Pornography harms female performers and models

Pornography creates an evironment that is abusive, dangerous, and harmful to the female performers and models. The pornography industry pays performers less and less as the industry gets more saturated and remains without heavy regulation, oversight, or unionization. Many women take pornography jobs as a quick way to pay the bills and end up trapped in the industry as a result. As a result, they often end up having to do demeaning things or suffer abusive treatment. ^[1] Additionally, female pornography performers often suffer emotional damage as a result of their work. Having sex regularly as a performance rather than as an intimate experience can stunt emotional development and make it difficult for performers to have long-term intimate relationships. ^[2] Female pornography performers also face the issue of job stability. Their place in the industry is largely contingent on their youth and appearance. Because performers are rewarded for being young, they are more likely to enter the industry before they can develop professional skills outside of pornography. That, in turn, creates an environment where young women are drawn in and made reliant when they are young, then they are pushed out of the industry and into the troubling position of being jobless without the adequate job skills necessary to readily find new work.