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In reply to the discussion: I'm The Duke University Freshman Porn Star And For The First Time I'm Telling The Story In My Words [View all]Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)184. Not exactly. Neo sex-negative feminists take issue with the exploitation, not the sex...
They believe in a non-monetized erotica. They want pornography to abandon heteronormative, misogynist stereotypes and sexual violence against women.
We want it to be less about mass consumption and more about the exploration of human sexuality in a constructive manner. Current trends in popular pornography favor sexual violence and objectification of female performers. And it's gotten quite vicious.
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Mosby
Feb 2014
OP
I think there's a good conversation regarding the topic of freedom of choice to be had here. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2014
#2
I think it would have the same response. In fact, something like that happened
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#36
Almost none, you're absolutely right. Most people don't do those things
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#151
Right. But is she is so proud of this, why does she want to respect her privacy?
question everything
Feb 2014
#258
doing porn on digital media ensures not keeping their "sides" under wraps, I think.
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#329
What's interesting is that no one questions how the rightwing frat boys who outed and harrass her...
villager
Feb 2014
#3
I don't think that's being conflicted. We're all aware of how society as a whole looks at porn.
cui bono
Feb 2014
#378
your definition of marriage is very euro-centric. I speak as someone who studied
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#332
Way out of line. What puts you in a position to judge this woman's mental health status?
MadrasT
Feb 2014
#14
Now that I read more aboiut her she does seem a little off, but maybe it's just because she's a kid
Mosby
Feb 2014
#18
Sorry, but numerous studies show most sex workers were sexually abused as kids..
whathehell
Feb 2014
#122
Riiight...So studies are worthless because no one can always "know" the individual?
whathehell
Feb 2014
#277
Of course, but the problem is, no one here, to my knowledge, KNOWS this individual, so
whathehell
Feb 2014
#419
I'm not sure it's fair to say she's mentally disturbed simply because she decided to
Sheldon Cooper
Feb 2014
#22
They sure do - I live in a college town. They work in restaurants, at the library...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#33
If one is a famous porn star (as this one) one is likely to be found out
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#41
Thank you. I agree with you, and I just love hearing from all these men getting huffy about
whathehell
Feb 2014
#70
Thanks! I think the problem is that too many U.S. men are obsessed by porn...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#99
You are quite welcome. Of course, it's about male "prerogatives", and their hostility
whathehell
Feb 2014
#280
I don't know her as an "individual" and neither do you, so maybe read the research
whathehell
Feb 2014
#127
So by that logic, we shall never see you hold out an individual's story as proof of anything....
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Feb 2014
#188
So by your logic, all Studies are FALSE, because one can't "know" every individual in them, LOL?
whathehell
Feb 2014
#269
OMG...I've just been kicked out of the Whiney White Guy, um, "Men's Group". LOL
whathehell
Feb 2014
#285
You're citing Dr. Drew? Ask him about all those dead celebrities he rehabilitated.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2014
#66
Someone that enjoys public sexual degradation is in need of psychological treatment nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#31
I agree. It's like the Roman Coliseums. Yay! Someone is degrading herself publicly! MORE! MORE!
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#50
So you believe that anyone who has sex in front of a camera is harming themselves?
penultimate
Feb 2014
#60
So we have you in one corner saying engaging porn causes "an effect on the brain"
sibelian
Feb 2014
#62
You have yet to provide a thought of value to this conversation, yet you question...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#159
Do you have any sources to back up the claim about the effect it has on the brain?
opiate69
Feb 2014
#126
This is equivalent to saying, "the homeless like being homeless," or, "drug addicts enjoy being drug
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#156
You're right. Exceptions prove the rule, however. Let me give you an example using cancer
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#246
Oh I'm sure she's going to say she hates it tremendously and that's why she does it nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#297
So your primary evidence that she hates porn is the fact that she says she doesn't.
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2014
#383
You clearly know nothing about this, but that doesn't seem to stop you from commenting
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#154
For someone who posts in the Sexual Assault Survivors groups, you certainly
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#47
Plenty. Workers in the sex industry tend to have been sexually abused. Google it. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#58
You surprise me. I thought survivors were anti-abuse and would not abuse themselves...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#100
...which, if true, totally blows your theory that sex workers are incompetent
LadyHawkAZ
Feb 2014
#108
May I recommend you review your posts and where you posted them. Goodbye. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#166
Huh? Your response made absolutely no sense whatsoever. I believe you were responding to the wrong
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#233
You're right. I had read that abused people are too often found in abusive situations...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#230
I hope not. lol I just get angry when I see people humiliating his/her self, and others applauding
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#311
Porn is definitely sex-for-pay, as is prostitution. As for "sex-POSITIVE" feminists....
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#327
I believe sex is part of our joy in life, but not for pay, and not as a method of
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#353
Thanks for the history lesson..Those supposedly "sex positive" feminists were Libertarians/RWingers.
whathehell
Feb 2014
#366
Oh, "slut" is SUCH a lovely word! You are quite a piece of work, aren't you? nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#149
Our "conversation" has been terminated. I think I've learned sufficiently
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#155
It's still an ugly word, and while I champion their cause, I think the name is misguided
whathehell
Feb 2014
#288
Conjuring up fictional mental illness is a bullshit, intellectually lazy argument.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#162
I'd wager (and win) that the most ardent applauders of porn stars, are habitual porn users
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#164
The sexually abused are overrepresented among the workers in the sex industries, from porn, to
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#170
Again, saying it's not normal or healthy is NOT the same as saying it is a sign of mental illness.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#172
Then we'll agree to disagree, but we're disagreeing because you have an opinion which
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#173
You're so factually incorrect it's making everyone in this thread dizzy.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#174
Suit yourself. You're far far more informed than scientists, psychologists, and just
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#175
Show me one peer reviewed study stating that consuming porn makes one mentally ill.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#176
As I said before, do your own research. I'm not here to serve you and teach you
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#177
I just laughed out loud. You have nothing. Support the claims you make.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#178
No, dear, not everyone, and please -- Where are all your supposed "facts" that would discredit hers?
whathehell
Feb 2014
#373
I don't have to discredit that which has been asserted without credit.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#379
The poster discusses porn "addiction" and the "serious issues" of porn consumers.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#387
And running every day alters brain chemistry. Are daily runners now addicts too?
