Dropped from Prestigious Ballet School, Jett Black Won’t Make Excuses for Doing Gay Porn

I thought it was pretty strange that I was asked to keep details of Jett's professional career private after meeting him back in April—I just assumed everyone already knew he was a professional dancer. But it turns out that at the time, unbeknownst to me, he was a recent New York transplant focusing on a full-time porn career after having been dropped by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, one of Canada's oldest and most prestigious artistic institutions.

In an interview with CBC News this week, Jett says he was essentially forced to leave the school after officials found out he had been jerking on the side. According to Jett, "they told me…they didn't have any space for me because I did porn," and asked him to sign a letter stating that his ejection was voluntary.

I'm not surprised that another institution is getting away with slut-shaming a hardworking and talented young kid in the name of "decency" (which is technically discrimination, seeing as there's nothing in the RWBS code of conduct that prohibits working in porn), but I am delightfully surprised by the proactive voice it's given Jett.

Like a true child of Jake Jaxson, Jett is mostly fumed by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School's attempt at unfairly defining what constitutes art. He sought hardcore porn as "a big opportunity" to express himself in a new medium, and though he still holds dancing as his true passion, he doesn't need the RWBS to approve of his work in porn to make it legitimate:

"You cannot be in a company or with the school or whatever because you've decided to take a different standpoint artistically — not because you physically can't do it, or because you're not good enough."

"It was more important for me to be me and to do the things I wanted to do for once, and not what everyone else wanted. Being a ballet dancer 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."

Jake Jaxson was also quoted for the piece, further pushing his manifesto into the public eye:

"The films are meant to be entertaining and sexual at the same time," Jaxson said.

Jaxson said his films challenge what society considers to be mainstream and the kind of artists the public celebrates.

"I don't like movies that show young people's heads cut off or their arms ripped from their body. And everyone goes and watches that … and those performers are not looked at as being outside of the mainstream," Jaxson said.

"Personally, I find that not acceptable for me in my kind of entertainment, but I just choose not to pay for it."

Added [redacted] (Black), "To me no one can tell me what art is. Art is what you and I define art by."

There's no such thing as bad press, right? While I'm not one for airing a pornstar's dirty laundry in "mainstream" news, I have to admit that Jake and Jett speaking out in the name of art is quite inspiring—these guys are really putting their money where their mouth is.

Don't ever let them step on your dreams, Jett!

UPDATE: CBC News aired a special piece aboooot Jett last night. Check it oooooot below:

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