Pornographers On Pornography

“This industry is full of people that hate — literally HATE women.” — Julie Meadows, former porn star

aisha
8 min readJun 24, 2022

The following quotes contain graphic and upsetting descriptions.

Amateurs come across better on screen: “Our customers feel that. Especially by women you can see it. They still feel strong pain.Carlo Scalisi, owner of 21 Sexury Video

Where else but in porn can you see a guy who just met a girl that day crack her around, choke her out. — Brandon Iron

“I’m not here to apologize. I’m just here to say, ‘We make entertainment and let’s see how far we can take it.” —Max Hardcore

Degradation drives the business…there are things going on right now that are way over the line.” — Khan Tusion

“Even the mildest pornography is shocking to the average person. I’m surprised it’s legal.” — Paul Thomas

“In no way would I recommend this job to my best friend, let alone my children. Every day in this business you must decide to risk your life. When I came into this business in 1998, five women were infected with HIV from one guy. It was a scary time. I would positively forbid my daughter from working in this industry. There is a measure of self-respect a sex performer gives away every single time he or she is on camera. I wouldn’t want anyone so close to me to give away anything so important and valuable. When I have kids I will instruct them that their bodies are temples, and I don’t want anyone walking up into and defiling their temples.” Lexington Steele

“I was the first to shoot Rocco. Together we evolved towards rougher stuff. He started to spit on girls. A strong male-dominant thing, with women being pushed to their limit. It looks like violence but it’s not. I mean, pleasure and pain are the same thing, right?” — John Stagliano

I can like a rape scene if I really like the girl and it’s done well…I’m all about the sex and pretty girls and appreciating them.” — John Stagliano, quoted in Robert Jensen’s Getting Off

It’s like a dog marking its territory. You know, why do dogs pee on fire hydrants and trees? I don’t know. It’s just like a man will leave his mark on a woman. You see something beautiful, you’ve got to let them know you were there.”

— Pornographer Brandon Iron, explaining why men like to ejaculate onto women’s faces.

“Essentially, it comes from every man who’s unhappily married, and he looks at his wife who just nagged at him about this or that or whatnot, and he says, “I’d like to fuck you in the ass.” He’s angry at her, right? And he can’t, so he would rather watch some girl taking it up the ass and fantasize at that point he’s doing whatever girl happened to be mean to him that particular day, and that is the attraction, because when people watch anal, nobody wants to watch a girl enjoying anal.”

— Paul Hesky of Multimedia Pictures, as quoted by Robert Jensen in Getting Off.

“When I shot that trailer for Thanksgiving, I really thought there was no problem with anything — it just shows you how genuinely out of touch I am! I was like…a full frontal labial shot, to camera, of a girl landing on a knife seemed like no problem to me. It’s an exploitation movie. It’s my job to exploit. If I don’t exploit this girl, I have failed as a director.” — From an interview with Eli Roth found on filmjerk.com

“Every whore gets the swirlies treatment. Fuck her, then flush her.”
— Promotional copy for Swirlies, a series where women’s heads are put into toilets and flushed, by JM Productions

“My whole reason for being in this Industry is to satisfy the desire of the men in the world who basically don’t much care for women and want to see the men in my Industry getting even with the women they couldn’t have when they were growing up. I strongly believe this… so we come on a woman’s face or somewhat brutalize her sexually: we’re getting even for their lost dreams. I believe this. I’ve heard audiences cheer me when I do something foul on screen. When I’ve strangled a person or sodomized a person, or brutalized a person, the audience is cheering my action, and then when I’ve fulfilled my warped desire, the audience applauds.”
— Bill Margold, porn industry veteran and Free Speech Coalition board member.

He [Sandler] dismissed the contention that his “Rape Camp” web site would increase violence against women in Cambodia. “I have nothing against women here.” He explained, “It’s not being marketed to this community” and since few Cambodians had Internet access they weren’t likely to see it. If his sexual bondage show caused violence against women in the United States — the community of the target audience — that was acceptable, even desirable. ‘It might promote violence against women in the United States, but I say, ‘Good.’ I hate those bitches. They’re out of line and that’s one of the reasons I want to do this … I’m going through a divorce right now. … I hate American women’

Dan Sandler (What pornographers really think of women, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 14 October 1999)

“The girls get torn up like usual.”
- Vince Vouyer, porn producer

”I find myself not that much unlike the slaves and slave traders of some 400 years ago. I participate in the most heinous of ALL trades- THE BUYING AND SELLING OF HUMAN FLESH. I trade my own flesh for monetary compensation and I sell the flesh of others for the same.” — Lexington Steele, porn performer/producer.

“There’s nothing I love more than when a girl insists to me that she won’t take a cock in her ass, because — oh yes she will!”

Max Hardcore, interviewed in Hustler (June 1995)

Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.” — Larry Flynt, Hustler’s publisher.

