Porn with artists (photos)

It’s 9 a.m. on the fourth and final day of the porn industry’s in Las Vegas, and both the talent and the makeup artists in suite 911 of the Paradise Tower are exhausted. The , cam girls, and dominatrixes gathered here at the Hard Rock Hotel have been contracted to appear at the booth for erotic clip platform iWantEmpire, and they’ve been signing autographs, taking selfies with fans, and being “on” for at least eight hours a day since the event began. If the performers at the expo have been working hard, the professionals getting them ready have too. Today, they’re sharing their behind-the-scenes stories and beauty secrets with me.

The inroad that a friendship with Savana has provided Teresa is a rare opportunity in today’s porn industry. Due to the steady rise of online piracy and free streaming sites, porn profits have taken a nosedive over the past decade. In the 1990s and early 2000s, large porn companies ran a Hollywood-like studio system that afforded producers huge budgets, which included on-set makeup artists. For performers contracted to perform exclusively with one of these affluent companies, their makeup artists became important partners, as well as long-standing fixtures in the industry.

As Teresa works on her hair, veteran performer Briana Banks tells me that back when she was contracted to perform exclusively for Vivid Pictures, her contract even spelled out which artists would do her makeup. These days, with fewer big companies and smaller budgets to go around, porn makeup isn’t as high a priority. “Most girls just do their own makeup now,” Banks says, “but I refuse to.”

Art continues to question and subvert gender inequality, power, and socio-cultural structures today. We hail many artworks with pornographic content as revolutionary and necessary. After all, is art not supposed to go above and beyond our expectations? Or to serve as an unsettling window on all of our flaws and vulnerabilities? Let’s take a look at several artists who have blurred the line between porn and art.

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