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The Porn Princess Rant, Re-Written

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, September 17, 2012, 04:15:46 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

This is a remake of a lost rant I wrote in response to someone saying porn was "empowering" to women.  I can't find the original, so I'm re-writing it now.

The life-cycle of the average porn starlet.

Okay, so there's this 18 year old girl, fresh off the bus and ready for her new life in The City.  She's hoping to land a job as a waitress or whatever, until she can get her first big break in modeling or film or whatever.

At some point, she meets someone who says they can get her some big money NOW, making "adult" films.  Then he names a figure.

Next thing you know, she's dragging down $600 a scene, pulling in several thousand a month.  Not bad money for a girl with no marketable skills in a town where a pretty face and $4 will get you a cup of coffee.

But it turns out that to make that much money, she needs to make a LOT of films.  So in her first year, she burns through a hundred low-rent flicks, easy.  This wears you down.  It's hard to get into it.  So she gets a little something to help her along.  Might be coke, more probably meth.

But now she's no longer a fresh face.  She's known, and her value starts to drop.  So she has to do more and more bizarre things to get on camera.  Starts with anal, goes downhill from there.

6 months later, she's thinking to herself, "If I let that guy piss on me and then drag me into the shower, I could make rent." 

6 months after THAT, she's thinking a little differently.  "If I let those guys choke me out and put their cigs out on my back, I might get enough to score."  By this point she looks 40, and her skin looks like that of a cadaver.  Her eyes are dead, like two burned out light bulbs.

A few weeks later, she's been sold to a pimp for her drug debts, and she's hooking to score.  Statistically speaking, she's dead in 3 years, tossed in a convenient dumpster.

Then there's the next 18 year old girl, fresh off the bus and ready for her new life in The City.  She's hoping to land a job as a waitress or whatever, until she can get her first big break in modeling or film or whatever.

Rinse, repeat.

So when you feel the need to tell me porn is "empowering" to women, take a moment instead to SHUT UP.  What porn IS, is turning a human being into a commodity.  It is trading in human misery.  It is about as "empowering" to the woman as being enslaved was "empowering" to the Black population of the 1800s America.  It's sordid, when you look at it that way, and about as sexy as watching monsters waterboard people at Gitmo.

That's all I have to say.


" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

I believe that your original of this was the essay that changed my mind about sex work and empowerment. It was the part about the commodification of the human body... it gave me a lot to think about, and I ultimately did a 180 in my views on it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 04:44:05 PM
I believe that your original of this was the essay that changed my mind about sex work and empowerment. It was the part about the commodification of the human body... it gave me a lot to think about, and I ultimately did a 180 in my views on it.

As I once told you, I came in contact with that world about 7 years ago.  It's pretty sleazy.  There's nothing good to be said about it.  The guys are mostly the very bottom of the barrel (personalities like crocodiles), the women are as described, and life is even shittier for the fluffers.  And EVERYONE has herpes at least (Seth warned me about that...As if I would be remotely interested in anyone there).

It's not fit for humans.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Anna Mae Bollocks

Ignore the emo music and check out the causes of death: "self-inflicted gunshot wound", "AIDS", "overdose", etc., and the sheer numbers.
There's a part 2, as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0q_VGacfNk
Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 06:17:50 PM
Ignore the emo music and check out the causes of death: "self-inflicted gunshot wound", "AIDS", "overdose", etc., and the sheer numbers.
There's a part 2, as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0q_VGacfNk

Will check this out at home.

Incidentally 2 of the 3 people who said they wanted to read this rant have read it but not commented.

Apparently, I have offended their sensibilities in the Properthink™ thread, because they haven't spoken to me since.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Anna Mae Bollocks

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:40:51 PM
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 06:17:50 PM
Ignore the emo music and check out the causes of death: "self-inflicted gunshot wound", "AIDS", "overdose", etc., and the sheer numbers.
There's a part 2, as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0q_VGacfNk

Will check this out at home.

Incidentally 2 of the 3 people who said they wanted to read this rant have read it but not commented.

Apparently, I have offended their sensibilities in the Properthink™ thread, because they haven't spoken to me since.

