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comment by insomniasexx

I think the only thing that would make it different is if she didn't write this article and state that "it's empowering." Like I said before, I like and watch porn. I don't typically think or have an opinion on the girls who perform in porn, until something like this occurs and I'm forced to examine the subject.

If she had wrote an article saying "I perform in porn and I go to Duke and I accept that I'm going to be called a whore for doing so" then I would have zero problem with her and probably think pretty highly of her. Instead she (I like KB's wording of it) did a bunch of "mental gymnastics" to try to prove to herself/the audience that she is an innocent person who is 100% certain in the choice she made, and that choice shouldn't be stigmatized.

Also, I would like to say that I do not look forward to the day where we don't look at porn starts any differently than any one else. That means that the stigma from sex as a private act has been removed and that a girl selling herself and her sex is just as normal as any other sex. If that happens, then the new "normal" sex will be so far removed from the sex I love to have today. It also means there won't be a market for pornography because part of what makes pornography, pornography is the taboo and stigma that comes with it.