Porn in the USA is a "major public health crisis?" For real?
On the eve of a two-day conference on sexual exploitation, they suggested that porn be tackled in the same manner as teenage smoking or drunk driving.
"There's an untreated pandemic of harm from pornography," said Dawn Hawkins, executive director of Morality in Media, which has campaigned against pornography since 1962.
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Participants include health professionals, social workers, academics, feminists, faith leaders, campaigners against human trafficking and former members of the multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry.
"This is a business with considerable political clout," said Gail Dines, a sociology and women's studies professor at Wheelock College in Boston and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10835994/Porn-in-US-a-public-health-crisis.html
Be careful everyone! If you have an issue of Playboy in your house or visit a porn site, it might make you want to rape women!
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Morality laws/regulations are a waste of time. Misclassifying porn as a public health concern, mental disorder, or whatever else the kooky anti-porn crowd dreams up, is just a cloak to enforce morality through the government.
I don't know about Redqueen, but your track record assuming you know what I think sucks.
And then, having said the words, she started to actually consider it. "I Googled 'how to be a porn star,' and all of these agencies popped up. And then there's this website called SexyJobs.com. It's like the Monster.com of porn." Weeks took a few naked selfies and submitted them, along with her height (five feet four), weight (95 pounds) and a short description ("'I'm a college girl with a naughty side' or something like that"
. Within days, she got a call from a company called Facial Abuse that offered to fly her to New York for her first shoot, at a rate of $1,200 per scene. The night before leaving, Weeks says, "I was horny. I remember thinking, 'This is gonna be really hot.'"
While Weeks maintains that everything that happened at the shoot was consensual, it was not the best experience. "They try to figure out what makes you tick and fuck with you. I remember getting naked, and the guy said, 'You have cuts on your legs. You're a cutter.' He could tell I had written the word 'fat' in my thigh, so he started calling me fat." Once they called "action," she was pushed to the ground and slapped. "And I said, 'Stop, stop, stop. No, no.' And then they stopped, and they were like, 'We have to keep going.'
"And I was like, 'Just please don't hit me so hard.' But it went on like that, me getting hit, pushed, spit on. I was being told I was fat, that I was a terrible feminist, was going to fail all my classes, was stupid, dumb, a slut. But I got through it. You know how you kind of zone out sometimes? I just disassociated." It wasn't until she got back to Duke that she felt the weight of it all. "I remember just being a wreck, like, 'Oh, my God, what have I done? This is the most embarrassing thing ever. What if somebody finds it?'"
But still, she needed the money. To better protect herself, Weeks signed with Matrix Models, which booked her five scenes – including the "hottest" threesome with James Deen – during Thanksgiving vacation, flying her to L.A. She told her parents she was staying at school over break. She told her roommate that she was going to California – realizing that someone should know where she was – but didn't explain why. In fact, no one in her life had any idea she was doing porn – especially not her parents, who thought she was still a virgin.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-blue-devil-in-miss-belle-knox-meet-duke-porn-star-miriam-weeks-20140423
I recommend one read the whole article. I'm not passing judgment one way but considering what college tuition costs these days coupled carrying a massive debt from student loans I'm not surprised that some students would turn to porn.
fiction over other speech.
FFS it's not fiction, unless you are talking about books rather than film.
/ˈfikSHən/
noun
noun: fiction
literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
synonyms: novels, stories, (creative) writing, (prose) literature;
Dramatization
1: the action of dramatizing
2: a dramatized version (as of a novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program. These screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated.
And everything that happens in this guy's movies it totally real! They're all documentaries!
It has a collection of folks with a particular outlook on life that he might appreciate.
Right
and you still didn't understand it. 
I did not tell him his post was off topic. If that had been the case I would have sent an SOP alert. Rather, my response was off topic. 
yes there is a lot of immorality in media but it's got nothing to do with porn 
Have walk along with popular opinion.
I, admittedly, do not watch (real) lesbian porn, almost never watch straight porn, and rarely watch bisexual porn, as for gay porn...no comment. However, I will say there is an uptick in barebacking videos, but there are also many that appear to be bareback and are not. Most gay videos I have seen, or as been reported to me...
...promote the use of condoms and safer sex practices. In some of the more 'intense' videos, they almost always have disclaimers at the beginning, and a few studios do interviews with the actors after the shoot, which are included in the video. Some have even gone to the extent of making clear the difference between roleplay, rough sex, BDSM, and non-consensual sex.
I will agree much of the modern porn is not erotic, many don't even bother with even pretending to have a "storyline." I will also agree with the nasty racism which permeates much of the industry, especially in the titles. I will assume it is the same for heterosexual porn, but I don't know for sure.
There have been a few cases of HIV (none on set), but nothing in the way of a serious epidemic for the industry. That said, syphilis and chlamydia have made a HUGE resurgence in the gay porn actors community to the point where many are getting concerned. Though both are treatable, getting them over and over can cause all kinds of problems, including creating untreatable strains.
Not all studios are the same, of course, but I have met many a gay porn actor and a few directors, especially when I lived in New Orleans. Most have said the testing is constant and one of their biggest complaints is they have to always make directors aware of all sexual activity, which infringes on their personal lives.
I would think there are more.
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