Like many men I have a complex relationship with pornography. On one hand I know I probably watch it too much, and on the other there's that constant monkey on my back whenever I'm alone in my room.
'Go on son', it says. 'Load up PornHub. What will one wank hurt? - there's 15 minutes before you have to leave the house, there's plenty of time to crack one out. Go on, you know you want to'.
So last week when Pamela Anderson led an editorial about porn addiction, urging men to make a pledge to stop 'indulging' in porn, my response wasn't that I disagreed with her. But something about the entire thing hurt. I mean here she was - a woman who starred in the sex-tape every man since the dawn of the Internet has cracked one out over - condemning us all.
In the essay, co-written by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and published in the Wall Street Journal, Anderson and Boteach said watching porn was a 'public hazard' that had 'corrosive' effects on a man's soul and family life.
But now Maria Riot, an adult performer living in Barcelona, has offered a response, saying that the arguments presented in the essay are 'ridiculous', adding that her conservative stance on porn is hypocritical in light of her past work such as photoshoots for Playboy she's done within the last year.
"Porn is for fun, for pleasure, for entertainment," Maria said. "If people use porn for educating themselves or they become addicts to it, it is not because of porn, it is because of problems that society has, like poor sex education, for example."
Riot disagrees with Anderson. Credit: @RiotMaria
"People have to know that porn is fiction most of the time - that everything is happening on a set where some things are planned or edited. I encourage Pamela Anderson and everyone who says that porn is bad to open their minds and rethink the ideas they have about sex and individual freedom."
Fair point.
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