<p>I am of two minds when it comes to porn, while I find what is out there for the most part is unattractive personally, and the way it is done is often misogynistic and gives an unreal view of what sex is like. I have known people who have done porn movies, I met years ago Harry Rheems (part of the movie Deep Throat, among others) when he was speaking at my college, and others, and those scenes in a porn flick are anything but what real sex is like, it is like looking at a Bugs Bunny cartoon and assuming what goes on is real…and what worries me is if someone looks at that and then expects real life relationships to be like that.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I also have a knee jerk reaction to those who want to ban porn, like the late unlamented Andrea Dworking et al, because it is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Among other things, what defines porn? There is pretty hard core erotic out there that bares little resemblance to most of the crap that is produced, do we ban that, too? Do we pretend that somehow people cannot be responsible watching porn and ban it based on the people who are hurt by it, or do we find ways to encourage the sleaze to go by the wayside? The Nixon and Reagan administration spent quite a lot of money on studying porn, to find ways to ban it, and in the end, despite some real attempts to throw out untested ideas as proven truth, both came to the conclusion that banning it would raise more issues then it solved, and that many of the objections raised to it were religious morals rather than proven harm. Most porn quite frankly is dehumanizing, there is little of what to me makes sex special, it is a mechanical act produced by unreal actors who look like they were made in a factory for the most part, and it looks like it is done by robots…but I don’t think banning it is the answer, either, because it could take out the good, if relatively scarce, with the bad.</p>
<p>As far as the Duke student goes, I can’t analyze her, since I am not a professional, but personally I think there is an attention factor there, after being outed on something that she claims has made her an outcast, caused problems with her family, she wouldn’t be cashing in on her 15 minutes of fame the way she is, she could easily come clean, get out of porn, and make money from personal appearances on the lecture circuit and so forth, including writing a book, that would likely get her enough money to go to Duke and then some. I suspect she is enjoying the notoriety and attention, otherwise why would she be doing appearences at strip clubs and promoting the next porn movie she is in? Even if she keeps doing porn, if she doesn’t like the notoriety, why promote it so openly? Sounds to me like she is using this to promote her porn career, which goes against her claim she is devastated and such. </p>