How are Muslim women who wear headscarves represented in American porn?
A new and prolific genre reveals numerous stereotypes. As Islamophobia spread in the United States after 9/11, so did the popularity of a subgenre of pornography that shows headscarf-wearing women engaging in sex. The videos are available on streaming platforms, where they draw millions of views. Martine Boulanger examined the phenomenon for her master's thesis at Université de Montréal, Représentation des voiles islamiques et des femmes les portant dans la pornographie en ligne états-unienne entre 2001 et 2020 . Completed under the direction of Julianne Pidduck, a professor in UdeM's Department of Communications, the study is based on Boulanger's analysis of 15 of the most popular American porn videos made between 2001 and 2020. Until 2022 there had been only one academic article on the genre in the scientific literature. Voiler les beurettes pour les dévoiler: Les doubles jeux d'un fantasme pornographique blanc, de Fassin et Trachman , published in 2013, studied the sexual and social phenomenon in France.
