@disqus_ty0OpU8raC:disqus I thought my answer was unprejudiced. Sex work should be legalized and the industry some what regulated. It would eliminate/prevent a lot of needless crimes and health concerns. As for the workers themselves, so long as they are consenting adults, it’s their body, their choice. Libertarians have some great arguments for establishing this market, although I would prefer stronger government intervention to prevent bad “actors” from abusing obvious vulnerabilities.

As for anti-porn feminists, I’ve never met one of ever considered one until you mentioned it. Honestly, I’m baffled by people who are anti-porn and try and enforce that on others, but I don’t judge (at least in public).

Oh I read no agenda in what you said. That exchange just prompted me to think about how difficult a time sex workers have, even without a pandemic, and how complicated their paths into and out of that work can be.

I’m guessing that article probably came from a website that didn’t view porn in the greatest light. It may be technically true, but it’s misleading. The vast majority of the porn star arrests I’m familiar with are for low-level crimes: petty theft, DUI’s and the like. It’s only a very miniscule subset of the industry that commits the very serious stuff. Not that it should minimize it, but there’s bad apples in every bunch.

On that note, I sort of worry people will think even less of the industry now that it’s biggest star: Ron Jeremy, has been exposed as a serial rapist. He’s the most well known male porn star ever, has been in tv and movies, and he’s a fucking creep. I’ve never watched him, but I shudder that the guy was considered the person carrying the banner for the industry for so many years. The guy is fucking fat and butt-ugly and nasty and I feel sorry for any woman that had to do a movie with him. And when people tried to point out how ugly he was to do literally hundreds of porn movies, the standard was response was “Oh, but he’s a great performer”. Fuck that. Now he’s a massive stain on the business.

Now Clay, you can say Tom was your fuckbuddy all you want. But it’s more likely he was only fucking you to get more work at College Dudes. Or get more weed while at College Dudes.

Arrested and imprisoned for 6 years (since 2019) for skipping out on court for drugs and assault charges.

@gaymanfighterofthestraightman:disqus Also really does complicate the question of consent. Feminists who are totally anti-porn are way too extreme for me, but their arguments are not lost on me. Sex work is only ambiguously a “choice.” It’s easier on average for men than women, I think, and certainly gay culture attaches less stigma to porn than the straights, and some of us even regard it with esteem. I certainly do when it’s done well. But it’s almost like college football. The opportunity to be abused and exploited is greater than the opportunity to experience it in a completely celebratory and uncomplicated way. Another “is it this or that” question is whether the industry is stigmatized for all those reasons, or if the stigma itself is the problem. Maybe sex work would be a less painful choice if the culture were less judgmental.

Thanks. I remember stumbling on an website article a few months ago that claimed half of all porn actors eventually end up arrested and/or imprisoned. It really makes you wonder if it’s pornography that leads to a life of crime or if it’s a life of crime that leads to pornography.