Pornland (23 page)

The story of “defilement” told on these sites is formulaic in that it almost always starts with an eager but innocent girl who is gently and playfully coaxed by off-camera adult men into sexually performing for the pleasure of the viewer. This is the narrative informing most of the images on the SoloTeengirls.net site, which has hundreds of movies available to members as well as hundreds of still photographs posted on the site as a teaser for nonmembers. Each woman has five photographs and a written text detailing her supposed first sexual experience. For “Natasha” the story goes as follows: “This lil cutie came in pretending that she couldn’t wait to be naked in front of the camera. And . . . we couldn’t wait to see her. As she started to take off her clothes and show off she giggled and smiled but we could tell she was nervous and when she found out that naked meant showing of [
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] her snug little teen pussy she blushed! But showing off her pussy proved to be too much of a turn on and when we encouraged her to play with it she could not resist. This beautiful teen girl really did have her first time on camera and we got to watch her stroke that velvety teen pussy.”
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The message that the written text conveys in this story can be found throughout the Web sites in this category, as it embodies the way the pornographers carefully craft a story of who is really innocent and who is really culpable in the scenario. For all the supposed innocence of the “lil cutie,” as evidenced by her nervousness, giggling, smiling, and blushing, it really took only a bit of encouragement to get her to masturbate for the camera, which in Pornland language is another way of saying that it didn’t take much for her to reveal her inner slut. It is this culpability on the part of the girl that simultaneously frees the user of his culpability in masturbating to what would be, in reality, a scenario of adult men manipulating a naive girl into masturbating for the pleasure of other adult men and themselves.

The Solo Teen sites are a gentle way to introduce the user to PCP since the absence of adult male performers means that the pornographers can construct a story for the user that avoids talking about heterosexual sex with underage girls and instead talks about a hot girl who, on the cusp of discovering her sexuality, needs just a little gentle verbal encouragement to finally take the plunge. The following classification of sites, those that have actual penetrative sex by a man, construct the male performer as both active and visible, and yet still manage to create a narrative that allows the user to believe he is watching consensual, nonexploitive sex.

Type 4: Penetrative sexual activity between adult(s) and child(ren)

The overriding theme of PCP sites that show nonsadistic sexual activity between a “child” and an adult is her supposed loss of virginity, a loss that the user gets to witness in excruciatingly clear detail. With names such as Bloody Virgins, First Time Sex, Real Virgins, and Defloration, these sites make it clear to the user just what he is getting. I have included these sites in the nonsadistic category not because they don’t include images of women in pain—many do—but because the sex acts in and of themselves are not of the body-punishing, abusive type that is standard in the more hard-core sites described in the sadistic category below.

The sex depicted in these sites differs markedly from much of the sex on regular porn sites as the adult male displays affection for the female in the form of kissing and caressing. This is a real departure from most porn sex even in feature movies, where there is some perfunctory kissing and touching, but signs of affection give way quickly to the usual mind-numbing penetration of the female’s orifices. In these PCP sites the kissing and touching actually last through much of the movie, and rarely is the woman called a slut or a whore. What is also striking to anyone who is familiar with the codes and conventions of Internet porn is that the male actually keeps asking the female, in a tender way, if the sex feels okay or if he is hurting her.

These differences should not be seen as positive steps toward a less violent type of porn; what they actually represent are techniques aimed at authenticating the supposed consensual loss of virginity. On these sites, there is no mention of coercion or even subtle manipulation; the performer is depicted as eager to lose her virginity. Moreover, as the male performer is clearly older and more mature, were he to behave like most men in porn, he would reveal himself to be a violent and manipulative exploiter of underage girls—an image that would destroy the carefully crafted story of him as a tender teacher, gently leading an innocent yet ripe and ready girl through this major rite of passage. On these sites, any type of text, image, or sex act that remotely suggests coercion would situate the user as a co-conspirator in a scenario that could be read as the rape of a minor, a role that many would likely find uncomfortable and that might prevent them from coming back for more.

