Porn star pick
“The 21-year-old history graduate was ranked the most popular performer by Pornhub after only only a short period in the industry—but not everyone was impressed. Her ranking drew strong criticism from many, including some in the Middle East who branded her ‘a disgrace’ to the country and ‘shameful’.”
Also signalling a pro tempore sea change nabbing the crown from uber MILF Sarah Palin pretender Lisa Ann. Praise the MILF: Why do British men love Sarah Palin lookalike Lisa Ann so much? (Pick of the Week 22nd Jan. 2014).
Many took issue with a scene from one of her videos showing her wearing a hijab, a part of traditional female Muslim dress, describing it as ‘problematic and gross’.”
That would be Mia Khalifa is cumming for dinner (bangbros.com) with hijab wearing Mia in a three-way clinch with also hijab wearing Latina actress Julianna Vega as her disapproving “stepmom” and Sean Lawless as her forced to choose all-American biker boyfriend. Careful, that one has some satirical competative disdain explaining irony as a climax.
Mia Khalifa: “There are Hollywood movies that depict Muslims in a much worse manner than any scene Bang Bros could produce … doesn’t the Middle East have more important things to worry about besides me?”
Indeed. Of course, the sad events in France may possibly have shook Pornhub’s tin, but it must be stressed that particular Bang Bros title was released prior, in December. Despite the outrage you may also wonder if they have actually seen it; do Muslims watch pornography? (muslimsandtheworld.com).
“Google recently released data detailing where the most sex related term searches were originating from, and muslim nation Pakistan came in at first place. For those who think that Pakistan may just be a blip on the radar, think again. Muslim states actually held 6 of the top 8 positions for searchers intending to seek access to sex related sites.”
Although the article on the very insightful site is unfortunately not dated, I recall “recently” was circa 2011 and perhaps perfectly demonstrating that indeed divinely inspired relgious censure never has and never will thwart anything human.
I guess that makes Mia Khalifa my first porn star pick of the year.
Updated 9th February 2015
Mia Khalifa: Pornhub star claims Drake sent her “cringeworthy” naked photos on Instagram (independent.co.uk).
“Rappers have had a time-honoured obsession with porn stars and Drake is no different, having previously sung that he ‘pays attention…to a couple pornstars that I’m ashamed to mention’. … ‘It was flattering but his intentions were clear. It was just so cringeworthy,’ she said.… ”
I guess that being in that “time-honoured” manner of many not even knowing the names of porn stars they whacked off to and are “ashamed to mention” because porn is not something they look at while asking random women on social media and chatrooms to send a stranger nude pics.
Updated 15th August 2019
But having quit porn in 2015 after only three months and seven film credits in preference for a career first as a paralegal and bookkeeper and then as a sports commentator and social media personality:
Mia Khalifa: Porn contracts ‘prey on vulnerable girls’ (bbc.co.uk).
Speaking in an interview with her friend Megan Abbott, Mia says she “hasn’t yet accepted [her] past”.
Mia has usually avoided speaking about her career in porn, but says she’s “ready to shed light on every questionable moment from my past, because if I own it, it can’t be used against me”.
And claiming studios “trap women legally in to contracts when they’re vulnerable” and that she only made around $12,000 (£9,900) during her time performing and “never saw a penny again after that” and recounting the difficulties finding work after and in her family life, with her parents still not speaking to her:
The Lebanon-born performer opened up about how difficult it is to move on after porn, as she found out when attempting to pursue a career in sports punditry.
“It gets me so down when I get ‘no’s’ from companies who don’t want to work with me because of my past, but I also thought I would never find a man like my fiancé”, she said.
But although seemingly regretful of her brief porno career not quite giving the tales of abuse anti-porn u-turn of 70s Deep Throat Linda Lovelace who later felt herself as much used by the anti-pornography movement (Wikipedia), Khalifa claiming it as more a rebellious phase, with some have ascribing the blame to not only to the studios who continue to profit from her brief adult oeuvre but to the many that deride her on social media:
Ex-porn star Mia Khalifa wants to move on with her life. Why won’t we let her? (theguardian.com).
What these sites can’t do, however, is fix how judgmental we are about those who opt to make porn for a living, or those like Khalifa who wish to start a new chapter. With so many of us watching pornography, sending nudes and using technology to enhance our sex lives, it’s about time we stopped getting all high and mighty on the people who help us to get off.
But Khalifa has championed the rise of the webcam and social media-based adult industry, with as well as webcaming herself (pornhub.com) profiting from the selling of photoshoots, merchandise and access to exclusive content on Patreon and Findrow (Wikipedia):
Last year, I spent time with young Brits making a career in the industry using these websites. The premise is simple: performers upload their content to the platform, and if you want to follow their sexual exploits you pay them directly through a self-set monthly fee. It means they are selling their product directly to consumers, helping mitigate the problems Khalifa has experienced, while democratising the industry in the process.
With highligh on that “performers are shooting scenes on the basis of mutual cooperation” rather than being told who to have sex, although webcam studios in Romania and Latin America have been shown to be enticing young women into the business (bbc.co.uk, Aug. 2017) in much the same manner as Khalifa bemoans, and perhaps overlooking the ethics of the Web 2.0 equivelent of phone sex lines run by the sites at the top of the video chat money-making pyramid providing the streaming stage to target desperately lonely geeks invited to become ‘king’ of the moment by spending the most tokens and paying $5 a minute for private for the “girlfriend experience” (thegryphon.co.uk, Mar. 2019).
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