“In 2003 the Free Speech Coalition went to the Ashcroft Supreme Court and basically said that the 1997 Child Pornography Protection Act was too broad. What did that act say? That act said that A) Nobody under eighteen could be in porn and B) Nobody who looked under eighteen.The Free Speech Coalition, the lobbying body of the porn industry, said that that [protection act] limited the free speech of the pornographers and they should be allowed to have women who look under eighteen. The Ashcroft Supreme Court agreed…”
Dr. Gail Dines addressing porn culture and rape culture’s intersecting roles in patriarchy
Okay, so maybe you have an opinion about porn. Some of it is probably valid. My personal opinion is that it is no better or worse than many other jobs performed in the name of making other people money. You can make arguments about abuses in the porn industry. But when you start out with a blatant lie how am I supposed to give this person’s argument any credence? When you totally discount all of the women who have gone way longer than 3 months in the industry. Those who have made it a life long career going from acting to directing to producing.
Where one woman may find porn totally degrading another may find it liberating. The problem is consent. And being forced into a job in order to survive is not consent. But there are those who have choices and the chose sex work over other jobs because it suits their needs.