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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Can you spot the difference between Jenna Jameson and Britney Spears?

This question is harder to answer then what first meet the eye. The easy and most politically correct answer would of course be that Britney is a singer and Jenna is a porn star, end of story thank you very much.
But let's take a closer look. Under the microscope the similarities becomes more obvious than what Mr PC would have us think. Jenna can be seen stripping in front of a camera before a faceless crowd and after reading a few reviews on Britney's shows there doesn't seem to be too much difference in that department. Jenna might be a little more honest of her intention but they both prance around the stage in a variety of skimpy outfits and making sexual innuendoes. How about this quote from a review of one of Britney's Las Vegas shows:

"She’s also clearly gotten in touch with herself, evident because she frequently touches herself. Boy, does she grab her chest a lot! Not that this is a complaint, of course."

That's a comment that would fit any of Jennas shows as well don't you think? Ok, their acts are similar, check! More evidence of Britney’s fascination with striptease can be seen in videos such as Overprotected (original release, not the darkchild remix or the plug for Crossroads) and Crazy where she put on a sexy strip show with classic acts such as the pole and the chair. While Britney hasn't followed in Paris Hiltons foot steps by releasing adult videos yet she has been seen together with Jenna on several occasions impying that she is well versed in the adult industry. Technically Britney is already starring in pornographic videos thou. If you look up the word Pornography in the Encyclopaedia Britannica it says:

"The representation of erotic behaviour in books, pictures, statues, motion pictures, etc., that is intended to cause sexual excitement. The word pornography, derived from the Greek porni (“prostitute”) and graphein (“to write”), was originally defined as any work of art or literature depicting the life of prostitutes"

With the obvious emphasis on Intended to cause sexual excitement Britney is in good company with names such as the virtuous Beyoncé Knowles, Madonna and Janet Jackson just to name a few. With the media industry saturated with the sex sells message most of today’s content would be considered pornographic, a tell tale sign of the changing times and the progressing sexualisation of the media landscape.

So while Jenna makes millions of her porn empire focusing on the exploitation of her body Britney do the same but substitutes the word porn for music. But the porn and the music industry is similar in more ways than they want to admit making the two women almost colleagues in a shameless and expoloitive media industry.

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