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#278754 - 10/02/07 02:55 PM
Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Haley
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 07/17/07
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In the main, the sex industry attracts women who are troubled and disenfranchised: emotionally, financially, educationally, etc. The number of true porn exhibitionists--women, in other words, who would do this sort of thing for the sort of pay they would receive at the other jobs they are qualified to do (usually Starbucks cashier work)--are few (and of those, probably most have psych problems, traumatic pasts, etc.). I think we all can accept this much.
Porn work doesn't necessarily create the problems these women have, but it very often exacerbates them, and in almost no cases does it help to rectify them. You might think of it as a petri dish for growing desperation. You need the seeds, but the porn industry just provides a fertile environment that stimulates their growth.
We all should be sad that Hailey Paige died. But we should also accept that porn probably multiplied this girl's problems, as it does for most of these women.
In short, we as porn consumers are very often feeding on womens' troubles, and I think Warp Speed just brought that out explicitly and took it to its logical conclusion. Very few of these girls who make it out of porn to a relatively normal existence (and don't end up doing MILF-porn work till theyre gray) look back on it as a terrific part of their lives. We are jerking to women who are struggling (even if they're making great money--take one look at multimillioniare Jenna Jameson and tell me she isn't struggling with body image issues, aging, and so forth).
So when we express sadness that Haley died, let us also express some grief about who we are--not just that we did nothing to help her fly straight, but that we did, in all likelihood, actually contribute (as porn consumers and [for some of us] producers) to this woman's misery.
So the next time you post a banana man jerk when you hear a girl did porn just to make rent, or to feed a habit, think about Haley and her demise and what the fuck it is your saying...
To his credit, Warp (perhaps unwittingly) showed us the naked lunch--what it is that's on the end of everyone's forks.
Nancy
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#278755 - 10/02/07 03:02 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/23/04
Posts: 10321
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I'm sorry she's dead. I'm sorry for her family left behind. But I am in no way responsible or culpable for her demise. She is ultimately responsible for her death, unless it becomes known she was murdered.
"Porn", "the internet", and "society" did not kill the girl.
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#278756 - 10/02/07 03:14 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/14/06
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I think that the guilt and shame our puritan culture heaps upon pornstars caused her demise. Kill the evangelists. Unleaded gasoline killed Britney Madison.
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#278757 - 10/02/07 03:14 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Chronic Masturbator
Registered: 07/30/06
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and the award for "The Most Lubbenesque Post of the Month" goes to...
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#278758 - 10/02/07 03:23 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 02/23/05
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The concept that porn takes desperate and/or broken people and exploits them is hardly a new concept - very few porn sets are filled with people who gave up a successful career at a merchant bank (Hellooooo Nick Manning).
Porn consumers are no more or less culpable in the fact that many of these poor souls cannot escape from the cesspool than midwesterners who buy Nikes sewn by 10 year old Indonesians or the soccer moms from Orange County that pays the illegal alien $5 to blow their leaves.
It's a tragedy that Hailey/Maryam died so young (whatever the circumstances), but it is for the same reasons that she was 'successful' in her porn career (talk about an oxymoron) - pretty, young and highly sexualized - that people are moved by her untimely death.
I think we will find out that she died because of the very same problems that led her to a career in porn, not as a result of the career itself.
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#278759 - 10/02/07 03:25 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Registered: 02/24/06
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Fuck Off...! Coming from someone who has a little girl as Avatar[this is a porn site] means Jack-fucking shit to me... Fucking Idiot....!
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#278766 - 10/02/07 04:11 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Bukkake Boy
Registered: 06/13/06
Posts: 611
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Really? None of you are responsible?
Are habitual cocaine users, by driving the demand for coca leaf production, contributing to cartel violence in Columbia and Bolivia and environmental damage as virgin forests are clear cut to make way for coca? Uh-huh.
Are consumers who want cheap sneakers and plastic shit from Walmart supporting child labor in the process? You betcha.
If you drink Napa or Sonoma wine, did a Mexican die in the desert after paying a grand to a coyote for passage so he could work in vineyard for shit pay? Yup.
