Is Porn a Legitimate Career Choice?

[The Dharma Bum]

I don't know.

Submission in itself seems inherently degrading to a degree.

I think the people who do this stuff do it because they get off on getting degraded and/or degrading others. They aren't simulating it or doing it only for the money. It fulfills some type of psychological need they have and since they can get paid, it happens.

That's what worries me about it. I don't want to see people get hurt., even if it is doing something they choose to participate in.

[exploited]

[exploited]

[The Dharma Bum]

[exploited]

I don't doubt that people do things for reasons they don't understand or acknowledge. But I just don't get the rationalization of kinks. Why do I get instant turned on when I see a hot mom? Am I acting out fantasies of my mother? Am I turned on by traditional female roles? I'm sure you could construct all sorts of psychological theories about it, and yet such a preference doesn't interfere in my day to day life, it doesn't alter my sexual practices with my childless wife, etc.

The point is, human sexuality is incredibly complex, and we could spend all day coming up with theories on the psychological origins of fetish. The only time that it becomes problematic is when the fetish overwhelms the normal sex impulse, and grows to be greater than the simple act of sex itself.

You also have to realize that not everyone really knows what gets them going until they try it. I've heard countless stories of men seeing no appeal in getting buttsexed, trying it, and loving it. Or women being offended when their husband wants to watch adult films while banging, then doing it and realizing that it added something for them. Or couples who try to spice things up with a threeway - sometimes it makes things worse, sometimes it makes things better, and the original desire doesn't have much to do with the outcome.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that every human being is deeply flawed, has all sorts of weird mental processes, can be manipulated and degraded... But you can't tell who is truly f**k up and who isn't just by what they do.

Hell, some of our societies most f**k up people are leaders, powerful people with wealth and authority. Presidents, CEOs, captains of industry...

[The Dharma Bum]

I think it's important to realize is that all humans that have existed so far are deeply disturbed, largely from exposure to the inadequate social processes and structures that have been characteristic to our species throughout our history. Perhaps it is possible that with advanced knowledge and social techniques we can literally produce a superior human society by improving the socialization process that each individual goes through at the beginning of their lives. We haven't ready had much meta-understanding of our own nature until very recently and we are still at the beginnings of learning more about that so that is a very new possibility that has only emerged in the last few centuries. (we've had a few false starts with the development of eugenics etc)

Think about if everyone looked at other members of society in the same light they see close members of their family. Is that possible? Maybe.

Of course that would only lead to further organization and mechanization of the human social character so I don't even know if it is desirable to follow such a path from the standpoint of the type of individualistic human that exists today in the US. However since increasing complexity of organization seems to be an inherent component of biological systems it is probably inevitable that we do so as a species.

We are literally on a darwinistic path to produce the most efficient way to degrade stored energy so maybe our current direction is an inevitability.

[The Dude]

[Philly]

Alright. So why are porn stars victims but no one pursuing a regular acting career is? My whole point is that every industry has a lot of people who have to either do things they don't want to do or be out of work in that field. We can have a discussion about how the poor and working class are generally exploited across any industry if we want, but that's not the discussion that those peddling righteous indignation about porn want to have.

[Philly]

Let's talk about the dark underbelly of being a party clown. You can juggle and in fact you enjoy it. And wearing a silly costume with face paint is no problem to you. But suddenly you find yourself being pressured to make balloon animals. You never signed up for that but you have no choice. Make the balloon animals or the phone won't ring. It's horrible.

[foadi]

she looks pretty. kind of like amia moretti pre bimbo boob and lip job. is she going to escort as well or just do videos? not enough new talent in the porn industry escorts nowadays. they need to get their priorities straight