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Through your Mile High studios Reality Junkies, Dog-
house and particularly Sweetheart Video, with its interra-
cial lesbian titles, you’ve produced a fair share of interra-
cial content. What will be different about Dark X?
Jon Blitt:The interracial products that we have ventured
into with our other brands have been girl/girl mostly, with
the exception of our cuckold series for Reality Junkies. What
makes Dark X unique is that it is unlike any product the
consumers have ever seen from Mason. I guess you can say
it’s kind of like a hybrid between our Erotica X and Hard X
products. You have the high-end aesthetics and storyline of an
Erotica X release with the intense, hardcore sexual encounters
you’d expect in a Hard X title.
Mason has directed interracial titles for Hard X beginning
with “Blondes Go Black” last year. Did fan response play a
role in your decision to launch Dark X?
Dark X is a product that has been in conception for close
to two years now. When we saw the success of the Erotica
X and Hard X brands we began brainstorming ways to grow
this into something much larger and there Dark X and some
other X brand concepts were born. The success of titles such
as Blondes Go Black, Brunettes Go Black, etc. definitely helped
us in forecasting the profitability of a stand-alone interracial
studio. The fans are always a consideration and we do a lot of
interacting and asking what they want to see as well as who
they’d like to see for our “X” studios. We take to the boards
as well as conduct member surveys to get immediate feedback
and see what our devoted fans are asking for. If it aligns with
our director creatively as well as our goals for the studio then
everyone wins and we have top-selling content. A lot of time
and planning went into doing an IR studio; our fans were
definitely a major player in our decision.
Interracial content is obviously booming in popularity
now. Do you have any theories about why it’s become
such a big seller?
I actually believe that interracial product has always been
popular in the marketplace. IR porn is one of the most
consistent niches I’ve seen in over 20 years in the industry,
dating back to brands like Video Team, TT Boy, Dogfart, etc.
However, as society evolves so does adult content. IR product
is now being treated like erotica and other high-end porn. The
niche has a growing demand for a higher end product, with
the best girls appearing in scenes with top production and
cinematography.
Now Playing on DarkX.com
Opposite page, Riley Reid and Isiah
Maxwell. This page, top, Veronica
Avluv and Isiah Maxwell; below left,
Angel Smalls and Jon Jon; below right,
Mandingo and Allie Haze.
What does interracial porn mean to you? Will Dark X stick to the classic combo—black men
and white women—or will you be mixing it up?
Interracial porn will be treated just as it is in our other studios—we do high-end, hardcore content
with the best performances and aesthetics possible. As to the classic combo vs. mixing it up we are
never set in our ways and don’t ever hold back because others aren’t doing it. It’s Mason’s creative
force that dictates what and how we do things. So it’s safe to say you can expect the unexpected,
and the best possible IR porn. Dark X might begin as a product that caters to fans of the so-called
“classic combo” (black men and white women) but like all our products we will rely on our fan
base to dictate the direction the brand takes in the future. We are very open and excited about the
possibility of exploring many different interracial couplings within the Dark X brand.
In terms of style, will Dark X lean toward Mason’s Hard X style of shooting, or will it be softer,
like Erotica X?
If you take the best of both Hard X and Erotica X and fuse it you have a glimpse at what Dark X
will be, with hardcore content and stunning esthetics. It will definitely feature harder content like
Hard X, such as anal, d.p.s, gangbangs, coupled with softer stories and vignettes like fans expect
from Erotica X.
Hard X movies have been marked with many “firsts” for female performers. Will the new
studio also have this focus?
I wouldn’t necessarily say that the studio will have this as a focus as much as saying that this
brand will take the same type of direction as the other X brands before it. Mason has a way of
working that makes the talent comfortable and pushes their boundaries in the best way possible,
and because of this I believe a lot of firsts present themselves to us organically. The fans crave that
and the talent seeks her out for their firsts because of it. Case in point is out first Dark X film Her 1st
Interracial featuring IR firsts for Sara Luvv, Karlee Grey, Pristine Edge and Angel Smalls.
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