Porn is not an outcome of Internet, it is here from the time immemorial, visit Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh and also Konark Sun Temple in Odisha , it was carved in stone some 1000 to 2500 years back. But the way it has spread its tentacles in last one decade it is due to easy availability online. It is very alarming. as on internet one out of five searches is for Porn. The things seen or discussed before the internet era were private or behind the close doors, suddenly exposed in open. Now anybody can watch Porn any where any time, thanks to Internet.
I have a very interesting story to share. I was working for an Information and Communication Institute in Hyderabad 12 years back and we wanted to create smart classrooms, all participants' computers networked through our server and thus enable them to type his query his keyboard which could directly pop up on the joint screen, in the meantime they could browse internet on his console. One training programme was to be innagurated by a very senior functionaries of our bank. I natural session was in progress a group of 28 participant consisted with 6 ladies.suddenly a nude image popped up on the main big screen , obviously someone among the participant must have browsed porn site and clicked it, big embrassment for all of us. Later it was revealed that it was a pretty aged and senior participant did it! My point is very simple, watching porn in any form is something linked to our genes, net has blown it in public domain.
I have a very interesting story to share. I was working for an Information and Communication Institute in Hyderabad 12 years back and we wanted to create smart classrooms, all participants' computers networked through our server and thus enable them to type his query his keyboard which could directly pop up on the joint screen, in the meantime they could browse internet on his console. One training programme was to be innagurated by a very senior functionaries of our bank. I natural session was in progress a group of 28 participant consisted with 6 ladies.suddenly a nude image popped up on the main big screen , obviously someone among the participant must have browsed porn site and clicked it, big embrassment for all of us. Later it was revealed that it was a pretty aged and senior participant did it! My point is very simple, watching porn in any form is something linked to our genes, net has blown it in public domain.
As the demand from porn sites as well as other medium, porn film production has become a booming industry in America in the recent time. Only a few years back, porn films were also had regular production structure like main stream movies, its own stars also. But this industry has been impacted by the same shifts in production and distribution methods as its mainstream counterpart. And the effect has been similar, resulting in a massive increase in amateur production, due to the affordability of equipment that enables virtually anyone to create and promote media products directly to an audience.
I recently saw "Hot Girls Wanted" ,produced by Rashida Khan, daughter of music legend Quincy Jones. This documentary tries to through light on the relationship dynamics between amateur porn producers and performers. The film has been well received by critics following its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was released last month on released at Netflix , it raises a wide range of issues, including but not limited to misogyny, mental and physical healthcare of budding porn stars..
The documentary's co-directors Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus have tackled the porn industry in the past also. Back in 2012, the duo made "Sexy Baby." It was also a documentary, but broader in scope, "Sexy Baby" examines the psychological and sociological impact of porn and popular culture, through the point-of-view of three different characters.
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The documentary is real, subject is very refreshing , and it produces the sharpest insights into casualisation of pornography industry. This model of porn production is a lot like cab service provider Uber, that lets people sign up to provide driving services using their personal cars. Both the new porn model and Uber have some advantages for consumers over the existing service providers, but they also shift major costs and risks onto workers themselves.
Unlike legacy cab companyy, Uber will tell you exactly who is coming to pick you up and gives you GPS information about how close the driver is and when he or she is expected to arrive, a dramatic improvement over calling for a cab that may never show up The amateur porn boom provides greater variety at more competitive prices than the old studio-based model, and because it’s less dependent on geography, makers of pornographic films can more easily avoid regulations, such as the California requirement that sex performers use barrier protection in their films. Both these models also shift costs onto workers and away from the companies who profit from their work ,Uber drivers must deduct from their earnings the costs of gas, car insurance and vehicle maintenance.
Tressa one of the girl featured in the documentary says "Being a porn star is very expensive, and it sucked, because you’re always spending money,” explaining how she had to shoulder many of the costs involved in her work, including lingerie for costumes and travel, as well as medical treatment when she had a painful cyst. “I only made $25,000 in four months and after I got out of porn I had $2,000 in my bank account.”
The filmmakers contrasted stories such as Tressa’s with that of Belle Knox, who worked in a sex film in a hope that it would help finance her higher education, because they wanted to make the point that her story was unusual.Knox was able to make substantial amounts of money because she capitalized on her notoriety after a fellow student outed her, not because the work is actually remunerative.
