<p>I don’t think she will have a degree from Duke because she is making porn videos about student life at Duke and it’s not going over very well at Duke, apparently. She’s only a Freshman and has missed at least a month of school and already said she wasn’t returning at least once. But, she has a habit of contradicting herself, so who knows. </p>
<p>Her life, her body, her choices. Why does it matter what someone does or doesn’t do if it affects no one but the person making the decision?</p>
<p>If she worked for a law firm and made porn videos on weekends about her firm she would probably be fired. Rightly.</p>
<p>Attending a U where many/most peers are hostile to you, you are under a spotlight and have few (if any) obvious supports is tough. When you’re 18 and in your first year at a new school, magnify that a few times and think about the likelihood of actually earning your degree. </p>
<p>Of she drops out, a big part of her appeal will also disappear, as has been stated upthread. Part of her novel appeal is that she’s a student at Duke. </p>
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<li>She openly describes herself as a feminist and says she’s in porn because it’s empowering. In one video hosted by a demeaning rough sex site, she says she watches porn because she “loves to see the misery on the women’s faces”. That doesn’t sound very feminist.</li>
<li>The way she promotes the porn INDUSTRY is disgusting. Going into porn is a legitimate but dangerous career. There are so many risks involved, and the way she talks about it makes it seem carefree and fun. It’s not. We shouldn’t be supporting that.</li>
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<p>So in theory, we should be supporting her. However, I find way too many contradictions and false information in her reasons for going into porn.</p>
<p>@dubaitragedy Good, we’re on the same page here. Especially this bit:</p>
<p>“our society demonises sex to a point that shames women for having any public interest in it. Anyone who condemns her and then consumes porn is a hypocrite - as I imagine most of you are.”</p>
<p>She has control of her body. That’s absolutely incredible. There is nothing wrong with porn. There is nothing wrong about the human body and pleasure. There is nothing wrong with being a woman, although this is put into question a lot. What’s wrong is shaming a girl for using what she has been given to help her. Am I saying that girls should start doing this? Of course not. </p>
<p>But I do believe that she thought about the social implications before going into the industry. </p>
<p>And who knows what will happen? Maybe she’ll stay in the porn industry. Maybe not as a porn star, but on the business side of it. Maybe she can jump from that to movies and that sort of thing. I know that she will be looked down upon because of society, and I think that’s a problem. There is nothing wrong with sex and porn, and people that have ever watched porn have no right to say a negative thing about the stars.</p>
<p>That’s all very nice but it has nothing much to do with this situation. She is anything but an empowered young women. Or a porn star for that matter. Porn stars are on record calling her an embarrassment.</p>
<p>I’ll try to reiterate this once more because there have been quite a few posts questioning the wrongness of porn. While there may be nothing wrong with watching people have sex, there are countless of things wrong with the porn industry. There is nothing positive to come out of glamorizing a destructive profession. </p>
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<p>Our society does “demonize” women sexuality, but there is nothing “liberating” about women’s role in the majority of the porn industry, let alone what this young Duke student is doing. I don’t see having sex with men directed and constructed by someone else at the liking of someone else as liberating. Perhaps, if she was reforming the porn industry, I’d view her differently. Perhaps, if she created her own porn company whose actors were screened and their health was routinely checked, I’d view her differently. Perhaps, if she took the time to positively influence this negative industry while advocating for those troubled in the industry, I’d view her differently. But she hasn’t.</p>
<p>“Our society does “demonize” women sexuality……”</p>
<p>A few posters have alluded to this and I don’t quite understand. I am a woman and think it is quite acceptable today for a woman to be comfortable with and express her sexuality. I think if you ask any husband/boyfriend if he has a problem with his wife or girlfriend enjoying or encouraging sex, the answer will be a resounding “no”. </p>
<p>And would that answer change if their wife/girlfriend had a high range of past partners? Furthermore, I feel there is a difference between what a husband/boyfriend accepts when it comes to his sex life and what society accepts in the open for all to see. But really, I don’t want to get into this as this is not what I am aiming to discuss. </p>
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<p>Not true. People have the right to say anything about anyone. Those who have watched her are probably in a better position to judge whether she is making a mess of her life. Who are you to say what others can say about pornography?</p>