Do you, porn consumers of XPT, by consuming porn which continues to reach for new lows of violence, degradation, and gross-out cheap stunts, contribute to a cycle of traumatization of already fucked-up young people? Yes, you do.
Fuck Jesus and Shelley Lubben. This is a website that celebrates misanthropy in all its forms. If you're all the badasses that you make yourselves out to be daily basis, then put your money where your mouth is, and simply say:
"Yes, I help porn whores hit rock bottom with every purchase I make, and you know what? I don't care."
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#278767 - 10/02/07 04:12 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Registered: 04/21/04
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man fuck that shit.. everyone got pain. everyone got shit they got to go through. You think porno sluts the only mufuckers that pain on this earth? man fuck that! What you sell your pussy on film and all of the sudden oyur pain more real than mine? Nigga pain is real!
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#278770 - 10/02/07 04:18 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Pervert
Registered: 04/21/04
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the world problem is all y'all have that mcdonals responsible mentality. you know the mentality that bitches burning they coochie with hot cocoa or coffie is the responsiblity of the man who make the coffie too hot not the dumb cunt who spill it all over herself.
in this world coffie hot and bitches die.
end of story
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#278771 - 10/02/07 04:20 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Bukkake Boy
Registered: 06/13/06
Posts: 611
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Porn consumers are no more or less culpable in the fact that many of these poor souls cannot escape from the cesspool than midwesterners who buy Nikes...
Umm, I said exactly that.
Oh, sorry. I was too busy admiring my new Adidas with my feet propped up on an Ethan Allen teak coffee table, enjoying a glass of Cakebread Pinot Noir. Now I think I'll go watch some porn.
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#278772 - 10/02/07 04:31 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 04/12/07
Posts: 367
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.....hell if you want to get all religious.....didn't Jesus say "pick up your cross and follow me"
we all have issues...we all have pains........we can't choose what life throws at us but we do have choices in how we deal with it........some people choose to better themselves, some choose to make a way out of no way, hell some get on welfare and let the taxpayers help out....but you know we all have choices....we choose to make good ones or bad ones.....we choose to get help or to not get help....
This is a land of opportunity....this is the place where people die everyday for just a small taste of the opportunities that we ignore or discredit.....this isn't some third world country where people are suffering unspeakable ills.......this is the county that believes in helping people through their "Lifetime" moments.....even a young girls desire to fuck her way to happiness is a viable SHORT TERM OPTION......
yes women with all kind of fucked up problems do porn....but doing porn doesn't make them go away any more than fucking the hottest guy in school will make him like you........
yeah I purchase porn and yeah I like it.....and I would hope I never see one of my students, children, or family members in any of my purchased or rented porn......but you know what.....if they do.....it was by their choice and I know they had others
But then maybe I am jaded cause I work in a field where I see young people piss away opportunites everyday.
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#278773 - 10/02/07 04:38 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Elder of Zion
Porn Jesus
Registered: 05/06/04
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And now that idiot Luke has posted this on his site. Jesus Puke, what the hell? You just cut and paste shit you find online and provide no context or editorial? Do you call yourself a journalist? I hope not. I guess it's just a blog that you don't actually write yourself? WTF is your site anyway? Most of the confusion and misinformation regarding this story can be blamed on you, Luke Ford. Once again, nice job Putz.
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#278777 - 10/02/07 06:03 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
Registered: 01/16/07
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wonderfully put elG.
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#278781 - 10/02/07 08:17 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 08/03/03
Posts: 5849
Loc: TX, USA
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In the main, the sex industry attracts women who are troubled and disenfranchised: emotionally, financially, educationally, etc.
The industry doesn't attract them. They come to it because it is the most money they can earn without traditional job skills. In every case it's a big step up in income.
XXXbit said “young people piss away opportunities everydayâ€. It does seem likely that many wouldn't do porn had they not squandered opportunities earlier: how is it you can be out on your own after high school no more skilled than a rookie burger flip? But that's all well before the porn decision: when that choice is made it's likely that opportunities to go to college or learn a skilled trade & such were skipped long ago.
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the number of true porn exhibitionists--women, in other words, who would do this sort of thing for the sort of pay they would receive at the other jobs they are qualified to do (usually Starbucks cashier work)--are few (and of those, probably most have psych problems, traumatic pasts, etc.).
