The 3 biggest myths about pornography, debunked by Belle Knox

[Capt. Obvious]

This article originally appeared on The Daily Dot.

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1) Sex work isn’t work.

One of the most damaging notions that conservatives and anti-sex work feminists spread about sex work is the idea that it is not a legitimate form of work. By superimposing a pre-conceived moral landscape onto the field of sex work, these cultural actors portray sex work as an illegitimate form of labor that is only necessary in an evil and/or a patriarchal world.

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2) Emotional connection and sex have to go hand in hand.

Not only do we live in a culture that still considers sex to be the emotional endpoint of a traditional romantic trajectory, we also associate women with emotion to such a degree that it seems inconceivable that a woman could have sex without intense emotional investment. Slut-shaming, in part, functions to reinforce the idea that women should only want to have sex within the confines of a romantic relationship with a man.

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3) Porn performers can’t be empowered if they have emotional trauma.

Those who oppose sex work often cite statistics about the number of women working in the porn industry who have a history of rape or child sexual abuse as evidence that porn performers enter the industry as wounded victims whose history of abuse has led them to make poor choices.

As Slate reports, however, rates of past sexual abuse among female porn performers aren’t significantly higher than the female population at large, we just “tend not to ask insurance agents and mainstream actresses about molestation” in the media in the same invasive way that we do with porn performers.

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[msongs]

1. by definition if you're moving something by applying a force, you are working nt

[Archae]

2. I used to know a guy who had worked in porn, "behind the scenes" as they say.

Lighting, filming, and so on.

He did tell me most of the time, women in front of the cameras were fairly bright, while most of the guys in front of the camera were dumb as a bag of hammers.
All the way up to John Holmes, I think even George Bush was smarter than what Bill described of John Holmes.

[zappaman]

3. I still know some people who work in that industry and I agree.

Weird how that works...

[Sherman A1]

4. Interesting

and I am hardly surprised by what you were told.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Ron Jeremy was a Special Ed teacher. Maybe he's the exception

And John Holmes was just an awful human being.

[NaturalHigh]

6. Whenever I hear someone get holier-than-thou about porn...

I tell them "don't like it, don't watch it. That works for me." I don't like porn and haven't watched any in probably 20 years, but I can't stand people who think they are entitled to tell consenting adults what to do or watch in privacy.

An interesting excerpt from the article:

“With porn,” Weeks argues, “everything is on my terms. I can say no whenever I want to. I can do what I want to. I can do what I don’t want to. I’m in control. I like the assertive, passionate person that I’m becoming because of porn.”

[Recursion]

7. Trafficking in persons: you don't like it, don't engage in it...

I'm not opposed to porn in theory but I dislike a whole lot of how many parts of the industry run.

[eridani]

8. That's a workers' rights issue, not a sex issue n/t

[NaturalHigh]

9. Trafficking is illegal. It should be prosecuted as such.

That's really not the issue here. Ms. Weeks wasn't trafficked; she chose to work in this profession.

Yes, human traffickers are the scum of the earth, whether they bring in people for porn, prostitution, laundromats, or restaurants. They should be locked away from decent people.