Empowering? I don’t think so, not for a second, not for a heartbeat. :(
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March 26, 2016 at 12:21 am
sincitysister
Did you read the article as well as watch the video? She doesn’t actually have anything negative to say about the porn industry, it’s the way people treat her outside of it. Which made me even more sad, that she’s ok with being treated like nothing but a set of holes to be penetrated.
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March 26, 2016 at 1:14 am
MoS
She wants to erase a past she chose to create. Charlie Sheen’s girlfriend, really? Positing a career in porn as though it’s “embracing sexuality” is beyond lamentable. The end part of the interview seems to be her plea that porn stars should be legitimized as decent, sex workers, counterculture role models. She made, by her own account, $30-40,000 a month and now she wants the world to ignore how she did it. She didn’t dedicate her life to tending lepers. She chose a different path. Now she weeps with buyer’s remorse. Like any porn star the job carries a shelf life. Hers is over. How many scores of other young women did she entice into her trade? Apparently she has no concern for them.
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March 26, 2016 at 7:57 am
The Arbourist
@sincitysister
The source I saw had another commentary, so I have not seen the article.
Choices and consequences. (:/) Within the video though she does make the plea for others not to follow in her footsteps.
She doesn’t seem particularly okay, at least during the video.
The poison that porn is effects people in different ways, perhaps she is disassociating with the worst that is expected and done to her?
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March 26, 2016 at 10:58 am
sincitysister
That’s what I was thinking. I just remember the last sentence of the article, and I may not be quoting it verbatim but she says, “Porn didn’t hurt me. People’s attitudes did.” And I remember thinking that must be why the article was so widely read and published, because she doesn’t have anything bad to say about her experience working in porn, just the people who judge her for doing it outside the industry
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March 26, 2016 at 11:42 am
The Arbourist
@sincitysister
You are most likely correct. An unabashedly anti-pornography piece wouldn’t be as widely distributed.
As an aside, I find it constantly perplexing that people don’t understand or believe in Patriarchy. Like what else could it be? One can drown in the Pro consumption of women, pro porn, pro faux empowerment messages that are out there.
But dare to have a message that is critical of the established male edifice… then its tumbleweeds and empty swinging saloon doors almost universally. :/
Sadly it might be not wanting to bite the hand that feeds.
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March 26, 2016 at 11:48 am
The Arbourist
@Mos
I had no idea. My lack of pop cultural knowledge bites me in the bum once again.
The view from the top of the pyramid is always so much more sunnier. Most women are degraded, used up physically, mentally, and spiritually and spat out of the ‘industry’ in less than 6 months.
I agree that this video doesn’t even remotely address that fact.
As this video contains a direct plea to young women not to enter the commercial rape biz, I would assume that she feels at least some level of contrition over the situation.
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