Or they just don't want to feel guilty about purchasing porn.
You know, because it's really safe and everybody gets checked and the actors like their jobs.  :x
Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

EK WAFFLR

Nail on the head there, TGRFC.

I spent six months in that line of work, seven years ago. That was about six months too many.
"At first I lifted weights.  But then I asked myself, 'why not people?'  Now everyone runs for the fjord when they see me."


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The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 06:43:25 PM
Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:40:51 PM
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 06:17:50 PM
Ignore the emo music and check out the causes of death: "self-inflicted gunshot wound", "AIDS", "overdose", etc., and the sheer numbers.
There's a part 2, as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0q_VGacfNk

Will check this out at home.

Incidentally 2 of the 3 people who said they wanted to read this rant have read it but not commented.

Apparently, I have offended their sensibilities in the Properthink™ thread, because they haven't spoken to me since.

Or they just don't want to feel guilty about purchasing porn.
You know, because it's really safe and everybody gets checked and the actors like their jobs.  :x

No, I don't think the people I'm talking about buy porn.  Or maybe they buy WAY TOO MUCH, come to think of it.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

I wills state that this is the last time I'll ever do this for those 2 people.

Pixie gets a pass, of course, on account of not being here.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Juana

The vast, vast majority of porn, I 100% agree, because it is degrading and vile and dehumanizing, reducing people to yeah, shells that only superficially resemble who they used to be and using naive young women. I can't get behind pro or amateur porn (because it's impossible to tell who is doing it because they want to and who is being posted there by a vengeful, scumbag ex).
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on September 17, 2012, 06:52:16 PM
The vast, vast majority of porn, I 100% agree, because it is degrading and vile and dehumanizing, reducing people to yeah, shells that only superficially resemble who they used to be and using naive young women. I can't get behind pro or amateur porn (because it's impossible to tell who is doing it because they want to and who is being posted there by a vengeful, scumbag ex).

Um.  Other than pro or amateur, what else is there?  I'm pretty sure that covers all the bases.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

Let me clarify that by "porn", I don't mean images of people, but rather movies, pics, etc of people engaging in some form of sex.

Playboy magazine is fairly harmless stuff, and seems to be marketed as educational materials for 16 year olds.  The most they're guilty of is setting an impossible standard with photoshop.

I'm talking about porn movies, which are an entirely different ballgame.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:55:04 PM
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on September 17, 2012, 06:52:16 PM
The vast, vast majority of porn, I 100% agree, because it is degrading and vile and dehumanizing, reducing people to yeah, shells that only superficially resemble who they used to be and using naive young women. I can't get behind pro or amateur porn (because it's impossible to tell who is doing it because they want to and who is being posted there by a vengeful, scumbag ex).

Um.  Other than pro or amateur, what else is there?  I'm pretty sure that covers all the bases.

Random outliers; exceptions.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Juana

Certain subgenres of erotica, because they don't use actual people. The rest of it - photography, film, etc. - I don't know enough to say whether or not there's porn princesses in there.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:57:41 PM
Let me clarify that by "porn", I don't mean images of people, but rather movies, pics, etc of people engaging in some form of sex.

Playboy magazine is fairly harmless stuff, and seems to be marketed as educational materials for 16 year olds.  The most they're guilty of is setting an impossible standard with photoshop.

I'm talking about porn movies, which are an entirely different ballgame.
Then see Nigel's comment, although I'd add the feminist porn companies, the few of them that do exist.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on September 17, 2012, 07:05:07 PM
Certain subgenres of erotica, because they don't use actual people. The rest of it - photography, film, etc. - I don't know enough to say whether or not there's porn princesses in there.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:57:41 PM
Let me clarify that by "porn", I don't mean images of people, but rather movies, pics, etc of people engaging in some form of sex.

Playboy magazine is fairly harmless stuff, and seems to be marketed as educational materials for 16 year olds.  The most they're guilty of is setting an impossible standard with photoshop.

I'm talking about porn movies, which are an entirely different ballgame.
Then see Nigel's comment, although I'd add the feminist porn companies, the few of them that do exist.

Is that sorta like a feminist house of ill repute?  Does the brand name "feminist" make it somehow okay?

I do not understand.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.