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Pages tagged "porn industry"


Violence Against Women: Does Technology Harm or Hinder?

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · March 23, 2023 3:40 PM · 1 reaction

MTR delivers a virtual presentation at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York

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Money Shot's big lie: Meghan Murphy responds to Pornhub documentary

Posted on News by Collective Shout · March 20, 2023 11:20 AM · 1 reaction

A new Netflix documentary claims to look at trafficking on Pornhub but acts as industry propaganda instead

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CEASE report exposes reality of predatory online porn industry

Posted on News by Collective Shout · July 16, 2021 2:43 PM · 2 reactions
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Collective Shout responds to common defences of City Beach Playboy promotion

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · May 11, 2021 11:45 AM · 1 reaction
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There's no such thing as "ethical" porn

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · April 07, 2021 11:55 AM · 1 reaction

Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper was recently invited to participate in an online debate for a French media outlet on the question, Is there such a thing as ethical porn?

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“‘Get some Ron Into You”: Porn ‘star’ Ron Jeremy on multiple sexual assault charges - while Dan Murphy’s flogs his rum label

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · July 02, 2020 1:48 PM

“...long and elegant like the great man himself...sits perfectly naked...Get some Ron into you.”

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Even kids cartoon characters not off limits: Disney princesses featured on Pornhub

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · April 20, 2020 9:29 PM
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“No amount of money would make it worth it”: Former porn performer Mia Khalifa speaks out

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · August 22, 2019 10:32 AM

Former pornography performer Mia Khalifa has publicly shared her experience of the pornography industry. Khalifa performed in pornography over a three month period in 2014-2015, becoming Pornhub’s most highly ranked performer. Khalifa is known for filming a scene wearing a hijab.

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“A very vulnerable point in my life”

Khalifa described her entry to the porn industry in an interview with Megan Abbott posted to YouTube earlier this month. Khalifa, who was subjected to racial bullying and called fat as a child, had previously undergone a breast augmentation surgery after a substantial weight loss while attending college. She told Abbott that after her breast augmentation was the first time she had ever felt pretty.

Khalifa recounted first being approached when a car pulled over as she was walking down the street. She was asked to consider modelling and handed a business card. The company was a porn production company.

“I was handed a business card, thought about it for a few weeks, went in and was showered with compliments—felt validated for a whole twenty minutes—and I went back and shot a scene, and it was terrifying and temporarily validating, but afterwards I felt a little empty. Though I still had that pit in my stomach where I wanted to chase that validation again.

“I had never had male attention. I was pretty overweight—I lost about 50 pounds in college—and then after I moved to Miami I got a breast augmentation. So before my self-confidence kicked in, I didn’t know what I looked like and I didn’t know or value my self-worth, and instead I left it up to men to tell me what my self-worth was.

“But I think what made me go back and do it again was that the attention I was receiving, I was afraid it would go away if I didn’t do what I was asked to do.” Read more.

Professor of sociology and women’s studies Gail Dines has discussed the experiences of women and girls in a ‘porn culture’ and their need to be validated: “You’re either f*ckable or invisible...And so when young women who have an absolute developmental need to be ‘visible’ have to dress like that and then get slammed as sluts and are then told by some bizarre feminism that you’re empowered because that was your choice...this is like the mind-f*ck of the century because of what you’re having to deal with.”

Khalifa went on to dispel some more widely accepted myths about the pornography industry, and her time in it.

It did not make her rich

Khalifa reportedly made $1000 per scene. Porn production company Bang Bros and Pornhub received the most profit for her videos, and still do.

From the Washington Post:

“No amount of money would make it worth it.”

She said some women who enter the business are vulnerable and taken advantage of by industry producers, while others are looking for a big star turn. “I am not for women getting into the industry. I don’t think it’s an industry that should be respected,” she said.

Backdated money would not change that for her. If she could, Khalifa said, she would burn the industry to the ground, sending all of her videos along with it.

“The only thing I want is for people to stop seeing me naked,” she said.

