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Well, the life of a porn "star" doesn't seem to be all that. You hear performers say they do it because "it's fun" and stuff, but I think it's just shit they say to themselves to make themselves feel better. I think most people in that business hate it. As well they should. And I think the famous ones have to always be "on" and acting that they like their "fans" when frankly, I doubt they do. Also strikes me odd that there is so much porn out there, I mean, ya, it's sex... but do we really need the millions of videos and "actors" out there?
Finally, the 6+ women in porn can probably find a guy to provide for them, but frankly, have likely have feelings of zero self worth and can't couple with a "normal" guy. As another poster noted, they get "married" to other performers or directors - I can't help but think the success rate of these marriages are like < 5%.
As for this August person who died way too young; very sad. My prejudices suggest absence of family support, depressing workplace, low-self esteem, and nobody around her to give her good advice all contributed in addition to "bullying" which shouldn't have happened.
I'd imagine by far the biggest issue though is societies view of them and honestly besides the US being pretty puritanical still I think a lot of that view is actually driven by peoples own fetishes, a lot of porn viewers seem to need to believe the women involved are "damaged goods" to get turned on by it.
As far as the abuse goes I do think theres definitely an unhealthy culture of scapegoating on the net that I think is a symptom of a wider problem with PC politics. I mean I'm very much at the liberal end myself but I just feel so much of the fight against various "isms" has been co optered by cynical politicans/media who are actually econiomically right wing, Hilary being the ultimate representation. PC politics have become a mask for these people/groups but they won't back it up with serious shifts in the economy that might help the disadvantaged(which would cost them too much of their wealth) so instead the movements become focused on attacking scapegoats.
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