awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
Not a very good source. You're talking about a small minority of participants in the porn industry, and a highly self-selected one at that. They don't represent the majority of the industry.
I would love to you where you get your facts from. Also, how are documentaries, interviews, etc not a good source?
I already explained why. You don't think that the people in the interviews are not biased toward presenting their work in a positive light? Do you think they represent all people involved in porn? Use your brain. How does a few interviews prove that
the majority of women in porn enjoy it, and are perfectly happy doing it?
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
What exactly is the "real porn industry"? Is porn made by others somehow not porn?
Well the actual porn industry, sorry for the confusion. You of course can make your own porn, but that doesn't mean you're in the business of porn.
Anybody producing porn for consumption is in the porn industry. You don't get to exclude the dodgy porn producers just because they are dodgy. They are in the business of producing porn, by suspect means. They are making money from it. thus, porn industry. And it's not just the producers, it's also the distributors. You don't think many of the websites that distribute porn don't get some of it from suspect sources?
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
Actually, it is. Sex slaves and people involved in the sex trade do end up in porn films. And dismissive attitudes about the negative aspects of the industry only fuel that. I very much doubt that the typical porn consumer is particularly aware or concerned about these practices, they just want to get their rocks off.
Again, it isn't porn. As a person before pointed out, it is forced prostitution.
Forced prostitution in the production of porn. And, by the way, porn is a form of prostitution. Where do you think most porn actors come from? Do you think that maybe a lot of them might come from a prostitution background? Or from the needs of financial circumstances? Or in your fantasy world do people just decide... "Hmmm.. what kind of career do I want? Doctor? Actor? Scientist? Nah, I'll become a porn star instead!"
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
Your analogy doesn't do your argument much good, as the people who use people from the sex trade to make their pornography are doing the same thing as the corrupt and evil crime lords. They are selling people's misery for profit or power.
With the actual porn industry, they willing to into it, knowing full well that are using their bodies, and they are glad to. Again with the forced prostitution aspect, yes they'll more than likely make porn with the women. However, that is not porn's fault, that is the crime lord's fault.
But he wouldn't do it if there weren't demand for it, and money to be made. Again, part of the porn industry.
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
I highly doubt most people get into porn because they think it would be an enjoyable career. Most of them aren't being gang-banged because they enjoy it,
You would be surprised my friend lol. Besides, are you saying you can't enjoy sex, or sexually activities? Yes, there are some who do it for the money, most don't. Hell some people actually going into stripping because they actually enjoy and expressing their bodies. Is it really that hard to believe?
This has got to be the biggest straw man you've been pushing in this thread. That if somehow one has problems with the porn industry, one must be sexually repressed. Nobody is making the argument that one can't enjoy sex.
As a matter of fact, I have had relationships with women who have been strippers, ex-prostitutes and, yes, been in porn. I'm no stranger to kinky sexual practices. But I'm also no stranger to the emotional damage those things can cause. And yes, some of them have said that some aspects are empowering or enjoyable. But overwhelmingly, the overall experience is negative.
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
they are doing it for the money. If you took away the money, would they be expressing their sexuality in the same way?
Have sex for free? People do that every day, and do a lot of the things done in porn. Although I can't think of a lot of people who do the "sex train" thing, so you may have me at that one.
By that, I mean, if one of these women is having sex recreationally, and not for work - how likely is it that they want to be called a little *****, strangled, and objectified? How likely is it that they are going to be faking orgasms, and saying stuff like "ooooh, baby, you're so big!" Sure, some will be into that - but not in the numbers represented by the porn industry. The majority of porn is presented for male fantasy, not female satisfaction.
I think your linking of recreational sex to porn is a bit off the mark, anyway. Porn is about making money, it's not really about sex, even though it does depict sex.
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
Again, a stunning lack of evidence. You say "watch a documentary," but I think you mean a highly selective documentary that doesn't look at the negatives.
As opposed to the giant amount of evidence you have given me? There are pros and cons to working or doing anything. Yes there are negatives to working in porn, and they do mention some negative aspects. However, the pros clearly outweigh the cons, as they still do porn.
You are the one making a very bold unsubstantiated claim, it's your job to prove that, not mine. All I said is that your claim that the porn industry is mostly all fun and games, it's all just about liberated sex, is rather questionable. In my experience it's a lot more complicated than that.
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
How about watching a documentary about the victims of the sex industry? How about speaking to some of the people who work in the sex industry, other than a few glamorous US porn stars?
Then go out of the US, to places where prostitution is not only legal, but they receive plenty of benefits for the work they do.
Actually I've lived in places like that, and it's not as rosy as you paint it. There is plenty of exploitation in legal brothels, and street-walking and illegal brothels still exist in those places. And it is certainly not true that all sex workers are "proud of it."
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
You claim there is some vast gulf between the sex industry in general and the "real" porn industry, but that's not the case.
No, there is a difference between the actual porn industry, and the "lower" ones you'll find in slums and places like that. In the slums, you'll be right most of the time, as they do a lot of pimping and forced sex in there. That does not represent the entirety of porn though.
I never said it represented the "entirety of porn" - the problem is that you seem to be pretending it doesn't exist. You are also off the mark when you say it only happens in "slums."
awsome117 said:
Aardvaarkman said:
Your so-called "real" porn industry feeds off the overall sex industry, and also feeds off of both women and men's self-esteem and psychological issues. You're sticking your head in the sand if you think that isn't the case.
Not really, as I'm talking about the porn industry, where you keep talking about forced prostitution. One is a career that tons of people do willingly, and the other is an illegal terrible act that should be put to an end.
You keep missing the point. There is loads of forced prostitution in the porn industry. And the way mainstream porn frequently uses objectify images of abuse doesn't help that, or women in general. And the consumers of porn don't care where it comes from. Being liberated sexually is one thing - peddling images of violence and abuse is another. The way the "proper" porn industry generally depicts women just gives cover for people who commit abuse, and makes it seem normal.
You talk a lot about liberation and empowerment, but that's not how women are portrayed in most porn.