Like the day I found out Santa wasn’t an actual MILF, either, I feel like “My Wife Is A Prostitute” has not only robbed me of my innocence, but also offered a mixed message about the porn industry to future archaeologists.
Director Jim Powers has been a pornographer for nearly two decades and as such has amassed a huge library of scenes which he can recompile at will. But only the first scene of “My Wife Is A Prostitute” actually has someone who is playing a wife resorting to prostitution (Audrey Hollander’s husband owes Dirty Harry money and she must pay with her mouth). The remaining scenes feature gangbangs and cuckolds and an uncharacteristically couples’-oriented scene between Marcus London and Devon Lee.
But the movie, by its very slipshod adherence to its theme, illuminates a larger truth.
Many porn performers do not categorize what they are doing as prostitution, even if the accepted definition of prostitution is performing sex for money.
“They are actors who may be called upon to have sex as part of their performance,” says retired director Roy Karch. “And besides: prostitution is illegal in California.”
So Audrey Hollander is having sex for money legally by playing someone having sex for money illegally.
There are a few other distinctions between prostitutes as we understand them and porn performers.
- Porn performers can at all times refuse to work with someone
- Porn performers can be reasonably assured that their partner has medical clearance to not use a condom
- Porn performers can reasonably expect to rely on a network of like-minded professionals to vet their scene partner
That many porn performers also work as prostitutes is another story.
A movie like “My Wife Is A Prostitute” (the other scenes feature women who may or may not identify themselves as hookers or wives, but never both in the same scene) is irritating on two levels:
- If you’re going to call a movie “My Wife Is A Prostitute,” you’ve got to deliver on your promise of a “wife” who is playing a “prostitute” as well as the person to whom the “My” refers. Otherwise fans of first-person narratives of spouses whose partners become involved in prostitution will be displeased. It’s lazy. We expect more of you, Jim Powers.
- It has the deleterious effect of duping returning ancient astronauts into thinking that porn performers are prostitutes since there is little context offered otherwise
But even though I take issue with the bait and switch nature of this movie, one thing remains true: you can sometimes get away with calling a porn performer a prostitute but you must never call a stripper a whore.
Buy “My Wife Is A Prostitute” here
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Money is tight, but Audrey Hollander is not a whore
See also: JM Productions
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