Reply #165: sounds to me [View All]

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"This is exhausting. The rest of your piece is simply a diatribe against porn, backed by absolutely nothing. Yes, there are offensive, sexist, racist, homophobic images in porn. Guess what, all those things exist outside the porn industry as well. I see them every day and they piss me off every day. It isn't the porn that is the problem, it the racism, sexism etc. Those things are deeply rooted in our society, and until we can address those issues, the porn will never change to reflect it.
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While we're at it, maybe we can also look at the ways other industries are exploiting their labor. Who do you think makes the clothes you buy, or the goods in your home? Probably someone being paid $1 per day and forced to live in rancid conditions while working 16 hours a day. Given the choice, I'd take $20 to be humiliated on camera for an hour. That's capitalism. It sucks, but that's how it is."


....like you and a lot of other posters are excusing sexism, racism, homophobia and exploitation.

Seems to me the original poster was looking for a little idealism. Like it is possible that people could have porn without sexism, racism, homophobia and exploitation if it were important to enough people. If it were possible to get people to see that respect for each improves society.

Porn lives outside of what is socially acceptable and so sexism, racism, homophobia and exploitation become acceptable within porn.

It wouldn't have to be that way.