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<p>She does not “have control of her body”, as I posted earlier, she is probably being abused and borderline raped in the porn shoots, as many women have testified happen in the industry. Usually you are told your shoot will be vanilla 1 on 1 missionary and then when you get there you are set up to be done by several men with unnaturally large *** at once. This often results in tearing and bleeding as well as a ton of STIs, and is degrading.</p>
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<p>Not true, in addition to how women (& men) are being exploited in the industry, modern pornography is a horrid thing that is addictive and screws up young men and women. I assume from your statements here that you may not be a heavy watcher of pornography, I used to be and it messes you up after a while. </p>
<p>Not only does it lead to ED, but it leads to addiction and ramping up in needs (for example you may start with vanilla but due to your dophamine needs you won’t be able to get off to regular vanilla porn anymore and will constantly need more and more extreme things to get off to) this has happened to me & many, many other people who watched pornography.</p>
<p>Hence why people who watch internet porn often go through extreme withdrawal symptoms when they try to quit. There are pages and pages and pages and pages of people who are addicted to it, both on website like “yourbrainonporn” and the reddit “nofap” webpage.</p>
<p>This is after several years of watching, you don’t want to know the nightmares you have every time you close your eyes once you hit stage 3 of porn “addiction”.</p>
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<p>Here is a study if you want to read about it, but this is a small one, just the tip of the iceberg of what I have read. <a href=“Men who use internet porn 'likely to become hopeless in the bedroom' | Daily Mail Online”>Men who use internet porn 'likely to become hopeless in the bedroom' | Daily Mail Online; I would recommend going to “yourbrainonporn” and reading the user comments and such, that is all legit and I went through it.</p>
<p>America. A land of freedom and equality for all … where your daughter can “choose” to give blowjobs to rich men so that she can afford her college education. Freaking ridiculous. When will people wake up and see that something needs to change? </p>
<p>This thread IS ridiculous and quite offensive in that some posters are using “women’s rights” as an excuse to justify the porn industry. Porn is disgusting and exploitative. Period. </p>
<p>@nicolehayleyr I am not going to try to change your opinion on porn but I would encourage you to educate yourself on some aspects of the porn industry:</p>
<p>-Clamydia and Genital Herpes are epidemic in the porn industry
-Drug use is also widespread among porn “stars”- Many use cocaine, weed or meth before filming and many continue to do porn because they have drug habits.
- There is a clear connection between the porn industry and sex trafficking</p>
<p>This is the story of Colleen Applegate, a porn “star” who died at age 20, I don’t buy these BS stories about the “normal, average, Christian Midwestern girl” who suddenly decides to become a porn star and nobody knows why BUT her involvement in porn had a lot to do with her death.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20098484,00.html”>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20098484,00.html</a></p>
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Healthy or not, it’s about normal in my experience. I’m 22, and 12 is about how old I was when I started, and when we discussed porn in Anthropology Club most people were in that same general age range when they started.</p>
<p>I’m curious as to how much easy access to internet porn and increasing sexuality of the media is related to teen pregnancy rates (which have been dropping dramatically the last two decades, and are now at historic lows). Perhaps all this exposure is making our kids more knowledgeable about sex?</p>
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<p>Porn isn’t simply about “sex.” Today’s porn is increasingly about violence, usually towards women. That’s what we want to present to our children that “sex” is about? </p>
<p><a href=“Increasingly violent porn 'hijacking' our sexuality - ABC News”>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-06/increasingly-violent-porn-hijacking-our-sexuality/2288424</a></p>
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<p>Today’s porn isn’t the Playboy or Penthouse of the past. It’s hard core, it’s often misogynist and it’s frequently violent. I sure wouldn’t want my 12 year old daughter to think this is what “sex” is or should be.</p>
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<p>No, please read my previous post on pornography’s effects on both me and my peers.</p>
<p>I enjoy hamburgers but don’t care to see cows slaughtered. Modern porn turns sex into a medical procedure except instead of curing disease it spreads it. Knox might as well have been kidnapped and sold into prostitution. She wanted to get back at her family and like so many kids who get confused about what life is really about, ending up hurting herself more instead. If she lives long enough she might figure that out one day. There will be nobody to blame but herself. </p>