The Porn Industry and Self-Esteem

Scenology — By Adele on 25 July, 2006 9:29 pm

I heard a curious record today, in the smart-ass genre of “rhythm-and-speak”. It’s called “Underwear Goes Inside the Pants”, by Lazy-B. It’s the next cool thing in the UK, though apparently it was out in the States two years ago.

It has the following lyrics (bear with me, it’s poetry):

The schools now… It is all about self-esteem in the schools .
Build the kids’ self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves.
If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who’s gonna to dance in our strip clubs?
What’s going to happen to our porno industry?
These women don’t just grown on trees.
It takes lots of drunk daddys missing a lot of dance recitals before you decide to blow a goat on the internet for fifty bucks.
And if that disappears, where does that leave me on a Friday night with my new high speed connection?

That’s an interesting interpretation of what makes adult industry, but the conclusion is sound: being in porn makes you feel good about yourself.

I would drink to that if I was the drinking type.