So what? That's a useless statement to make: “they wouldn't do this if they made only retail cashier's money.†Well, they don't make retail cashier money in porn – they can make an order of magnitude more in porn if their sphincter is flexible.
That's why Haley got into porn incidentally: a Blockbuster clerk doesn't isn't paid nearly as much, not enough to pay the bills in her case, and porn was apparently the best job she could find with her job skills at that time.
The comment on “psych problems†is utterly groundless speculation, with no basis whatsoever. Use Occam's razor. These girls have some jobs offers, one of which pays ten times as much as the others. Some girls are raised with enough inhibitions to say No even to that, some are not.
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Porn work doesn't necessarily create the problems these women have, but it very often exacerbates them, and in almost no cases does it help to rectify them. You might think of it as a petri dish for growing desperation. You need the seeds, but the porn industry just provides a fertile environment that stimulates their growth.
It sounds like you're describing college sports exploiting kids for financial gain.
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#278783 - 10/02/07 08:40 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 03/22/06
Posts: 6557
Loc: 2004 - the glory days
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Really? None of you are responsible?
Are habitual cocaine users, by driving the demand for coca leaf production, contributing to cartel violence in Columbia and Bolivia and environmental damage as virgin forests are clear cut to make way for coca? Uh-huh.
Are consumers who want cheap sneakers and plastic shit from Walmart supporting child labor in the process? You betcha.
If you drink Napa or Sonoma wine, did a Mexican die in the desert after paying a grand to a coyote for passage so he could work in vineyard for shit pay? Yup.
Do you, porn consumers of XPT, by consuming porn which continues to reach for new lows of violence, degradation, and gross-out cheap stunts, contribute to a cycle of traumatization of already fucked-up young people? Yes, you do.
Fuck Jesus and Shelley Lubben. This is a website that celebrates misanthropy in all its forms. If you're all the badasses that you make yourselves out to be daily basis, then put your money where your mouth is, and simply say:
"Yes, I help porn whores hit rock bottom with every purchase I make, and you know what? I don't care."
If we, as porn consumers, are to blame for all the porn burnouts, suicides, over doses, etc. does it also work in reverse? Do we get credit for the ones that find success after the biz? Like the ones that have the foresight to use the money they earn from our porn purchases for good furthering their education, buying real estate, investing etc or whatever. I know the numbers aren't in our favor here but if we can lift up just one ex porn girl by buying "Double Anal Ass Felching Overload 17" it's all worth it.
I buy electricity. Should I feel guilty about prisoners that are executed in the electric chair because I prop up the electric company and enable their continuation? Should all employees of Steak Knife Company A be in jail for making such sharp knives accessible to murderers?
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#278788 - 10/02/07 11:21 PM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
Registered: 10/02/07
Posts: 52
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bottom line is we did not kill her i for one did not want her dead she has to make her own choices and stand by them yes i am sorry that she made some bad ones but what can i do about it
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#278789 - 10/03/07 12:03 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/14/06
Posts: 14755
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What you can do: Ask Vanessa for a date!! She's so sad about Haley. It'll make her day. <click to PM Vanessa!!>
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#278790 - 10/03/07 12:46 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Registered: 08/05/05
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Shit does this mean baseball fans are responsible for Donnie Moore's suicide three years after he blew a game that would have put the California Angels into the World Series?
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#278791 - 10/03/07 12:53 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Yeah. And the Jews are responsible for the Holocaust. The Armenians for their massacre. And the Africans for slavery.
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#278792 - 10/03/07 01:04 AM
Some final thoughts on Victims and Perpetrators
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 07/17/07
Posts: 297
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Good Friends of XPT:
Our thinking can be distorted in assessing cases like this by the "black and white", or absolute, application of certain concepts, namely, innocence and guilt. This can distort the quotidian fact that real life cases actually fall along a spectrum.
This conception of a spectrum allows, then, that a victim may not be wholly innocent, and a perpetrator not wholly guilty. That leaves untouched the thought that a victim, though not wholly innocent, can be victimized nonetheless, and that a perpetrator, though not wholly culpable, may perpetrate against the victim all the same.
