Digital Playground and their exclusive performer Jesse Jane were in Toronto to promote a new programming initiative on Viewer’s Choice television, a cable service similar to Pay-Per-View, called "Porn for Couples," causing the Toronto Star to postulate on the meaning of couples of porn, adult entertainment whose growth contrasts and coincides with the growth of the extreme sex market that was profiled in the Los Angeles Times today.
Toronto Star health columnist Judy Gertzel reviewed a number of videos that feature Jesse Jane, including Beat the Devil and Virtual Jesse Jane, for “Stiff Competition,” the article the examines couples porn.
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Gertzel also interviewed Jesse Jane, as well as Digital Playground’s president Samantha Lewis, and publicist Adella.
During the course of the interview, Jane said, "I'm very sexual,” at the very moment a server delivering Jane’s surprisingly high-calorie order of hot chocolate and cheesecake walked up to the table, causing Gertzel to note, ”His hands were shaking so hard as he approached her the crockery clattered on the tray.”
Digital Playground’s publicist Adella, defined porn for couples as something with narrative, characters, and that depicts women receiving pleasure, stimulation and satisfaction.
The Star then cites the arguments from therapists such as U.S. psychologist David Marcus told New York magazine, "Certain men are inspired by it, and others with low sex drives can use it to get aroused. Couples, too can often use it.”
Flipping the coin, Gertzel goes on to cite therapists and feminists who find that porn portrays false images of sexuality and that the purported feminist aspects of couples porn are negated by the submissive roles women play in porn.
But Gertzel's exposure to porn when reviewing Digitial Playground's videos for story obviously didn't cause her to become submissive; she ends the article with a quip about the type of porn she’d like to see: “Me, I'm waiting for interactive porn for women. You know, the one where the guy can be programmed to say, after dinner, ‘Why don't you just relax while I clean up the kitchen?’”
Given that the Toronto Star has a circulation of 500,000, its no wonder Digital Playground president Samantha Lewis was pleased with the exposure. "I'm honored they chose Digital Playground to represent the movement towards 'porn for couples.'"
