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    I have no idea what your point was, so I gave it a pass.

Clearly. Which is why you're still arguing. Here, let me break it down further:

There is no inherent skill involved in shoving a coke bottle up your ass. Note that this is a hypothetical - I have no idea what this girl did; it doesn't matter. The fact remains, she was remunerated for doing something that does not take any particular knack, that does not take any training, that does not take any experience. The sole basis of her compensation is the violation of taboo.

Consider that: there used to be taboo associated with being a lingerie model. There is no longer. We are now comfortable with women who pose in their underwear for money - after all, beauty pageants have had swimsuit competitions for decades. In order to be a lingerie model, however, one must look like a lingerie model. Lingerie models that pose nude are compensated far more than lingerie models that don't pose nude... but they also lose their appeal in lingerie shoots. Again, it's a taboo. Halle Berry was paid a million per breast to be topless in Swordfish - not because she has a tremendous rack, but because she was violating a taboo.

There remains a powerful taboo associated with shoving a coke bottle up your ass for money (for example). Pay is commensurate with risk and impact - this is, after all, a rational marketplace. So this girl, who has not chosen (to the best of our knowledge) to avail herself of any stigma-free achievements, is paying for college by risking stigma.

And now she's bitching about gambling and losing.

    I think it's less a case of being known as the chick who does porn and more a case of tons of people are being extremely hateful, rude and creepy to her as a result.

...this is a woman who took money in order to appear in "rough porn." "Rough porn" is a case study in "hateful, rude and creepy" scenarios. She's empowered by being abused on camera. Her fans, meanwhile, are empowered by continuing the fantasy. Note that we're still in the realm of verbal abuse here - the difference is she's not being compensated for the forums. The thing that amazes me is she's pretending to be surprised.

    She stated that she enjoys porn. She may not enjoy being judged for no reason and getting called a slut/cunt/etc by people she's never met on the internet. I wouldn't either.

Again - you're willfully dismissing the reality that her compensation is directly commensurate with the risk of this very scenario playing out. If Mommy and Daddy and House Mother and Boyfriend and Pastor were cool with you shoving a coke bottle up your ass for money, you'd get a lot less money for it. She gambled that she could have her cake and eat it too. She lost the wager. If there's less of a wager, there's less money on the table. Again, it's a rational marketplace.

By the way, speaking of cognitive dissonance:

    I hope we are gradually moving toward a culture where that doesn't matter

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    Per hour I bet she does pretty damn well

Are statements at cross-purposes. 20 years ago she probably could have paid her way with straight porn. I did some installs in that world once, long ago - I was in Seth Warshavsky's circles. Nowadays I watch the Vivid Entertainment building being converted floor-by-floor to mixed office space. The money's gone. Porn is not a growth industry. Taking your clothes off for money used to involve "lots of money" whereas now, it involves upvotes. When cameras become ubiquitous, so do naughty bits and the only way to get a real paycheck out of it is to get graphic.

Here's the rates for pornography among in-demand performers.

Here's SAG-AFTRA minimums for television.

Take a look at that - you get about as much for a girl-on-girl scene (at the top of your game) as you get for uttering one line in a Movie of the Week. The SAG chick, by the way, gets residuals and a pension. And we're not talking about that shit you find on Redtube. This is top-of-their-game porn convention headliners.

    If there was a social stigma on paying for college by being an athlete would we blame the athlete? Please elucidate.

Yes, we would. That's the nature of stigma. Friend of mine paid for college by working in a morgue. Why? It made more money than working in a dentist's office. Why? Because it was a morgue.

    It seems to me you're using anecdotes and non sequitur examples to cloud the issue, which from you hubski tends to eat up.

That's an insult. You're saying I don't have to be right because I'm me. But once more, just for you -

Porn pays based on stigma. Take away the stigma, take away the pay. This is a woman bitching about the stigma while bragging about the pay.

That wasn't so hard, was it?

Certainly wasn't worth getting ad hominem about.