The parables of The Garden of Eden and of Faust are classical illustrations:
The Serpent of course does not compel Eve by force to taste of the apple. Rather, he tempts Eve by stimulating unsavory desires that exist in embryo within her. That Eve tastes of the apple and is cast out of Eden is obviously partly her own fault--she did, after all, decide to eat the apple. All the same, the Serpent's deed--that of tempting Eve--is patently evil, as he knows the consequences to Eve, if he succeeds in tempting her, will be dramatic (for her, anyway). To this extent, Eve is the victim of the Serpent's exhortations, though she is certainly not wholly innocent.
Similarly, Mephistopheles does not force Dr. Faust to sign away his soul to the Devil, but rather tempts him to give in to his own greed--in this case, for knowledge; for sex workers, the temptations are usually easy money and attention. Again, Mephistopheles knows the consequences to Faust will be serious, but he forges ahead self-interestedly anyway: obviously an evil act.
The Serpent and Mephistopheles are thus nourishers of the evil within humankind. They exploit the weaknesses of Eve and Faust, respectively. To do so, of course there has to be something to exploit in the first place. That's just to say, Eve and Faust have weaknesses in their character--they are really anything but perfect. And those weaknesses are preyed upon.
I trust it's clear enough how these thoughts, mutatis mutandi, apply to the adult industry (not to mention, with some differences, the illegal narcotics industry). Simplifications have of course been made, and surely inaccuracies and distortions remain. But it is a step in the right direction I hope.
Thank you all for your thoughts.
I wish you well.
Good Night.
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#278793 - 10/03/07 01:14 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
Registered: 10/09/04
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Maryam Haley didn't belong in porn. She obviously didn't possess the emotional armour for it. She belonged as someone's wife. And she could have been. Easily. The recriminations from this will run and run, because as a "lamb to the slaughter", she's perfect fodder for the Lubbens of this world... but sorry, I don't buy it.
I don't know why these girls make the choices they do. It's undeniably tragic, but blaming porn consumers is pathetic. It's women that wield the sexual power in this (civilized, western) world. Behind every girl like Maryam there are always the men she left in her wake, the nice guys who would have taken care of her, but that she showed no interest in.
It's because of girls like Maryam that half of us are such bitter, cynical fucks in the first place. So am I going to share in the blame? No fucking way.
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#278795 - 10/03/07 01:56 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Porn Jesus
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I think its God's fault for making us defective in the first place. A better God would have made better people.
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#278796 - 10/03/07 02:04 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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I think we're losing sight of something here people...
Yes, Haley Page was a good whore, and from all accounts a very sweet girl who deserved none of the shit she got in her life.
But let's not become Lubbens and blow this out of proportion.
There's much bigger tragedies happening all around us.
We live in a world where people, both individuals and governments. do extremely fucked up things to people every day.
Iraq. Afghanistan. Somalia. Darfur. The list is endless.
How many hundreds of millions died in the thirty years between 1914-1945?
Haley's death was a tragedy. I hope she's at peace. She will be missed.
But let's keep it in perspective.
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#278797 - 10/03/07 02:31 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Porn Jesus
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"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Uncle Joe
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#278798 - 10/03/07 02:33 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Shelley Lubben is keeping everything in perspective. Porn caused all those deaths between 1914-1945.
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#278799 - 10/03/07 02:39 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Ahhh, yes. It was the tremendous output of the Reichspornamt, no doubt, that sent Gavrilo Princip over the edge. How silly of me.
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#278801 - 10/03/07 04:08 AM
Re: Some final thoughts on Victims and Perpetrator
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 08/03/03
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Loc: TX, USA
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Similarly, Mephistopheles does not force Dr. Faust to sign away his soul to the Devil, but rather tempts him to give in to his own greed
OK, this argument is a lot better, but there are still some isssues: it's not that black & white. 
The first thought: what of Blackwater tempting their hires to become mercenaries?
