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Lacked some crucial questions


Yes, I enjoyed it because of how the actors became actual human beings but to me it was still extremely superficial. No one talked about how it feels to have sex with strangers on a daily basis. What it's like to take laxatives before an anal scene or hurting or itching from sex that you never really wanted to have. No VD, no real look into sexual abuse.

Too bad, this was a unique opportunity.

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actual human beings lol

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Haha yeah that is pretty telling.

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I thought they had enemas followed by a few twists with a wire brush before anal.

Well you live and learn

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I thought they had enemas followed by a few twists with a wire brush before anal.
OUCH! Your post just made my butthole pucker in lol.

To wake is such a dreaded thing, To sleep is such a hole ~ Blue October

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I agree, I wish this film would have delved deeper into the experience of making porn. No pun intended!

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A couple of the interviewees did talk about how it feels to have sex in porn. One of them said it was like jerking off with another person's body, and another one talked about how it was purely a physical act with no emotion involved.

I can't speak for the performers, but maybe they didn't talk about VD because it wasn't a big problem. And I don't see how sexual abuse is intrinsically linked to porn. Certainly, those are interesting questions that could be raised and explored, but it's already a mainstream assumption that porn stars get lots of diseases and are victims of abuse, either regularly at work, or throughout their childhood. So while it may be an important issue, it was refreshing to see a treatment of the subject that didn't cater to those sorts of sensational accounts.

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" And I don't see how sexual abuse is intrinsically linked to porn."

Then you must live a fairly sheltered life.

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How people answer on the internet when they can't counter points. I miss IMDB.

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It is called After Porn Ends. I guess they could have asked if their orifices were stretched out, if the guys were now only able to ejaculate on women's faces, etc.

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I'm surprised they didn't use Gail Dines critique and the material from her website (http://stoppornculture.org/). Perhaps they weren't really interested in a serious critique of that culture.

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clicky:

http://stoppornculture.org/

(I made this clickable so I could look over the website in the next day or two. I do worry about those who have been forced to do porn due to sex trafficking, so I'd like to research that some more. Many are not aware of how many people have actually been forced into a life of prostitution, stripping, and pornography due to being sex trafficked.)


To wake is such a dreaded thing, To sleep is such a hole ~ Blue October

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I wish they talked about the extremes like excessively hardcore BDSM that borderlines on attempted murder. Me and my better half love that kind of stuff "we have issues lol" and we play it to the max when it's go time.
Some people don't get it, but I can understand that when her mouth looks like she had a kissing session with Predator or my neck looking like attempted suicide.

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Indeed. When the two children were being interviewed, their parents (who defended their careers) should have been asked if they wanted their daughters in the sex industry.

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They probably would have said no, proving what?

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Don't think this was a documentary about the industry.

Instead it tries to answer the questions "What are porn performers like in real life?" "What do they do after it's all over?"

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