Feministas Against Porn
Charges from RollerTrain apparently likes sticking her face right into the bee hive to lick the honey straight off the honeycomb frames, because she’s taken on the “angry young feministas” who disapprove of porn:
In the American porno bizz, blame pushing pisses me off like nothing else. … I don’t buy into victimhood when it boils down to American porn. Not here and not now. I have little sympathy for anyone who tries to score a profit without learning how to score it, especially when you’re trying to score off anything other than your mind.
When your goal is money, you better be damned sure of three things: You know what you’re getting into, you like what you’re getting into, and if the first two things don’t apply, you learn from your failures. Porn or not, we’ll always fuck up. But if you decide not to learn from your own mistakes, especially in something as simple as porn, you choose your victimhood.
Arguing that “porn victimizes the women who appear in it” disrespects and belittles the freedom of choice exercised by the women who appear in porn. I’d say that sort of infantalizing argument does more damage to women than porn could ever dream of doing.
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There are lots of things that dehumanize people. I think the anti porn argument fails when it falls to that, working at Wal Mart dehumanizes people and women don’t make nearly the same kind of money or get ahead as quickly. Shrug.
Perhaps then, those who wish to make lives better for women, should view things in terms of creating better labor experiences for all workers and that starts with sex workers being free to organize.
Sex happens, sex on film happens. Women who have nice enough bodies (or who can afford to enhance them) are going to turn to porn. Period.
So instead of arguing against what will NEVER change, why not deal with the working conditions people experience to at least improve that.
I have read this piece, about women being de-humanised by porn, several times. I have to say that I don’t follow the argument, because it is expressed in such poor English and without any sequence of logic as to be incomprehensible. From the quote by someone called ‘Roller Train’ and the comment by Bacchus, I am at a loss to know on which side of the argument they stand.
I think it’s safe to say that, based on the number and type of images posted on this blog, by it’s two female and one male bloggers, they’re not fans of the ‘all porn degrades women’ position.
The only negative thing that this feminist has to say about porn is that women should have been the ones driving the business forward. Women should have run the business from the start and those women that had power positions should have train other women to be ready to take of the reins. After all, it is our images that are the most marketable. Shouldn’t we be getting the lion’s share of the profits?
what makes the porn industry so degrading isn’t the sex–it’s the lack of a union and worker’s rights and leverage. no way a double anal scene should only cost $2000. it should be illegal for a performer to sign away future rights to their work. condoms should be a required workplace safety standard. how many b girls drove the wage scale down by agreeing to do dp for $600? that’s so stupid.
i believe in porn, but FAIR porn, where the performer does not have to agree to unreasonable risks to their health to make a living. these actors are taxpaying denizens like the rest of us, and deserve society’s safety net and protection when profit driven corporations are more than happy to sacrifice bodies to make a buck. we protect workers in other industries, why not porn actors?
i love my smut, but not at the cost of the performer’s well being. thinking that they got an infection that could have been prevented or some orifice of their got ripped to shreds is a major buzzkill when watching smut.