Never have I been so grateful to the Continental Army...

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Nothing is always healthy, and I question any attempt to deem something unnatural. Such arguments inevitably lead to senseless moralizing.

Does a man who films himself masturbating degrade himself? How about male porn actors - do you assume that they do it because they don't have alternatives?

A large number of men and women like BDSM, as part of a healthy sex life - is that unnatural? Degrading? Tons of couples film their own porn... why are women assumed to be passive in that decision?

This is a classic second vs. third wave disagreement. Your assumptions are based on an understanding of women that is nearly obsolete. No offense, really, I just think that perhaps your opinions are informed by experiences that took place many moon's ago, and haven't really accounted for how things have changed. Many of the new generation of female pornstars do it because they want too, not because they need too.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

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No, you assume that because there is an exchange of money that there is no coercive factor at play. However, there are tens of thousands of years of conditioning at work in post division of labor gender relations. Like I said watch that documentary I mentioned. Those are not empowered self actualized people working in the porn industry, men or women. They are people, almost to a man, who are used and then thrown away like toilet paper. Your idea that there is a new thinking that wipes out even the merest possibility of negative effects resulting from the profusion sexually explicit material is simply an aspect of your own wish to escape sexual repression. As a result you mistakenly interpret any criticism of pornograpic material as an attack on your own sexuality. I personally don't care what you do, but when the birth rate of countries are affected by the widespread introduction of certain media you cannot say there is no objective effect from that media.

And I assume men perform in porn primarily for for sex, although there are economic factors they generally have more choices when it comes to low skill employment.

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