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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 everyday”. 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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