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porn is misogynistic and exploitative of women.
You could have saved yourself a bunch of key strokes if you considered that before your dissertation on ethical porn.
>1. the answer to the Deen allegations is NOT to shut down
>porn production in the interest of protecting women. but
>instead the answer is to beef up safeguards on str8 porn sets
>to reduce the occurrence of the various batteries and assaults
>(sexual and otherwise) and to aid ppl who have been victimized
>so that they hopefully feel more comfortable reporting - if
>not to police then at least w/in the industry. btw, there ARE
>porn companies who are responding to the Deen allegations that
>way - including Kink, a studio that cut ties w/Deen in the
>wake of the allegations and has issued a statement w/this
>language in it:
>
>"Our performers deserve not only safe sets, but the ability to
>work without fear of assault. Rape or sexual assault, with or
>without a safe-word, off-set or on, should never be accepted
>as a hazard of adult production. While many of the allegations
>against Deen are new, the pattern is alarming. Over the coming
>weeks and months, we will review our Model Bill of Rights to
>strengthen rights of performers off-set, and work with the
>larger industry to help performers to have been assaulted to
>more easily come forward."
>
>(http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/kink-cuts-ties-james-deen/).
>
>2. here's an article w/info from porn actors about how to
>find and support 'ethical porn'. apparently it's not terribly
>difficult.
>
> http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/how-to-find-ethical-porn/
>
>Although I've been watching porn for as long as I've had
>relish on my hotdog (i.e., for most of my conscious life), I
>recently decided to go without it for an entire month to
>better understand how it affected my life on a day-to-day
>basis. As it turned out, the answer was “quite a lot”:
>After 30 days without erotic visual stimulation, I even found
>reruns of The Golden Girls arousing.
>
>But my 30-day abstention from porn also got me thinking about
>how porn is made. I began to ponder the ethical questions
>associated with filming sex for profit, and the psychological
>effects on both the performers and the viewers who watch them.
>And yet, I was still unable to permanently let go of my
>lifelong masturbatory crutch.
>
>From there, I wondered: What if there was another way to
>consume porn? What if, rather than restricting ourselves from
>all adult content, we could demand a higher level of quality
>from the industry? What if there was a way to seek out porn
>only made by enthusiastic performers under "healthy" working
>conditions, the same way we seek out organically raised,
>grass-fed steak, so we could wank guilt-free? Is there such a
>thing as ethical porn, and if so, how can we find it?
>
>I interviewed some of the most successful adult film
>performers to see if they had any tips.
>
>1) Stick with the Big Dogs
>
>To ensure the porn you're watching is of the highest quality,
>2014 AVN Performer of the Year Bonnie Rotten (NSFW) suggests
>that viewers stay loyal to the biggest brands in the biz.
>Producers and distributors like Evil Angel, Elegant Angel,
>Girlfriends Films, and Digital Playground employ only top-tier
>cast and crew, which means they usually shoot under the best
>working conditions.
>
>Rotten says that when she works with these high-end outfits,
>"If I'm uncomfortable with something, I can call 'cut.’ I
>can let the director know, 'Hey, man, I'm not down with
>this.'…. If you're comfortable with speaking up and not
>feeling like you're offending someone…as a performer, you do
>have the power."
>
>Of course, there are also plenty of insecure performers in the
>industry—some of whom may simply need money, or feel
>obligated to perform because of a personal relationship.
>Rotten told me a story she’d heard about a young woman on a
>shoot who had to be sent home because the directors felt she
>clearly looked uncomfortable on-camera: “They couldn’t
>shoot her because she was so awkward,” says Rotten.
>
>But big companies like Evil Angel and Digital Playground
>won’t waste any time hiring performers who don’t truly
>want to perform. As the biggest players in the game, they have
>a reputation to uphold:"They can't waste time and money on
>chicks are bad in videos,” says Rotten.
>
>For this reason, it’s best to steer clear of random scenes
>shot in hotel rooms by anonymous men with blurred faces. If
>you want to avoid watching “reluctant” performances, stick
>with movies from big-name distributors.
>
>2) Play Favorites
>
>Much like Rotten, veteran adult star and 2012 Penthouse Pet
>Chanel Preston (below) performed her first few scenes for some
>of the biggest names in the industry, so she's always had an
>exceptional amount of control over her career. Although she's
>always been prepared for her scenes, she knows that "agents
>are not always giving a lot of information
>about the company…. So walks in thinking
>she's doing a regular boy/girl scene, and she's doing really
>hardcore aggressive stuff that she might not be prepared
>for."
