“Footage the porn industry doesn’t want you to see” January 18, 2012
Posted by antiplondon in articles/essays/commentary, Porn industry conditions, sex industry advocates.trackback
I really was in two minds about putting up this YouTube video (found via The Porcupine Campaign) as it is so shocking and disturbing to watch. To be absolutely on the safe side, I am putting it below the fold, and giving a very clear warning:
WARNING, CONTAINS CONTENT THAT MAY BE TRIGGERING OR OTHERWISE TRAUMATISING
Obviously, it is also not safe for work.
I think it’s important to show this video, as it shows the ‘working’ conditions in the mainstream of the LA porn industry. This is not something hidden away where nobody knows about it, this is the norm of a massive global industry producing the mainstream of heterosexual pornography. Sex industry advocates like to pretend that it’s just the occasional ‘bad apple’, and any way, any abuse that does occur is no different to any other workplace exploitation, this video shows that it isn’t.
It also needs to be emphasised that, with out such abusive ‘work place’ conditions, it would be impossible to make mainstream heterosexual pornography. Such pornography is the record of abuse, the fact that the woman gets paid for it at the end is irrelevant.
This video has opened my eyes SO wide. Thank you so much for sharing. It seriously brought me to tears. All women are beautiful and worthy of respect and reverence. Obviously the porn industry is trying to assure that this ideal for society is never attained.
Important. I think people should also know that many of the girls killed in Juarez were used in snuff films and their injuries are consistent with imagery used in such deadly films.
Good point Swaneagle, as any recorded sex act is pornography.
For info on Juarez see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_homicides_in_Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez
I wonder who the perpetrators of these lethal crimes against women living in Ciudad Juarez are? Are they martians or even fairies perhaps or horrors perhaps the perpetrators were all males. Passive language only serves to reinforce invisibility of male accountability and I note the sex of the victims who lived in and around Ciudad Juarez was not omitted and so the obvious question is why?
If we cannot even name sex of the agents committing these crimes against women what hope is there for men’s crimes against women to even be recognised when the focus is always on what happened to the women rather than writing/saying this ‘unknown male(s) raped, tortured and then murdered another young woman who lived in Cidudad Juarez. Now if it was women or girls committing these crimes male supremacist tool the mainstream media would have named sex of the perpetrators and ensured its readers were in no doubt women/girls were the ones responsible for these femicides – but male perpetrators continue to be accorded invisibility and denial of any accountability. That’s the way to go to ensure male supremacy remains intact and unaccountable.