LOS ANGELES — Cherie DeVille's latest column for The Daily Beast focuses on the comic subterfuge that production companies and content creators must devise in order to stay compliant in an increasingly restrictive payment processing environment.
The article, titled “Inside Porn’s Silliest New Trend: Women Stuck in Things,” takes as its springboard the recent proliferation of “scenes of men fucking women who are stuck.”
”Take my recent foray into the genre,” DeVille proposes. “At the start of the video, I pretend to get stuck in a dryer to seduce my fictional stepson, then scream: ‘Oh, Randy! Help me, I’m stuck!’ He runs in and says, ‘Stepmom, you are clearly not stuck in the dryer; if you want to fuck, you should have said so,’ then pounds me.”
As DeVille points out, “other videos show women stuck in fridges, cars, garbage disposals and all different sorts of inanimate objects.”
And these videos, unlike her very knowing, "meta" parody, are played straight.
The "woman stuck in things" videos, she writes, “sound hilarious, but in my opinion, they exist for a serious reason: Mastercard, Visa and other credit card processing companies restrict what pornographers can sell, especially in the genre of fake non-consent, which has significantly decreased the amount of high-end content in that genre.”
“Pornographers and consumers are trapped, and trapped women videos set us free," she adds.
DeVille places this supposedly comical “trapped woman” trend in the context of encroaching censorship of content effected by financial institutions.
“Mastercard has restricted pornographers for years,” she writes, noting that the credit card behemoth and other financial service companies “enforce strict rules about what types of porn consumers can buy with credit and debit cards.”
“These rules range from which fingers I can put in my asshole — no thumbs! — to what types of objects I can insert in my vagina to what a son can and cannot call his mother figure. (Meanwhile, Hollywood depicts incest and rape regularly.) In other words, Mastercard restricts what you jack off to, even if it’s legal for you to watch a woman get fisted.”
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