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<h2>Racism Exist in Porn Industry,' says Popular Porn Star Janice Griffith </h2>
Popular adult film star Janice Griffith opened up in a interview with Fusion about how her meso-Caribbean background confuses people when it comes to racially categorized porn. The 20-year-old performer, said that sites are quick to label her as whatever they find marketable - whether that's Latina, Egyptian, black, Chinese, or white.
Black women, no matter how dark or light their skin colour, are always classified in the “ebony” category - not "interracial". There is definitely a racist influence but not because of adult performers but because our society as a whole is racist.
She says the internet as a medium only exacerbates the problem, adding: Internet search terms... simplify it so that people can find the content that they’re looking for. People want a brown-skinned girl for whatever perverted motivations they have, and they know that brown girls are [listed as] Latina.
It's a common practice in the industry, and many have pointed out that porn that uses labels such as "interracial" are racist because it denotes specifically black man/white woman action - and that grouping people by race for the purposes of sexual gratification is itself problematic.
Women of colour who work in the porn industry don't have the same opportunities for work that woman who can pass for white do, Griffith says, and are often paid less - proving that white privilege is still white privilege, even in porn.
Change is arriving slowly in the world of porn, but it is happening - some sites refuse to use traditional porn categories and more and more performers are starting to shoot and direct their own work, taking creative control.
Porn is a place that people fear to tread and it harbours a really negative stigma, so racism can thrive and live longer there... We still haven’t figured out a way to properly regulate porn and come to an agreement between performers, directors and legislators. Because we can’t regulate it, we can’t say this is racist, this is wrong. We’re not communicating openly enough... It’s a conversation we need to have as a whole society.