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"The Wolfenden Committee Report (1957), which informed the debate in the United Kingdom, states:

Views on what the best legal framework on prostitution should be are often influenced by whether one can view prostitution as morally acceptable or not; indeed Save the Children wrote:[10] "The issue, however, gets mired in controversy and confusion when prostitution too is considered as a violation of the basic human rights of both adult women and minors, and equal to sexual exploitation per se. From this standpoint then, trafficking and prostitution become conflated with each other."

In December 2012, UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, released the "Prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections for sex workers in low- and middle- income countries" document that contains the following "Good practice recommendations":

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sex workers are considered one of the key populations at risk for HIV infection,[29] and sex workers who inject drugs are at even more risk due to unprotected sex, syringe sharing, alcohol or drug dependence, and violence.[30] Stigma, poverty, and exclusion from legal social services have increased their vulnerability to HIV infection.[29] Health risks and transmission of HIV as well as other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are increased in incidences where condom usage and accessibility is limited or used to identify and criminalize sex workers. Many sex workers are managed by 'gatekeepers' who may be brothel owners, clients, or law enforcement figures, who often dictate condom usage.[31] In Cambodia, a survey showed that 30% of sex workers who refused to put on condoms were sexually coerced. Fear of law enforcement and incarceration also discourages possession of condoms since they provide evidence for officers to prosecute and arrest.[31] Evidence suggests that HIV risk can be sharply reduced when sex workers are able to negotiate safer sex.[11] Decriminalization of sex work decreases the risk of HIV infection by breaking down stigma and increasing access to health services, reducing the risk of HIV/AIDS and STIs.[11]

According to a 2020 study, criminalisation of sex work in one district in East Java, compared to neighbouring districts where sex work was not criminalised, increased the rate of sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers by 58%, made their income after leaving sex work lower on average, and their children more likely to begin working to supplement household income rather than go to school (as school expenses were harder to meet).[32] A 2018 study found that the 2003–2009 decriminalization of indoor prostitution in Rhode Island lead to reduced sexually transmitted infections (female gonorrhoea incidence declined by over 40%) and fewer rapes (reported rape offences fell by 30%).[33] A 2017 study found that the introduction of legal prostitution zones in the Netherlands substantially reduced drug-related crime, sexual abuse and rape (the latter two by 30–40% in the first two years)."

"BYRON HURT: One of the best things I’ve ever been able to do in my life was to throw a football. I was nice with mine. Before games I would listen to hip-hop to get psyched up. LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” usually got me ready to play. I grew up like a typical boy in America. I was a star high school and college quarterback, a ladies’ man, and a cue dog who listened and partied to a whole lot of hip-hop, without really questioning the lyrics I was listening to. Rap music’s lyrics and images fell right in line with my masculine identity. I was that guy. That’s who I was. And then my whole life changed. When I graduated from college, I was hired by Northeastern University’s Sport in Society to educate young men about men’s violence against women. They figured boys and men would listen to an ex-jock like me. [Byron Hurt addressing class] When I was your age, nobody came into my high school and talked to me about men’s violence against women, especially men.

BYRON HURT: When I first started doing it, I didn’t really know much about gender issues, anything like that. I was totally intimidated and totally unaware about what I could do as a man to change any of that stuff. But I started learning a whole lot about masculinity, and I became very introspective about my own self as a man. Every time I do a discussion or group, rap music always comes up. People say, what about hip-hop? Hip-hop is so violent. Hip-hop is so misogynistic. Hip-hop is always bashing gays and whatever. And I would always defend hip-hop. But the more I grew and the more I learned about sexism and violence and homophobia, the more those lyrics became unacceptable to me. And I began to become very conflicted about the music that I loved. One day I was sitting home at the crib watching music videos. And I was seeing video after video after video of rappers posing and posturing, throwing money at the camera, mad women around them dancing. And I was like yo, I need to do a film that breaks all of this stuff down. So I raised money, bought a video camera, hired a film crew, and began my journey to examine the representations of manhood in hip-hop culture."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAwTnJWPyFg (The actual documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3Trr4LvKI (Panel discussion of the documentary)

https://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Hip-Hop-Transcript.pdf (The word-for-word account of the documentary)

I despise the brokenness in families and society's callous attitudes towards disenfranchised communities!

"A male ally actively supports gender equity at work and in life. He recognizes the challenges and biases that women continue to face, and takes intentional steps to build an environment where everyone has opportunities to succeed and advance. Male allies who champion gender equity help businesses win bigger."

