Maybe she did something to piss him off that day, or otherwise failed to demonstrate her lower status to Deen's liking. Who knows? He didn't actually violate the "no" list. I thought he just read it out loud and tried to humiliate her by doing that. It seems unsavory and cruel, but doesn't seem completely out of line…

I can't wait for the world to crush your ideas about what it is or isn't.

We should not impose our bourgeois values on what is a working class industry which caters mostly to the needs of working class people. Let them sort it out for themselves.

How would you describe the porn that Deen stars in, if not sex-positive?

In any industry, the senior members need ways to keep the juniors in line, to delineate status, and this includes various forms of humiliation. However, the physically risky methods used by Deen do seem to indicate that the culture in porn could use some change.

In law, we say "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table."

Ralph Ellison was a pig who psychologically (and perhaps physically) brutalized his wife throughout their marriage. You can see it in his writing, in the degree to which he feels emasculated, his need to dominate someone or something else in turn.

12 Years a Slave? Fruitvale Station? "Unsafe" is usually just used as code, though, for representation that doesn't leave a certain type of young American Black man feeling emasculated. These types can never be mollified though, so there's usually no use reasoning with them.

Joanna Angel owns a porn empire. She’s not some helpless idiot victimized by a man. If Deen did those things to her, she must have signaled to him that that type of behavior was acceptable, even desireable. He is only a performer, and she is an owner of capital in their industry. The real power in that relationship…

I doubt someone calling themselves Assata Shakur on Kinja can sate much of that greed as a defense attorney. I'm sure there's plenty of work, but it will be small fish for the rest of her life.

Women like Nostro are doing God's work.