Is Porn a Legitimate Career Choice?

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

as for op. if it wasn't for my spiritual hang-ups I'd probably be one of those "photographers" on deviant-art who puts up soft-core "art" and light bondage "art".

I don't think it's a good career choice (in the same way minor league baseball is not a good career choice) maybe a hobby where one can make some money.

[The Dharma Bum]

[eynon81]

[Professor]

In a vacuum, I don't see much problem with it. Meaning, if I were on person, hiring a person based upon their qualifications to do a job, and that person had done porn, and my SOLE concern was fit for the job, then it wouldn't be a problem.

The problem comes when you realize that decisions like this are NOT made in a vacuum. If I'm hiring her to be in sales, or other client-facing position, or to be on an exec path where she will be liaising with partners, then it's a problem. Why? Because, rightly or wrongly, other people will judge her based upon her choice. While I'm not that judgmental of her choice, I don't want to risk my business upon the chance of other people being as accepting.

Would I want my daughter doing it? No way in hell. I wouldn't banish her from the family or anything - she's my daughter and always will be - but I'd certainly do everything in my power to discourage her from choosing that path. It's like getting a neck tattoo. Once you've done it and people know about it, it can't be taken back, and people are going to judge you. Rightly or wrongly, people will judge.

[The Dharma Bum]

it just doesn't look respectable, just like a neck tattoo

I like that idiom

[Professor]

[exploited]

I think the industry is changing somewhat. The internet has given sex workers a means of cutting out the studios/pimps and reaching their market directly. There are a lot more girls that are doing their own thing, within their own limits, and making bank doing it. I'd say there are still widespread problems, but that they are becoming less prevalent.

I don't see anything wrong with it so long as the choice is rational and it makes you happy. I'd be supportive of my daughter if she made that choice, but not if it came as a way to afford drugs or booze. And hopefully I'll have provided well enough that she won't have to even worry about where money for college is going to come from. Obviously I would be worried and concerned at first, but I'd like to think my hypothetical daughter is capable of making rational decisions according to her own personal set of values, and to hell with public opinion.

[Professor]

Just wondering though - how much money is there for the average girl? Sure, some of the big names make money. But, there are literally hundreds of thousands of videos on any random porn site staring different women. Not all of them, not even most, can be making more than a few hundred bucks.