"We define male allies as members of an advantaged group committed to building relationships with women, expressing no sexism in their own behavior, understanding the social privilege conferred by their gender, and demonstrating active efforts to address gender inequities at work and in society."

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hqj2LM7Cio

In an industry traditionally dominated by men as directors and viewers, porn has evolved to begin to include women – and transfolk – as a creators of porn and as an audience.

Whether it be for profit of increasing sales to an untapped market and/ or for the passion of including those whose desires and sexualities have been left out, the options in porn have significantly changed. Many existing studios have set up a new arm of their business to cater to this market and other companies have emerged to specifically target this group of consumers. With some similarities and differences in markets and goals, they all define themselves differently.

Female-Friendly Porn:

Also known as “couples porn” or “romance porn”, this style targets mainly straight women to watch alone or with a partner. The films are generally a little softer than mainstream porn, with fewer facials (men ejaculating on women’s faces) and anal scenes, more kissing and more sensuality. Many films have a romantic element. They are generally heterosexual and the performers are usually white, thin and young and follow gender stereotypes. In the big studios, the performers are the same ones used on the mainstream sides of the industry. Sometimes the directors are women.

Some of these female-friendly films are also labeled lesbian. These are also softer in terms of style of sex, using the same performers following stereotypes of lesbian looks (feminine) and behaviour. Since the advent of Fifty Shades of Grey, the themes have begun to include some kink, but gender lines are still generally the same. They tend to pay more attention to detail in the filming and include more female pleasure than the mainstream options.

Ethical Porn:

Discussion of ethical porn is on the rise, although few companies themselves are using this branding per se. The ethical standards that they espouse are generally that performers are paid a fair wage with fair labour practices, given a choice about the kinds of sex that they have and with whom, and what kinds of safer sex supplies that they wish to use. Some employ a revenue-sharing model between producer and performers.

Ethical porn concerns itself mainly with the working conditions of the performers-ensuring fair labour practices so that the viewer can be assured that there is no trafficking, pressure to perform or lack of consent on set.

Feminist porn:

Feminist porn takes ethical porn and female-friendly porn one step further. It includes the ethics of fair labour practices and working conditions, respect for performers, and offering choices of kinds of sex that they wish to have. It strives to appeal to women and trans folk of all varieties as well as men, who also often appreciate the alternative option.

In addition, feminist porn concerns itself also with expanding the boundaries of representation in film: more diversity of bodies, sexes and gender expressions, desires and sexual acts. Rather than espousing the same old stereotypes and scenes, especially of women and marginalized communities, it reflects many more types of people and pleasure in its films. It strives to portray all of the performers having power in their pleasure, even if that power is to choose to give it away. In essence, feminist porn strives to appeal to those left out by the mainstream as well as mainstream viewers, create positive business practices with its performers and reflect the diversity of desires and pleasures experienced in the population in general."

Link #1 : https://feministporn.org/

Link #2: https://puckerup.com/feminist-porn/feminist-porn-resources/what-is-fp/

Perhaps one of the biggest indications that you're into exhibitionism is that you find yourself regularly fantasizing about being watched. Whether alone or with a partner: "If a common theme to the fantasies that bring you to climax are about someone observing you naked or engaged in a sexual act," then you might be an exhibitionist, says Stray Conger.

"If this fantasy is a core component to your erotic template, you might explore what it would be like to bring that fantasy into reality—with consenting adults and legal behavior, of course," she says.

Exhibitionism and voyeurism actually go hand-in-hand, Vrangalova says.

"Exhibitionism and voyeurism are like two sides of a coin. Exhibitionism is about the possibility of being seen by others being arousing, while voyeurism is about watching others naked or having sex being arousing," she tells mbg. "Like exhibitionism, voyeurism is quite common (visual sexual stimuli is inherently arousing), and perfectly normal as long as it involves consenting adults."

Like with exhibitionism, consent is key to voyeurism and making the two kinks function well together.

"As a voyeur, I've had to learn how to respectfully enjoy the excitement and pleasure of someone that wants to be seen, especially in intimate settings during any group play or kink scenes," says Tiana GlittersaurusRex, polyamorous educator and co-founder of The Sex Work Survival Guide. "Watching verbal and nonverbal cues, how their bodies react or move, and knowing my attention is an additional form of participation is what makes the delicate dance of watcher and watched all the more titillating. The entertainment industry is worth billions because we live in a society that has people that love to perform and the fans that love to ogle."

