Somehow I missed this story when it was first reported a few
years ago.
Among the media casualties of the internet revolution has
been the pornography industry.
At a time when porn is ubiquitous, women who take it off and
do the dirty on film have been finding it increasingly difficult to make a
living.
It’s not even a paradox. The Los Angeles Times explained that porn stars cannot compete with the
legions of women who are willing to do the same thing for
free.
The free market is killing the porn business.
Yes, indeed.
The stigma about porn has been overcome. The girl next door,
the woman down the block, is taking it off, letting herself be filmed in flagrante delicto, Women are taking
it off, letting themselves be filmed, and posting it online... for the thrill of
it all.
One assumes that they take some pride in showing off their
skills, but the exercise gives new meaning to the idea of cheap thrills. It
also gives new meaning to the idea of free love.
And you were wondering why these women have low self-esteem
and why men have become less willing to marry them.
The LA Times reported on the case of porn star Savannah
Stern:
Savannah
Stern is adjusting to that reality. She's shooting scenes for her own
subscription website and planning a tour of exotic dance clubs to earn money
from her name while she can. After that, she hopes to go to college for an
interior design degree and work in her family's real estate development and
contracting business.
"I
wish I would have never gotten into it," Stern said of her career in porn.
"When you get used to a certain lifestyle, it's really hard to cut back
and realize this may not be forever."
Women of the world have severely damaged the porn business. They
have done so at a price, to themselves. By baring it all and by learning to
make love like porn stars they have also damaged themselves.
And they have diminished the reputation of women everywhere.
If doing your own porn video is part of a modern relationship, then a large number of women will have in their possession, or in the possession of former lovers, pornographic images of themselves. Naturally, this causes men to see women differently and to treat them differently. Breaking down the
barrier between sex workers and other women harms all women.
Women have a constitutionally protected right to do what
they are doing. But they should not fool themselves into thinking that
destigmatizing porn has been cost free for them, and for women everywhere.
One of the interesting things about life is that we enjoy things that are a rare occurrence. A good steak, a fine wine, a great cigar, et al. The more we get accustomed to these things the less value they have to us. They lose their uniqueness for us.
ReplyDelete"Playboy" was interesting because there was always a hint of mystery about the women involved. That is until "Playboy" became a little more than a sophisticated "Hustler." I am not sure, but I think that was when Hefner's daughter took over running it?
When something that was unique takes on the title of "Where every one has gone" it just loses it appeal just as the people who make the mistake of thinking everyone can do it.
NOTE: One of the best ideas I ever learned from "Playboy" was the answer to the question of "Why buy the cow when the milk is free?" Because one can get a lot of sour milk. With all this milk available one has to wonder just how much is sour?
The declining fortunes of porn stars has matched the increasing fortunes of moral degenerates. Well, that's to be expected when denigration of individual dignity is embraced as normal. Well, no one claimed, or should have claimed, that progress is uniquely virtuous or productive. This may explain a progressive trend where individuals seek to escape reality, especially through psychotropic drugs.
ReplyDeleteThis seems to be a fait accompli of every civilization which enjoys an excessive decadence. Perhaps, people are just frustrated with the limitations of reality, including their own. This is not supposed to happen until well into our adult years. The midlife crisis has infringed upon the innocence of youth.
@Dennis:
ReplyDelete"One of the interesting things about life is that we enjoy things that are a rare occurrence. A good steak, a fine wine, a great cigar, et al. The more we get accustomed to these things the less value they have to us. They lose their uniqueness for us."
That's because you only get only X amount of pleasure out of item Y.
You need to wait for your brain to reset until you get pleasure X out of Y again.
Also, I'm just waiting until we manufacture some idiot version of drug-resistant STDs again. Lots of sour milk.