To wonder why any woman would work as a 'pornstar'....

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...unless it was the only way
a) to make ends meet and put food on the table and secure a roof over their family's head, or
b) to pay for an expensive drug habit....

Surely it's not just prostitution in private (which is bad enough), but prostitution broadcast to the world! I just can't imagine why anyone would do it as a lifestyle choice?

On the one hand, women go into the industry because they love having sex so much. But on the other hand, it's just acting...? Except that it's not acting at all. Unless the 'enjoyment' aspect of it is all acted.

I don't know why people are arguing that some women love rough sex - of course they do.

Porn would have you believe that all women only love rough/painful/degrading/violent sex, though. And that women's only pleasure comes through giving pleasure to men, and being on the receiving end of painful, violent, etc. acts that they have little-to-no control over.

How is that any more of an accurate a depiction of real life sex?

But, Dowager, not all porn is like that.

I know it's not, but it's certainly the vast majority of accessible, easy hit, main-stream porn.

A teenage boy would be forgiven for thinking it's the norm. He wouldn't exactly be stumbling across (paid for) ethical porn.

Maybe they like it?

Mostly for money, some are for fame.

wearetheothers or they like the image or idea.
I think it might have been true in the 70's and 80's. It probably was more fun then, less extreme and less competition. The world of porn is a closed world, no one who doesn't work in it for any length of time can really know what goes on, but there just seem to be too many bad reports filtering through now to be dismissed so casually.

Im only commenting on women who choose to do it...
If anything i would rather be an escort because then you are discreet but i suppose with porn its guaranteed work, maybe they like the fame or something?
I don't judge women in the sex industry anyway because we all know 'normal' women can be way worse with their sexual partners and do some nasty ish.

Just to add as well I knew a porn star, she was the girlfriend of one of my lesbian friends. She use to do men on camera. She was put into via her mum and dad who had a porn company, Her mum was a porn star and her dad i think was just a worker off screen and they set up a company and anyway thats how she got into it.
She was also an escort and porn made her get paid more because famous porn stars get more money then regular escorts.
She was also a heroin addict and would often lock herself away for days just getting high but she did not in anyway look like one, she was stunning.
Her story is truly tragic tbh. My lesbian friend left her in the end because she couldnt take the drama.

For women working in the porn industry in the 70s, it was really great fun. Just ask the most famous porn actress of the time, Linda Lovelace.

helmet Linda Lovelace is dead. Other women did seem to find it fun. Obviously not everyone has the same experiences.

"When you see the movie 'Deep Throat,'" she told the Toronto Sun in 1981, "you are watching me being raped. It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time."

RIP Linda

I remember that from uni anyfucker. Did a dissertation in which she featured. Writing it made me feel ill and marked the end of my youth.

Yeah, it would do that

I worked for 5 years as my sole job. Both as an escort and then in massage parlours when I got fed up of the late nights. I literally worked for most establishments in my city so I think my experience is quite extensive bar street work. My point was not to say that sex work is all glamour/not dangerous/exploitative etc - just that all sex workers are not the same. That is it.