Klonor
14-01-2006, 01:50
As a teenage male not suffering from any mental diseases, I consider pornography to be one of Gods greatests gifts to the Universe. It's right up there with sliced bread and electricity. Simply hours and hours of fun. It's entertaining, instructional, and sometimes it's pretty darn funny. But, do we ever consider what it's like for the people who make pornography?
In regular movies (and television) it's become almost standard for people to associate actors and actresses with the characters they play. If you're walking down the street and you see an actor one of your first thoughts is "Oh, look, it's Cordelia from Angel." or "Hey, wasn't that guy in Die Hard?" maybe even "Dude, I loved him in The Wrath of Kahn!". It's only after you get over your initial shock at seeing a celebrity that you begin to recall that persons real name, what they act like in real life, and what they've done recently (besides acting). For most actors it's not that big of a deal, probably a little irritating to be always known as "That guy on that TV show that used to be that channel with the stuff" but not very detrimental to their lives. I mean seriously, I doubt even todays public could think you're really a robot sent back in time. Plus, most actors have at least a tiny bit of range. They might always be in action flicks, but they switch between being the good guy and the bad guy. They might sometimes do an emotional movie or a comedy. It's hard to have only one view of an actor, since they've often been good & bad, funny & serious, a man & a woman (Hey, some movies are just weird). But with pornography it's a whole different story.
Most porn movies are about one thing: sex (duh). Whether they're pretending to be serious (Displaying real life sexual situations) or pretending to be funny (Showing only the most improbable of events) there's still that one theme running through it: sex. So, the actors are all associated with one thing: sex, and the thing is that it actually is believable that the actors have sex a lot. It's a normal part of real life (Unlike prehistoric lizards breathing fire) and it's easy to associate it with real people. So, when you see a porn star walking down the stree you think "Hot damn, she was in..... (Okay, I can't think of any titles right now)" then you think "Man, I could probably get with her! She has to be loose!" Now, I'm the first to admit that the evidence does point to porn stars not exactly being puritanical in their daily lives, but the evidence in Junior points to Arnold being able to get pregnant and that's just unlikely. Just because they're in porn doesn't mean that they're willing to sleep with every single person who walks by them in the street. But society views them as such. No matter what they're like in real life, all porn actors are believed to be nothing but nymphomaniacs in reality. Admit it, you've thought it yourself at least once.
Anyway, I don't really have anything more to say along these lines, but I just want you to think about it. Whatever your personal opinion on pornography is (And I know many people who object to it whole-heartedly) don't automaically transfer those opinions to the people in pornography. They're normal people who act normally, and treat them as such.
In regular movies (and television) it's become almost standard for people to associate actors and actresses with the characters they play. If you're walking down the street and you see an actor one of your first thoughts is "Oh, look, it's Cordelia from Angel." or "Hey, wasn't that guy in Die Hard?" maybe even "Dude, I loved him in The Wrath of Kahn!". It's only after you get over your initial shock at seeing a celebrity that you begin to recall that persons real name, what they act like in real life, and what they've done recently (besides acting). For most actors it's not that big of a deal, probably a little irritating to be always known as "That guy on that TV show that used to be that channel with the stuff" but not very detrimental to their lives. I mean seriously, I doubt even todays public could think you're really a robot sent back in time. Plus, most actors have at least a tiny bit of range. They might always be in action flicks, but they switch between being the good guy and the bad guy. They might sometimes do an emotional movie or a comedy. It's hard to have only one view of an actor, since they've often been good & bad, funny & serious, a man & a woman (Hey, some movies are just weird). But with pornography it's a whole different story.
Most porn movies are about one thing: sex (duh). Whether they're pretending to be serious (Displaying real life sexual situations) or pretending to be funny (Showing only the most improbable of events) there's still that one theme running through it: sex. So, the actors are all associated with one thing: sex, and the thing is that it actually is believable that the actors have sex a lot. It's a normal part of real life (Unlike prehistoric lizards breathing fire) and it's easy to associate it with real people. So, when you see a porn star walking down the stree you think "Hot damn, she was in..... (Okay, I can't think of any titles right now)" then you think "Man, I could probably get with her! She has to be loose!" Now, I'm the first to admit that the evidence does point to porn stars not exactly being puritanical in their daily lives, but the evidence in Junior points to Arnold being able to get pregnant and that's just unlikely. Just because they're in porn doesn't mean that they're willing to sleep with every single person who walks by them in the street. But society views them as such. No matter what they're like in real life, all porn actors are believed to be nothing but nymphomaniacs in reality. Admit it, you've thought it yourself at least once.
Anyway, I don't really have anything more to say along these lines, but I just want you to think about it. Whatever your personal opinion on pornography is (And I know many people who object to it whole-heartedly) don't automaically transfer those opinions to the people in pornography. They're normal people who act normally, and treat them as such.