But also, what of Wal-Mart? I'm sure there's some job there that most of the girls could do instead, but just how much better is it really? You can't live on minimum-wage money and go to school to ever improve - it's the minimum wage trap. By offering someone like Haley a minimum-wage alternative to porn they condemn them to never moving forward in life. Porn may have offered Haley a chance that no one else ever offered, and the fact she didn't take advantage of the chance doesn't mean it wasn't there.
The other problem with the argument is the idea that "porn is more dangerous or 'lower' than whatever they had before", and that's not necessarily the case. The hookers are probably a lot safer in porn - tested partners and not likely to be killed by a John - and some girls are finally able to dump loser boyfriends once they can make enough money on their own to live.
The biggest problem is that doing porn gives kids far more money than they're typically ready to deal with. This both allows bad choices and allows them to put off or avoid good choices.
Unfortunately there often wasn't good parenting when they were growing up - otherwise there would be good alternatives to porn instead of that being the only way out of minimum wage - and the kids just aren't equipped with that upbringing to steer them away from the bad things one can do when there's too much money available.
My belief is that by time the girls get to the point of doing porn their course in life has been long since set by their upbringing and only a few details remain to be filled in. If they fail miserably after leaving porn they're likely have failed just as miserably anyway. They're better with a chance forward - school money etc - than never getting that chance, even if few use it wisely. Porn may be the only chance many will ever have at making significant income.
PS. It's easy to say that doing porn is a bad choice. But it may tough to prove to someone making $50/day that porn is that bad at $1,200/day. The kids either need better upbringing to avoid the $50/day situation in the first place, or good enough discipline to take advantage of porn income and get more out of it than a few handbags.
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#278802 - 10/03/07 05:39 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Bukkake Boy
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If we, as porn consumers, are to blame for all the porn burnouts, suicides, over doses, etc. does it also work in reverse? Do we get credit for the ones that find success after the biz? Like the ones that have the foresight to use the money they earn from our porn purchases for good furthering their education, buying real estate, investing etc or whatever. I know the numbers aren't in our favor here but if we can lift up just one ex porn girl by buying "Double Anal Ass Felching Overload 17" it's all worth it.
It's as you said - the numbers aren't on your side. How many success stories are there?
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I buy electricity. Should I feel guilty about prisoners that are executed in the electric chair because I prop up the electric company and enable their continuation? Should all employees of Steak Knife Company A be in jail for making such sharp knives accessible to murderers?
I don't know; if you were Catholic you probably would.
I gather that the majority of XPTers are moral relativists, "all questions of ethical behavior are subjective, morality is meaningless, etc" when it comes to their own porn consumption, but are moral absolutists when it comes to the women and girls who choose to do porn: they are whores with no souls.
Isn't that just slightly hypocritical?
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#278803 - 10/03/07 06:29 AM
Re: Porn and Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Hale
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
Registered: 10/09/04
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I gather that the majority of XPTers are moral relativists, "all questions of ethical behavior are subjective, morality is meaningless, etc" when it comes to their own porn consumption, but are moral absolutists when it comes to the women and girls who choose to do porn: they are whores with no souls.
Isn't that just slightly hypocritical?
Speaking as a porn consumer, and someone who despises moral relativism, I reject the comparison completely. I see nothing immoral about either consuming porn or appearing in it. I think being in porn is a harmful thing for all but the most emotionally numb/hardened people to do to themselves, but just because I buy the product does not mean I bear any responsibility for that. Yes, if no-one bought porn, there would be no money to temp these girls in, but likewise, if none of them were willing to do porn, there would be no product for me to buy. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I see it as morally neutral.
The sex industry has always been supply-led. Demand is constantly high. It's the ever-increasing supply of girls willing to sell themselves on the cheap that has fueled the booming industry of recent decades. The time when desperation and poverty drove supply is long past, people who consider themselves "poor" in a western country don't know what poor is. Nowadays they're doing it for a nicer lifestyle than they could afford at Wal-Mart. Should we lament the fact that women got their independence, and this is what some of them chose to do with it?
I might also add that this is really puzzling coming from you. You've always played the contented former hooker, not the victim. If you're happy enough with your past sex-work decisions, how does this work? Is it that when a girl sells herself and feels fine about it, that was the decision of a strong, independent woman, but if she's miserable, then the customers are to blame? Who's the hypocrite here?
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