'Hot Girls Wanted' - Weekly Film Analysis By: Unknown 3 comments

'Hot Girls Wanted' is a 2015 documentary directed by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus. It follows the story of five amateur pornstars in Florida and sheds light on the ever growing amateur porn industry through the experiences shown and talked about by the young women throughout.

It is interesting to note that both the directors are female as this begs the question of how much, if at all, did this influence the representation of the women and their issue within the documentary. Did it make it biased against them or in their favour or neither? It is easy to argue both ways as some could say it was biased against them as it made them seem like victims that are easily taken advantage of and abused. However, it could also be said that it shows the stronger side to them, as it was a chance for them to speak up and have their say about their experiences and shows them as more than just a pretty face... and body, but also a real person with thoughts, feelings and opinions.

One could definitely say however, from what we were shown and taught throughout the documentary, that the representation of the women within the industry is extremely sexist. With females shown as being weak, submissive, victimised sex slaves. One part of the doc in particular which I believe really got that message across to the audience was in the section about the new 'Facial Abuse' fad in pornography. Where young amateur were forced to participate in rough oral sex until they vomited and were then forced to eat it whilst also being verbally abused by the male porn stars in the videos using offensive racial and sexist language.

This links in with feminist Laura Mulvey's male gaze theory which in short is the theory that everything in the media, and particularly this specific industry is done in the interests, particularly visual interests of men. The theory goes on to explain 

As a common convention of documentaries, 'Hot Girl's Wanted' also included a good deal of title cards featuring facts and statistics on the industry. Many of the facts shown were extremely shocking. For example; the fact that Porn hub is visited more times per day than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter collectively.  

So, in conclusion therefore, I believe that although the industry was portrayed as representing the women as weak and victimised I think the documentary on the whole showed them as somewhat empowered.