Porn has changed, and the cliche of the siliconated blonde has started drifting away with the new century to let the beauty of porn appear through new iconic figures. Here comes the time for the girl next door. Sasha Grey, Stoya or Faye Reagan – these are faces that tell a story, and if their body is so desirable, if we think their use of it is so special, it’s also because they represent a character.
Very much like the actors and actresses at the beginning of the 20th century, they have been subject to moral disapproval for the same reason that they seduce the masses: we have no way to know what is true » about what they do and represent. But that’s what we crave to discover. Isn’t that about the very definition of eroticism?
According to Stephen Des Aulnois, chief editor of the much hyped french website Le Tag Parfait, which promotes a personal and poetic discourse considering the “porn culture” as part of our wider popular culture, the offer of porn online did multiply the choices to an extend close to the infinite, but these overwheelming choices have led to closer selection and a reflexion about our own tastes: “the ones who have distinguished themselves in this field, unlike what most would have thought, are not the most extreme or the most tragic characters, but the most glamorous ones. A part of the audience have given iconic status to girls whose physical attributes were before unlikely to match porn. They make love with men who resemble them, who are very much like their next door neighbours – just better”.
A producing team like X-Art exemplifies well this trend of high definition, glamorous pornography blurring the line between the “girl next door” and the most seductive women, with its star model Tiffany and videos with unambiguous names such as “Sex with a supermodel”. In these videos, the teasing and the looks are almost as important as the performance. As Stephen puts it: “Beauty does exist in pornography and this is just the tip of the icerberg, you only need to dive in”.
