But the reality is, desire can be and is categorized, ranging from "twink" to "suit-n-tie" to "thug". The porn industry is, in fact, an industry. I will venture a guess that he's not a member of Mensa. IIRC, Larkin is a gay-for-pay bodybuilder and sex worker who lives in Las Vegas where the cost of living is relatively low and there is a ton of transient, transactional sex. All of the data listed at R13 is well under the 8.4% you cite as an plausible benchmark. ** Mixed race individuals complicate these percentages so to keep it simple I just included the cross-tabs for single race identification though some sources allow respondents to select more than one race for the variable. * Went with LGB data and not LGBT not because I am some anti-trans troll but because there isn't that much reliable population wide data for gender identity whereas sexual orientation has been asked for several decades now in many of the big population studies AND gender identity and sexual orientation are separate demographic categories so it makes no sense to lump the populations together - political coalitions does not require collapsing traditional demographic variables. I don't have any answers thought you could use helpful demographic data when calculating benchmarks.
Is that enough? Even if you adjusted for % of US LGB rather than general population, it would maybe bump it to 15% (there isn't that much of a difference for GB US males by race whereas LB US females tend to skew less white and more minority). by AnonymousĪnd not to stir shit but what exact percentages would pass this test? Per last census, AA males are 11.51% of US males or 8.4% of total US so in the 10% range. His figures may be a bit suspect but the ratios are certainly indicative of a trend within the industry. That's the point that Hugh is pointing out. And that is the separate but corollary issue related to what Larkin is actually complaining about: how do "attractive" porn models make into the mainstream and get established to the degree that they can be financially viable when the industry is leveraged against them? Since his porn is degrading and abusive-where he is frequently the star top-I imagine it is hard for him to re-cast or sign much minority talent. Subsequently, he simply doesn't have any use for minorities outside of exploitation. In fact, I would call him the poster boy for "but I'm not racist": He is a manipulative, self-aggrandizing user who only associates with individuals who can do something for him. But as a viewer of porn and a resident of Chelsea who has dealt with Lucas personally, I can say he is universally horrendous. Only 15 are Black men.That’s only 2.2% of the models. If they have more, they’ve clearly buried them as their list is not in alpha order. Only 22 Black models listed in the first 567 on their model pages. They did have one Asian model listed which is more than many other studios.
Plus the owner and it’s namesake is anti-Islam and continues to hire and star a known racist Trump supporter. Only 2.5% of the models they’ve hired have been black men. That’s One-Thousand and Twenty-Eight models. So a studio that is literally called BLACK MAN only has a 50% black performer ratio. 188 of these modes are white AND Billy Santoro is listed as a studio favorite. If they don’t have black models, or have very few, they are a racist studio. Curious if the studio is racist? Look at their model page. “Sexy, educated, and career driven? This is language coded and coated in anti-Blackness,” one person tweeted in response. Ricky attempted to justify his words in a separate Twitter thread with fellow performer Kuper Ryan that was still seen as tone deaf. Rikk York also had some choice words for Ricky over the matter by calling his words “saddening and “despicable” while adding, “The white privilege is almost like a holy demon that’s spread in the whole industry.” He also claimed that they have to go above and beyond in the looks department while white guys don’t have to work as hard. Award winning star Max Konnor posted a video in response where he said that black men are held to a much higher standard than their white counterparts. The backlash to his words was quick especially when it came to other men of color. If there were better looking black guys in porn there would be more black men shot for major studios.” “I hate to break it to you but there are just not that many good looking black guys in porn,” he said in a video that was apparently deleted before it was reshared. Porn star Ricky Larkin is under fire over a video he posted that was aimed at black men in his industry.