Pornography Is Not a Major Industry (via Opposing Viewpoints)
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Susannah Breslin (They Shoot Pornstars Don’t They)
- argues pornography has never been the $10 billion industry claimed, likely $1-$2 billion eaten up by piracy, amateurs, small players producing a little content
- porn business is like no other
- nobody knows how much americans spend on porn
- federal obscenity indictments imposed by bus administration chilled porn valley
- performers do not use condoms, tested for hiv every 30 days. some fake tests. every few years a performer is positive.
cause & effect: sex industry -- burton broadcast
http://burtonbroadcast.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/cause-effect-sex-industry/
- abused teens escape home
- no self respect
- pimp for protection like an abusive husband (security, comfort)
- effects on women: drug usage, mental instability, death
- drug usage occurs after entering into prostitution
- dilute the mind with narcotics
- alter ego + stigma results in ptsd, depression, schizophrenia
FROM COMMENTS…
- laws against brothers prevent women from working together/forming a network
- laws force prostitutes into unfamiliar territory
- drug-taking survival streetworkers do so to fund their habit (formed before working)
- survial street sex workers represent 1/5 workers
- visibility + vulnerability of street workers results in violence
- violence to street workers correlates with homelessness, inability access drug treatment, servicing in cars or public spaces, prior assault by police, displacement
- half factors correlating with increased violence are caused by police intervention
- 70% in study experienced no violence in 18 months despite having several clients a day
- among the 30% the violence most reported was verbal
- majority of sex workers as addicted = myth
- most workers consider themselves to be exploiting rather than exploited, taking advantage of people’s loneliness, expecting them to pay more than they could reasonably afford.
Is swinging (not) part of the sex industry?
Laura Agustin (Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex.
http://sexgenderbody.com/content/swinging-not-part-sex-industry#ixzz3DGHk3aom
- people assume swinging / polyamory has nothing to do with sex work despite visitation of sex clubs / swinging parties
- what is the differentiating factor of commercial sex vs non commercial sex
No, Virginia, This is not a study of The Underground Commercial Sex Economy
(laura agustin)
http://www.lauraagustin.com/no-virginia-this-is-not-a-study-of-the-underground-commercial-sex-economy
- research piece funded by US National Institute of Justice - Estimating the Size + Structure of the Underground Commercial Sex Economy in Eight Major US Cities
- research relied on interviews with pimps, traffickers, sex workers, child pornographers, police
- findings reported: Pimps claimed inaccuracy in media portrayals. Pimps manipulate women into sex work. Women, family, and friends facilitate entry into sex work. Unexpected parties benefit from the commercial sex economy. The Internet is changing the limitations of the trade. Child pornography is escalating. The underground sex economy is perceived as low risk.
- not a study about sex workers -- an attempt to view particular sex economies through a lens offered by convicted pimps. designed to assure bias.
- pimps that were interviewed were incarcerated, black men highest population of prisons, perpetuates the idea that black men pimp white women
- why did the researchers accept prisoner’s stories as fact?
- researchers were funded by crime orientated agency to confirm everything the IS government already does
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Susannah Breslin (They Shoot Pornstars Don’t They)
- argues pornography has never been the $10 billion industry claimed, likely $1-$2 billion eaten up by piracy, amateurs, small players producing a little content
- porn business is like no other
- nobody knows how much americans spend on porn
- federal obscenity indictments imposed by bus administration chilled porn valley
- performers do not use condoms, tested for hiv every 30 days. some fake tests. every few years a performer is positive.
cause & effect: sex industry -- burton broadcast
http://burtonbroadcast.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/cause-effect-sex-industry/
- abused teens escape home
- no self respect
- pimp for protection like an abusive husband (security, comfort)
- effects on women: drug usage, mental instability, death
- drug usage occurs after entering into prostitution
- dilute the mind with narcotics
- alter ego + stigma results in ptsd, depression, schizophrenia
FROM COMMENTS…
- laws against brothers prevent women from working together/forming a network
- laws force prostitutes into unfamiliar territory
- drug-taking survival streetworkers do so to fund their habit (formed before working)
- survial street sex workers represent 1/5 workers
- visibility + vulnerability of street workers results in violence
- violence to street workers correlates with homelessness, inability access drug treatment, servicing in cars or public spaces, prior assault by police, displacement
- half factors correlating with increased violence are caused by police intervention
- 70% in study experienced no violence in 18 months despite having several clients a day
- among the 30% the violence most reported was verbal
- majority of sex workers as addicted = myth
- most workers consider themselves to be exploiting rather than exploited, taking advantage of people’s loneliness, expecting them to pay more than they could reasonably afford.
Is swinging (not) part of the sex industry?
Laura Agustin (Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex.
http://sexgenderbody.com/content/swinging-not-part-sex-industry#ixzz3DGHk3aom
- people assume swinging / polyamory has nothing to do with sex work despite visitation of sex clubs / swinging parties
- what is the differentiating factor of commercial sex vs non commercial sex
No, Virginia, This is not a study of The Underground Commercial Sex Economy
(laura agustin)
http://www.lauraagustin.com/no-virginia-this-is-not-a-study-of-the-underground-commercial-sex-economy
- research piece funded by US National Institute of Justice - Estimating the Size + Structure of the Underground Commercial Sex Economy in Eight Major US Cities
- research relied on interviews with pimps, traffickers, sex workers, child pornographers, police
- findings reported: Pimps claimed inaccuracy in media portrayals. Pimps manipulate women into sex work. Women, family, and friends facilitate entry into sex work. Unexpected parties benefit from the commercial sex economy. The Internet is changing the limitations of the trade. Child pornography is escalating. The underground sex economy is perceived as low risk.
- not a study about sex workers -- an attempt to view particular sex economies through a lens offered by convicted pimps. designed to assure bias.
- pimps that were interviewed were incarcerated, black men highest population of prisons, perpetuates the idea that black men pimp white women
- why did the researchers accept prisoner’s stories as fact?
- researchers were funded by crime orientated agency to confirm everything the IS government already does
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