How Tasha Reign Stopped Worrying and Tried Interracial Porn

Tasha Reign is a porn star — a sex worker who wears that title proudly. In her weekly column, she’s here to educate Galore readers on the topics that most people are too shy to broach. This week: a very particular — and very shallow — kind of slut-shaming.

Racism is as old as America itself — and it exists in porn, too. 

In my six years as an adult performer, I’ve seen a direct correlation between what is shot in porn and what the majority of desires and social norms are. Luckily, things are changing because society is changing for the better. And in my time as a performer, I have seen a complete 180 in the treatment of “interracial” porn. 

Why? Demand! Both men and women watch adult, more and more women are coming out of the shame closet and admitting to their fantasies as well as asking for them on film, so the new decade of glamorous interracial porn was born. It’s trendy, it’s in, it’s what our consumer wants. 

Let me rewind real quickly, when I got into adult in 2012 I was told that if I was to do “IR” that it would lower my value in the marketplace. To the average reader this sounds, pretty heinous. But it happened. That aspect is disgusting but it’s true. And since I’m my own product, I often ride the line of doing what’s best for “Tasha Reign” and what I politically believe in. 

More often than not, though, I go with my gut and try to control my destiny as much as possible but certain situations are more challenging than others. Another pertinent part of this story is that the majority of the type of “IR” porn that was being shot back in the day was pretty racially fueled, hence the name, but also the storylines, premise and overall depiction of what exactly was going on was very much derogatory, so much so that I didn’t want to have anything to do with it. 

If you are the type of person who gets off to that sort of stuff — racially charged degradation — whatever floats your boat. I just didn’t/don’t want to be a part of it. 

But my reluctance to take part in interracial porn changed in summer 2014. I was coming back from Europe and I was asked by a very revered director from an up and coming site, blacked.com, to shoot hardcore IR for them. I was thrilled! You’re going to think I am nuts, but I showed my mom their website, and she was all in. They are the most glamorous, high end, female-oriented “black on white” centered adult film. Check them out and see what I am talking about for yourself. 

I called my agent to tell him the proposition, and he was not as excited. He had an idea of what my image looked like and this did not align. Also, because this site was not a big one as of yet, he didn’t trust the move. Like I said before, it’s a touchy subject because whether you have a problem with it or not, the way it could be depicted can come across as very racist, thats why I had stayed away for so long.  

We came to the conclusion that it was just not the time to make this career move and instead I waited. I waited until 2015, to shoot my first film with Prince Yahshua, for my own website tashareign.com with a fabulous director by the stage name “Red Davis” who only shoots mainstream film, with this exception, and it was epic. 

Although long awaited and dragged out, my fans loved it and I am proud I invested the money into a scene that I controlled, I am proud of the content that was created and I proud it is based on just two sexy people having sex, without any dialogue that suggests otherwise. 

Looking back, I would have loved to work for blacked.com. Now I can’t as I am under contract with Elegant Angel, but I still do all my scenes for them in a similar manner that I would direct myself — empowered, unbridled and high end. The cyclical involvement of media and acceptance is real and more upfront when considering xxx entertainment, it’s raw and sometimes authentic, addressing issues and imaginative scenarios in the barest of all forms, sexuality. 

As our civilization becomes more accepting and open minded, so will our pornography. The relationship is cause and effect.  Before the recent trend, certain production companies, such as wicked.com, already had non-racially stigmatized fueled “IR” videos, but now in 2016, this is what our consumer wants to see mostly. 

What are your thoughts on this heavy topic?  I love that America wants glamour hardcore “IR” porn. Wouldn’t it be great, in years from now, if it wasn’t even categorized as being separate from mainstream in the first place?  Then we get into the topic of being “color blind,” which is a hurdle for another day…

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