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Scenology — By Adele on 17 June, 2009 10:13 pmThe web comic XKCD is always amusing, and sometimes on topic:
This comes the next day after I spent some time talking shop with a pair of other models. Among other things, we discussed this: to what extent do our films influence other people’s view of the spanking scene and spanking relationships?
If they do – at all – is it our responsibility to stay away from companies that promote what seems to us an unrealistic, somehow warped view of the kinky life? Or do we just merrily bend over, and let the surfers be responsible for their own psyche?
I’m attempting to draw up a set of Rulez for All Modelz, but I do have a simple set of guidelines to assess any offer of a job:
1. If it smells, don’t shoot for it.
2. If somebody else claims it smells, rely on your own nose.
3. People are responsible for sorting out stuff inside their own heads.
4. But if you can help with the spring brain-cleaning, by all means lend a hand.
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WOW!!!! This hits a big nail right on the head, (pun intended) If I’m looking for ah something to amuse Me, I very often find My self in the OLD vidio files? The lighting was substandard, the sketch was (spur of the moment) and the cameras were (rent-a-center) quaility. But somehow these old flicks hold a place in My heart.
I LOVE that you read XKCD. That is so awesome.
That is an excellent one from XKCD!
I was just having a very similar discussion with a friend of mine who’s been writing kinky erotica and working in the adult industry for years, although the main focus of our discussion was condoms, and whether companies should insist on all-condoms-all-the-time, and even if written erotica publishers should insist upon characters using condoms in stories! (This has happened to me — I once had a story accepted, but was told to go back and write-in a condom!)
We decided that you can’t *force* people to fantasize about safer sex (I know for myself condoms don’t feature in to my fantasies!) but we couldn’t really figure out how to keep adult actors safe from HIV without them! So, really, we didn’t decide anything, except that people shouldn’t be shamed into thinking that fantasizing about sex-without-condoms was evil and bad, but that porn stars shouldn’t loose jobs if they won’t work sans condom….
I like those Rulez. I like working on the assumption that we are all responsible grownups. I know that’s not always true, but I think we have to try to operate, as much as possible, as if it were. Otherwise my brain would melt and I’d feel guilty for acting in anything more salacious than the Tellytubbies.
If a job is something that squicks me personally, then it’s probably something I’d be better off not doing. But because it squicks me, not because I’m responsible for other people’s reactions. Hmm.
Zille: how funny about the erotica. Somehow I feel like the written word should be exempt from those sorts of rules, but if all the porn producers just started matter-of-factly having actors wear condoms it could only be a good thing. I guess it’s that I can only worry so much (see: brain melt) about what hypothetical people may be hypothetically influenced by, but I can worry quite easily about the real effects on the real lives of the real people who are porn actors.
XKCD is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. I rubbed shoulders with the writer at a party once. /fangirl
As you guys are no doubt aware, HIV (and therefore condoms) is the big issue right now in Porn Valley, USA:
http://www.gramponante.com/2009/06/inspectors-visit-aim-and-porn.html