PornHub releases first non-adult documentary about a black lesbian stripclub
We all know what PornHub is famous for and it ain’t documentaries. However, the adult movie giant have decided to branch out and have just released a documentary about a Black lesbian strip club. The documentary is called Shakedown and has been described as a ‘nuanced, moving look at a haven of sexual freedom and expression, and raucous fun at the same time’.
Leila Weinraub is the brains behind the documentary and she has taken footage from nearly 15 years ago right up to the current day. Here’s what Leila Weinraub had to say about the movie:
There’s a cool opportunity right now to present films in the art space, there’s more openness to diversity and content, and a different sort of storytelling. I feel like the film complicates the history of subcultures, like Los Angeles. It reorients your placing of things in that history. I feel like that was my goal, not to put a finger on it, but complicate and add to that richness.
Here’s the official synopsis:
The film is anchored in the stories of three women: Ronnie Ron, the creator and emcee of Shakedown, a large butch/stud lesbian and former Jehovah’s Witness; Egypt, a single mother, beauty pageant fanatic, and dedicated self-(re)inventor; and Jazmyne, the complicated and sometimes conflicted ‘Queen’ of Shakedown.
We go through the process of their labour with them and record what they do, and how they feel about what they are doing. From a meta-perspective, queer cultural production remains at the fringes of society today. It is largely undocumented, and therefore communities and art forms continuously disappear as stories are forgotten.
With PornHub receiving a whopping 42 billion visits to their site last year, you may wonder why they’re changing things up. If it ain’t broke, and all that. However, PornHub’s brand director, Alex Klein said that PornHub want to be seen as a platform that artists and creators can use. Shakedown is available to stream on Pornhub during the entire month of March.
