Seeing racist comments under interracial porn videos,

apart from irritating me, always makes me question the space that sexuality occupies in our society. I read an interview on BUTT’s website a while back where Antino Crowley/Angel describes a sexual experience he had with a white man in which he role-played as a slave, the white man as the master:

So we’re doing it, and I was, like, “You have to say ‘nigger’—it’s okay!” And he was like, “No, no, I can’t say that, that’s wrong.” We were role-playing, come on, say it! It goes along with the territory! And he couldn’t do it!

While this does not at all excuse or explain such racist remarks as “Ban blacks with whites” and “Black men are disgusting” being left under a porn video, it does bring to mind the idea of taboo behavior’s relationship to sexuality, and whether sexuality itself excuses or even occasions such behavior. Plenty porn studios capitalize off the stereotype of large, aggressive, monstrous Black people (not just men) pulverizing white people during sex—a long time ago I even remember seeing a video where the word “nigger” was tossed back and forth between a white actor and a black actor. And what about rape fantasies? Many people have them, regardless of sex or gender, and many porn videos portray them. But, as evidenced by the comments I read earlier today, racism, as well as rape culture, are diseases of which many people in this world desperately need to be cured. So what of them when people not only mentally interact with these ideas, but get off to them?

I guess the question is, if it’s a sexual fantasy, does that make it OK?

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