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Gee, I don't really know where to start. Let's go with quoting a bit for an appetizer:
Porn is not sexuality. Porn is not freedom. Porn is not original. It is the same shit, over and over, it's boring, it's uninventive. It is NOT art, and yes, I feel perfectly qualified to make that statement.
Ok, that's accurate, for the most part. I mean there's some well-done films, a cinematic few, and some that are worth watching simply for historical/entertainment purposes, but overall, it's basically a fast-food sort of product.
But:
I believe that the vast majority of women who work in the sex-industrial complex do it because they have to do it, and would do something else if they felt like they had the option.
This is *absolutely* ABSOLUTELY not true. There are plenty of women who get off on turning men on, and they do it intentionally, and the few who are both driven in this way and can work in front of a camera well are rewarded by being compensated not just with money, but with the attention they seek.
I know this because I've dated at least two (that I know of), and one that I at least suspect.
I know this because my ballet partner in college was a dancer at a strip bar.
But it is true that most people work because they have to. I think that's a really good thing, personally, since it keeps them busy. If they decide that on camera sex is more fun than flipping burgers, it's their choice.
So, when she goes off onto:
That is, this industry promotes imprisonment and rape of women and our continued, collective treatment as sub-human beings by our government, by men, and perhaps most unfortunately, by each other. I believe that if you are a vegetarian and support animal rights, or if you refuse to shop at places like Wal-Mart which utilize child labor and make their goods in sweatshops-and you continue to support the porn industry- you commit an act of outright hypocrisy, and you can't give yourself that little moral pat on the back that you want to- well, at least not in my world.
I have to note that this rather sanctimonious stance is based on delusion, at least in part.
I suspect the individuals she is really thinking about are the porn "wanna be's" (you know, the girls who think that it's a 'fast track to riches'). But really, what's the difference between a bunch of girls who don't get rich and are treated like garbage by their employers, and a bunch of guys who don't get rich and are treated like garbage by THEIR employers?
If they are doing something they enjoy doing, what's the problem?
Really, if you want to look at that industry and see the *mistreated* individuals, look at the men. The women are stars, and all they have to do is show up. The men make barely anything, have to be able to keep an erection for sometimes HOURS of shooting, and have to be able to have an orgasm not just on camera, but FOR the camera.
Of course, they are also doing it willingly. Something about being able to say, "What do I do? Well, I screw porn stars for money. I did Jenna Jameson for eight hours yesterday."
Anyway, I'm always amazed at people's ability to extend their myopia to others and find others inability to constrict themselves as they do a 'fault'.
I'm pretty certain that the plethora of homemade porn sites, and I mean homemade, I watched a few of them grow from web-cams to full blown (pardon the pun) porn sites over the years. In fact, one of my new MySpace 'buds' (a 420 bud) is a late-night porn queen. She sends me semi-erotic greetings from time to time. She likes some rather rough play (not my type, but she's still fun).
I don't know whether the other MySpace friend who is of that exhibitionistic bent does porn too, but I suspect she might.
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