“There are those who say illogic is the native tongue of anything with tits…(women) speak not from the heart but from the gash, and chances are that at least once a month your chick will stop you dead in your tracks with a masterpiece of cunt rhetoric…the one surefire way to stop those feminine lips from driving you crazy is to put something between them — like your cock, for instance.” — Hustler Magazine, quoted on The Anti-porn Resource Center

“We do a series called ‘Cocktails’ — it’s pretty repugnant. Girls have sex by a couple guys, and the guys and the girl, they have sex with her, and she’s giving fellatio and she’s hacking up boogies in a bowl. And they’re spitting in the bowl. And then she’ll think she’s vomiting in the bowl, and at the end they come in the bowl. And then she drinks it all down. That’s pretty repugnant. (Laughs) Sometimes we do a fellatio line, where the girl’s giving fellatio, and she’s gagging so much she vomits. … It’s repugnant. It is.

Yes. We’ve got tons of stuff they technically could arrest us for. And when this happened, I put on our website — I made a big speech: ‘I welcome the LAPD to come on down.’ I said, ‘Come and get me,’ I said, “Because we won’t go down without a fight. We will fight this. Regardless of the cost, we will fight it. We will take it to the airwaves.Rob Black

“Women were born with three holes for one purpose: To cram a cock deep inside every cuddly cavity! Like true cock sockets, our whores subject their beautiful bodies to the nastiest 4-way debauchery ever lensed. We capture five starry-eyed sluts getting wild and testing the limits of carnal cock-consumption. They redefine raunchy and stretch the limits of ass, mouth, and pussy penetration.” — Promotional copy for Zero Tolerance — No Holes Barred.

“Max fucks chicks he finds the way you like to — getting cute cunts on his couch. Using their tight holes to pleasure his stiff cock. Max turns ordinary teens and mother’s [sic] alike into piss and cum-splattered sluts before your eyes… Max wastes no time, gagging girls on his cock and pissing down their throats before he even learns their email addresses! Max is the originator of rectal-boring action — gaping assholes, and fisting cunts… Max also uses speculums to pry-open their fuck-holes so you can look deep inside. He’ll spray his cum and piss into the gaping tunnels, even making them drink it out of their ass! Whether its [sic] naïve teen or classy broad, Max delivers the same ruthless treatment.” — Excerpt of “Max Hardcore Biography”, Max Hardcore official website

“We at Pure Filth know exactly what you want, and we’re giving it to you. Chicks being ass-fucked till their sphincters are pink, puffy and totally blown out. Adult diapers just might be in store for these whores when their work is done.”
Promotional copy for “Anally Ripped Whores” .

“People want more. They want to know how many dicks you can shove up an ass… It’s like Fear Factor meets Jackass. Make it more hard, make it more nasty, make it more relentless. The guys make the difference. You need a good guy, who’s been around and can give a good scene, fuckin’em hard. I did my homework. These guys are intense.”
Mitchell Spinelli , interviewed while filming the video “Give me Gape”, Adult Video News , September 2004.

“People just want it harder, harder, and harder, because like Ron said, what are you gonna do next?”
— Jerome Tanner , “AVN Directors Roundtable”, Adult Video News , January 2003.

“I enjoy watching people in pleasure, being pleasured, especially women. And that’s the focus of my tapes. The woman’s orgasm, the woman’s pleasure. How it happens — whether it be a fist or a penis, or a squash — to me, it doesn’t necessarily matter. That’s within my personal realms of what’s OK.”
Adam Glasser, actor and producer of porn films

“T.T. reflects exactly what that sort of porno is about,” senior video editor Bud Swope said, “where you screw the hell out of the woman and come all over her face. He throws girls around. He pile-drives till they protest…He’s just aggression.”

In an interview in the April 1995 issue of Hustler Erotic Video Guide, T.T. Boy had this to say: “I was a shy little kid when I started, and now I’m just a guy who wants to fuck the shit out of all these girls. Just fuck ’em to death.”
— Bud Swope and T. T. Boy , quoted in Susan Faludi’s ‘Stiffed’

I don’t care if a baby holds up a Playboy bunny rattle.” — Hugh Hefner, when asked by the Washington Post what he thought of kids wearing Playboy -logo clothing and accessories, quoted in Pamela Paul, Pornified , 2005.

These chicks are our natural enemy…It is time we do battle with them…What I want is a devastating piece that takes the militant feminists apart…They are unalterably opposed to the romantic boy-girl image that Playboy promotes.”
— Hugh Hefner , Memo to staff members, cited by Karen Jacobs, “Patterns of Violence”, The Harvard Women’s Law Journal (1984), quoted in Diana Russell, Making Violence sexy ; 1993.

This is what pornography is: a violent, perverted, misogynistic industry that profits off of the suffering of women. Whoever supports this industry hates humanity.

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aisha

I write about what’s going on in the world, and occasionally, history, politics, and misogyny.