A quick question about porn

A quick question about porn

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Captain Muppet

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8,540 posts

265 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Hello,

How do you spot the ethically sourced porn that empowers it's subjects by valuing their abilities as people, and avoid the exploitative porn where people are doing things for money?

This is the result of a discussion/argument that I had earlier in which I was totally out of my depth, having not been a porn consumer since before broadband when downloading a picture took so long that you enjoyed having successfully got a computer to do something more than any actual image. I'm sure things have moved on considerably since then. I also failed to understand the ethical difference between prostitution and porn because it seems it's only legal if you film it, which can't be right.

Please bukkake this thread with your opinions, but not pictures. I want to keep it clean.

If you feel slightly degraded that I want you to perform this act of thinking for me on the internet just so I can enjoy it at home then please don't post. Only do my thinking for me if it will empower you and degrade me instead (unless there is a way this could empower everybody, in which case even better).

Puggit

48,426 posts

248 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Does it matter?

getmecoat

missingbadly999

348 posts

115 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Ford Cortina?

Galileo

3,145 posts

218 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Prostitution isn't illegal. Soliciting is illegal. So there is no great dillemma.

Sheets Tabuer

18,949 posts

215 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Captain Muppet said:
having not been a porn consumer since before broadband
Ok...

dingg

3,983 posts

219 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Captain Muppet said:
Hello,

How do you spot the ethically sourced porn that empowers it's subjects by valuing their abilities as people, and avoid the exploitative porn where people are doing things for money?
ask your wife?

Pixel Pusher

10,191 posts

159 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Captain Muppet said:
ethically sourced porn
Is this like Fair Trade Bananas?


The Nur

9,168 posts

185 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Pixel Pusher said:
Captain Muppet said:
ethically sourced porn
Is this like Fair Trade Bananas?
Except without a predetermined length and girth.

Sheets Tabuer

18,949 posts

215 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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The Nur said:
Pixel Pusher said:
Captain Muppet said:
ethically sourced porn
Is this like Fair Trade Bananas?
Except without a predetermined length and girth.
I always feel inadequate looking at my sainsbury bananas

10penceparalyzed

229 posts

124 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Have a look for Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars, its a follow up program from his first documentary on the adult industry back in 2001. you might find a few answers OP


Captain Muppet

Original Poster:

8,540 posts

265 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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dingg said:
Captain Muppet said:
Hello,

How do you spot the ethically sourced porn that empowers it's subjects by valuing their abilities as people, and avoid the exploitative porn where people are doing things for money?
ask your wife?
Not as useful a suggestion as it might have been - I only found out during my divorce that she couldn't spot an ethical conundrum if you wrapped it around a cheque for half a house and posted it to her.

Meteor Madness

403 posts

202 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Captain Muppet said:
Hello,

How do you spot the ethically sourced porn that empowers it's subjects by valuing their abilities as people, and avoid the exploitative porn where people are doing things for money?

This is the result of a discussion/argument that I had earlier in which I was totally out of my depth, having not been a porn consumer since before broadband when downloading a picture took so long that you enjoyed having successfully got a computer to do something more than any actual image. I'm sure things have moved on considerably since then. I also failed to understand the ethical difference between prostitution and porn because it seems it's only legal if you film it, which can't be right.

Please bukkake this thread with your opinions, but not pictures. I want to keep it clean.

If you feel slightly degraded that I want you to perform this act of thinking for me on the internet just so I can enjoy it at home then please don't post. Only do my thinking for me if it will empower you and degrade me instead (unless there is a way this could empower everybody, in which case even better).
When people do things for money it's exploitative ??
There isn't necessarily any ethical difference between prostitution and porn. People are being paid to do a job.
Likewise policemen, factory workers, doctors etc. The ethical part would come into play if they are being forced into it, or not being paid.

N Dentressangle

3,442 posts

222 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Captain Muppet said:
Hello,

How do you spot the ethically sourced porn that empowers it's subjects by valuing their abilities as people, and avoid the exploitative porn where people are doing things for money?
It's non genitally modified and 100% orgasmic.

otolith

56,026 posts

204 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Gaz. said:
Aren't most people in porn for the money? Those participating are seldom doing it for fame or because a normal job is boring.
Plenty of enthusiastic amateur exhibitionists as well, I suspect.

Captain Muppet

Original Poster:

8,540 posts

265 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Gaz. said:
Captain Muppet said:
Hello,

How do you spot the ethically sourced porn that empowers it's subjects by valuing their abilities as people, and avoid the exploitative porn where people are doing things for money?
Aren't most people in porn for the money? Those participating are seldom doing it for fame or because a normal job is boring.
I've been told some of them are being exploited, despite also being paid. Maybe they get paid a tiny amount compared of the eventual profits and this is somehow morally outrageous (in a way that is different to the checkout staff at Tesco never getting a cut of the profits). I'm not an expert, hence the thread.

Captain Muppet

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265 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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N Dentressangle said:
Captain Muppet said:
Hello,

How do you spot the ethically sourced porn that empowers it's subjects by valuing their abilities as people, and avoid the exploitative porn where people are doing things for money?
It's non genitally modified and 100% orgasmic.
rofl

Silent1

19,761 posts

235 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Iirc femenist porn is an attempt an making 'ethical' porn.

br d

8,396 posts

226 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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otolith said:
Plenty of enthusiastic amateur exhibitionists as well, I suspect.
I'm hearing a long pause after that comma!

dingg

3,983 posts

219 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Captain Muppet said:
dingg said:
Captain Muppet said:
Hello,

How do you spot the ethically sourced porn that empowers it's subjects by valuing their abilities as people, and avoid the exploitative porn where people are doing things for money?
ask your wife?
Not as useful a suggestion as it might have been - I only found out during my divorce that she couldn't spot an ethical conundrum if you wrapped it around a cheque for half a house and posted it to her.
biglaugh


excellent have a biglaugh

Captain Muppet

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265 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Galileo said:
Prostitution isn't illegal. Soliciting is illegal. So there is no great dillemma.
I was going to ask a stupid question about solicitors, then I googled.

So paying for sex is legal, but asking for consent to pay for sex is illegal? And paying for sex without consent is illegal, obviously.

I'm never not going to be confused about this.