OPINION:
The “porn parody” industry has become so wilfully unimaginative these days it makes its mid-’90s forerunners seem like sublime works of satire: Tits A Wonderful Life, Buffy The Vampire Layer, Pulp Friction, and the immortal classic Ass Ventura: Crack Detective, seem like relics of a simpler, sillier time.
Now, it’s sufficient to simply whack “this ain’t” or “a XXX parody” fore or after the original inspiration’s title, cast some porn stars who look vaguely like their non-porn equivalents, and Bob’s your uncle’s pool maintenance man’s lonely MILF wife with a pearl necklace fetish.
So it is with Hustler’s recently wrapped porn parody, This Ain’t Girls XXX, in which: “Hannah (Alex Chance) decides to forsake men, and boyfriend Adam, to experiment with lesbianism.
After a few satisfying jaunts she returns to Adam (Richie Calhoun) — and mankind. Adam accepts her back into the fold, but, true to the original show, adds a dominant and quirky dimension to the scene.”
Girls’ creator and star Lena Dunham expressed her dismay about the parody on Twitter: “Okay, I wracked my brain to articulate why I can’t just laugh off a porn parody of Girls and here are 3 reasons:
1. Because Girls is, at its core, a feminist action while Hustler is a company that markets and monetizes a male’s idea of female sexuality.
2. Because a big reason I engage in (simulated) onscreen sex is to counteract a skewed idea of that act created by the proliferation of porn.
3. Because it grosses me out.”
