Feel free to adapt that into your next talk, no citation necessary.

It’s because of people like you that porn is about to take on GMO-food status. It’s getting more and more fashionable for people like you to give talks covering it at events like TED. Unfortunately what is in style is picking out the negatives and highlighting them. Usually we don’t mind, but this time you went way too far.

Your entire position would be laughable, if only there weren’t a bunch of people that actually believe you. You sought out the worst possible instances of the global sex industry because those make the best possible talking points. Then you just decided that these outliers are the reality of everyone involved in porn, everywhere.

To call any of the claims you make representative of even a minority would be overstating it, when the discussion is about professional adult media production. We are an industry that is already overly regulated (and growing more so by the day). There’s an increasingly aggressive consort of outside groups that keep a close eye on porn, people like you, hoping for any misstep, so that they can snag their headlines demonizing porn and get a few more page views.

You went a step further. You equivocated the entirety of the illegal global sex trade with the modus operandi of mainstream porn. Asshole.

Seriously? It is not the job of the mainstream porn industry to police illegal human trafficking and exploitive criminal enterprises. That is the job of the police. People like you continue to liken the extremely legal business of porn production to these unnamed baby raping criminals (allegedly).

We’re just normal companies. We’re registered with our respective governments (federal, state, and local). We pay taxes (federal, state, and local). We fill out our permits. We obey the law. And we’re really tired of sissy’s like you talking shit about us.

You seem to be a guy that was way too enthusiastic in your porn consumption. So much so that “normal stuff” ceased being arousing to you, so then you delved deeper and deeper into the more depraved categories of humiliation and rape fantasy porn.

Unfortunately for you, we see this happen all the time. One consumer get’s extremely over-zealous in their consumption habits of a given product. After years of this perpetual self abuse they have an epiphany that they’re doing it wrong. They then make a sweeping declaration of abstinence and begin proselytizing against their formed beloved product. Talk about an ingrate.

You’re like the guy who eats a ton of pizza, get’s fat, and then blames the pizza. Not his own fatbody ways. Just because there’s something wrong with you, doesn’t mean there is something wrong with everyone else in the world.

Your entire presentation could all be one big ruse. Perhaps a very weak attempt to garner sympathy sex from women that are anti-porn by framing yourself as the Knight in Shining Armor, saving all the poor little girls from the big bad Wolves of Whore Street. Lame move bro.

Either that or it’s possible that it’s all a level. Maybe your porn consumption is actually at an all time high, and you are just praying a Heartbleed leak reveals your recent browsing history so that you can be exposed, fulfilling some public humiliation fetish that you developed from years of excessive porn indulgence. That’s not just possible, it’s plausible.

So… umm yeah… Here are some facts I guess.

#1. This general statement you make that every girl working in porn (or any sex trade) is a poor exploited victim that needs the world to save her (by not watching porn) is the most misogyny-laden position on the market today.

This is an old, tired rhetoric. And your view actually does exploit/harm women.

The fact that so many people like you spend their days propagating this erroneous belief is what leads to the widespread discrimination/shaming against girls in porn that you claim to oppose.

Civilians(non porn people) treat female sex workers with a double edged sword of condemnation. On one side, they pity the girl because part of them believes she is being exploited. On the other side, they condemn her because, “she’s kind of asking for it by working in porn.”

It get’s even more vitriolic if a girl actually claims to enjoy what she does. Then she’s delusional or being brain washed. Or just a shameless whore.

What your rhetoric is missing is any of this actually happening in real life.

I know it happens every day in your rape dungeon of a mind. But I’m at work every day, and it doesn’t happen there. The guys from Brazzers aren’t getting any complaints. Vivid’s doing just fine. Kink is booking the biggest names in the industry, and getting great reviews. Thousands of performers, waking up and going to work every day. Why aren’t any of them calling the police and reporting the rape?

I know a lot of girls that work professionally in the porn industry. None of them seem to feel as if they are being exploited/raped by porn companies. They have this weird belief that they’re consenting adults that can do what they’d like to, with whomever they’d like to, at whatever price they want.

The claims you’re making about exploitation just aren’t true. You’re calling crimes that happen around the world every day, porn. You’re wrong. Porn is porn. Crime being caught on video and posted on the internet is still just crime. Please refer to earlier comment about Police, for whose jurisdiction this falls under.

#2. Guys who work in porn are often pretty cool dudes who actually respect and like their co-stars and women in general. This isn’t a universal rule, every industry has their D-bags. But the guys working as male actors are generally cool.

#3. If you want to see porn stars being horribly mistreated, stop by any of the after parties for the main porn conventions. Circle Bar at Hard Rock in Vegas during the AVN week in January is a particulalry prime example.

You’ll get to witness scores of guys, not at all affiliated with the adult industry except as consumers, getting drunk and trolling around to shout rudely at whatever large breasted girl they see because, “it’s porn week, and porn stars are sluts.” This mentality did not come from porn or the aggressive style of porn that’s become popular in recent years. It came from outsiders, weirdo’s, and freaks like you. (and we don’t appreciate it very much.)

#4. Porn HAS gotten violent.

You’re reasoning is wrong again. It should read, “Violent porn has gotten popular.” This wasn’t some intentional plot by porn producers. It was a noticeable trend in viewership changes that the market adapted to in order to survive. It’s probably Grand Theft Auto IV’s fault, so blame Bill Gates, because….Xbox…

Violent porn isn’t bad. Legitimate producers film it every day with consenting actors. People like it, some people even pay for it, and it’s all good.

The massive increase we’ve seen in the past few years can probably be associated with the rise in piracy via tube sites. Which at minute 13, second 25 in your speech you gleefully advocate:

When I sit in the privacy of my room. And I watch porn. Even without paying. No need to pay, it’s free ok, I hope you know now,*laughs* if you’re still consuming. Whatever I am watching is creating a demand, and wherever there is a demand there will be supply. There is a correlation. If I watch pornography of black older women, somebody’s gonna go out and pimp black older women. -Ran Gavrieli

Now… That’s an actual quote. Seriously, watch the video. You actually said those words.

First, you encourage everyone listening to support stolen, pirated content and not pay legitimate, hard working people for the goods and services that they have legally produced. This can be laughed off because, “everybody’s doing it,” but it’s still actually hurting porn performers in reality right now.

Remember those poor little girls you talked about?

When the legitimate companies that gainfully employed them in a safe working environment for the past few years, go out of business because all of their intellectual property is being stolen and distributed for free by actual criminals (the types of people that actually commit the types of crimes you’re accusing all of us of). That actually hurts them.

That drives down wages for everyone in the industry. So much so that a lot of people who had a good thing going are now unable to find work. Some of these girls end up becoming prostitutes, because people like you wouldn’t have them over for dinner.

This is actual damage, in the real world. And it’s not something to be laughed off, douche bag.

And then you seriously said… “If I watch pornography of black older women, somebody’s gonna go out and pimp black older women.”

I mean… Wow… You’re a fucking dummy.

Just because you’re a weirdo that can’t responsibly consume adult content doesn’t mean everyone else in the world is.

Get a real job, fuck face.

Kindly,

Jordan Laubaugh
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