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“Ethical Porn” Starts When We Pay for It

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This line from the article made me laugh out loud.
One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “How can I be sure what I’m watching was ethically produced?”

All my life I have never heard anyone ask that.
 
This line from the article made me laugh out loud.


All my life I have never heard anyone ask that.
I have quite often but I guess I'm mostly surrounded by feminists consumers/producers/performers.

Speaking of which, OP's article reminded me of this one: http://titsandsass.com/fuck-your-feminist-porn/
Last year, I was short on cash and struggling with full service work. For the first time in my life, I approached a porn company.

This was no ordinary porn company—they made this known every step of the way. They were “alternative” and “empowering.” They were “feminist” and made “erotica.” They were a company that was not like the others.

They were full of shit.

Here’s what working for them looked like:

They had me sign a form in which I promised that filming for them was just a hobby, not my job. It was a lie—one that was already pissing me off. They handed me a camera, took my passport for collateral, sent me home with a list of very exact specifications for what to film, and had me shoot my scene myself. Then, they had me come back to deliver the work. They complained about the amount of makeup I wore—said it didn’t fit their more “natural” style, though it was the same amount of makeup I had worn every day for the past 10 months—and handed me $200. They didn’t invite me back. They did invite back my skinnier, scar-free friend.

So feminist, right?


Here’s the thing: For porn to have a feminist counterpart, that would imply something about it was inherently anti-feminist in the first place. Instead, what happens here is that this company gets everyone so worked up about them supposedly being an ethical alternative to mainstream porn that nobody notices that they’re an international corporation paying next to nothing for people to style, shoot, produce, edit, and perform in their own work. It’s okay, though—it’s just a hobby!

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This line from the article made me laugh out loud.


All my life I have never heard anyone ask that.

I'm surrounded by people who ask these kind of questions and try to find solutions for it. This is a question more often asked by cis-women, actually.

Can't hide I'm glad you heard this for the first time here, in ACF, tho.

@eclipse76, I believe some porn is suffering from a syndrome I associate with the nice guy syndrome. It doesn't matter how many times you say you are feminist and alternative or whatever if you just want sexy rewards for being nice/feminist/alternative/whatever. What counts, in my opinion, is the way you treat performers and what is in your final product (the moving image/pictures).

That's why I chose camming, not old fashioned porn. Making sure you have some minimum autonomy is key.

Porn is learning really fast how to use the feminist label as a marketing tool. As everything else is.
 
One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “How can I be sure what I’m watching was ethically produced?”

This line from the article made me laugh out loud.

All my life I have never heard anyone ask that.

I'd be shocked if there weren't examples on this forum where people said they dont watch people from certain areas of the world on mfc cause they have no way to know those models aren't being trafficked.
 
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I'd be shocked if there weren't examples on this forum where people said they dont watch people from certain areas of the world on mfc cause they have no way to know those models aren't being trafficked.

I do this. I fully stay clear of some of the geographic locations (hiding them on my main page) because some of the rooms when I first started seemed obvious that they were trafficked girls. The twin size bed, frowning girl, and saying she'll use all five fingers for 10 tokens. Maybe they really do want to operate like that, but my guy feeling is that they are trafficked and it bums me out to see those rooms so I hid them. :/
 
The overwhelming majority of people are happy to watch free porn, i don't think you can put the genie back in the bottle with that

Rather than saying people need to change, which wont happen (pointless to ask), the industry needs to change

^ That has already happened I suppose, the shift to the popularity of cam sites being one example
 
This line from the article made me laugh out loud.


All my life I have never heard anyone ask that.
It's a question I ask all the time, and one if the most common ones I hear in my personal life surrounding pornography.

I think a lot of people do evaluate the ethics of the porn they consume, haven't you ever clicked on something but then though the girl looked a little too young, or something just felt "off" and you clicked out of it? I think most people who consider sex workers to be human beings, don't want to watch rape or coercion.
 
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