Black And White Porn: The Interracial Kind
Last year I did a whole post that dug into some of the many problematic aspects of interracial porn. It’s not hard to spot them, especially in vintage porn from a time when racial attitudes were worse and people were less inclined to filter. But this is not that post. I already did that post!
Nope, this post is to celebrate a bunch of nice, raunchy, in-your-face black-on-white white-on-black vintage XXX interracial porn that I’m sharing because it’s, you know, good porn. Make your dick hard, or puff up whatever kinda erogenous wabbly bits you might have.
I’m not saying the pornographers who made this stuff were enlightened humanitarians. But some of them were good at their trade. The more vintage interracial porn I look at, the more often I spot an image or a photoshoot where it seems like the intention was less “break a racial taboo” and more “Hey, those contrasting skin tones are visually dramatic!”
My pet theory, which I can’t prove at all and would be hard pressed to seriously defend, is that some of the European hardcore publishers fell more in this latter camp. “Performers are two different colors? Makes a great-looking shoot, pay ’em and start rolling!”
I also don’t want to say that there weren’t some USA-based pornographers reasoning the same way, back at the dawn of the hard-core porn era. But you don’t have to look very hard (although you do have to look somewhere other than here) to find a lot of genuinely awful, uninspired, lacklustre interracial porn made in the USA. Sometimes “shooting to a fetish” leads to bad porn. A pornographer who is checking fetish boxes usually doesn’t work for me. The ones whose only criteria is “how sexy it is?” are my certain favorites.
It is especially satisfying to me when the interracial porn solves an actual porn-auteur problem. When I did my post on double penetration in vintage porn, it was a hard slog to locate suitable examples. I say “suitable” because the world is awash in DP porn shoots. But setting those up is awkward both physically and visually. Jamming three sets of genitals together while leaving room for the camera lens isn’t easy. Lighting the scene once you’ve done it? Also a challenge! Too often, the result looks like two eels trying to hide in a bucket of murky water. Changing up the skin colors doesn’t entirely solve that problem, but it sure helps:
Or how about this? Hundreds of thousands of words have been written on the semiotics of cum facials in porn. Is it inherently degrading? Is it sexually empowering? Ask three feminists, get five answers. And that’s before we step two inches into the racial-politics minefield that we encounter when one participant is white and one is black. I’m too dumb to form an opinion on that particular controversy, and way too smart to say so if I did happen to think one up. But practically speaking, it sometimes makes a prettier picture when you can see the guy’s jizz more clearly. And thus, once again, the contrast you get from a black face in the shot solves a porn-photographer’s practical problem:
