Response to Sasha Grey on Tyra Banks

After having read Jail Bird's blog on the Tyra Banks' show episode with Sasha Grey, I give my opinion on the issue. I agree with Jail Bird that the Tyra Banks show definitely intentionally tried to change Sasha Grey's appearance on the show to make her look younger and therefore influence the audiences response to what she was saying. I believe is a device that many talk shows use to manipulate the way that their guests contribute to each episode, for example Jerry Springer's show always has guests who look their worst to try and reinforce the trashiness of the story he is trying to tell. But, the worst part of the Sasha Grey epsiode in my opinion, was that Tyra Banks kept trying to get Sasha to admit to a sexually abusive past as a reason for why she was in the porn industry, even though Sasha insisted that there was no abusive history. Tyra Banks' inability to comprehend why someone with no abusive history would want to be a part of a sex industry, is a reflection of what I think a lot of American's feel about a female's sexuality; that it is abnormal for them to want to explore their own body-self through intercourse, unlike men for which this type of self-exploration is not only normal but expected. In all, I think that Jail Bird brings up a great point in the Tyra Banks-Sasha Grey episode because it identifies how the social body can condemn the sexual body of an individual, especially a woman, and how this affects industries such as pornography.