“I don’t want to perpetuate negativity.” Contrary to the stereotype, women don’t require horny-pizza-boy plotlines in their porn-the fact that they’re enjoying porn at all creates its own compelling story. “I just wanted to do my job and make a good porno,” Deen said after the tabloid machine had painted him as a bad man with a small dick. Deen earned his female fan base not just for being an attractive guy who’s good in bed, but through his unrelenting positivity about the work that he does, the women he does it with, and the people who watch. A lot of that talk is dedicated to picking apart the sexual shaming that’s heaped on women who produce porn, and those who admit to watching it. On the constantly refreshing hive mind that is the James Deen Tumblr tag, fans trade Deen quotes, fully-clothed photos, and industry gossip as frequently as they do actual porn clips. Young women may not typically buy porn-on the Internet, they don’t have to-but they’re more socially invested in it than any other group of viewers. Its target viewers are even more interested in the fraught sexual context of the film than they are its actual sexual content.
(As Deen revealed in an interview this week, the film was also directed by a woman). Backdoor Teen Mom is the rare mainstream porn flick targeted at young women, the group that composes the fandoms of both James Deen and Teen Mom. The interesting thing about this inane story is the audience for the tabloid plotline and the accompanying video. The actress reportedly earned six figures for her pornographic and tabloid performances. Upon the film’s release, Abraham tweeted, “I can’t believe the one time I have sex in the past year has turned in to this #UNREAL,” then retweeted a stream of positive reviews from viewers. Abraham retaliated by telling tabloids that Deen “does not respect women” and adding, of his penis: “I haven’t seen many, but his is definitely not big.” When he failed to respond in kind-his demonstrably enormous penis speaks for itself-Abraham announced that she had received a “threatening” email from a person claiming to be Deen. When asked, he confirmed he and Abraham were not dating. But after the tape was “leaked,” James Deen, the male lead, refused to lie.
They arranged to present the flick as a leaked sex tape they’d pretend the male actor was Abraham’s boyfriend. Parents, social critics, and many young girls themselves deplore it, but sex sells. Here’s what happened: Abraham approached the adult entertainment company Vivid to make a porn flick. A special report on the sexual pressures on pre-teenage girls. But I’ve been following the media narrative around the video obsessively, and the reports spurting out of TMZ play like a whodunit of sexual shaming: Who can be blamed for this porn they all made?
I haven’t watched Backdoor Teen Mom, the 70-minute pornographic film starring MTV Teen Mom reality star Farrah Abraham and porn star James Deen that was released by Vivid Entertainment this week.
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