Tester

Border Porn
Nathan Eisenberg
CW: Rape, Sexual Assault,
Graphic Sex, Border Violence
“For the images to become a source of true information, they would have to
be different from the war. They have become today as virtual as the war itself,
and for this reason their specific violence adds to the specific violence of the
war. In addition, due to their omnipresence, due to the prevailing rule of
the world of making everything visible, the images, our present-day images,
have become substantially pornographic.”
Jean Baudrillard, “War Porn”
“Watch these guys hunting the illegal female immigrants and giving them a
lesson on why the law should be obeyed. Cruising in their SUV, agents catch
these college girls in the field and fuck them really hard. Getting fucked by
border patrol agent is one thing, but these girls don't know that this doesn't
really mean they get to pass the border afterwards. The harsh school of
reality!”
Border Patrol Porn promotional material
The border is already pornographic.
Border Patrol porn only literalizes There is an implicit and unspoken
this fact.
promise that he will let her go if
Each video unfolds according she services him. The sex itself runs
to a basic formula. A (white, male) through the usual script of straight
uniformed border enforcement porn (blowjob, several sex positions,
him ejaculating somewhere
agent is on patrol somewhere out
in the desert of the US-Mexico on her exterior) and is entirely
oriented towards his pleasure.
border or the exurban landscape
of an American city. He encounters
someone (a Latina woman, he is still detaining her and offi-
Afterward, he informs her that
alone or in a group) who he suspects
is in the country “illegally” deported.
cially arrests her, presumably to be
and detains her. He brings her to An apparatus of control, the
a secluded spot where he touches border depends on what anthropologist
Nicholas de Genova refers
her under the pretense of searching
for weapons or contraband. He to as the “Border Spectacle.” 1 As
then coerces her into having sex Guy Debord noted, the spectacle
with him, with varying degrees of is no mere collection of images,
performed capitulation on her part. be they porn videos or deportation
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