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"There's always this idea that a woman who does porn is disrespecting herself, but I completely disagree. Ultimately, yes, I am selling my body. I am doing the most vulnerable thing you can do - having sex - and I'm doing it in front of everyone in the world. So for me, I've always done it my own way; I've always been very stubborn and very in control - it was my way or the highway with directors and other actors. That was empowering...
Equal pleasure Women's pleasure matters. Our female characters have their own sex drive and desires, and are not passive objects focused primarily on pleasuring the men. Represent all people equally and respectfully. Do not reduce performers to any primal feature, whether that be body shape, ability, age or ethnicity. We pay every person fairly, from interns to performers...
People facing drug addiction should be mental health treatment mandated, unworthy of prosecution.
"Risk factorsPeople of any age, sex, or economic status can become addicted to a drug. However, certain factors can affect the likelihood and speed of developing an addiction:
"Sex workers themselves are not inherently trafficked through their job profession, and there are plenty of individuals who find empowerment and/or economic stability in selling sex to consumers. Nobody who is arguing for the legalization of sex work is saying that we should legalize sex trafficking, and presenting a false equivalency between the two only serves to stigmatize sex workers even further into the fringes of our society...
"There’s a line towards the end, when the dust is settling a bit, that really punched me in the gut, about “how people keep making lives for themselves”. It kind of felt to me like the overarching theme of the book. That everyone is just trying to live, and shouldn’t they be treated with equal compassion regardless of their ways of living. The way it’s written feels very accessible, very human...
"Conflation of sex work and sex trafficking
Because prostitution can be an extremely political topic that represents differing political interests, the method of data collection and the use of collected data can vary in reliability.[12] While more pro-sex work academics, organizations, and activists make an explicit demarcation between sex workers and victims of sex trafficking, many other groups consider prostitution to inherently lack a voluntary component...
"Many sex scandals in American history have involved incumbent United States federal elected politicians, as well as persons appointed with the consent of the United States Senate.[1][2][3] Sometimes, the officials have denied the accusations, have apologized, or have lost their office in consequence of the scandal (e.g. by resigning, being defeated, or deciding not to run again).
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"The idea that sex workers forfeit any right to assert consent or to be angered when the consent of other women is violated perpetuates the myth that sex workers are inherently morally compromised, or interested so single-mindedly on earning a profit from sexual services that she gives up her right to assert boundaries, agency, and solidarity with those whose consent is disregarded...
"I’ve spent the years since transitioning out of the industry coming to terms with the complicated sexual experiences I’ve had in my lifetime...
"If men have the right to pay for sex without judgment, then women also have the right to make sex their career."
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