Lesbians and Pornography, Part 2
Re-Inventing Porn by Bren Ryder
Bren Ryder is the creator of GoodDykePorn.com, an independent amateur hard core pornographic video website which proudly features authentic queer women having amazingly hot sex.
I’ve decided to change the meaning of the word porn. Currently, it’s a fairly dirty word. When people hear the word porn, images of sleazy men ramming their cocks into disinterested women inevitably come to mind. Mention “lesbian porn” and we think of Barbie-type women lightly touching each other with very long finger nails.
Besides changing the word porn, I want to change the meaning of the word dyke, as well. So far, we’ve lovingly appropriated the term and spun it into a positive self-identification. That’s a very good start, but it too conjures very narrow images. I don’t want to define these words. I just want to open up their meaning to include so much more than before.
Enter dyke porn. This is a new genre that few pornographers are claiming as their own. By using the word dyke instead of lesbian, we’re differentiating from the images you’ll see in typical girl-on-girl scenes that are geared towards a predominantly male audience. To be dyke porn is to be something entirely different from traditional porn. Women aren’t being exploited, they’re creating the images themselves, with each other. They’re enjoying the experience. They’re authentically expressing their sexuality. They’re being treated appropriately. The experience of doing a porn scene is as important as the final visual outcome.
When women make porn with other women and include various individual expressions of gender and sexuality, something magical happens. What we’re watching is indeed porn, but it’s different, it’s beautiful, it’s intimate, and it’s as varied as each individual woman is herself. This is my work. To change the meaning of the word porn.