One site that seems to be popular, judging from its top billing on many of the teen porn Web portals and its constant pop-up advertisement, which appears on other teen porn sites, is Defloration.com. Claiming to be the “first website about virginity since 1998” and promising the user “real acts of defloration,” the home page is dominated by a picture of two hands stretching open a vagina so the user can get a clear view of the internal genitalia, which depicts, the site claims, an “intact hymen.” Alongside this picture are four smaller images, one of which shows a doll resting on a woman’s thigh and a second that shows a lollipop placed inside a stretched vagina. The text by the side of the picture explains what the hymen is: “A mysterious body part that is lost by young girls when they have sexual intercourse for the first time. Few people have ever seen what this fragile object looks like. A girl who has never had sexual intercourse (a virgin) is supposed to have her hymen intact. In many societies, a girl’s virginity until marriage is considered a great virtue. For a girl who possesses such chastity, getting married becomes easy.”
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After the pornographers have eroticized the hymen with its “mysterious” quality and “fragile” state, which is “stretched and ruptured by the erect penis,” they explain to the user that the “girl” may experience “discomfort and bleeding” during intercourse. For many porn users this is too good an offer to miss as they anticipate seeing something real unfold before them, rather than a staged performance by a “whore.”

For $38 a month, the user can access innumerable images on the site, including pages and pages of young-looking women. One can click on a selection of stills or an actual movie, which is split into two segments: “Hymen Performance” and “Losing of Virginity.” In the first, a male masturbates the girl, and then stretches her vagina open so the viewer gets a clear internal shot. The second segment is a long and drawn-out documentation of her being penetrated as she is grimacing and often asking her penetrator to be careful since the act is painful. This continues, sometimes for ten to fifteen minutes, until he withdraws his blood-stained penis. The camera lingers on the penis, showing the user clear evidence of the “defloration” before the male performer takes his penis and smears the blood over the buttocks and thighs of the female, an act that mirrors the usual “money shot” in porn in which semen is rubbed all over the woman’s body.

On this site and others of this type, the techniques used to childify the women are not so much childhood clothes or props but the actual behavior of the women during sex. To men accustomed to viewing mainstream adult porn, the women in these sites look inexperienced by comparison. In place of the writhing, oiled, voluptuous women who look like they know exactly what they are doing, these women resemble younger females who are unsure of how to perform sex for the camera. Their bodies are not arched enough, their moans not throaty enough, and their movements are awkward, sometimes to the point of being clumsy. Given the nature of the porn industry, it is unlikely that these women are acting the part since they are not top-tier porn performers—just a few of the many thosands of women who move in and out of the industry at an alarming rate. It is much more likely that what is being witnessed is not only their first porn movie ever, but much worse, the first time they have been penetrated vaginally. Indeed, these women are having the loss of their virginity documented by the porn industry, to be circulated over and over again for men’s masturbatory pleasure.

No matter how much these girls are grimacing, they say they are enjoying the sex, and moan intermittently as a way to mimic arousal. This actually reflects what goes on in real child pornography, according to retired FBI Special Agent Kenneth Lanning.
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Much of the illegal child pornography he has investigated indeed shows the child looking somewhat like a willing accomplice, appearing as if she is eagerly consenting to the experience. Of course this is a lie but one that, Lanning argues, many perpetrators—and indeed sometimes lawyers, social workers, and police—believe, since they view the image as the truth rather than as a carefully constructed representation of reality that is produced with specific goals in mind. In their research on men convicted of downloading child pornography, researchers Ethel Quayle and Max Taylor found that these men looked for “superficial clues which allowed the viewer to believe that the children in the pictures were consenting and enjoyed being photographed.” One such user explained that he was just looking for “images of girls mainly. Girls actually having sex. And they had to look happy. . . . I mean I wasn’t looking for rape or anything.”
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In the next type of sites to be discussed, those that can be classed as sadistic, the girls also look like they are enjoying sex, even though in this category what we are watching is physical, sexual, and verbal abuse being perpetrated against them.

