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		<title>Why Porn Companies are Like Clothing Manufacturers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Baby Sinead&#8217;s very awesome and brilliant blog (with frequent nudity to boot), she answers a question from a reader about whether she thinks porn sites like hellfiresex.com and meatholes.com are a degradation of female sexuality. Her responses are awesome and spot on: Now Meatholes.com is about obviously about pushing their stars limits. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over on Baby Sinead&#8217;s very awesome and brilliant blog (with frequent nudity to boot), <a href="http://www.babysinead.com/2008/09/04/asssssssssk-baby-sinead/">she answers a question from a reader</a> about whether she thinks porn sites like <a href="http://hellfiresex.com">hellfiresex.com</a> and <a href="http://hellfiresex.com">meatholes.com</a> are a degradation of female sexuality.</p>
<p>Her responses are awesome and spot on:</p>
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Now Meatholes.com is about obviously about pushing their stars limits. This video has made the rounds of course and enforced the idea that the site is abusive to itâ€™s stars to the point of making them snap. <strong>I donâ€™t really know Meatholes or the people behind so I canâ€™t say if itâ€™s awful.</strong> It does seem degrading in the viral video but on the first video of the site is a girl talking about how hard she can take things and what she will take. I can not really speak on this site.</p></blockquote>
<p>(emphasis mine)</p>
<p>She&#8217;s talking about labor, not images. And that&#8217;s hugely important &#8211; and it&#8217;s the future of discussions about porn and exploitation, even if there&#8217;s still a lot of obsessing about the sex acts happening on screen. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s often hard to tell just from looking at a visual representation whether or not the performers are being placed under duress or if their working conditions are bad. Can you tell by looking at a tee shirt whether it was made by workers in ethical working conditions? Nope. Not unless you look at the label and then do your homework on the company.</p>
<p>Sometimes when I present the idea that its not the aggressive anal/choking/cum splattering that makes porn unethical or unfeminist, but the conditions under which the performers are doing said acts, people say things like, &#8220;its impossible to know what the working conditions are.&#8221; It isn&#8217;t impossible &#8211; it just requires some research. Just as people research textile factory conditions and then put pressure on corporations to have better practices &#8211; the same could happen with porn.</p>
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