Interracial Fanatics

Wesley Pipes says interracial porn outsells everything else, though even he can't fully explain why. Buyers want a white woman with a Black man. By his account there's little demand for a Black man with a Black woman, and even less for a white couple. So Black-owned companies mostly shoot interracial instead of Black-on-Black, and white companies put interracial ahead of white-on-white. A white man with a Black woman doesn't come close. When the host suggested some of it goes back to slavery-era fantasies, Pipes said it probably does, that the scenario has been around for a hundred years, along with the old idea among white women that Black men are bigger. Industry reporting backs him up on the money. Rolling Stone reported that studios routinely pay A-list white actresses well above their usual rate for their first interracial scene, so many of them hold out for years while their agents take a cut of the premium. That premium doesn't exist for Black men or Black women. A BBC report found Black actresses earn half to three quarters of what white women get for the same work. One Black performer told Rolling Stone that a director asked the Black men on set to wear prison uniforms. Another said an anal scene she shot was later repackaged in a compilation titled Black Facials Matter. AVN eventually apologized and promised to drop categories like interracial and ethnic from its awards. The host also said there are hardly any Black women left in porn who are real household names. The only one either of them could come up with was Skin Diamond, and she quit in 2016 to sing. Pipes has been at this a long time. Born Wesley Lawrence in Mississippi in 1969, he did three years in prison for an armed carjacking, got into porn in 1998, and took his stage name from Wesley Snipes. He's credited in more than a thousand films and is in both the Urban X and AVN Halls of Fame. In 2015 a director announced he had inoperable cancer. A man with more than a thousand films agrees that porn's best seller probably goes back to slavery-era fantasies. Is porn just selling people what they want, or is it the most racist business in entertainment?