To answer your question, I think all men and women in the porn ‘industry’ are exploited. While many, Jenna Jameson most likely among them, would claim that it is simply freedom of expression or a way of using what they have to make money - some may even tell us it is ‘fun’- I believe if total honesty were employed we would find there was some trauma, some incident or series of incidents, or conditions of growing up that existed to twist what should be a beautiful exchange between two people into something that is a vehicle for making a living.

The difference between a ‘porn star’ like Jenna Jameson and those who are coerced, or forced into it as a way of survival (those who make the overwhelming majority of pornographic material) is like the difference between a $1000 a night ‘call girl’ and a $20 ‘crack whore.’

That difference? There isn’t any.

They both suffer from a lack of self-esteem. They both think this is the best they can do. They both come from a place of misguided morals, pain, abandonment, abuse, or combinations of the above. Dig deep enough and we can find the reasons someone would want to debase themselves in public.

They are there somewhere.

Of course, the way men view women is the primary reason for a lot of what we write about. Just as it is difficult for me to understand why there is so much racial division at this point in our development as a nation, I find it equally disturbing that women are far too often still valued simply as objects of desire for the way they look, rather than as individuals to befriend, admire, and love because of their intelligence, creativity, and ability to contribute to life in an infinite number of positive ways.

Not all men view women this way, of course, but at one point several years ago, there were over 4.2 million pornographic websites visited by over 40 million individuals daily with men accounting for over 75% of the audience.

I can’t see the number doing anything but increasing.

As for the men in porn, well……men are pigs, are they not? OK, so actually, maybe they all aren’t, but those who live up to that label I believe do so because of some trauma, incident, series of incidents, or conditions of growing up similar to those which cause women to seek a ‘career’ in the sex ‘industry.’

There should be no sex ‘industry’ or porn ‘industry’ just like there should be no prison ‘industry.’ Sex should be a beautiful exchange between two people, and prison should be only for those who are a physical danger to the rest of the world.

And ‘industry’ should be a term used for endeavors that create something of value to society.

I could go on, and on, but you asked a simple question and this is your space, after all. I hope there is an answer in there somewhere.