Weed and porn: a marriage of love and reason

Cannabis is well integrated into the cultural industries. Without it, the worlds of rock, rap, reggae and even electronic music would not be the same. On the small screen, countless series have been devoted to it: Weeds, of course, but also High Maintenance, Mary+Jane, Cannabis Moms Club... Indica and its friends are also welcome in the cinema, in comedies for stoners as well as in feature films familiar to the general public. Weed has even found its way into the world of video games. When it comes to pornographic culture, things don't fail either: joints, bangs and other vaporizers have made a name for themselves among sex professionals.

Pro porn, big booze

Porn producers aren't shy about putting weed at the center of their creations. In summer 2015, U.S.-based studio Teen Fidelity brought us High on Haze, a film in which actresses Jade Jantzen, Arabelle Raphael, August Ames and fat fonscar Daisy Haze mix physical performance with seduction. In the first episode of her webseries Fucking Baked, feminist filmmaker Lucie Blush's Agatha is a young woman who mixes dealing space cakes with sexual adventures with her customers. You'd think this would be a new trend, driven by the ever-growing media presence of weed. Not really: in 1971, the incredible documentary Aphrodisiac! The Sexual Secret of Marijuana was already making out with stoned young people in front of the camera.

The porn industry's most outspoken cannabis users, however, are the actresses. Most of these inveterate smokers live in California, the epicenter of the global porn business. Goldie Rush spends his time smoking on Snapchat; ; Malena Morgan collaborates with smokers' accessories brand Futurola; Daisy Haze is high in every porn video [nsfw link].. Even big-name actresses are taking it all in their stride. On her official Twitter account, Riley Reid is regularly seen with a joint in his hand or his head in the plants. Skin Diamond, who has modeled for Terry Richardson and lent her features to a Marvel heroine, has even given her name to a variety of cannabis. As well as being an expert dabber, Remy LaCroix is a member of the GanjaGirls team. This collective “aims to trivialize cannabis use, one viral photo at a time” attracted over 500,000 followers on Instagram thanks to his shots of beautiful naked potheads.

Riley Reid loves beautiful plants

Webcamming and WeedTube

All these actresses evolve within the traditional industry circuit. They shoot with the most reputable studios, they have agents, porn is their business. But that doesn't mean they have a monopoly on smoking among porn professionals. Amateurs also know how to smoke. Stoners flourish on the independent video sales platform ManyVids or on the program Pornhub Amateur [nsfw link]. Behind a pseudonym inevitably adorned with a “420” or a “Blaze”, these young women, whom you'll probably never come across at Brazzers, alternate substantial casings and varied sexual activities. One of the most famous of them, Haley, He even maintains a YouTube channel devoted to cannabis. His water pipe tests and tips on how to smoke in your bedroom without getting burned have earned him over 600,000 subscribers. In the midst of all this, Haley even finds time to organize live shows on the MyFreeCams website.

Camshow sites like MyFreeCams and Chaturbate prohibit the consumption of “illegal drugs”. People who broadcast their lovemaking on these sites risk being banned for life if they dare to break this rule. But what does the term “illegal drug”, exactly? Weed doesn't always seem to be one of them: on its MyFreeCams menu, Haley offers “dab hits” to her audience. Perhaps it's because she lives in California, a state that allows the use of cannabis for medical purposes. Those who aren't so lucky still use the plant's imagery to refine their show and their character. Evocative pseudonyms, socks studded with weed leaves and Instagram profiles crammed with photos of booze are legion among webcams. Some, like Melody Kush, They even claim to be stoners. in every interview.

A varnish of weed on a layer of business

In the world of adult products, porn isn't cannabis' only friend. Sextoys also get on very well with it. The Foria brand has become famous for its lubricants and suppositories to weed. The creators of Mary Jane vibrator have given it the shape of a hemp leaf. Those who are not afraid of synthetic aromas can try cannabis-scented condoms, and the more daring will treat themselves to the Peter Piper Pecker Puffer, a device that's part sextoy, part pipe. The sextoy and bedo markets are mutually soluble because they are so similar, notes the specialist news site Leafly Social networks and banks don't make it easy for them, but their customers are loyal. The parallel could be extended to porn. This proximity hasn't escaped the attention of porn moguls. Larry Flynt, father of Hustler, invested $100,000 in a company linked to the cannabis trade last March.

Porn and cannabis seem destined to go hand in hand: from major studios to small amateurs, everyone's betting on their marriage. It remains to be seen whether this success is just a fad driven by the legalization movement, or whether smoky faps are here to stay.

This article was written by Le Tag Parfait : le magazine de la culture porn