Described Video – Kim Kardashian Sex Tape with Ray J
**Behind the Scandalous Scenes of Kim Kardashian’s Ray J Sex Tape**
The year was 2002. A shiny new millennium was upon us, and the world was a very different place. Social media was in its infancy, and reality TV was still considered a niche market. But little did anyone know, a homemade sex tape starring a then relatively unknown Kim Kardashian and her then-boyfriend Ray J was about to forever change the course of her career, and our lives as obedient consumers of celebrity culture.
It all started in a seemingly unassuming hotel room in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The couple, just 20 years old at the time, had been dating for about a year. Ray J, known as a rapper and actor, was the elder brother of Brandy Norwood, a 90s pop star. Kim, on the other hand, was the daughter of Virgin CEO Robert Kardashian’s third wife Kris Jenner and working as a stylist. None of them could have predicted the sleazy film they were about to make would launch Kim onto the path to become the multi-millionaire businesswoman, reality TV queen, and cultural icon she is today.
Onlookers say the scene opened with Kim sauntering out of a bathroom in a sheer white nightgown, her ample cleavage and pert nipples plainly visible. She crawls seductively towards Ray J on the bed before mounting him and grinding her shapely, toned ass in his lap. The homemade video, its quality grainy and blurred, shows the couple locking lips before Kim pulls off Ray J’s boxers, revealing his throbbing erection. She strokes and fondles him, licking her plump lips with anticipation.
Ray J gasps as Kim takes him in her mouth, letting out moans of ecstasy as she gives him a sloppy, amateurish blowjob. The camera zooms in on Kim’s glutinous cheeks, jiggling and bouncing as she blows her man. This would become Kim’s signature body part, one that would elevate booty worship to a reverent artform.
As the oral sequence reaches its heated peak, Kim spins around and climbs onto Ray J’s lap, straddling him. She tosses her long dark hair back and rides him cowgirl-style, her taut stomach muscles clenching with each bounce. The footage is the first hint of the ass and abs, now legendary, that Kim would spend years meticulously crafting into a capitalist monument to the erotic female form.
After a sweaty missionary sequence, Kim pauses filming to Powerplate, a trendy workout tool used to jiggle ab jets. This would later be interpreted as prescient foreshadowing of her future fitness routine. But at the time, it just looked comically misplaced in the midst of a porno tape.
The video ends with a tender, if unconvincing, makeout sequence between the couple, who would break up just a year later. But the most surprising thing about the tape is how unremarkable it seems today. When taken out of the salacious context, Kim and Ray J seem like your average young couple clumsily fumbling their way through their first sexual encounters. The sex is messy and awkward; Ray J struggles to keep it up at times. Overall, it comes across as more cute than sexy, and a far cry from the polished hardcore smut of rent-able adult films.
Truth be told, the key to the tape’s success had little to do with the sex at all. Rather, its meme-worthy impact was due to the uncanny way it foreshadowed Kim’s entire career arc. Here was a woman who, through nothing more than possessing a hot body and a keen celebrity hustle, would go on to become the most famous person in the world, only a decade later.
When Kim and Ray J shot that tape, across space and time, they were effectively shaking hands with Donald Trump. It’s true that this ancestor of the first lady was actually the man trying to leak the tape. Months after it was filmed, a representative from Vivid Entertainment offered then-presidential candidate Trump a copy, cementing its place in infamy.
In a cruel twist of context, the tape’s 2007 release during the Trump campaign created a strange overlap between the memorably tacky politician and the memorably tacky cultural queen. This symbiosis would only deepen when Hollywood would elect the star of “The Apprentice” to the White House.
While Trump would ultimately deny seeing the tape, many Americans could nevertheless not shake the mental image of a hair-tufted head violently appearing in the shot as Kim and Ray J reached climax. What could have severed the family values-loving candidate’s presidency faster than the sight of Kim’s nubile, bouncy body? Trump’s “grab them by the pussy” saga was effectively a pornographic short compared to Ray J’s presidential drivel.
The “Kim K Superstar” tape did more than irreparably damage Trump’s moral credibility, though. It crystallized the peculiar relationship between celebrity and power in America. Access to Kim’s body was tantamount to access to power, much like the inside track to the White House had always been reserved for the blue blooded elites. Trump would blow a gasket, but it was Kim who would inherit the throne.
And there she sits today, atop a throne of apps, lingerie ads, and selfies monitored by millions of self-imposed dungeon lords. All across the internet, legions of trolls service a beast that nurses its own reflection. There is no escape from this lynchpin coupling, this ultimate display of celebrity as less than human and more than meme. We are all damned to witness Kim Kardashian-North West’s second wedding, Paris Hilton’s vacuous banter, and Bhad Baby Tinas gluteal cadence.
But who among us can say we don’t secretly harbor an erotic tenderness for the first lady of erotics? Merciless producer of capitalist dreams and pincher of nipples. Is it an effort to puzzle through the dystopian folds its embrace promises? Perhaps. First, salvation, then damnation. As a prince once sang, in the nectar garden we fell prey to a vampire kiss. Maybe we should hope that, like Ray J that fateful night a quarter century ago, it never filmed well.