Porn performers say their on-camera acts are staged fantasies, not how real sex works. But video makes it look realistic, leaving viewers ashamed of their own bodies and vulnerable to partners who exploit that shame.
their bodies you see in porn, how they perform sexually. Is that how most people operate or look the way what you see in porn? Yes or no? No. No, not at all. In fact, when they interview people from the porn industry, the performers in porn say we don't do in our real life any of that stuff because in our real life we want pleasure and that's for other people's fantasy and they think it's real. The danger of porn today is that it's video. Porn 30 years ago was still messed up, but it was still camera, no joke. There was very little video. So you had to use your imagination, and people didn't really know how things worked. But now they see it on video and go, oh, that's how it works. And not realizing, no, no, that's a performance you're watching, right? So that is the danger. Yeah, and people feel horrible about their bodies. That's not healthy either. Because by the way, if somebody feels awful about their body, are they more likely to be controlled by their partner? Yes. Yeah, they are, 'cause if a partner just has to tell you you're beautiful to get what they want, they'll say what they have to say to get what they want, if they're abusive or they're predatory, right? So that's their fault, not yours. We wanna catch that.
