Why do female porn stars believe that they are empowering themselves?
It seems that I hear this idea perpetuated quite frequently these days, whether it's coming from Jenna Jameson or the recently outed Duke University porn star, Belle Knox. Women like these love to claim to be feminists who think it is an empowering act to have sex for money on camera and honestly, I must say, my B.S. detector goes crazy every time I hear this kind of talk.
Do these women not know how men think? Are these women completely unaware of what goes on in the mind of a man when he watches porn? Allow me to shed some light on this, for those of you who have been living under a rock your entire lives; when a man watches porn, he's not thinking to himself: "Oh, wow, look at how well this woman is orally pleasing that guy. I have so much respect for her right now." This, rather, is much closer to the truth: "That's it, sweetheart, choke on that dick and swallow that *beep* cum like the little whore that you are." By the way, yes, I include myself in this category, so there is no reason to assume that I'm taking some kind of moral high ground - I am not. However, since I know that it is wrong to do this, I have been watching much less porn as of late, slowly kicking the habit until I simply don't care about it any more.
The point I'm making is this: if that is what's going on in the minds of all men who watch porn, then how can these women possibly be empowering themselves? It doesn't make one damn bit of sense. There is no logic to it whatsoever. The only argument that these women seem to be clinging to is that for so long in patriarchal societies, female sexual expression was considered taboo, so the fact that they can now express themselves sexually in public and have it be generally accepted by society, is liberating. This concept alone is not flawed, but unfortunately, there is one very important detail female porn stars are ignoring - they are getting paid to have sex.
That's right - they collect a paycheck for having sex; they have sex for material gain. This is the dictionary definition of a prostitute; a whore. By the way, this applies to male porn stars as well; whether you are a man or a woman, if you get paid money to have sex, you are a whore. If only these people, especially the women, just admitted that this is what they are, I might actually have a little bit of respect for them. Just be honest with yourselves and don't lie to yourselves like Belle Knox does when she spouts nonsense like, "I'm not selling my body; I'm selling an experience!" No, my dear, stop sugar-coating it and using euphemisms. You are selling your body. That's the whole point. That's why porn exists and that's why men watch it.
The bottom line is that there is no porn industry without the degradation of women; these two things go hand-in-hand and they always will. Wake up, female porn stars. It's time to put an end to your delusional thinking.