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#394
You NEED a good night's sleep to FEEL well. That doesn't mean you're addicted to sleep.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#406
Everyone needs some form of exercise to be healthy. Being totally stagnant can be life threatening.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#410
The poorly exercised are equivalent to the poorly slept. That was my point.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#415
Habitually doing the same thing over and over again, even "expecting a different result"
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2014
#446
how do you get from "overrepresented" to claiming 100% (?) of adult entertainers are mentally ill?
foo_bar
Feb 2014
#182
And trying to change facts, because you happen to like porn, and wish to defend it tooth and
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#237
If you're an ally, good heavens, I'd hate to see what the enemy looks like...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#295
You still don't get it, do you? I agree with much of what you are saying...
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#301
I think you have confused it. I said that daily obsession with porn is an addiction...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#305
Let's drop it immediately, because you were confused and are insisting you were not
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#355
Then I'll have the last word. Your arguments are an embarrassment to feminist sex research.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#370
I know more about the research on the subject than probably anyone else in this thread.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#368
Sure, and we'll all just take you word on that, right?..Sorry, but anyone could make that statement
whathehell
Feb 2014
#418
Wrong issue, bro..We're not talking about USING porn, we're talking about participating in it.
whathehell
Feb 2014
#420
No. She has issues because the preponderance of sex workers are people with emotional and mental
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#247
Then everything is an assumption, whenever studies are taken into account...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#263
WTF? A preponderance of Presidents are white. What color is our CURRENT President?
hughee99
Feb 2014
#283
I looked for a few minutes, but as I'm busy I can't be googling all day. You can google as well.
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#294
More than likely you were attacked by men who view Internet porn every day...
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#298
Maybe! You have a valid point. My personal opinion is that men who view porn all the time
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#306
In the same sense that a study about holding doors open is news, I suppose.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2014
#67
Yes because they lied and said women here complained about men's opening doors
BainsBane
Feb 2014
#236
Your first reply to me ever on this site was among the most hostile I've ever received
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Feb 2014
#267
Yeah, well, here's a student collecting cans and bottles for college money.
factsarenotfair
Feb 2014
#20
Actually, it is healthy to do so. Learning to keep one's anti-social impulses bottled up is
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#186
so you're blaming her for losing her face but not those who disrespect her privacy?
alp227
Feb 2014
#302
it's the same thing for anyone who chooses to put themselves in the public eye
dlwickham
Feb 2014
#411
From looking at the wiki it would seem this woman falls into the sexually liberal school of feminism
Exultant Democracy
Feb 2014
#79
Ah. I think that was a fine way of saying, "don't criticize my porn!!!" I need it. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#106
Disgusting personal attacks aside response seems to indicate that this student doen't have agency.
Exultant Democracy
Feb 2014
#125
Frankly, I find it disgusting that anyone would applaud the degradation of someone
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#158
Sorry no, claiming someone is mentally ill because they like doing pornography is way over the line.
Kurska
Feb 2014
#179
It is a sad day when an informed and educated post is responded to like this. n/t
Kurska
Feb 2014
#131
Not exactly. Neo sex-negative feminists take issue with the exploitation, not the sex...
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#184
Not really. I'm far from a puritan but I also think women in porn is not healthy for them
cui bono
Feb 2014
#392
In 30 years this is how a lot of people will make it through college, if nothing is done about tuiti
reformist2
Feb 2014
#94
Chuck Connors did gay porn while he was waiting to become Chuck Connors.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#143
I doubt it. He played pro & semi-pro baseball until 1952 and started acting in 1952, getting
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#195
You do know that the world existed for billions of years before the web existed, right?
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#426
your post really has me thinking. Usually porn threads on DU degenerate into stupid///
KittyWampus
Feb 2014
#333
I respect her decision to make porn, but I question her expectation of privacy.
RandySF
Feb 2014
#198
Would be interesting to have her come back in 10 years and discuss the same thing. nt.
NCTraveler
Feb 2014
#205
I agree, though it's 16k in student loans, to be exact, but that's still generous
zazen
Feb 2014
#213
Nope. Same thing would've happened if a male student were doing porn - it'd be a scandal up
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#310
Shouldn't have clicked on that link at work with other people in full view of my screen.
Fantastic Anarchist
Feb 2014
#245
First, let me say that I know people up at Duke. She is a Republican, anti-feminist, porn star.
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#303
Do you not believe that consenting adults should be able to make their own sexual decisions?
alp227
Feb 2014
#320
Perhaps what needs to happen is that people need to realize what porn and prostitution does to the
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#330
Utterly disgusting that people are defending mass stalking of a woman practicing her sexual agency.
Kurska
Feb 2014
#317
Republican values to the HILT! And female as object, thrown in for good measure. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#328
Yup. One is a family member in his freshman year; another is a student who is the child of a friend
Sarah Ibarruri
Feb 2014
#336
It's really hard to be "private" when one is having sex on video intended for distribution.
LisaL
Feb 2014
#391
This is what people need to hear who think it's simply having sex in front of a camera.
cui bono
Feb 2014
#395
But, she has said that she turned down a full tuition scholarship to Vanderbilt!
Tanuki
Feb 2014
#385