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Bad porn reprise
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<p>Many people wrote me with comments on my essay<br />
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<a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/index.php?m=200206#109">Why Does Porn Got To Hurt So Bad?</a>. For all of those who<br />
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sent praise, thank you. It’s actually nice to know there are so many<br />
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people who would like to reject the bad-porn aesthetic. For all<br />
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of those who refrained from calling down fire and brimstone on me for messing with smut, also thank you. I’d have ignored you,<br />
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but thank you anyway.</p>
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<p>I got two responses I thought were particularly interesting.<br />
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One was from a gentleman who works as a pornographer. He<br />
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opined that I overestimated the porn industry by supposing that<br />
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bad porn reflected market demand. The real problem (he claims)<br />
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is that it’s hard to find women who simultaneously don’t look<br />
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hard and jaded yet are willing to bare all for the camera. Most<br />
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outfits, he said, don’t even try. They settle for the fake-pearl-and-synthoboob look out of laziness, knowing it’s crap<br />
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but will sell well enough.</p>
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<p>This doesn’t explain to me why, if Veronika Zemanova can look like a girl one might willingly take to bed in one picture and an unnatural womanoid-thing in another, they don’t try to photograph<br />
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women like her in the more natural mode more often. But perhaps<br />
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this one was just a trick of the light.</p>
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<p>Another respondent proposes the interesting theory that the<br />
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girls are dressed (or rather undressed) to look inaccessible<br />
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because if they weren’t, there might be an epidemic of stalking<br />
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as various creeps and wackos tried to get next to them.</p>
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<p>It would be touching to believe the porn industry cares that<br />
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much about its performers, but I’m skeptical.</p>
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<p>Finally, I got mail from <a href="http://www.germanlucy.com/lucysgirls/images/lucykiesgrube04.jpg"><br />
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“German Lucy”</a>, who said she was honored to appear in my<br />
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essay and quite enjoyed it. Rather to my astonishment, her email style<br />
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suggests that she really is “as sweet-natured and unjaded as she<br />
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looks”. She answered my questions plausibly and thoughtfully and didn’t even pitch me to sign up for her site.</p>
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<p>Holy Diogenes, Batman! I think I might have found the<br />
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one honest porn star…</p>
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