We are so judgmental. I’m watching a program called “The Outsiders”. They are profiling a woman who is in the porn industry. They previewed her segment by saying that she used to be a “Sunday school teacher” and she was “college educated”. Then they asked how a woman like her could become a “cigarette smoking porn star”. There was an obvious, and not so subtle, message there. What is good and what is bad. Sunday school teacher = good. Porn star = bad. College educated = good. Smoker = bad. How much more judgmental can we be? I mean, porn is hugely popular – someone has to do that work. It’s not just created out of thin air. So why are the women who perform in porn the only ones who are criticized? What about the men who work in porn? What about the men (and women) who pay for porn? Where are the programs profiling men who purchase hundreds of porn movies a year? Where are the judgmental tv shows about them?
Maybe we just freak out when we realize that these women who perform in porn are actual humans, and not just some personality-less plastic dolls we project our desires onto. Then we think about being in their position and our Puritan heritage comes out, and we label them as “bad”.
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