As a self enlightened individual, you have to understand the irony of the male feminist showing up to tell the ladeez to keep down the snark.

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Chalkboard story: My dad grew up on a goat farm in the Colorado Rockies. Abject poverty. He was unusual in that he had a lust for knowledge so he started reading every book the local town library had. By 18, he had read everything related to science he could get his hands on. His grades reflected his obsession. A…

If the industry were not inherently exploitive, it would not recruit the youngest girls possible, who have little experience of the world.

When I watched the doc I thought that what is enticing to these girls is the hope that they could “make it to LA.” They’re hoping for the big break and have bought in 100% to the Kim Kardashian playbook. Do a sex tape. Hit in porn. Go mainstream. Get rich.

The spotlight needs to be shined on the demand side of porn for once. Enough with examining and analyzing the female performers to death. It's the men who masturbate to scenes of women being sexually abused, men who consider women to be disappointing versions of porn videos, who need picking apart.

I watched Hot Girls Wanted about a week ago, and I think that, by debating whether or not the industry is too exploitative (of course it is), you’re missing a major point: that these teenage girls are running a huge risk of doing serious and irreparable harm to their bodies, and no one who is actually “in charge” will…

One of the points that was made by a male actor as that these young girls have maybe 6 months where they are hot in the porn industry. I didn’t get the impression that the same is true for the male stars, even the older Uncle Bob guy. Also, as the other comment points out, men aren’t subjected to facial abuse and…

I am going to assume that your main problem with the film is that it perpetuates the narrative of women being ruined by sex. That the most valuable aspect of womanhood is “feminine virtue”, commonly conflated as celibacy and sexual purity. While I agree that this ideology is a systemic issue within our society, I…

Oh for god’s sake. You’re criticizing a documentary that highlights the realities of exploitation in the industry just because it doesn’t tow the cliche sexwork good/it’s not exploitation it’s empowerment party line?

Which is what makes the apologia for violent choking and vomit-inducing throat fucking porn here offensive. Exploited labor is driving the constant production of those videos, not fully informed consent of kinksters already into it. People go in to do that job without knowing what they have agreed to, and in the case…

Plus “acts in porn” is an incredibly broad category of actual jobs. Is he being choked? Is his throat being penetrated so violently that he vomits? Is he being subjected to racial slurs? Is he risking becoming unwantedly pregnancy? Doubt it.

Thanks. I feel sometimes like my friends see criticism of the porn industry as somehow un-feminist, but am I crazy to be a little nervous around campus thinking that (for all I know) most of the boys around me masturbated last night to a women getting violently sexually assaulted?

This is a great comment. It’s sad that most young men learn about sex from porn which, in most cases, doesn’t even portray real sexual acts (most women don’t spontaneously orgasm from being jack hammered for 2 minutes and then thoroughly enjoy getting cum shot in their eyes) or worse, focuses on the humiliation of the…

Complicated place in our culture. Yes. I believe women have the right to go into porn if they want, that they should have labor laws and protection like any other worker. Do I think it’s sleazy and possibly detrimental overall? Yes. Not something I’d ever want to do, or encourage anybody to get into, though. We don’t…

If you’ve ever worked in shitty low-income jobs, you do run into a LOT of people that are financially illiterate and do fall for these bogus advertisements.

Having done it for 7+ years while I was working my way through school, I can’t say that I ever worked with any lifer who didn’t make extremely poor financial…

So I watched the documentary and like most people was pretty disgusted. This is controversial, but isn’t it possible that *maybe* having all these videos online that boys watch that glorify women being raped or forced into performing various sexual acts desensitizes them to the ugly reality of sexual assault and *may*…

Here’s the thing that is always interesting to me about Jez’s coverage of porn: There’s always a defense of the industry and a statement that being in porn can be a great experience, etc. - even in an article like this one that in fact describes negative experiences had by many people. Yet in articles about sexual…

I’m a DV attorney and I can tell you, without any doubt, that yes, cops respond to domestic violence calls by telling the abuser to chill or will just ask him to leave for the night. All day, every day. If try and tell me anything more proactive happens in a good 70% of calls (and that's being generous) you're either…

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