good article - it's not about porn really, that story isn't extraordinary, many families have a story similar to that one. mental illness, drug addiction affect millions of families - his sister just happened to end up in porn which adds some sexiness and uniqueness to the story.
the ending is good - he says he doesn't fear that one day his child will discover that his aunt was in porn - what upsets him is that his child won't even recognize his sister because of the ravages of drugs. the porn industry is a refuge for troubled girls - always has been always will be - porn industry didn't create their problems, we, and when I say we, I'm not just talking about people who shoot porn, i'm including every person who sells it and every person who consumes it are the beneficiaries of some family's dysfunction.
there are also a lot of girls these days who get into porn who are perfectly normal - well, fairly normal - no more fucked up than their peers who aren't in porn.
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"The hardest thing of all for me isn't the thought of my son finding a picture of a naked woman and recognizing her as his aunt. It's the thought of him finding a picture of a naked woman and not recognizing her as his aunt. Of him not recognizing her at all."
I read this article in the print version of this magazine about a month ago. I took this line to refer to the way men consume porn and do not recognize the women as people with minds and feelings and dreams of their own. The woman becomes a sex robot instead of a human being. I thought it was a pretty powerful ending to the story, taken in that context.
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