Welcome back to our Model Citizens Bisexual Awareness Week edition! On today's post, we chatted with one of our top performers and sex work advocate, Sonia Harcourt.
Since joining the industry in 2017, Sonia has used her background in threatre to her benefit and has already been nominated for two AVN Awards. So keep on reading and see what Sonia has to say about being a bisexual performer in the industry and the misconceptions that still exists about bisexuality.
How do you feel about expressing your identity on PH? Do you keep your work persona separate from your personal one or are they intertwined?
As a woman, it doesn’t really affect me to be open about my bisexuality; it’s almost standard in this industry to work with men and women. Sometimes, my attraction to trans performers turns some people off, but for each one of them, there are a handful of customers who love it. I feel my husband and other bisexual men in the industry have it much harder. They are constantly having their sexuality called into question and are even mocked by our own LGBTQ peers.
What sort of misconceptions do you think people have about bisexuality? About bisexual performers?
Sadly, a lot of people within our own community mock and erase us, calling it a phase or a “stop on the way to gay town.” It’s quite frustrating to think people can’t understand that you can genuinely be attracted to more than one gender, but here we are. As a woman, it’s more accepted, but bisexual men have a particularly harder time being taken seriously.
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So Bisexual Awareness Week is about accelerating the acceptance of the bi+ community, how can the industry help with that? Where does the industry specifically fall short and how can we improve?
The industry still has a very long way to go in terms of acceptance. Bisexual content is becoming more popular, so because it’s making money, it’s a little more accepted. However, men especially are still discriminated against as “crossover” and are considered more dangerous to work with. A lot of the old-school men at the top (directors/companies/agents) still have that ‘80s mindset of “gays have AIDS” and they pass that bias, unjustified fear onto newcomers. People need to realize that we take a calculated risk every time we perform with someone; a test can be invalid the day someone gets it if they have unprotected sex with someone outside of the industry, and anyone can do that.
Why do you think sexually fluid content has been trending more and more in the last few years?
I think it’s because up until this point, the content available has been more specific; degrading, straight baiting, and cuckolding. Up until recently, it was rare to see an MMF threesome where everyone was enjoying each other equally, and there is clearly a market for that.
Courtesy of Sonia Harcourt
What sort of advice have you learned over the years that you wish you knew when you first started?
Unfortunately it would be not to trust anyone. While I have met some of the kindest and generous people here, I’ve also met some of the most selfish and manipulative. I feel my career might be in better shape had I known better coming in that there are people who would take advantage of you for their own advancement.
How has COVID affected your work and collab projects with other content creators?
As an independent Model on the East Coast, it hasn’t changed my work very much; I’ve done more camming and solo fetish work, but I usually travel to the West Coast maybe once every few months and try to stock up on content. So, I miss traveling and haven’t been able to work with anyone new since February, but it’s simply forced me to get more creative with my solo content.
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