Money is empowering. Being debt-free is empowering. Having a college education from Duke is empowering. Ideally, she'll be three for three. And I say good for her for turning something she enjoys into a money-making activity, which to me is literally the definition of fiscal intelligence. I don't know what else to say. Why's it sad? The stigma exists, so she can a) bow to it and leave porn, or b) make quite a bit of money. ... (She's wrong about regulation and I don't know why she needed to throw that point in.) EDIT: let's see if hubski falls for my repetition-as-a-rhetorical-device.The only way porn is empowering is if the act and associated stigma of taking money for being filmed performing sexual acts is empowering.
What's sad is that the author does not recognize that the money paying her college is due entirely to the stigma. The rest of the world has noticed that she does it for money which is now and shall always be a line in the sand.