I’ve been having a very busy stressed out week so here’s a bit of Judy Minx, prominently featured in this blog about French Porn, to lighten up your hump day and mine. Judy popped up right around a good time for me because further research revealed for her to be a budding ‘existentialist’ (well, she is French after all so it’s natural; though she looks like she also has some North African blood). Anyway, ergo, in between taking it up the ass she probably studies philosophy at the Sorbonne. Check out her blog, it’s quite interesting to see how it’s rather hip to theoretize sex work and talk about what often sound like desperate excuses to legitimize a porn career veiled in pseudo-intellectual language. Now, I don’t mean to be disrespectful because maybe it makes sense but I’m not too interested, I prefer the anal shots.
Anyway this talk about intellectualism and porn was a propos since I also stumbled along this absolutely hilarious blog about or own homegrown existentialist philosopher, Sasha Grey. The author of this doozie apparently has a love hate relationship with Sasha and isn’t afraid to admit it, but it’s really the writing that made me crack up. I think we might need more sarcasm in porn and less intellectual posturing.
Hello dear !
I’m Judy Minx, and I’ve been a porn actress for two years now.
I’m not an existentialist, and I am not a philosophy student at the Sorbonne.
I do have North African blood though - you got that one right.
My thoughts about sexwork are NOT excuses to legitimize my career. I actually say on several occasions in articles of my blog that the political and theoretical aspects of sexwork are NOT the reason why I do porn. I do porn because porn is the best way, or at least the most suitable to my skills, tastes and needs, that I have found to make money - for just about the same reasons that most people do their jobs.
The reason why I write about the theoretical and political aspects of sexwork are NOT because it’s “hip” either. I write about them because I am and have always been interested in non-conventional sexual choices - sex for money, kinky / BDSM sex, and queer sex. How and why the people who make these choices are oppressed minorities. This is what I talk and think about most. Sometimes I use “pseudo-intellectual language” to write about that and maybe it’s because I’ve been told that sex isn’t a serious matter or cannot be intelligently and rationally discussed, that I over-compensate with academic language.
I don’t mind that you prefer the anal shots - fair enough. I am glad that people watch my porn and jerk off to it.
As I’ve written on my blog too : I don’t make porn that has huge subtitles saying “this person is a sexworker, she is a respectable person who is intelligent and fights for political rights”. I make porn for people to jerk off to. Most of them won’t give a fuck who I am, and what I’m thinking. My blog is here for the people who want to read it. It has happened to me sometimes to be interested in what such or such porn actress had to say. Plus, my blog addresses not only the porn-watchers like you, but also people who’ve never seen my porn, political activists who think porn is evil. In lots of articles I am trying to write for them. This pseudo-intellectual language is the only one they’ll take seriously.
I don’t mind that you’re not interested in my blog. I mind the contempt and sarcasm in your post. It’s so easy to joke about it, from where you stand. You are not confronted with what it means to be asked a hundred questions a day about your work, by people who think you are either a victim of patriarchy or someone with low moral standards or who are just curious and can’t help asking intrusive questions. You are not the one who gets harassed by a society that thinks it’s such a big deal to fuck for money. People keep telling me what I should and should not do, questioning my choices, asking me to justify myself. It gets in you. After you’ve been asked the question a hundredth time, you ask yourself. You doubt. You wonder. You feel like you have to answer them, you feel that you need to find a thousand intellectual and political reasons for what you’re doing, although you shouldn’t have to answer more questions than any other person who’s working in any job.
You know what ? I’d like it to be so easy and widely accepted, that I wouldn’t have to ask myself these questions. Mostly, my article posts about porn and sexwork were not written spontaneously, out of the blue : they were written as answers to a question I was asked, to someone who called me anti-feminist, to someone who said they pitied me. This text I’m writing right now will end up on my blog. I’m angry that you’re making fun of how I’m made to think about this all the time. Seriously, I’m tired of it too. But as long as most people will think sex can’t be work, I’ll feel it’s my mission to explain that yes, it’s my job, and I’m a worker.
Judy, baby, lighten up. I was very far from trying to insult you or make fun of you. I just got home and will drop you a line later tonight, if you really want me to, I can take down that post but not until I hear your reply to what I want to say next.
Do not take this post down !
I don’t know if you got my second comment and deleted it, or if it was just never published and got lost in the meanders of the interwebz, but as I said, I actually like your blog, find it well-written, witty and funny.
It’s all relative, and the anger and offence I displayed in my comment was greatly determined by the fact that I was exhausted.
I did post it on my blog, but with this as an introduction :
“Alright, I got a bit fired up. What this guy is saying isn’t so insulting really - I understand his point, and even if he was really insulting me and didn’t have a point, it’s not a big deal either. Just a pornblogger using his freedom of speech on the Internet, not harming anyone. It’s just late at night, I had three exams today and I have another one tomorrow and I should be working on it, and so I found a way to procrastinate by answering to that guy. It made me angry though, how he’s making such a cliché of me, and what he says is not fair.”
hi there!
Tonight, by “googling” judy minx, i found these both great websites: artandporn.com and imsoexcited.com! Judy, keep doing and live your passion! you are truely the best “sex working girl” on this planet (i really think you are the best pornstar ever!). i agree with your last comment, in my opinion you did well. i will return on your blog and read it frequently.
Hope i will see you one day in the metro in Paris
see you!
Hey, I haven’t gotten any news from you. I am really open to conversation, and I’m able to change my mind and question my first assumptions on people.
So, tell me, what is it that you wanted to say next, the line you wanted to drop me ?
Hey Judy, I’m sorry, I’m also having a rough week and popping Xanax like crazy. I’ve been too scatterbrained to send you a real reply. Desole’. Is Écervelé an actual word? I’ll try to write to you tonight.
Best regards
Judy, You ROCK girl! You make no excuses, you enjoy life and you take care of yourself.
Keep on Rock girlfriend