Over recent years, some have prompted me to think about and to write about the pornographic industry that is displayed online at various sites.

Firstly, pornography is a business that is a global exhibition. From videos that I’ve seen, young ladies and men are clearly enjoying themselves. It has been said, “find a line of work that you enjoy, and you’ll never consider it work”. Meaning, that your fun in the task will make it feel like you aren’t laboring. While there is a job like that, in all kinds of profession, for each of us when it is found, arguably there is no job more pleasurable than pornography.

From my experience, actors who take direction find exhibition in motion-picture, theater, radio, stage, TV, Internet. Some professions have inherent danger. In the case of acting, as an actor or actress ages it may be more difficult to find a role (and income). That is a fact of life, which can be a bitter experience and reality when no one wants to watch your content anymore. Who is to blame? The consumer? The ticket-buyer? The audience? Let’s take a deep-dive look and see if we can better answer that question, before jumping to rash conclusion.

Let’s focus on ratings. In all performance-art (and yes, pornography is a performance-art), ratings boost frequency of appearance. As you watch your favorite TV show, the network is finding out how often you tune in, what you like, and if it’s worth their financial interest (time and effort too) to continue showing it to you. For anyone who’s used the Internet, you know that adds are often tailored to your preferences and tastes. Marketers collect data, without your being able to prevent that, and they compile analytics. ‘Google Inc.’ (a.k.a. ‘Alphabet’) tracks as much data as is possible, trying perpetually to collect ever more. For anyone who’s ever looked at a free-content or paid-content pornographic video online, the videos that you select to watch automatically promote a porn “star”. It’s done as you watch. Clearly, anyone who is attractive to more people will get more views. You, probably like me, don’t select ugly, or disgusting things to view. Yet, there are some people who have odd taste. I’ll comment on their taste, later in this post.

Porn stars, like anyone, need love; and porn stars, like anyone, might choose the profession with a degree of naivete – having been seduced by the opportunity to have sex and or to find a mate. Leaving a life of isolation or loneliness, not being asked out on dates, or suffering from psychological problems, might feed the desire to have sex and to fornicate. They’re perfectly willing to have such exciting activity, even without pay. And, still more of them, are exhibitionist. So eager to please. So, who is at fault, when the work no longer is fun? When they’re in “too deep” – pardon me for making the pun. Is it the video-makers’? The photographers’? The casting-agents’? The audiences’? Or, yours?

Critics often blame “an overtly-sexual culture” in which everyone is so damn horny and is conditioned at a young age. There’s truth to that. As indicated before, it is often marginalized people who are attracted to the industry and line of work. Lack of real friendship, genuine social interactions, and acceptance from peers, cause more to go into it. They need someone to interact with.

Leaving criminal, foreign-sourced, sex-traffickers out of this particular post’s point in emphasis, there are enough domestic-youth who go into the business by their own choosing. Now, to those young men and women (or old ones), some of you may have come from broken-homes which are very often a result of the diminished respect for fathers, by society. The feminist-movement of past decades has largely failed the young today, in portraying a father’s role as that of a stooge, an idiot, a sexist, and useless member, who has no real function in the family decisions anymore. Some women have less ability, than their husbands would if permitted, to safeguard their own children in the way that a man normally would. And, some men, have embraced the sexual portrayals of their own daughters, encouraging it and putting them to “market”. What young man would not be interested, at least even mildly so?

Does this mean that young women are evil for seducing young men? It does need to be said that men would not do anything much in life, by way of starting a family, were it not for motivation to earn money and perform tasks, in exchange for sex, fulfillment, marriage, and role of fatherhood. You cannot separate those elements from manhood, in any order, and somehow expect success as a functional society.

Normally, women attract a man, and choose a man, using their own sexual ability and attractiveness. A man, looks at it, and chooses what he likes. Contrary to public opinion, men do not engage in sex with just any woman who is ready to receive it.

