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user-inactivated  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm the Duke University Freshman Porn Star and for the First Time I'm Telling the Story in my Words

    Anyone who thinks that being fisted and called a bitch is empowering has gone through some mental gymnastics to get there.

Yeah. Cognitive dissonance, as you said. But are you creating a gradient? So it's more empowering to do softcore than bondage? Because assuming the money's not terribly nonequivalent, I don't know if I can agree with that. In both cases it's a case of a woman putting herself through college, beating the education system at its own game, by using her body, which is hers to use. One is seen as "insulting" and the other isn't. Why? Because of leftover Puritan morals about sex. If she truly enjoys bondage or whatever, then the bottom line is she's making bank doing something she likes.

Now, if she's lying to herself about what she enjoys and doesn't fully understand the consequences of her actions (and she's 18 so who knows), then there might be a problem. That I'm less sure about.