With her caramel brown skin, voluptuous curves, and enticing eyes, the “Double D Soul Sister” appeared in Teenage Runaway and quickly became one of the go-to ebony starlets of the time. In 1973, Desiree West became one of the first African-American adult film industry star to be consistently cast in hot and heavy scenes. “Using sex as labor is one way that some Black women, working and middle-class, have been able to survive economically and attain mobility while engaging in work not traditionally associated with wage labor.”- Mireille Miller-YoungĪdult filmmaking is a multibillion dollar industry, and Black women have been working it out and getting their slices of the pie for over 40 years.
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