So, back to analytics, on Internet, exhibition of video leads to promotion of particular sex-actors/actresses. While the ignorant might claim these videos to categorically be “fiction”, they are actually “non-fiction”. It’s also not simulation, it’s reality… engaged in by consenting adults who must accept the good and the bad of their choice.

As in any business, as soon as money is to be made from product, one has to be very careful in knowing whether one is getting one’s deserved pay. Getting out of any line of work, can be difficult. Especially, if you are good at what you do. For example, in one’s careers, it is very common for changing jobs. That, is because inherent to human learning, with each day we learn new things. Learning new things, tells us that there might be something else that needs doing, which we might be capable of. I heard once, that “Currently, most Americans in metropolitan areas only a keep their job for about 2 years on average”. Is that true? If so, that statistic suggests that my point is valid. Many people switch jobs for higher salary. Many leave jobs because they no longer wish to do that particular job. Both are valid reasons. In the Arts, it is very common for people to labor without pay.

In pornography, excluding the factor of getting too old for the job, or, the factor of over-exposure, it is not uncommon for a sex-actor to feel trapped. After the euphoria, they may find themselves in increasingly uncomfortable situations. For example, the guys (or gals) get uglier in their viewpoint, and yet they are still perhaps required to “perform” with them despite. They then might find that getting out of the line of work is difficult, impossible, or even life-threatening. That could be due to an evil producer, who does not let that actor leave. Before they know it, they are in a forced-labor situation. Who is to blame? Well, if it come to that, the sex-actor might need outside help in their labor dispute. Everyone has the right to quit a job and to leave, without any threat to their safety. If they cannot get out, then they are a victim of a mob. America has traditionally prided itself on proclaiming that “no one in America is a slave”. But, is that true? I think not. So, friends, please be sympathetic to any slave. If one should come to you asking for help, tell them to get pro-bono legal assistance, professional psychiatry if necessary, Church assistance, and/or help them to testify to police about stalking in their workplace if there’s actuality of it. No one should fear for one’s safety, when a workplace environment gets hostile, too compromising, or abusive. Regardless, as to whether one is a sex actor or in any other profession. As we know, bullying, and “mobbing”, happens in every sector of business.

While some of you might find sexual degradation, evil imagery, and disgusting acts, a source of pleasure, I do not. In cases of that kind of exhibition, I have to wonder just how it can be that a sex-actor would agree to engage in such a filming. And, I question the sanity of such producers. For producers who create that kind of content which crosses the line, their production company should be held accountable and put out of business. Every production company must adhere to human-rights laws and labor-laws. They should promptly remove such content from distribution if it meets description as I’ve just described.

As for cross-border trafficking, bringing vulnerable youth into our country and exploiting them in slavery? That is something which our government MUST categorically prohibit. For all “open-border” advocates, think about how you are assisting criminal gangs with their gun-running, people-smuggling, drug smuggling, crimes, and even murders. That’s different, from a law-abiding, human rights respecting, pornographic-content production company, employing willing participants of age, using content standards. I also caution any company that hires illegal immigrants. Please, subscribers, advocate for adherence to our immigration laws. All of us can express our concerns about “open borders”, aiding and abetting of illegal immigration, to our Congressional leaders. Furthermore, in generality, a tight border translates to increased safety for our families.

If you consume sexual-content, please do not click on any imagery that you know to cross the line based on what you know or now know. Do not click on any disturbing images featuring abuse or torture, nor images where you know that the sex-actors are minors. Do not encourage that content, because the analytics will boost the ratings for that particular junk and could endanger people further. While it is easier to put the blame on a demand side, the supply side is a “glut”; and much of it should be turned back toward the direction where it came/comes from. And, those who demand images of torture and abuse, should have no supply of it. And, to all you fathers out there: you and I have the right and responsibility to prohibit our wife and daughter(s) [or son(s)] from meeting with people whom we do not approve of – for any reason at all.