noticed.” While most of the folks who commented agreed, there were a couple of folks who disagreed saying that there were many female singers who didn’t look like porn stars and are successful, but when pressed, could not come up with any examples of successful American female singers from the past decade. Has video indeed killed the radio star? Or is this a step away from the sexual repression that has kept America in the dark ages?
As a porn star, this trend bothers me because it’s getting more difficult for porn stars to stand out from the crowd. As a feminist, this trend bothers me because there are a lot of very talented women who are not being given a chance to be heard because they don’t look a certain way. Just look at all the media hooplah surrounding Susan Boyle and how shocked everyone was that a woman who looked like her could have such a beautiful voice. I found this reaction to be disgusting to say the least.
Let’s take a peek at the stars from the “squeaky clean” Disney stable over the past 15 years or so. From Britney and Christina to Miley and Selena, once they hit 16, these girls begin their path to a porn like image and the countdown to their 18th birthday begins with the hopes that they will become even more scantily clad, or perhaps, dare we wish, even do porn, or at the very least have a celebrity sex tape online somewhere. Is this the message we want to be sending to our daughters? The only way to be valued as a woman is to be a Lolita? Has the media gone too far in pimping out these young women? And what does this do to porn sales when every woman in the spotlight could be a Vivid girl? Today’s porn star has to do much more to get noticed in the porn community, is this, at least in part, because there is such a huge saturation of wankable teen flesh in music videos? And what does this say to men… that it is okay to lust after underage girls? Are we also breeding a new generation of paedophiles?
Just something to think about.
