How Rashida changed her viewpoint about porn

AMERICAN actress and singer Rashida Jones speaks about her relationship with porn:

In 2015, you produced a documentary about young por no g r aphy perfor mers, Hot Girls Wanted, that was eventually tur ned into a new Netflix documentary series. But in 2013, you wrote a pretty strident essay in Glamour against the “por nification” of everything, where you recount using the hashtag #stopactinglikewhores, in regard to the main streaming of, say, V-strings and stripper poles. What changed?

I was impulsive. Being old isn’t a good excuse for it, but using the word “whore” was absolutely not appropriate. I didn’t even know what “slut shaming” meant at the time, and I have educated myself. But that was sort of the beginning of my relationship with all this work.

Do you remember the first time you saw porn?

Emmanuelle was something I stumbled upon at a young age, on cable, and was titillated by. Do you consume porn now? I do. When I was single, it was a great way to stay at home. It’s nice that you can separate the idea of personal pleasure from the pressure of a relationship. But I had a hard time finding the kind of porn I wanted, because I had to sift through so much stuff that isn’t for

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me – like abuses of power, dark porn.

Do you think there’s a tension between being a feminist and enjoying porn?

Maybe it’s a generational thing, but because my identity as a feminist didn’t come about through my sexuality, I don’t have that reference point where the freedom I have with my body and my sexuality is part of my expression of feminism. I’ve had a steep learning curve to understanding that those things are interrelated.

Is there a difference between the politics of sexual practice versus what someone might produce for money?

Yes, because the feminine power that is sometimes called feminism comes from capitalism. If you are making money, you are powerful; therefore, anything you do to make that money makes you powerful; therefore, anything you do to be powerful is feminist.

There’s a recognised genre of women creating content for other women in porn, which is something we haven’t seen much of in Hollywood.

There are women who have gone into the sex industry, they’re just like, “I’m going to make my own stuff ”. Whereas in Hollywood, there’s so much development and bloat. There’s a more direct relationship between the filmmaker and the consumer in porn. – The New York Times

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