The Pornography Industry's Obsession With Labels

April Flores A.K.A Fatty D A.K.A Fatty Delicious is a pale, bright red haired, Latina adult film star. She is a large woman with a larger personality and she is out to change the way the porn industry views thicker women. In the porn world larger women are not considered to be attractive in the sense that thinner women are. Thicker women must be confined to fetish groups along with other types of se that are considered abnormal. Larger women, such as myself, are considered lazy, unhealthy, and undisciplined among others. In Fatty D’s article, “Being Fatty D: Size, Beauty, and Embodiment in the Adult Industry,” she discusses the difficulty the porn industry has with the concept of a plus sized woman being sexually desirable. AVN (Adult Video News) was quoted as stating that BBW porn (Big Beautiful Women) allows “allowing those too embarrassed to actually be seen with fat chicks the opportunity to jerk off to them in the privacy of their home.” Plus-sized women are often depicted as disgusting, sexual deviants in pornography. The article noted some of the derogatory titles Fatty D had come across: “Cash For Chunkers,” “All Ass No Face,” “Double Dipped Faties,” and “Fat Cocksucking Whores” are a few. Now this isn’t to say that only plus-sized women are degraded and dehumanized in pornography or in society for that matter because we are all aware that it simply isn’t true. This just provides an example. The fact is pornography simply mimics the society that it is associated with. In pornography it is easy and even accepted to try to confine everyone to neat little categories that we feel they belong to. We have clear definitions of what it means to be attractive, straight, sexy, and so on. But everything is not black and white. Does labeling someone as part of the BBW community really provide those members with community of which they will be accepted or  does it just further acknowledge the fact that they do not meet the qualifications to be accepted in “normal” society?

 

 

 

 

“Being Fatty D: Size, Beauty, and Embodiment in the Adult Industry”-April Flores

Excluded: Making Feminist Movements More  Inclusive-Julia Serano