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Sexy TriBeCa Show Offers Peek Inside Porn Industry

By Julie Shapiro | March 27, 2012 11:06am
Nyomi Banxxx said she is always comfortable with her role performing in pornography films.
Nyomi Banxxx said she is always comfortable with her role performing in pornography films.
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Consent

TRIBECA — A sexy new show in TriBeCa invites viewers to take a peek inside the porn industry.

"Consent," which opened at apexart gallery on Church Street last week, examines pornography as an art form, with video interviews of the people who write the salacious scripts, as well as those who perform them. The show also intersperses clips of actual pornography in between the commentary.

"Consent" is curated by Lynsey G, a pornography writer and reviewer who has worked on the edges of the adult entertainment world for the past five years. In an essay accompanying the show, Lynsey G said she jumped at the chance to take a more critical look at an industry that many people dismiss.

"Porn is a huge grey area, a murky patch of swamp that’s easier to enjoy when left alone," Lynsey G writes in the essay. "So most of us keep quiet about what we really think, if we think at all, shrugging, 'Who cares? It’s just porn.'"

The porn stars that Lynsey G interviewed to shed light on the taboo topic include Nyomi Banxxx, of "Hardcore," Brittany Andrews, of "Night Nurses," and April Flores, of "Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex 2."

"I got tired of reading and hearing that porn degrades women, because I’ve never felt degraded in this field," Flores, a full-figured redhead, told Lynsey G in her video interview. "I always say that I felt much more degraded as a receptionist than I did, ever, in porn."

While many porn downloaders don't think about what really happens on the other side of the lens, Lynsey G wants to bridge the gap between creator and consumer, so that both sides can see what they have in common.

"We are all tangled up together in our one common thread: the consent we give to being part of pornography," Lynsey G writes.

"Whether we make porn, watch porn, love porn, or hate porn, we are all enmeshed in it. An industry that makes billions more than America’s largest sports industries … that dominates a solid quarter of our web searches, surely ties us together more tightly than religion, politics, activism, or — it’s true — art."

"Consent" is on view at apexart, 291 Church St., though to May 12. On April 4 at 6:30 p.m., the gallery will host a screening of "The Graduate" and a porn takeoff version "The Graduate XXX," followed by a discussion.