[kj] Porn Star Sasha Grey fan of Killing Joke

[jo]

Shit, it's not what life should be about no matter what you're doing.





> And my job isn't funded by big business? Working for some of the biggest

> companies in the country and I guess I feel I'm a captive to it.

>

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> Subject: Re: [kj] Porn Star Sasha Grey fan of Killing Joke

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> Sex is just another job.

> I wonder how many relationships are underpinned by this attitude?

> You're right, it is a dealbreaker - generally speaking.  But bomb the

> nuclear family and productivity and the economy with suffer.

>

> Porn is funded by big business, it isn't freedom, it's captivity:-))))

>

>

>

>

>> Exploitation? Sounds like most jobs.

>>

>> I think the problem many have with porn is not that it's exploitation,

>> because a fuckload of jobs involve that. It's that sex is in the 

>> equation,

>

>> which is the real dealbreaker. It's a lingering Puritanical/Victorian

>> attitude that needs to go the way of the dinosaur, although no one is

>> going to admit that's why they are against it, I'm sure.

>>

>> As I said, some porn can be sexist, but the genre as a whole is not

>> inherently sexist. I'm sure there is a lot of exploitation involved, but

>> that may be the case with the clothes you wear or the food you eat. I

>> think it's the sex part that bothers people. Someone at a Jenna Jameson

>> level of stardom, or even at the Sasha Grey level, is not being 

>> exploited.

>

>> They know what they are doing, I am sure, and may even see the men who 

>> buy

>

>> their stuff as the suckers.

>>

>> -Oliver

>>

>>

>>

>> jo wrote:

>>> With respect, there is a downside.  Many, many people are exploited by

>>> the sex industry - not including those who are against their will.

>>

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