It Was The Best Time It Was The Worst Of Time

“It was the best times it was the worst of times”. This is the first sentence of my favorite Charles Dickens’s novel, A Tale Of Two Cities. This is how I feel about the state of black erotica today. It is the best of time. You have some very attractive, sexually charged, strong, and intelligent women in the industry today. Technology is leveling the playing field. Now an individual starlet can go directly to the public for validation via the Internet. It was the worst of time. Women of color still have to go through the same simple-minded mentality that has been part of the industry for over 25 years. Because the industry won’t police itself, production of extreme content is giving the government all the help it needs to make it difficult for all.

The adult industry uses up women as quick as you use up paper towels in your kitchen. I see a group of women of color coming into the industry now that just may the shielding to last a bit longer in this firer fight they have jumped into. And they are going to need the armament of a Federation Starship to survive. But I think there is a few that understand that the industry is a business and to have success they must understand the business. I salute them and hope that do find success in this very hard and cold industry.

There use to be a very strong dance circuit for women in the adult industry. Even at its best the dance circuit wasn’t available to many women of color in the industry. But if you were on it that meant that you could be available for your fans and make a lot of money. Today because of technology, you can be available for fans world wide 24/7. The Internet can be the equalizer if used properly for any starlet. It’s a process and it not geared for over night success but it can be the first step that you take to find success.

It’s 2006 and can you believe that the adult industry still have the mind set it had in 1981 as far as it relates to women of color. They still want to tell them that they don’t sell and that they have less valve than their white counterparts. What I would tell women of color is don’t let anyone use you and you can always stand up to the power that be of this industry. Remember you have the Internet and you don’t need the industry to validate you, you can go directly to the adult fans. If you work it right the fans will validate you.

What the industry is doing or in this case not doing is going to affect everyone in the adult industry. Refusing to police itself and producers of extreme content it’s place the bulls eye right on the backs of everyone related to the adult industry. To be such pace setters when it comes to technology they seem to be very tone deaf as it relates to extreme content. Since the federal courts are stacked against them the government is ready and willing to go to court now. If the industry isn’t careful it may go through a Dark Age period.

I want to leave you with the entire sentence from A Tale Of Two Cities. Read it and tell me if it isn’t current:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.


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