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> The second problem I have is with the industry and its employees, I can't recall any ex-porn worker having anything good to say about their previous professio

> The second problem I have is with the industry and its employees, I can't recall any ex-porn worker having anything good to say about their previous profession, instead what I've seen described comes across as a really shitty situation, where many turn to drugs in order to make it through 'shoots' and then again to forget. This can be said about the "mainstream" showbiz industry as well. Remember all the child stars with ugly adulthoods? As for spawning fetishes and promoting unrealistic expectations, again, you can say this about a lot of mainstream media too. Critics of porn seem to ignore other industries with the same problems when singling out porn for these criticisms, because !!sex!!

BurningCycles 7y ago
Sure, but sex is something practically every human will engage in, and typically starting at a young age. I don't know exactly what the fetishes/unrealistic expectations you say mainstream media is promoting, but I doubt they have as direct impact as porn does. As for mainstream showbiz, I certainly don't hold it in high regard either, but I do think it does better than the porn industry. Basically I would be very hesitant about my kid going into showbiz, meanwhile I would do anything in my power to dissuade my kid from going into porn.
- nojvek 7y ago
  Porn is a huge world of a bajillion sites. Some are good, some are meh, some aren’t. Coming from Australia, I find the whole anti-nudity-sex view of US extremely bizarre. One one side Netflix and friends have figured out that Booms, Bullets, Bucks, Boobs and Butts are a golden formula. Like most HBO series involve some form of nudity. On the other side the big media mafias are heavily censoring totally normal things.
- Scapeghost 7y ago
  > I don't know exactly what the fetishes/unrealistic expectations you say mainstream media is promoting Toxic masculinity and macho-isms, submissive femininity and repressed sexuality, hard-to-maintain body types, glamorizing hazards like fast cars and wreckless driving or acting like an asshole. Much has been said elsewhere about and against these topics.

BurningCycles 7y ago

Sure, but sex is something practically every human will engage in, and typically starting at a young age. I don't know exactly what the fetishes/unrealistic expectations you say mainstream media is promoting, but I doubt they have as direct impact as porn does. As for mainstream showbiz, I certainly don't hold it in high regard either, but I do think it does better than the porn industry. Basically I would be very hesitant about my kid going into showbiz, meanwhile I would do anything in my power to dissuade my kid from going into porn.

nojvek 7y ago
Porn is a huge world of a bajillion sites. Some are good, some are meh, some aren’t. Coming from Australia, I find the whole anti-nudity-sex view of US extremely bizarre. One one side Netflix and friends have figured out that Booms, Bullets, Bucks, Boobs and Butts are a golden formula. Like most HBO series involve some form of nudity. On the other side the big media mafias are heavily censoring totally normal things.
Scapeghost 7y ago
> I don't know exactly what the fetishes/unrealistic expectations you say mainstream media is promoting Toxic masculinity and macho-isms, submissive femininity and repressed sexuality, hard-to-maintain body types, glamorizing hazards like fast cars and wreckless driving or acting like an asshole. Much has been said elsewhere about and against these topics.