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Skin Diamond says that in porn, interracial only counts when it’s a Black man and a white girl. Most of her own scenes are with white performers, but since she’s a Black woman, nobody calls it interracial. She says a hot new white starlet’s agent will usually tell her to stay away from Black men on camera, even if she dates them in real life, because it might hurt her career. Skin herself did very well, but she thinks she didn’t get the same opportunities as other girls because of her color, and that it’s even harder for other women of color. The host brought up Alexis Texas, who at the time had never shot a scene with a Black man. When the host’s site put Alexis at number one on a list of the top 100 white porn stars, a Black director refused to share it because she didn’t work with Black men. Rolling Stone later described the same pattern across the industry. Companies pay A-list white actresses well above their usual rate for their first interracial scene, so many of them hold out for years while their agents take a cut of the premium. The BBC reported that Black actresses earn half to three quarters of what white women make for the same work. Years after this interview, once performers started calling it out publicly, AVN apologized and promised to drop categories like interracial and ethnic from its awards. Skin Diamond’s real name is Raylin Joy. She was born in California in 1987 and grew up in Dunfermline, Scotland, where her parents worked as missionaries. She shot her first porn scenes in Paris while she was still living in Scotland, and CNBC put her on its list of porn’s most popular stars three years running. She appeared with Allie Haze in B.o.B’s video for John Doe, and in 2016 she quit porn to sing under her real name. A missionaries’ daughter from Scotland became one of the biggest names in porn, and her scenes still didn’t count as interracial. Is porn the most racist industry in entertainment, or just the only one that puts a price tag on it?