Vadala called her alternative vision for porn “positive sexual role modeling.” It employed ideas developed by members of Club 90, a sex workers collective founded in 1983 that met regularly to discuss the industry. Vadala decided that her sets would be clean, respectful, and put women in control of their own images. Her films would include performers of color, dramatically underrepresented in the industry, and older actresses. Most importantly, she was inspired to change how women were represented in pornographic films: “These movies are sold based on the women,” Vadala told German feminist erotic filmmaker Petra Joy in 2008, “but our sexuality was completely ignored in them.” I LOVE ALL OF THIS!

"By contrast, Vadala’s stories led the viewer through lush, sensual settings depicting women’s pleasure in seduction and foreplay as well as intercourse. Rites of Passion (1988), for example, features men and women discovering mutual pleasure through Tantric sex. In Three Daughters (1986), sisters explore their sexuality; their middle-aged parents also rediscover their own erotic relationship. The Femme Chocolat series (2007) puts black women at the center of the action in settings that range from vacation beaches to the music business. As important, Vadala also introduced new workplace ethics that protected female performers’ physical safety, gave them the power and status to make their own creative decisions on the set, and eventually, provided the opportunity to direct their own films.

By 2006 so many producers and directors had followed Vadala’s lead that Toronto’s Good for Her adult store established the annual Feminist Porn Awards (FPAs), which set criteria for what constituted feminist pornography. To qualify for an award, a film had to use erotic narratives to challenge stereotypes. In porn, this includes featuring performers of color, trans*, fat, older, or disabled performers, who are typically stereotyped or relegated to the fetish market in mainstream porn. To qualify as feminist pornography, the director had to put the actor’s pleasure and agency at the center of the story, ask for actors’ consent for any sexual act, permit actors to revoke consent, and provide clean and safe working conditions.

Before she died of ovarian cancer in September 2015, Vadala had become a pornography legend. She had produced eighteen films, directing and writing most of them. An almost unexplored figure in the histories of sexuality and feminism, Vadala led the way for today’s feminist porn entrepreneurs, women and queers who view themselves not just as pornographers, but as educators, writers, activists, artists, and intellectuals. Most of all, Vadala set a precedent: she responded to feminist critiques of porn by making feminist porn of her own. Her movies were “more about the quality of the sex rather than how outrageous and violating it can be,” she wrote on her website. “Women tend to thank me for creating movies that are sensitive to what they want to see, that encompass class and taste, and make them feel good about themselves and their sexuality. Men thank me for creating movies that they can share with their woman.” I LOVE ALL OF THIS TOO!

Unlike other industries, there are no consumer reports for porn (despite gossip about a Kitemark for porn), so it's mostly up to us to decide, preferably before we get to the bedroom. Here are some general guidelines you can use when you're searching for ethical porn.

"Feminist porn performers are a vital part of the feminist porn movement. Ethical porn production typically focuses on how well sex workers and performers and treated and this means that those who appear in porn typically have more say in the production. More and more feminist porn performers are actively speaking out about their role in porn production and many are also working behind the camera."

"Feminist porn directors seek to make pornography that reflects their own feminist ideals and their own thoughts on what makes for good porn. The directors listed here all have  their own approaches to making porn, such that it is difficult to make broad statements about genre or type. This, however, is typical of feminist porn; it is self-identification as feminist that is important and the subsequent diversity of visions reflects how broad a church this movement can be. Here you’ll find feminist directors who make hardcore or gonzo porn, those who make high-end features and those who shoot “amateur” content. Some have degrees in filmmaking or the arts, others are self-taught.

There are also a significant number of performers who have moved behind the camera to make their own style of porn. This typically brings a sensitivity toward the performers and an understanding of what’s required in a porn performance."

Her vision for adult- and sex-work by 2030: “My dream would be that adult performers and industry people could be looked at like any other entertainment entity. You have other physical laborers, like athletes, and they get to have multimillion-dollar contracts. It would be great to see [adult] performers be sponsored as the face of a company, a Victoria’s Secret line or something like that. It’s little things like that that make the general public be like, ‘Huh, they really are a normal person.’”

Her vision for adult- and sex-work by 2030: “I would love it if we had a mandatory law that made it so you have to be trained on a basic level, like every other industry, in sexual harassment and assault before you set foot on an adult film set. I also think there should be a reporting system, so it’s easy to report the predator, and there should be something where the companies have a way to deal with assault or harassment that would be incorporated with the reporting system. And before a performer gets to set, they should have thorough knowledge of what they’re doing that day and have paperwork that outlines that.”