Does Porn Degrade Women?

[hunter]

45. I have a few amusing porn stories, and a few utterly terrifying porn stories.

Maybe my worst was when my then girlfriend handcuffed her girlfriend's boyfriend/pimp to a urinal and beat the crap out of him as I was standing outside the toilet door claiming "rough sex" to very drunk guys who had to pee really really bad. I'm pretty sure I was an accessory to a felonious assault. We broke up shortly after that when I jumped out of her moving car, me leaving a lot of skin and blood on the streets of Berkeley.

I once posed nude for a college drawing class and the art was displayed in the college administration building. I was looking at drawings of me when a middle age woman came up beside me, looked at the drawings, looked at me, looked at the drawings again, and said "That's you!"

I turned bright red, she turned bright red, and then we fled in opposite direction.

There are naked pictures of me on the internet, some of the earliest internet naked people pics. I was a very weird autistic kid who fell in with a "bad" crowd. There's a really nice picture of me wearing nothing but a leather hat I bought in Mexico standing in front of a pillar of salt in Mono Lake. (Very itchy salt, don't ask.)

I quit high school to study television engineering my first two years of college, before I decided biology was my thing. The summer I was eighteen I got a job offer in the San Fernando Valley as a video tech. Everything looked fine until they took me out back and there were naked people having sex. The producer helped me pick my jaw off the floor and gave me a hundred dollars for my trouble. For "lunch."

It got worse. My name was still out there. I sold some software to Larry Flynt. And about the same time my ex-girlfriend sold some of my software to the DOD.

I ran away from all of that.

But it occurs to me that some of the most porn obsessed or war obsessed people I've ever met are among the most childish. They've not grown up.