Would you date an adult film actor/actress?

Would you date an adult film actor/actress?


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As desperate that I am for female companionship, I still hold onto a strict monogamy policy.
 
There are lots of professions that I wouldn't date. Heck, if I was single again, I'd make sure to never date an inner city school teacher again.
I would add most actresses, congresswomen, and other celebrities to that list. Privacy is tenuous enough without affixing a giant target to your back.
 
Food for thought:

Spoiler :
Porn stars and the naked truth

Women in the industry are healthy rather than exploited, claims new study

Female porn stars are psychologically as healthy or healthier than other women, according to a new study, which challenges widely held views about women in the adult entertainment business.

Adult entertainers were found to have higher self-esteem, a better quality of life and body image, and to be more positive, with greater levels of spirituality. They also had higher levels of sexual satisfaction and, perhaps unsurprisingly, many more partners than other women.

The American researchers, who report their findings in the Journal of Sex Research, said they found no evidence to support the "damaged goods hypothesis" that actresses involved in the porn industry come from desperate backgrounds and are less psychologically healthy compared with typical women.

"Some descriptions of actresses in pornography have included attributes such as drug addiction, homelessness, poverty, desperation and being victims of sexual abuse," they said. "Some have made extreme assertions, such as claiming that all women in pornography were sexually abused as children. Stereotypes of those involved in adult entertainment have been used to support or condemn the industry and to justify political views on pornography, although the actual characteristics of actresses are unknown because no study on this group of women has been conducted."

The psychologists compared data taken from 177 adult entertainment actresses with a sample of women matched for age, marital status and other factors. The actresses, all of whom had been paid to work on at least one X-rated movie, ranged in age from 18 to 50, with an average career in the industry of 3.5 years. More than one-third were either married or in a serious relationship, and 44 per cent were single.

One of the main claims by commentators on the industry has been that actresses have frequently experienced sexual abuse in childhood, but the results show no statistically significant difference between the two groups of women.

The study also shows that the actresses sleep better and have more energy. Almost 70 per cent gave enjoyment of sex full marks, compared with 33 per cent of the other women; and they had first had sex at a lower age: 15 rather than 17. On the negative side, industry workers had a history of more drug and alcohol use, and problems possibly linked to sensation-seeking personalities. The study was undertaken by researchers at Shippensburg University, Texas Woman's University and the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation.

Cynthia Graham, senior lecturer in health psychology at Southampton University, said: "This study really challenges views about women who engage in sex work and the porn industry. Although the study had limitations, it is one of very few that has included matched controls."

The feminist commentator Dawn Foster criticised the study: "It is dangerous to generalise about a huge industry: women who are successful and in control of their careers in one pocket don't speak for women in the less scrutinised parts. The study's main objective seems to be to prove that not all women in porn are exploited: no one has argued that. But glossing over the exploitative aspects helps no one."
 
I wouldn't date a porn star because it would bring too much attention/notoriety, I don't share well and because my family probably wouldn't accept the relationship.
 
Food for thought:

Spoiler :
Porn stars and the naked truth

Women in the industry are healthy rather than exploited, claims new study

Female porn stars are psychologically as healthy or healthier than other women, according to a new study, which challenges widely held views about women in the adult entertainment business.

Adult entertainers were found to have higher self-esteem, a better quality of life and body image, and to be more positive, with greater levels of spirituality. They also had higher levels of sexual satisfaction and, perhaps unsurprisingly, many more partners than other women.

The American researchers, who report their findings in the Journal of Sex Research, said they found no evidence to support the "damaged goods hypothesis" that actresses involved in the porn industry come from desperate backgrounds and are less psychologically healthy compared with typical women.

"Some descriptions of actresses in pornography have included attributes such as drug addiction, homelessness, poverty, desperation and being victims of sexual abuse," they said. "Some have made extreme assertions, such as claiming that all women in pornography were sexually abused as children. Stereotypes of those involved in adult entertainment have been used to support or condemn the industry and to justify political views on pornography, although the actual characteristics of actresses are unknown because no study on this group of women has been conducted."

The psychologists compared data taken from 177 adult entertainment actresses with a sample of women matched for age, marital status and other factors. The actresses, all of whom had been paid to work on at least one X-rated movie, ranged in age from 18 to 50, with an average career in the industry of 3.5 years. More than one-third were either married or in a serious relationship, and 44 per cent were single.

One of the main claims by commentators on the industry has been that actresses have frequently experienced sexual abuse in childhood, but the results show no statistically significant difference between the two groups of women.

The study also shows that the actresses sleep better and have more energy. Almost 70 per cent gave enjoyment of sex full marks, compared with 33 per cent of the other women; and they had first had sex at a lower age: 15 rather than 17. On the negative side, industry workers had a history of more drug and alcohol use, and problems possibly linked to sensation-seeking personalities. The study was undertaken by researchers at Shippensburg University, Texas Woman's University and the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation.

Cynthia Graham, senior lecturer in health psychology at Southampton University, said: "This study really challenges views about women who engage in sex work and the porn industry. Although the study had limitations, it is one of very few that has included matched controls."

