An article worth a quick read; a guy worked inside gonzo straight porn (as cameraman) and then inside the gay porn world, and compares his experiences:
http://www.alternet.org/sex/145574/why_i_had_to_stop_making_hardcore_porn/?page=entire
Excerpts:
What surprised me most though, was the fact that I found within myself a happy willingness to be violent, a willingness to degrade. Though my bosses may have ordered me to organize and record the scenes of degradation, I followed their orders, and not without pleasure. Something cowardly within me, an internal space, suffused with a weak kind of anger, felt satisfied when I saw a woman “take her punishment.” I clung to the sense of temporary empowerment I found through the bullying. Lust-colored aggression and the satisfaction of making “good money” guided me through scene after scene.
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But I’m saddened to think that the only path to the absence of hostility and anger in porn is to remove women from the equation. It doesn’t bode well, especially for a world in which men and women must continue to co-exist. In the first half of my porn-life, I lived inside of a world where it almost seemed like an entire gender was being denigrated, like that was the whole point—where very young women were choked and slapped and written-on with lipstick, simply for the crime, it seemed, of being a woman. You should have slept with me, seemed to be the unspoken message. Now see what I have to do to you.
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Your thoughts - on any of it??
My quickie thoughts - Yeah, I can't say I "get" the whole choking and slapping stuff. It usually makes me think the girl is accustomed to abuse in some way...
The lipstick scrawlings??? Well, I tend to evaluate those based on what is written. "Worthless whore" on her forehead strikes me differently than "hungry for cum", for example.... Yes, the 2nd one is still catering to male fantasies, but I hardly see it as implausible that a woman could like eating cum. Are tattoos necessarily degrading then, as well??
:dunno:
http://www.alternet.org/sex/145574/why_i_had_to_stop_making_hardcore_porn/?page=entire
Excerpts:
What surprised me most though, was the fact that I found within myself a happy willingness to be violent, a willingness to degrade. Though my bosses may have ordered me to organize and record the scenes of degradation, I followed their orders, and not without pleasure. Something cowardly within me, an internal space, suffused with a weak kind of anger, felt satisfied when I saw a woman “take her punishment.” I clung to the sense of temporary empowerment I found through the bullying. Lust-colored aggression and the satisfaction of making “good money” guided me through scene after scene.
....
But I’m saddened to think that the only path to the absence of hostility and anger in porn is to remove women from the equation. It doesn’t bode well, especially for a world in which men and women must continue to co-exist. In the first half of my porn-life, I lived inside of a world where it almost seemed like an entire gender was being denigrated, like that was the whole point—where very young women were choked and slapped and written-on with lipstick, simply for the crime, it seemed, of being a woman. You should have slept with me, seemed to be the unspoken message. Now see what I have to do to you.
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Your thoughts - on any of it??
My quickie thoughts - Yeah, I can't say I "get" the whole choking and slapping stuff. It usually makes me think the girl is accustomed to abuse in some way...
The lipstick scrawlings??? Well, I tend to evaluate those based on what is written. "Worthless whore" on her forehead strikes me differently than "hungry for cum", for example.... Yes, the 2nd one is still catering to male fantasies, but I hardly see it as implausible that a woman could like eating cum. Are tattoos necessarily degrading then, as well??
:dunno:
