I'm glad you liked the review, Blue. I've enjoyed your work for a long time.

This is a point well taken and one I agree with, and yet at the same time, I think that positing "queer", or "pansexual", or "feminist" porn as the sole examples "good porn" leaves the implication that everything else is unreservedly monolithic and bad. I don't think this does the porn world justice at all....

More broadly, to imply that porn that's made for straight men who are into conventionally attractive women as somehow inherently reactionary or beyond redemption is to largely write off the idea of transforming porn. Like it or not, men are still the majority of the porn audience, and demographically, the majority are largely heterosexual. That's who's buying the most porn, so its inevitable that that's who the majority of porn is going to be produced for. Writing off the idea of positive porn for this audience is myopic. 

I wasn't trying to leave the impression that queer/feminist/etc porn = good and mainstream heterosexual porn = bad. My main purpose in writing that was, in fact, to point out the huge gray areas that do exist between not only the different subgenres of porn, but the diverse ranges of people who make and watch it. For over 150 pages, Jensen harps on this one sliver of the porn market and builds his argument that porn as a whole is corrupt based on the vision he sees there. I chose the examples I did specifically because they contrasted most starkly with Jensen's narrative in which porn is by definition about men dominating women.  I was trying to portray the diversity that Jensen ignores in as concise a manner as possible and point out the innate dishonesty in pretending that the entire genre can be critiqued through the lens of such a tiny, tiny sample.

And yes, there's good stuff even in the mainstream. I myself love Belladonna, and particularly hold up The Fashionistas as an example of what really good porn could be. What's particularly appealing about Belladonna is that she has an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious. She genuinely loves ass, and even though I'm not big on it myself, I can get off on her charisma and enthusiasm. She's very distinct from the porn stars who seem to be phoning it in.