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Originally posted by Kiko_Wu
I don't buy most of the desensitization argument (although being publicly threatened by the owner of one of these sites makes you wonder). I think they are repugnant but I also I think there is definitely a place for fish hooking, Max Hardcore and other forms of consensual degradation in the adult industry.
My argument is that the adult industry as a whole should not been seen as embracing it and should make ever effort to distance itself.
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Are you not free to distance yourself from it? Your public posts here would suggest to me that you are, as am I. Webmasters as a whole will distance themselves from certain genres of porn by simply refusing to promote sites that contain such content.
Point: You are in porn, you are producing and promoting porn Kiko. If you have any content within your sites that depict a man cumming on a woman's face, that is enough for the conservative pro-censorship crowd to warrant you being called a promoter of female degredation. It doesn't matter to them that your model did it willingly or was well paid, they only want to remove all forms of sexual expression from the net, with the welfare of "the children" in mind of course. It's always about the children with them.
Point: Easton made you an offer. I assume it was to be polite and complimentary to you, as was the impression his original post gave me. Your refusal to accept his offer and your vilification of his company's business practices could just as easily have been handled privately, no?
Point: Well, question really..... Where do we draw the line? Where do we begin to "distance ourselves" from other genres within the industry? I say it's up to each individual webmaster as to what they want to promote. Crying out for an industry-wide movement towards separating everyone further isn't really the most productive idea I've heard lately. What about webmasters who run a plethora of sites that span across just about every porn genre there is? I myself run a straight-up model promotion site (which by the way contains quite a few portfolios of models that do nothing BUT clothed work), all the way to a few TGP's that contain and promote all manner of hardcore and fetish content. Should I be rushing to shut down half my network over this?
It has to be a personal choice for each of us. You've made your position very clear, and you've taken this opportunity to publicly state that you don't care for certain brands of porn out there. Great. Super. Others have taken the same opportunity afforded you to voice their opinions as well. Shouldn't the debate pretty much end there?
Because for me, the line that I've drawn for myself and my own sites is that I won't promote anything to do with outright rape or rape-fantasy, no CP, no beasty stuff and no scat crappola. Beyond that, I accept galleries of pretty much any sort of niche or genre. You have a right to say publicly that I'm wrong or I'm not doing enough, but I in turn have the right to say that I am NOT wrong and that you are out to lunch in your opinion of me. Correct?
It all comes down to worrying about distancing yourself..... and your own business, from whatever you want to distance yourself from. Let others worry about their own businesses and let's all get on with it.