15 years ago, 6/10 Americans thought gay marriage was morally wrong. Now, the majority approve. While I don't think the sea change will happen as quickly with porn because of the cognitive dissonance referenced earlier, it's worth noting that public opinion changes. And I don't use public opinion to determine my own feelings on the issue, considering it was illegal for me to have consensual sex in my home state (until 2003) or get married (2015) due to popular opinion just a few years ago.
Arab countries often have very high rates of porn consumption (mainly on VPNs) by the way, and lower rates of divorce are often because women are not allowed to ask for a divorce, it can only be initiated by the husband. Not to mention the societal pressure to stay married when women often lose access to their children, their standing, and the papers they need to make a living if they are to divorce. So I don't really consider statistics on divorce to be a marking of happy marriages.
As the only person in this thread that actually was a woman in the industry: I was a model (only softcore) and dancer in the adult industry at 19-22 and I'm now in my 30s and I don't regret my time working in the industry. I dislike that society told me that was the highest value I had. I hate those darn 8" platform shoes.
But I put myself through school and got a debt-free degree (thanks to that, the pell grant, and my AmeriCorps award). I ended up becoming a tax preparer specializing in dancers (Don't Lose Your Pants: a Strippers Guide to Taxes), who often should become S-Corps, and I helped a LOT of my fellow dancers start saving for retirement in their early 20s and come out of the dark with the IRS so they could buy houses or otherwise meet their goals. I also was able to get paid as an expert witness and teach two college classes on the economics of dancing. I think my time was valuable. Also I got very flexible.
Arab countries often have very high rates of porn consumption (mainly on VPNs) by the way, and lower rates of divorce are often because women are not allowed to ask for a divorce, it can only be initiated by the husband. Not to mention the societal pressure to stay married when women often lose access to their children, their standing, and the papers they need to make a living if they are to divorce. So I don't really consider statistics on divorce to be a marking of happy marriages.
As the only person in this thread that actually was a woman in the industry: I was a model (only softcore) and dancer in the adult industry at 19-22 and I'm now in my 30s and I don't regret my time working in the industry. I dislike that society told me that was the highest value I had. I hate those darn 8" platform shoes.
But I put myself through school and got a debt-free degree (thanks to that, the pell grant, and my AmeriCorps award). I ended up becoming a tax preparer specializing in dancers (Don't Lose Your Pants: a Strippers Guide to Taxes), who often should become S-Corps, and I helped a LOT of my fellow dancers start saving for retirement in their early 20s and come out of the dark with the IRS so they could buy houses or otherwise meet their goals. I also was able to get paid as an expert witness and teach two college classes on the economics of dancing. I think my time was valuable. Also I got very flexible.
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