9/20/2023 0 Comments Players magazine pictorialWhere initially 'Morriss and Weinstock had only three requirements for women to be featured in the magazine: the models had to look like they were eighteen years old, they had to have European features, and they had to have large breasts.' Having been an editor in 1975, Emory Holmes returned to the Players staff as editor for a second time in 1981. Players 's definition of a woman suitable to be featured often fluctuated. Featured Models Players' Definition of a Woman Whereas black men are depicted as animalistic and hyper masculine. Black women are also disproportionately viewed as aggressive, domineering, and unfeminine. Some examples that manifest themselves in the porn industry, is the binary that exists for black women you are either a Mammy non sexual, or the Jezebel, inherently available and hyper sexual. According to Miller-Young, black women are undervalued in the porn industry. These representations impact our expectations for characters in thinking about stereotypes, and the kinds of characters that we expect certain bodies to portray. Negative representations that are internalized are demoralizing and reduce self-esteem. Minorities also face implications from this by internalizing these representations. These images influence how audiences view minorities. When the only representations audiences see of minority characters are negative, these portrayals manifest to society. These portrayals, reinforce negative stereotypes about black people. In American culture, porn is a stimulus of a popular imagination stratified and, indeed, haunted, by race. Writers for Players magazine inspired hip-hop innovators like Nas, Tupac Shakur, and The Notorious B.I.G. This strict policy on content later fell as Emory Holmes gained access to content as editor of Players and the direction focused on content relevant to the everyday life of black Americans, and away from the fantasy 'pimp' model pushed by Weinstock and Morriss. Paintings, sculpture, and classical jazz. You can do stories about music, but not about these arts that no one is interested in. no stories about Jamaica's Trenchtown, or South Africa, or apartheid. No stories about blacks in history at all. ' could never publish any story about blacks in history. In their minds the only marketable black material was 'authentic ghetto literature'.' Players ' formula grew so strict that it included explicit rules surrounding acceptable, publishable content. Stories about African American history, black politics, international black issues, or African American arts such as sculpture or painting were prohibited. Whereas 'by the mid-1970s, Holloway House Publishing and Players had developed an effective formula for publishing black material, Morriss and Weinstock created specific rules, dictating the kind of texts that could be published in Players. The creative direction that Players reached for in their content often changed. While there are instances of Players magazine portraying colorist tendencies, for the most part, it was productive in showing the wide range of hair types, skin colors, and body types of black women, setting it apart from mainstream white sex media. This colorism blocks opportunities for the diversity found among black women to be seen as desirable and reinforces the politics within pornography and the sex media. Miller-Young also mentions another magazine marketed to black consumers, Jet, that highlighted primarily lighter-skinned models on its covers. was known for prizing very light-skinned black women.' They were valued for their proximity to whiteness but also fit stereotypes involving sexuality-being seen as exotic or sexually aggressive. At this time the 'trade in black women as sexual slaves. She writes about colorism through its link to the antebellum era. The content of Players brings to mind Mireille Miller-Young's 1980's research on the adult entertainment industry A Taste for Brown Sugar primarily 'Colorism and the Myth of Prohibition'.
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