Riley is a porn recruiter profiled in the documentary said she wouldn’t even have made enough to pay for one class, because there is this concept, and I think especially when you’re 18 or 19, you’re not thinking about net profit, you’re not doing an analysis before you go in. You’re just seeing the promise of $800 cash, but that’s not a lot of money. The reality is they’re paying for their flights, they’re paying for their hotel when they have to travel. At the end it’s not really fulfilling what it is they think they’re going to get. That hopefully will be a big takeaway from the film. This is definitely one of the things you should consider, that you are not going to come home with a ton of cash.
Uber, the cab service as well as the new business model for the porn industry are possible because of new technology. In case of Uber, it’s smartphones, on the other hand with new porn business model , it’s cheap, small cameras and services such as Craigslist that make it easy to recruit new candidates. Those technologies sometimes create real benefits: Jade, who was doing abuse porn during the period when “Hot Girls Wanted” was filming, has switched to camming — doing live chats with customers — which lets her control the environment in which she works and means she can keep all the money she makes. She really does enjoy camming, She has fans and regulars and a lot of time people just want to talk to her and they don’t even ask her to do anything sexual, because she really just gets to be herself.
But breaking out of an old model can mean escaping regulations that protect workers. Uber drivers are fighting to be the regular employees rather than independent contractors, to get access to the benefits and protections that would be due them if they actually worked for the company. Working in Other States rather than in California means that the subjects portrayed in “Hot Girls Wanted” aren’t subject to the laws that require condoms to be used in scenes. Some of the movie’s queasiest moments involve the women debating whether to take on certain sex acts for extra pay and calculating their takeaway if they have to buy Plan B as a result. And this documentary makes the point that porn seems attractive in part because other options seem worse. “Do I want to be in my parents’ shoes when I’m their age?” muses Rachel in the movie. “No. I don’t want to go to college, meet someone when I’m in college, marry them, stay in my home town, have a bunch of kids and then die there.”
Most of the budding porn stars would have been first-generation college. So it was not really something that they had sort of been preparing to do all their lives,When asked them about college, they would say I don’t know, it puts you in so much debt and you don’t get a better job anyway .The recruiter says I’m going to send you a plane ticket. And that’s why they do it. None of the girls we met went into it because they were dying to be porn stars. Having sex on camera and having to play the part of a porn star was an aside, and it was what they had to do to achieve what they were really after, which was freedom and money and adventure.
Clearly the documentary leaves lot unsaid. It depicts devaluation of moral standard of the society all time low where the college girls are willing to shoot sexual acts before camera knowing fully well that this will reach to public without any fear, shame or guilt.
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The problem with documentaries about sex work always risk falling prey to moralizing that doesn’t have much to do with the well-being of workers themselves. “Hot Girls Wanted,” certainly has concerns about the ways in which consumer demands affect the kind of pornography that’s getting produced and the way doing sex work affects the private lives of the women who are its subjects. The desire for movies featuring women who are actually having sex on camera for the first time, as opposed to those who are just pretending to be “the girl next door,” certainly drives the Craigslist recruitment of very young women.
Rashida Jones, the producer of this documentary, is the daughter of music legend Quincy Jones, it is her exploration of a porn series called “Latina Abuse,” that Jade, one of their subjects, stars in, reveals a virulent combination of racism and misogyny. It is really very uncomfortable for an Indian like me when “Hot Girls Wanted” explores how Tressa, one of the main character , negotiates her work in pornography with her disapproving mother and her boyfriend, Kendall, whose initial support gives way to deep concern.
Rashida Jones, the producer of this documentary, is the daughter of music legend Quincy Jones, it is her exploration of a porn series called “Latina Abuse,” that Jade, one of their subjects, stars in, reveals a virulent combination of racism and misogyny. It is really very uncomfortable for an Indian like me when “Hot Girls Wanted” explores how Tressa, one of the main character , negotiates her work in pornography with her disapproving mother and her boyfriend, Kendall, whose initial support gives way to deep concern.
The documentary’s real, where it produces the sharpest insights in the casualisation of the pornography industry. This model of porn production is a lot similar to new cab service Uber, that lets people sign up to provide driving services using their personal cars. Both the new porn model and cab service Uber have some advantages for consumers over the existing service providers, but they also shift major costs and risks onto workers themselves.
