Jincey Lumpkin (I’m assuming that’s not her real name, but awesome if it is) thinks so. And if not a lesbian, at least a woman. The self-proclaimed “Hugh Hefner of lesbian porn,” Lumpkin started the lesbian social networking site Digiromp.com in 2008, and recently moved into creating lesbian porn on Juicy Pink Box notable for its absence of “gay for pay” sex. Though Hefner’s empire doesn’t call to mind anything much more than soft-core imagery most of the time, Lumpkin says:
“To me, Playboy is the brand that has really transcended pornography and has represented an enviable lifestyle.”
She aims to become just as powerful for women who like women, and on some level, make that lifestyle equally ubiquitous. Lumpkin believes …
… that though she has a strong lesbian following, straight and bi-curious women watch her videos too because heterosexual male pornographers aren’t targeting them appropriately.
Despite my skepticism over whether Lumpkin is actually carving out a new market in the porn industry, a strong argument can be made for her claims. An article on her in The Daily Beast suggests that Lumpkin is doing something radically different than the lesbian porn that’s out there already, a market dominated by an industry in San Francisco known as “dyke porn.” Dyke porn is typically more hardcore than the work that Lumpkin produces; her “girls straddle the line between femininity and masculinity” in a way that previous lesbian movies haven’t. I wonder; is that just code for “her movies are appealing to straight men too?”
Lumpkin doesn’t think so; she truly believes she’s bringing a new, fresh angle to porn. In an interview with Out Magazine, she said that:
“…for years and years, there were really no options. You go to the porn store, everything looks the same, it’s mostly all women with huge tits and blonde, fake hair, long nails, and they’re fucking each other with purple, sparkly dildos, and that is obviously not how most of us have sex. So that was frustrating for me to want to watch porn and to be totally not aroused by that. And so in 2006, I think, is when the dyke porn movement started in San Francisco, and I bought Crash Pad Series, which was their first big film. I thought, Wow, all right. This is real women having sex with women who like to do it. These are lesbians, or whatever, however they label themselves. But at the same time, that was very unglamorous, in a way, and kind of not necessarily a lot of attention to the aesthetics of it. So I wanted to do something that was a good mix between the two of those. Something that was glamorous but also real lesbian sex.”
Lumpkin also believes that it’s “a myth” that women aren’t stimulated visually:
“Now, a lot of people have said that women have to have a story, and I don’t believe that that’s true. Everybody that I know who watches porn just fast-forwards right to the sex scenes. So for Juicy Pink Box, that’s what we do. It’s like sex in a movie, but just the sex scene itself. Cinematic and classic, but just that five-, seven-, 10-minute long sex scene.”
What does the lesbian community think? Queerty features her and Juicy Pink Box favorably. Whether or not Lumpkin is reinventing porn, she is certainly doing something that appeals to women; her fan base has grown quickly, and in a relatively short period of time. We’ll see if the backlash begins, but at least right now, it appears that she’s got a good thing going.
I hate most girl on girl porn for all the reasons that she stated.
I’m sick of cantaloupe sized breasts with dime sized nipples. Sick of bleached blond hair and really, really sick of those sparkley purple dildos.
Also, it takes you right out of the moment when you see girls kissing and it’s obvious that they aren’t into it.
I’m not sure if most guys can tell how faked the scene is, but having actually had sex with women, for my own personal pleasure and not for a man’s excitement, I can tell.
It goes from being hot to something that just makes me vaguely uncomfortable for the women who are shooting the scene.
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I’m not a lesbian. Sexually, I prefer women who are feminine and don’t remind me of truckers. Mullets don’t turn me on, and neither does flannel. I’m excited (hehe) at the prospect of watching some lesbian porn that features women who are actually into each other AND look like real women, without the extremes of either “porn star” looks or masculine “dyke” looks.
When will this stuff be hitting the market??
When are YOU hitting the market?
If I watched porn, this might actually make me intrigued.
The three biggest lies:
1) The check is in the mail.
2) I won’t cum in your mouth.
3) “If I watched pron…….”
I just watched a video on drum roller compaction,then I clicked on Juicy Pink Box,talk about a religious experience.
Define good. Problem with good is its too subjective. I would say having being in the mind set of a lesbian would give a pr.oducer an edge
I like to edge when watching pron, too.
Jincey Lumpkin is my real name. ;)
And I am gay. And married.
Thanks for the write up.
xo