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In reply to the discussion: Societies that ban Porn treat women really well [View all]reorg
(3,317 posts)I don't buy it that "snuff films" even exist (I mean outside of those that document military slaughters and have found their way onto the Internet). The myth that they do is as old as porn. Well, almost, but I remember well the excited reviews of one such alleged snuff movie in the early eighties which was shown in regular theaters. All bullshit, sick fantasies, "see, this is how it will end"!!!
There is essentially no difference between motives of "70s-style" porn and what is out there today. Vanessa del Rio prides herself of being a pioneer (oh, and SHE had the power, mind you--at least that was the projected image), and indeed may have been. One of a kind in the seventies, but what she did is today pretty much standard for American porn, I believe.
Repugnant, violent porn has always existed, and there have always been documented cases of abuse, women who were considered easy prey by colleagues just because they starred in so-called erotic films, or who didn't want to actually get physical and were only "convinced" at the last minute that this was necessary and so forth.
The main difference is that we see mass production today, to an extent that it starts to become financially unattractive for more and more actors. At least if we are to believe the British journalist who recently made that BBC documentary about today's porn stars' problems. At the same time, there may be just more and more actors ... or they do it like others drive a taxi, on weekends, for two or three years. If anything, this will make it better, not worse, I believe.