We don’t think you’re a whore, we think you’re at best unaware and at worst careless of the consequences/implications/reality of porn. Like I don’t hate female porn attresses, prostituted women, onlyfans girls, strippers or any other women in the sex industry. I care about their safety, wellbeing and health. And I truly believe that the sex industry is harmful to all of the above and as such I oppose the INDUSTRY. I do not despise or oppose individual women within it. Even the more privileged among them, who tout porn as empowering and liberating, I feel are usually just misinformed and brainwashed. I just feel so sad that women are taught our bodies are a commodity, that objectified and dehumanized is our default view of women.
I think those women deserve better. I don’t think they’re dirty/wh*res/damaged goods or any other misogynistic garbage. I don’t tie women’s worth to their bodies or how they exercise their sexuality.
I am concerned with the objective consequences of the sex industry. I’m concerned about how many women who are “sex workers”(read prostituted women) are kept reliant on drugs by their pimps and having the money they make taken from them to keep them from getting out, how many of them started being sex trafficked as children and don’t know any other way, how many of them wouldn’t be able to eat without allowing repulsive depraved men to rape them for money. I’m concerned with the fact that behind the scenes of much mainstream porn is girls who had no other choice, who were sexually abused in childhood and never got the help they needed and instead were told their reckless/dangerous hypersexual behavior made them a great fit for porn, who were coerced at a young age and now feel they can’t do anything else. I’m concerned about how much of mainstream porn has been found and proven to be recorded rape, revenge porn, child sexual abuse material and coerced participation.
I’m concerned with the consequences of porn consumption, how men who consume porn are shown to view women as less competent, how men who consumed porn were more likely to SELF-REPORT they would rape a woman if they knew they wouldn’t get in any trouble for it. How men who consume porn begin to consume more and more extreme and violent content(which is real! Real women are being choked, beaten, gagged, punched, and being made to vomit, bleed and cry in this porn) and develop paraphilias they otherwise wouldn’t through porn consumption. How in time they will want to act these things out. This is my concern! I’m not concerned with sexual prudence or your chastity, get fucking real! This is terrifying and it’s really happening.
The fact that opposing this is viewed as extreme is what’s insane. It’s legitimately dystopian that all of the shit happening in porn no one bats a lash at and criticizing it gets you called a prude/sexually repressed/misogynistic. What’s more misogynistic, the trafficking and abuse of women for male entertainment or criticism of said traffickers and abusers? Somehow this is a real question and people are saying the latter! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills ffs!
I’ve actually sat down and listened to previous porn actresses and they can’t say enough how often they were made to do things they didn’t agree to, how much substance abuse was involved, how they needed to be under the influence to even perform. I actually know women who have been prostituted. I know how they got there and I fucking guarantee you they don’t feel “empowered and liberated” I’ve heard from their own mouths that they feel trapped, scared and helpless.
TLDR: most of us don’t think of you as a “wh*re” (though the men consuming the porn probably do). We are genuinely and rightfully upset, horrified, and concerned about the abuses, coercion and outright violence that occurs in the industry. As well as the effects porn has on the minds and behaviors of the men consuming it.