None of this is to say that these changes have been an unqualified good for women and other marginalized people. Seizing more control over the material often requires women to work more for less. Even social media exposure is a double-edged sword, as women in pornography have to work overtime to combat mainstream stigmas. It’s harder and harder to argue that porn performers are desperate people lured in by easy cash and coerced into submission. There’s just too little money in it — and women have to work too creatively to make it — for that to stand.

Source: New York Times May 05, 2018 09:56 UTC