“But what about African Americans?” I asked. The producer insisted I was in the minority and that my video wouldn’t go viral if I insisted on having a white top. “Well,” I said to him, “I like interracial porn, and I’d like to see more versatility.” “Most of the white guys who watch interracial porn want the fantasy of submitting to a tough street thug.” “You’d be breaking an unwritten rule in gay porn,” one producer said. I spoke to several porn producers about using an interracial couple to dramatize the how-to points in the book, and they all told me it wouldn’t work unless the black guy topped the white guy. If searches on the Internet didn’t lead me to those questions, my experiences while trying to make the video version of my gay sex advice book, How to Bottom Like a Porn Star, did.
Is gay porn racist? Or is it a benign form of stereotyping? Ever notice how hard it is to find black guys bottoming for whites in interracial porn? With few exceptions, porn studios seem to think there is only one acceptable way to show interracial sex: the hyperaggressive African-American top and the submissive white bottom.