The feminist commentator Dawn Foster criticised the study: "It is dangerous to generalise about a huge industry: women who are successful and in control of their careers in one pocket don't speak for women in the less scrutinised parts. The study's main objective seems to be to prove that not all women in porn are exploited: no one has argued that. But glossing over the exploitative aspects helps no one."

Yes, I'd be really happy that my wife has greater levels of spirituality while she's at working screwing another dude and getting filmed while doing so.
 
More food for thought:
Spoiler :
Anti-pornography activist, Gail Dines, notes that young men who become addicted to porn, “neglect their schoolwork, spend huge amounts of money they don’t have, become isolated from others, and often suffer depression.” (Pornland, 93). Dr. William Struthers, who has a PhD in biopsychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, confirms some of these and adds more, finding that men who use porn become controlling, highly introverted, have high anxiety, narcissistic, curious, have low self-esteem, depressed, dissociative, distractible (Wired for Intimacy, 64-65). Ironically, while viewing porn creates momentary intensely pleasurable experiences, it ends up leading to several negative lingering psychological experiences.
 
Curiosity is a bad thing? Also, that writer needs to learn how to form a proper list in a sentence.
 
Curious as in odd.. I had to look it up.


I prefer to date adult people no matter what they do for a living.
 
Curiosity is a bad thing? Also, that writer needs to learn how to form a proper list in a sentence.
No. I wouldn't say curiosity is at all a bad thing. I guess prurience/prurient would be a more suitable word here.

And yes, that sentence is not well constructed.
 
More food for thought:
Spoiler :
Anti-pornography activist, Gail Dines, notes that young men who become addicted to porn, “neglect their schoolwork, spend huge amounts of money they don’t have, become isolated from others, and often suffer depression.” (Pornland, 93). Dr. William Struthers, who has a PhD in biopsychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, confirms some of these and adds more, finding that men who use porn become controlling, highly introverted, have high anxiety, narcissistic, curious, have low self-esteem, depressed, dissociative, distractible (Wired for Intimacy, 64-65). Ironically, while viewing porn creates momentary intensely pleasurable experiences, it ends up leading to several negative lingering psychological experiences.

I call BS.

Spoiler :
A University of Montreal study looked at the porn watching habits of men. As the researchers could not find any 20 year old males who didn't watch porn, they focused on those who did. They found that men, both in relationships and single regularly watched porn. (Source: Alltop)



Of course addicts have problems like those described. It's got nothing to do with porn. Porn addiction has it's own specific problems, but porn addiction and porn-watching/usage are not the same. You can drink every day, even "need a drink" at times and not be an alcoholic.
 
I call BS.

Spoiler :
A University of Montreal study looked at the porn watching habits of men. As the researchers could not find any 20 year old males who didn't watch porn, they focused on those who did. They found that men, both in relationships and single regularly watched porn. (Source: Alltop)



Of course addicts have problems like those described. It's got nothing to do with porn. Porn addiction has it's own specific problems, but porn addiction and porn-watching/usage are not the same. You can drink every day, even "need a drink" at times and not be an alcoholic.
To be honest, I don't know how far this is BS or not.

It seems pornography is all-pervasive and has become normalized.

Doesn't this worry you at all?

So looking a pictures of naked women in "erotic" poses (the most common sort of pornography) and pictures of fornicating couples and such like, strikes you as perfectly healthy normal experience?

You don't think this represents a less than healthy sexual experience? And you don't think this would lead people to seek out more and more and harder core pornography?

You don't think there's any danger at all from the objectification of, especially, women?

Anyway, I have no particular axe to grind one way or another. (It would be useless if I did.) But these are the sorts of questions I would be inclined to ask if I was presenting a case against pornography.

How would you reply to them, if you were presenting a pro-pornography case?
 
How would you reply to them, if you were presenting a pro-pornography case?

I support medicinal uses of pornography, it's vital in reducing the risk of prostate cancer in men.
 
To be honest, I don't know how far this is BS or not.

It seems pornography is all-pervasive and has become normalized.

Doesn't this worry you at all?

So looking a pictures of naked women in "erotic" poses (the most common sort of pornography) and pictures of fornicating couples and such like, strikes you as perfectly healthy normal experience?

You don't think this represents a less than healthy sexual experience? And you don't think this would lead people to seek out more and more and harder core pornography?

You don't think there's any danger at all from the objectification of, especially, women?

Anyway, I have no particular axe to grind one way or another. (It would be useless if I did.) But these are the sorts of questions I would be inclined to ask if I was presenting a case against pornography.

How would you reply to them, if you were presenting a pro-pornography case?


Nature doesn't hide copulation. Nudity being celebrated by humanity has a long history.
 
I support medicinal uses of pornography, it's vital in reducing the risk of prostate cancer in men.
Okaaaay. Can you substantiate that?

Nature doesn't hide copulation. Nudity being celebrated by humanity has a long history.
I'm not sure it's actually been celebrated. Certainly not with a long history.

Pornography doesn't celebrate it, imo. I'd have thought it more akin to voyeurism rather than the casual acceptance of nudity you seem to be referring to.

Someone has yet to convince me that voyeurism is a good idea.
 
The cancer thing, I suppose it's because regular ejaculations clear out the prostate and don't allow anything to accumulate? Or some reasoning along the same lines.

And voyeurism is creepy.
 
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