>
>But since some producers intentionally stage scenarios to look
>creepily forced—for instance, there’s the classic "This
>chick had no idea that this wasn't actually a 'modeling
>audition'” scenario—there's no way for a viewer to know
>what's really going on. Instead of guessing, Preston says that
>it's best to simply "know the girl” you’re watching on
>screen.
>
>"If you have a favorite performer, she's probably going to be
>on the Internet” with a professional website and a slew of
>YouTube interviews, Preston points out. "When people watch my
>YouTube videos, they can see that I really like what I do, I'm
>very confident, and was a choice I made. I wasn't
>coerced into this ."
>
>Industry veteran Dana DeArmond, who’s been in the porn
>industry for almost a decade, also suggests that viewers check
>out behind-the-scenes footage or supplementary content on
>subscription websites, which can offer more information about
>a performer. Kink.com, for example, features interviews with
>its performers before and after each scene, ensuring that all
>activities were consensual.
>
>To sum up: If you do just a little bit of research on a
>performer before watching them in a scene, you can learn more
>about their backstory, personality, and their reasons for
>joining the industry, so you can make sure they really want to
>be there before typing their name into your favorite tube
>site.
>
>3) Subscribe to your favorite performers’ websites (and pay
>for their porn)
>
>DeArmond also says that perhaps the best thing a viewer can do
>for his favorite porn star is to subscribe directly to their
>website, instead of watching their content on a tube site.
>Most stars today have their own subscription-only websites,
>which they use as a way to interact directly with fans. "I
>even go on webcam and people can talk to me personally,"
>explains DeArmond (below). If a girl has her own website
>(specifically, one that she runs herself), it’s a good sign
>that she’s in total control of her career.
>
>DeArmond also suggests that fans avoid checking out her work
>on “tube”-style free streaming sites like Pornhub and
>YouPorn, which have been decimating the adult industry for
>years. Because much of the content on sites like Pornhub is
>pirated, the performers featured in said content usually
>don’t get compensated. When you subscribe to an official
>site, however, you’re directly compensating producers and
>performers. And when you directly compensate the original
>producers, you’re preventing them from taking advantage of
>performers by paying them less for more extreme scenes.
>
>As DeArmond says of the tube sites, "Using illegal means to
>get is not supportive of the industry.
>It's not ethical."
>
>4) Bring It Home
>
>Of course, not everyone is into the glossy style of high-end,
>big-budget "mainstream" porn. If you’re not into porn with
>high-end production value, but you’d still like to go the
>ethical route, retired stud Ryan Knox, who has performed in
>over 150 adult titles, has another suggestion for you:
>Homemade porn.
>
>Knox suggests that talented female superstars like Rotten,
>Preston, and DeArmond might have a myopic perspective of the
>adult industry. "Some girls that are really hot and in
>demand…can probably say no to whatever want to on the
>set,” he says. Less experienced performers dealing with more
>aggressive directors, however, might not have that option.
>
>Knox believes that technically, the only way to be 100 percent
>certain that the porn you’re watching was shot consensually
>is to seek out homemade amateur films. "The quality is
>so low," he says, "but the sex is way hotter, because these
>people are comfortable with each other. They can go way beyond
>the limits that you might find in a regular porn when two
>people have just met each other." Sites like Cindy Gallop’s
>“real-world sex” website Make Love Not Porn and filmmaker
>Erika Lust’s XConfessions (NSFW) are good starting points.
>
>Knox says one of the best ways to ensure that the performers
>are in control physically and financially is to pay for
>"camgirl" shows, where women and couples use their own webcams
>to broadcast performances to subscribed users.That way, you
>can make sure the performer is directly receiving the revenue
>from her performance, free from any outside influence. (That
>said, some cam performers might not be working in such
>autonomous conditions, particularly those working for studios
>in developing countries.)
>
>As is the case in any industry, there are a handful of sleazy
>filmmakers who prey on inexperienced performers to produce
>content. But the majority of porn content is produced by
>responsible and capable performers and producers, under safe,
>professional, and consensual circumstances. There’s no
>reason to feel guilty about watching it, or to try and give it
>up.
>
>It’s been said that we men are visual creatures, which is
>why we’re primarily aroused by visual content. Our
>biological tendency toward prompt and efficient arousal can be
>tamed, but it’s not going anywhere—just like pornography
>itself. So just as adult performers have a responsibility to
>know in advance which co-stars they want to work with and
>which sex acts they are and aren’t willing to do, viewers
>also have a responsibility to support porn that’s safe,
>consensual, and ethically made.
>
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