It’s Time to Stop the Unfair Violation of Porn Performers’ Rights

The stigma attached to the adult entertainment industry has paved the way for porn performers to be raped, fired, and denied banking services with no apparent legal recourse

Emme Witt-Eden
An Injustice!
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7 min readApr 18, 2020

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Porn performers aren’t respected in our society and nothing underlines this fact better than the Stormy Daniels/Donald Trump scandal. When the world learned that President Trump had tried to buy porn performer Stormy Daniel’s silence about their affair before the 2016 election, she was the one who was skewered in the court of public opinion. Trump, on the other hand, emerged unscathed.

This is business as usual when it comes to the treatment of porn performers in our society. Porn actors aren’t seen as worthy of respect.

As model Amber Rose told Marlow Stern, Senior Entertainment Editor of The Daily Beast:

“Porn stars are here for our convenience. Everyone uses them when they want to use them and then throws them away after. We don’t respect them enough.”

Stereotyped and stigmatized, porn performers are denied their humanity. It doesn’t make a difference that the stereotypes aren’t true.

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Published in An Injustice!

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Written by Emme Witt-Eden

Sex, relationships, and culture writer. Kink expert. Author of Confessions of a Middle-Aged F-Girl. emmewitt.com

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We can only hope that the day will come when so many of us have made porn, shared nude photos, or admit our own freak flags that it is no longer something that others can use against you.

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