Khalifa's experience is not uncommon, with many female performers leaving the industry after a matter of months and without having made big money. Just this week, news.com.au has published an article about another former porn performer, Jenni Lee, who is now homeless and living in tunnels under the Las Vegas strip.

She is not in control of her images now

The porn industry continues to profit from women even after they have left the industry, even after they are dead.

From the Washington Post:

Three of the top 10 actresses on the site now are either retired or inactive in the business, an industry veteran said, and have little recourse to claim compensation or remove their videos if they are shut out from the revenue.

“At end of day, whether it’s Kim Kardashian or Mia, they don’t have power to tell Pornhub to take content down,” said the veteran, who declined to provide a name because he still works in the industry.

She regrets her time in the industry

Speaking to Daily Beast, Khalifa said, “I’m still ashamed of it. It’s hard not to be when one decision you made when you were 21 years old entitles the whole world to see you naked, so of course I’m still ashamed of it, and of course I would go back and change things if I could.”

We applaud Khalifa's bravery in coming forward and sharing her story, despite the vitriol she has been subjected to. We wish her all the best in her future pursuits. Her voice matters. 

See also: 

What's the problem with porn? Responding to pro-porn arguments

Porn stars speak out

Violence against women in pornography is not a fantasy, it's a reality

The dark reason porn stars keep dying

 


"It's the parents' responsibility": Porn industry blames parents for children's exposure to hard core porn

Posted on News · February 01, 2018 4:03 PM

Three teenagers have a conversation about how online pornography has impacted on their lives in a new video from ABC. The seven-minute video explores the ways in which unrestricted access to pornography shapes young people’s sexuality, their intimate relationships and view of themselves and their bodies.

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In a digital age with unrestricted access to hard core pornography, children are being exposed at unprecedented rates and from younger ages. Children are viewing increasingly violent and degrading pornography, typically before they’ve experienced real life sexual encounters. Pornography has become the primary means of sex education for young people, but what does it teach?

“[Porn] is creating an expectation”

Kiki, 19, told ABC she had experienced pressure from male sexual partners to replicate sex acts they had seen in pornography:

“My boyfriend at the time would just nag me and nag me and nag me at the time to do anal. I ended up having to turn around and stop and say, ‘No, I’m not going to do that’ before he retreated… it’s not kind of like ‘Hey, I’m curious about this.’ It’s like, ‘You should do this, I want you to do this.’ They push and push and push.” 

Kiki’s sentiments have been expressed by many young women who have similarly described experiences of coercion and unwanted porn-inspired sex acts instigated by male partners. (Read more here).   

Porn industry blames parents for children’s exposure to porn

Throughout the short video, various spokespeople for the pornography industry shrugged off responsibility for the harms to children who were exposed to hard core pornography, arguing it was up to parents to monitor their child’s internet access.

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Ron Jeremy, one of the most famous male porn performers of all time, argued it was not the porn industry’s responsibility to depict healthy sexual relationships. Jeremy, who was a special guest at Sexpo, was last week barred from the industry’s own Adult Video News awards after multiple rape allegations. “Watch your goddamn kids,” he said.

But when the teens featured in the video were asked if they felt their parents could control everything they looked at on the internet, their response was a resounding no. “No, there’s no way you could. To a 13-year-old, parents say ‘No more internet’ so he takes his smartphone down to public wi-fi.”

It’s near impossible for parents to compete with the multi-billion-dollar global sex industry, one that aggressively markets and has successfully mainstreamed its product, and opposes any measures that may curtail its profits- such as age verification on pornographic websites.

Parents need to be educated, but at best, all we can really do is prepare our children for the inevitable.

 

 


The Sex Factor: Mainstreaming and normalising the abuse and exploitation of women

Posted on News by Collective Shout · July 24, 2014 12:00 PM · 1 reaction

The Sex Factor is a new reality TV program where contestants compete for the chance to become a porn star. It will be shown exclusively online.

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