Porn Viewing: Do you know what you're talking about?

[RainDog]

27. Thanks for your reply!

My experience with the issue of porn was via second-wave feminists who opposed the Dworkin/MacKinnon legislation because of two principles - the first was 1st amendment issues and the second was "unintended consequences" of the attempt to eliminate "vice" - which is not limited to porn or prostitution, but also concerns drugs, alcohol, and other substances/behaviors.

My pov, b/c of my educational and interpersonal experiences, is that economic empowerment is, b/c of the way our society is set up, the best defense against all sorts of "vice" issues.

This doesn't solve all problems, of course. Nothing does. But a basic minimum income seems to me to be the best defense against abuses of power and people.

I have a friend who dated a woman in the porn industry for a while and they're still friends. She has some interesting insights. The reason she got into the business was because of financial opportunity there that wasn't available to her elsewhere. She was in the industry willingly, and now she's out of it.