22-year-old dancer Jeppe Hansen was accepted to the prestigious Royal
Winnipeg Ballet School and received a scholarship for their
professional division in September 2012. Then officials discovered that
in his short time attending the school Jeppe chose to act in porn.
Officials decided was no longer welcome in the school, reports CBC.
Jeppe decided to do porn after being frustrated by what he viewed as
the constraints of ballet. Porn was a side project that would allow him
to be the artist he wants to be, while ballet "is restrictive. Everyone
tells you what you have to do, how to look, what to weigh, how to
perform [and] be the artist you are."
Emmy-award-winning producer Jake Jaxson, the owner of the site that
Jeppe performed for, shares a similar sentiment in regards to the
artistic value of porn and is trying to blur the lines between
mainstream and adult entertainment. He wants to make films that have
storylines as well as sex, and points out that the extreme violence
present in many films is not regarded as being outside of the
mainstream. This echoes James Franco in Interior. Leather Bar. when
he stated "Sex should be a storytelling tool, but we’re so f**king
scared of it," and pointed out how the common and natural acts of sex -
gay sex in particular - are subjected to much higher levels of
censorship than extreme violence.
Though a victim of the sex-phobic culture that insists on the
dichotomoy that "porn is bad" but consumes it en masse, slut-shaming the
actors who dare perform in it all the while, Jeppe insists that his
dancing career is not over. For now, he is taking a break until he can
find a place where he can fit in.
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