I jus saw this. Nice post. Since virtually all women involved in prostitution are there coercively (it’s something like 92 percent), and since I assume the number is likely also high for porn, I would have no objections to rules that would limit such industries to only those occasions when women have full ownership of…

“This issue has nothing to do with harassment in any form!”

I wouldn’t know, but if it ain’t Harvey it’s about fifty thousand other guys. The industry is riddled with sexism and abuse.

They’re a chore, right? They’re shoehorned in so as to have a sex scene, not so as to see the characters reveal who they are, or advance the story, but so as to see the actress reveal her body.

Thanks for this. I look forward to reading it!

You fucking rock.

I think you’re right, but I’m honestly not sure how to balance that with my belief that sometimes stories are going to require sexual content and there has to be a way to find actors who are interested in telling those stories. Obviously I consider genuine examples of this to be rare as hens teeth, as almost all sex…

It’s generally applicable to the experiences of every actress in the business I have ever discussed the issue with. You should tell them to get over it.

Clearly we have a legal scholar in our midst.

So jealous of Kirsten Dunst that I am sticking up for her rights in the workplace. The seething, seething jealousy.

Maybe listen to the person who is in the industry and is saying this is a serious problem?

PLEASE debate me on the workings of feminism.

Being made to have sexual contact against your will, which is what simulating sex entails, is absolutely a crime.

I am saying, as should be entirely fucking clear at this point, that it is fine if a performer WANTS to do a sex scene. If they don’t, however, there should be no expectation whatsoever that they do one. If the shooting of a sex scene is genuinely mandatory for the story (very, very rarely the case) then hire someone…

Wait. Johnny Greenwood is in this?

And this is not an actor’s job. Fake sex is the purvue of exactly two kinds of professionals: adult film actors and sex workers.

Spoken like a true TechBro.

All I could.

They’re supposed to, but these things are regularly dropped on them without warning. Consider, for example, TV shows. You could be hired to play a role, play that role for months, and then suddenly there’s a sex scene in a script. How do you approach that, should you not wish to participate? What if your bosses are…

Ah, good. Tell the person arguing that women should be treated with respect and civility and not be required to simulate sex when they don’t wish to that they are “hysterical”.