Argh! I'm watching this documentary right now! I'm only 15 minutes in and I already want to kill everything. I can't remember where I saw the rec', but it was a woman in the industry and she said that this doc was "eye-opening" and making her reconsider a lot of things. I thought it was going to give some insight from the POV of the people who WORK in this industry, but no. So far, all I've gotten are thinly veiled judgements ("sex was once shameful, but now it's normalized and mainstream!" "There was this guy that made a really disgusting porno and he also directed videos for your favorite popstars!"), random college students bellyaching about how sexuality makes them uncomfortable, and false correlations. I actually had to pause the movie and suppress a scream of rage at this guy having the gall to suggest that women turn to working in porn because they're paid less in the vanilla world and don't have any other shot at being wealthy.Dear lord above...
Has anyone else watched this movie? If you have an opinion that's contrary to mine (especially since I haven't finished it yet), please share. If you have a similar one, also share.
ETA: Finished it. Didn't tell me anything I didn't already know (male sexual psychology primarily leans towards them being in power in a very aggressive and violent manner and YES this can be a problem when it comes to those men forming these preferences yet being with women who aren't into that). There was one former adult performer that they interviewed and she was bitter about having been a cam girl as a "last resort" in college because retail didn't pay enough. But yep. Just more outsiders wanting to get soundbites from producers and talking to people who have an issues with what they find arousing. :/ This documentary was all over the place. They touched on the subject of porn being used in grooming for child abuse and posted a small clip from a therapy meetings and then...moved on to something else. Not sure what they were trying to say except "pornography is bad, mmmkay?"
(just looked it up some more. was made in 2008 which may explain why almost 4 years after the fact, I'm not miffed?)





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