Oh god, our sex-negative culture has spawned another work of anti-porn propaganda! And we even chat to legendary porn star Nina Hartley, yay! Co-authored by Kristen Cochrane and Karley Sciortino. By now, most of us or at least a lot of us have seen the porn documentary Hot Girls Wanted , which was released through Netflix in May.
Produced by actress Rashida Jones, the film follows a small group of young women getting into the pro-amateur porn business in Miami. Deep thoughts! Hot Girls Wanted trailer. Which is interesting, because the film is easily read as an exploitative, slut-shaming documentary that perpetuates negative stereotypes about sex workers that so many people have spent years trying to break. So why perpetuate the disdain that sex workers already face?
So we called up Nina Hartley, one of the OGs of the golden age of porn, as well as a talented writer and nurse who BTW is responsible for countless sex-ed videos that taught women how to have a man submit to them , how to give oral sex to a woman , and how to have multiple orgasms. Unfortunately, the performers who starred in the documentary did not respond to our interview requests. Well, maybe half-jokingly? The story is always the same: these, poor, poor deluded young girls who are lured into… blah blah blah.
High-profile American academic Camille Paglia once wrote about how the best sex workers in history have been invisible. Fundamentally, they all involve a cautionary tale. The funny read: dark thing is, Hot Girls Wanted actually has a lot of aesthetic and cinematic similarities with old school teen exploitation movies! As of April , there were 40 million Netflix subscribers in the US, and 20 million abroad.
Basically, people love Netflix, and people love porn, which means that a lot of people saw this movie. Sadly, Bauer and Gradus had this amazing opportunity to educate people about realities of the porn industry. People are hungry for this information, right?
