Segregation, Racism & Porn

On Freeones' rankings, the number of Black and Latina porn stars within the 2000 first compared to the 2000 last.

Distribution of Blacks and Latinas on the freeones ranking from top 100 to 7000.

AVN individual Awards 1984-2012 with ethnicity.

General ranking date on Freeones by ethnicity. It appears clearly that Latinas, Blondes and Brunettes are dominating the first places.

This figure shows the difference between what a random distribution of porn stars by ethnicity would have resulted in in the top 1000 and was the actual distribution looks like. Blacks for instance should be 110 in the US top 1000 (11.1% of all US pornstars) but in reality they're only 34.

11,1% of all American porn stars are African-american. Some of them come from the Southern States, such as Georgia (27% of Georgia-born porn stars are Black), or come from the socially deprivated bourroughs of cities like Chicago (15% Black porn stars in Illinois) or Los Angeles (13%). Even though a few Black porn stars such as Jada Fire, Obsession or Lacey Duvalle have made it to fame, most of these black porn stars never reached the highest levels of porn production. It appears clearly from the figures above, that are mainly based on rankings from Freeones and AVN Awards' results that Black actresses are not being given the same attention and media exposure as notably White or Latina porn stars and therefore never reach the same popularity. For instance, only once a Black actress has won an individual AVN Award: that was Midori in 2001 who won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her play in Westside. 

This could be explained widely by the fact that the main type of porn consumer the porn productions are targeting is a 40-year old white male. Some studies have showed that Republicans generally consume more porn than Democrats, so generally, the porn consumer tends to be White. But what this means is that White men only want to watch porn with white actresses and are nor interested in or attracted to black actresses. Nevertheless, this seems a bit simple for an explanation, as it appears clearly from the figures that Latin and Asian actresses do fine, Latin actresses are even the most overranked ethnic group in US porn. 

It therefore seems more likely that it's not aesthetical or ethnic reasons that lead porn consumer away from Black pornstars, but more the social prejudices that each consumer has on each ethnic group. Asian and Latin are both more recent ethnic groups and there has not been less of a history of discrimination and hatred  between the white majority and these minorities than between Whites and Blacks. It seems like the average American porn consumer is maintaining a certain segregation in his porn choices by continuing to prefer white actresses and generally not acclaiming Black actresses. The porn industry, mainly ruled by White, quite old and wealthy persons doesn't seem to want to change this situation. For example, out of currently 17 Vivid Girls, none is Black. And do you know any Black Penthouse Pets?

Just a few examples: here you see the "top rated girls" of three major porn sites. There is 0 Black pornstars in none of them. A few Latina actresses, like Esperanza Gomez made it to these sites, but the vast majority of all these featured porn stars are white. Notice that there's always a ginger actress.

 NaughtyAmerica

Wicked

21Sextury

The prejudices mentioned above all end up segregating Black actresses to gonzo porn. Ideas about Blacks like poverty, criminality, ghetto, gangs etc. are generally more adapted to gonzo porn that to scenarized, high standing porn. Some examples:

 http://www.ghettogaggers.com/tour3/ : website based almost only racist clichés and it's all gonzo.

So this means that when a Black wants to do porn, she will have way much more chance of getting to do only gonzo, because gonzo filming seems, in the mind of white, male directors, more coherent with a whole prejudice-based context. Actually, Black porn stars can't become very famous pornstars because their skin colour is very quickly associated with low-budget gonzo porn and not with glamourous San Fernando porn and this keeps them away from the good freeones rankings and the AVN Awards.

A little proof of my point with this post on 9gag, on the hot page.