The 1990s are calling!
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After reading that,it sounds like the movie âBoogie Nightsâ was a realistic portrayal of the industry,
I would have preferred more discussion on what was learned, which was little. What Ms. Dunn seems to have learned is that pornography is stigmatized, and the physical norms around sex workers seem to be different than around âcivilians.â Both of these areas could have been explored a little more, with some quick interviews done with some of the sex workers themselves.
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One of the more interesting, intelligent and relevant articles Iâve read on TPM of late. Well done!
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"My cab driver originally drove me around back because he thought I was a stripper, which was the second most flattering thing thatâs ever happened to me. (The first was two years ago when a woman at the mall thought my hair was extensions.) "
Looking like a junkie with daddy issues and glue on hair is the greatest goal any woman can hope to achieveâŚwell that and marrying George Clooney -
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âIch bin ein Berlinerâ
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Features such as these lend the site a touch of the old tradition of magazines. If readers donât get that or they want a site to be monothematic they can afford to have their minds expanded.
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Donât bother reading, just get âBoogie Nightsâ from Netflix.
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Yikes! This excruciatingly weak, substance-free, Cosmo-reject vanity piece was seemingly written in the hope of making its author seem cool and interesting, a goal it fell far short of. Even if we were only to compare it to other articles in whatever âThe Sliceâ is, it pales embarrassingly in comparison to something like Alice Hinesâ recent piece.
What other incisive Gabby Dunn columns should we look forward to in the future? Suggestions of mine include: âmore than one person has told me Iâm hot today,â âmy intelligence and general knowledge frequently surprise peopleâ and âI got a tweet from Harry Styles, you guys.â
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UmâŚI actually have. In both categories. Itâs not demonizing to suggest that porn is the visible side of exploitive practices which traffic in human flesh. Asking a stripper if he/she likes his or her job is beside the point. Your charming hypothetical âHappy Hookerâ may or may not exist, but the conditions most people in those industries have to endure are extremely harsh, with a lot of bad outcomes at the end of the road.
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This piece is very odd and braggy. She mentions that everyone at the AVN expo thought she was in porn (letâs ignore the fact that A LOT of non porn women go to the AVN expo, just as fans of the industry) and she brags that a cab driver thought she was a stripper (score!). She seems like the geek girl who was invited to the cool kids party and, in her head, doesnât belong there. She takes on an heir of superiority that is odd and unfounded. She comes of as elitist and a bit sexist and almost brags that men at the AVN expo were touching all over her (if she had any balls, she would have told them to back the f*ck off, rather than act like it was some sort of compliment). I have no idea how old the author is, but she impresses me as very young and sexually (and worldly) inexperienced. I would have liked to have heard more about her experience as an âoutsider looking inâ, so to speak, rather than just hear about some fan girl who got to go to the prom with the captain of the proverbial football team. The title of the article promised to tell me âwhat she learnedâ, but all I learned was that porn stars donât wear underwear and James Deen has crappy taste in dresses.
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Meh.
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Ron Jeremy - the Human Hedgehog
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What you saidâŚ
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I read the article with the expectation of learning what she learned and learned that (1) the author finds it cool that people think she is a sex worker when she isnât, (2) men who attend porn conventions pretty much think all the women who attend porn conventions are whores, so they donât have any boundaries and (3) if you dress and look like a stripper, a cab driver treats you like one when you go to a strip club.
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Hey who put those pubic hairs on his can of Coke?
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The impression I got was that bush is making a comeback.
Does politics have to intrude into everything?!?!?!
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I for one am pleased to welcome back our naturally hirsute overlordsâŚer, overladiesâŚ
âŚBecause the Captain doesnât like his companions to look or act prepubescent.
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LOL. Thanks.
Or Daily Beast. Frankly, their obsession with porn was what led me to delete that particular bookmark. Hope it doesnât happen hereâŚ
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