Type 5: Sadism

The sites that fit the sadism definition fall within the gonzo genre, I argue, because the acts the women endure are sadistic. These PCP sites dispense with any attempt to project the girls as innocent yet ready to be gently introduced into the world of adult sex. These females, while also depicted as new to sex, are portrayed as wanting it as rough and as hard as all the other women in gonzo porn. The site Teen Dirt Bags, for example, boasts that its “slutty girls are taking cock in their fresh unused pussies” so the viewer can see “the cutest little tramps suck, fuck, swallow and beg for more.”
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Mention is often made of how innocent these girls look, but this is described as a ruse, as just below the surface is a raging slut for whom nothing is too painful, demeaning, debasing, or dehumanizing, as is illustrated in the following description of Keri who, according to the text surrounding the images, is “such a sweet young thing, you’d never believe that she has the mind of a pervert! She looks so innocent and prude but don’t let her fool you, this little slut is a dirty little whore! Keri demonstrated that as she spread her ass cheeks apart and begged him to drill her tight little ass! He granted her wish and gave her an anal pounding like she never had before!”
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The use of so-called teens in gonzo allows the pornographer to layer yet another level of abuse on the already abusive gonzo genre. The physical and emotional immaturity of teens makes space for a whole range of scenarios that heighten and intensify the violence, since they can be easily manipulated into doing just about anything, no matter how painful and cruel. Moreover, their bodies, not yet fully developed, have more potential to be damaged. Not surprisingly, throughout these sites, constant mention is made of the teen’s small vagina and anus, but unlike the solo porn sites, the goal here is not to stress her “innocence” but to highlight the damage that will be done to her body when she is penetrated by an adult male’s penis. The men’s penises are described as being extra large and thus have the power to “break,” “rip,” “tear,” and “split” her not-yet-mature orifices. On the site I Am Eighteen
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the reader is invited to “watch us break her tiny body with some hard, pussy-splitting fucking,” while over on the Ass Plundering site, the tag line boasts that “we plunder these tight little virgin asses.”
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The level of cruelty depicted in the movies is made apparent by the accompanying text, which promises all kinds of injuries that the user gets to witness, some so severe that the “bitches wouldn’t be able to walk for a week after the utter anal demolishing.” The site is littered with pictures of “hot, little, innocent girls” with red, raw anuses. While these are standard images in nonteen gonzo, they have greater authenticity when attached to a “teen” or a “virgin” since her body is less able to deal with such violent penetration.

Many of these sites pair the teen with much older men and highlight the age difference in their names—sites such as Old Farts Young Tarts, Old and Young Gang Bang, Old and Young Porn, Old Men Fucking. These older men, some of them in their sixties and seventies, are depicted as using manipulation and trickery to get the teen, who, shown as naive and unsophisticated, is easily fooled. Not content with just eroticizing the age imbalance between the girl and the man, the pornographers throw in the economic inequality that exists between young and older people as a way to provide the male with even more power over her. On one such popular site, aptly named Teens for Cash, the site banner reads: “They’re Young, They’re Dumb and They’ll do Anything for Money.” Here, scenario after scenario depicts teens offering to do odd jobs for extra cash, only to be seduced into prostituting themselves by the promise of real money. A typical scenario reads: “Tatiana arrives to give the guy’s house a thorough cleaning. However, housekeeping doesn’t pay much, so when Dick and Rod offer her cash to clean her carpet Tatiana is all over them. Once she vacuums the dust off their old pussy punishers, Tatiana is the one left cleaning up the mess!”
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Surrounding the text are images of “Tatiana” gleefully holding money as she is anally, vaginally, and orally penetrated by men who look to be in their sixties at least.