About porn I'm out of date I guess because my brand of "woke" is not the puritan style. I think that sex work is fine and no one's business. Ideally it would be empowering but it seems, from what I've read about it, that the performers are usually exploited by the producers until they're used up. Many wind up addicted to drugs and you'd have to have a very strong sense of self not to wind up psychologically affected not just by the work but by society's views of the performers.
I knew this beautiful woman who was a stripper and she hid it from most people she knew. She thought I would judge her for it but was proud of her. She's not responsible for the clientele. She was making good money dancing. I have had friends that were prostitutes. I don't look down on that either but I bring it up because this woman I'm talking about wasn't having sex with anyone for money. Anything "dirty" about what she was doing was strictly in the minds of the observers.
While exploitation definitely is a factor in any sort of work that is related to sex, and these businesses are filled with shady characters who are basically pimps, in an ideal world freedom to do what you want with your body, including trading sex for cash, would be something that everyone would recognize was a personal choice.
Good post. And I bet a lot of women have made a f***ing fortune out of porn that they otherwise wouldn’t have done.
I saw a documentary about page 3 girls a while ago, (ok I know that isn’t hardcore porn), but there were a couple on there - Sam Fox & Keely Hazell I think she’s called - stating how much they made out of it, & in Sam Fox’s case it gave her a whole career.
Keely was saying, openly, she was thick at school, didn’t try to do anything or be anyone, but she got spotted at 18 & because she was gorgeous with a great body, made a fortune by 21.
Can’t say fairer than that

But certain types would take that opportunity away from them. Because they know better. These silly girls don’t know what’s best for them.
I mainly only watched the programme for the tits though, obviously.