When I was younger (like teens early 20's), there were only a few dozen "porn stars" that I was aware of (probably like a dozen I knew the names of). I'm sure there were probably more, and I wasn't keeping research level notes by any stretch, but it wasn't like there were hundreds of thousands like there are today. I'm not a porn consumer personally, but a person would have to be living under a rock to not recognize the porn industry for what it is. It's huge. Which brings me to my point...
Back during those days of my youth, my perception of porn was that it was this really seedy and nasty business filled with hookers and dirty old men wearing trench coats going into 'XXX' theaters. Porn was never an acceptable lifestyle, at least from my perspective. Whenever you got a glimpse into the background of a porn actor/actress you always found a long trail of broken families, abuse, crime and just general deviance from societal norms. Today, with the advent of social media sites like Only Fans, Tinder, webcam girls and many others too numerous to list, it seems like the porn industry has grown into an actual 'career path'. I don't think a day goes by where there isn't some article in the MSM about some person who quit their 9 to 5 job and "Now makes hundreds of thousands on Only Fans".
The other day, after all the hub-bub over the Trump tariffs on Canada, and Canada threatening to cut off the US from Porn-hub (which they'd never do), I decided to go out onto the website just to look around. I was shocked to see there are something like 271,000 +/- different 'models' or performers on that website, and that's just one website. Plus, there are thousands of other websites just like porn-hub which will include even more (sure, there's probably a lot of overlap, but still...that's a lot!)
And this doesn't even take into account the millions of other 'soft core' porn "Entrepreneurs" and "Influencers" out there on social media like Tik-Tok, Instagram, Patreon, Fail-Book and countless others. Anymore, it seems like porn is an acceptable lifestyle in society. It seems like there is this mentality of..."Well, I don't want to go to work in a normal job, so I could always go get a job on Only Fans (or porn))."
I can't imagine, as a parent, having a child, especially a daughter, who had this mentality. I mean, I'd probably have a pretty strong negative opinion to a child of mine even suggesting that they could make a living on YouTube (making videos about benign subjects like Underwater Basket Weaving for the Blind). For spare money, fine, but as an actual career? No way!
Am I off base with this thinking? Like the..."Get off my lawn!!"...kind of, off base? Am I out of touch? And/or, have I misinterpreted what is going on in society today?
Back during those days of my youth, my perception of porn was that it was this really seedy and nasty business filled with hookers and dirty old men wearing trench coats going into 'XXX' theaters. Porn was never an acceptable lifestyle, at least from my perspective. Whenever you got a glimpse into the background of a porn actor/actress you always found a long trail of broken families, abuse, crime and just general deviance from societal norms. Today, with the advent of social media sites like Only Fans, Tinder, webcam girls and many others too numerous to list, it seems like the porn industry has grown into an actual 'career path'. I don't think a day goes by where there isn't some article in the MSM about some person who quit their 9 to 5 job and "Now makes hundreds of thousands on Only Fans".
The other day, after all the hub-bub over the Trump tariffs on Canada, and Canada threatening to cut off the US from Porn-hub (which they'd never do), I decided to go out onto the website just to look around. I was shocked to see there are something like 271,000 +/- different 'models' or performers on that website, and that's just one website. Plus, there are thousands of other websites just like porn-hub which will include even more (sure, there's probably a lot of overlap, but still...that's a lot!)
And this doesn't even take into account the millions of other 'soft core' porn "Entrepreneurs" and "Influencers" out there on social media like Tik-Tok, Instagram, Patreon, Fail-Book and countless others. Anymore, it seems like porn is an acceptable lifestyle in society. It seems like there is this mentality of..."Well, I don't want to go to work in a normal job, so I could always go get a job on Only Fans (or porn))."
I can't imagine, as a parent, having a child, especially a daughter, who had this mentality. I mean, I'd probably have a pretty strong negative opinion to a child of mine even suggesting that they could make a living on YouTube (making videos about benign subjects like Underwater Basket Weaving for the Blind). For spare money, fine, but as an actual career? No way!
Am I off base with this thinking? Like the..."Get off my lawn!!"...kind of, off base? Am I out of touch? And/or, have I misinterpreted what is going on in society today?
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