Unlike legacy cab companies, Uber will tell you exactly who is coming to pick you up and gives you GPS information about how close the driver is and when he or she is expected to arrive, a dramatic improvement over calling for a cab that may never show up. Similarly this amateur porn boom provides greater variety at more competitive prices than the old studio-based model, and because it’s less dependent on geography, makers of pornographic films can more easily avoid regulations, such as the California requirement that sex performers use barrier protection in their films.
See the stark similarities in both the business models, they also shift costs onto workers and away from the companies who profit from their work. One of the character in the documentary expresses “Being a porn star is very expensive, and it sucked, because you’re always spending money,” explaining how she had to shoulder many of the costs involved in her work, including lingerie for costumes and travel, as well as medical treatment when she had a painful cyst. “I only made $25,000 in four months and after I got out of porn I had $2,000 in my bank account.”
The filmmakers contrasted stories such as Tressa’s with that of Belle Knox, who worked in the sex films because she thought that it would help finance her higher education, because they wanted to make the point that her story was unusual, co-director Ronna Gradus said. Knox was able to make substantial amounts of money because she capitalized on her notoriety after a fellow student outed her, not because the work is actually remunerative.
Porn star recruiter Reily in this documentary said she wouldn’t even have made enough to pay for one class,” Gradus said. “Because there is this concept, and I think especially when you’re 18 or 19, you’re not thinking about net profit, you’re not doing an analysis before you go in. You’re just seeing the promise of $800 cash, but that’s not a lot of money. The reality is they’re paying for their flights, they’re paying for their hotel when they have to travel. At the end it’s not really fulfilling what it is they think they’re going to get. That hopefully will be a big takeaway from the film. If girls who are carried away with Craig List advertisements and thinking to work in the casual porn industry watch this documentary they will realise that they are not going to come home with a ton of cash.
Uber taxi service and the new business model for the porn industry become possible because of new technology. In case of Uber, it’s smartphones; with porn, it’s cheap, small cameras and services such as Craigslist that make it easy to recruit new candidates. Those technologies sometimes create real benefits: Jade, who was doing abuse porn during the period when “Hot Girls Wanted” was filming, preferred to switch to camming — doing live chats with customers — where she can better control the environment in which she works and means she can keep all the money she makes.
Gradus feels that the girl really does enjoy camming, she has fans and regulars and a lot of time people just want to talk to her and they don’t even ask her to do anything sexual, because she really just gets to be herself. One of the things that was hardest for her rather than in making more conventional pornographic movies, was not even the sex work, but people saying, ‘Stop being so funny,’ and ‘Stop having so much personality,’ and ‘Tone it down.'”
Documentary also talks about breaking out of an old model can mean escaping regulations that protect workers. Again compare with Uber drivers who are struggling to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors, to get access to the benefits and protections that would be due them if they actually worked for the company. Working in other states rather than in California means that the subjects portrayed in “Hot Girls Wanted” aren’t subject to the laws that require condoms to be used in scenes to protect themselves from STD. Some of the movie’s queasiest moments involve the women debating whether to take on certain sex acts for extra pay and calculating their takeaway if they have to buy Plan B as a result.
The documentary makes the point that porn seems attractive in part because other options seem worse. “Do I want to be in my parents’ shoes when I’m their age?” muses Rachel in the movie. “No. I don’t want to go to college, meet someone when I’m in college, marry them, stay in my home town, have a bunch of kids and then die there."
Most of these porn stars would have been first-generation college. So it was not really something that they had sort of been preparing to do all their lives. When the film probe them about college, they say don’t know, it puts you in so much debt and you don’t get a better job anyway … The porn recruiter says I’m going to send you a plane ticket. And that’s why they do it. None of the girls director met went into it because they were dying to be porn stars. Having sex on camera and having to play the part of a porn star was an aside, and it was what they had to do to achieve what they were really after, which was freedom and money and adventure.
But this new porn business model isn’t exactly a reliable source of those things, either. Riley, the recruiter, estimates that most women will drop out of the industry within a few months or a year at most. The real question raised by the documentary is not only about porn itself, but a lack of other, more sustainable opportunities.
Watching this film scares with the thought that where our social values are leading to young generation, as the girls in question come from average families and just for the sake of money they are agreed to do sexual acts before camera knowing fully well that the shoot will be used for larger public exposure.It also exposes double standard of our society where religious places teach one kind of moral standard and tere is a complete silence over this kind of permissiveness .Any way for few minutes forget about morals and watch it.
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