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One more post on this for now...
I'm not accusing anyone of being "prudes", I'm saying that it's weird what people get up in arms about and accuse of being derogative to the legal adult industry.
I seem to recollect that many posters on this thread who are knocking Webwoman were avid backers of Sleep Assault. In my opinion, sites such as Sleep Assault (or Meat Holes or Little April) do way more to discredit our industry as a whole (by virtue of being heavily promoted) than does one dominatrix. I don't believe that "extreme" or "taboo" porn should be *illegal* so long as it involves consenting adults, but I do think that *as members of the adult industry,* we should critique ourselves and our colleague in the interest of making a stronger adult industry. (This sort of nuanced reply is one that never seems to be grasped by so many people when I repeat it in different discussions. It's not a matter of wanting everything I ethically question to be illegal, it's a matter of having discussion about it *from within* the industry to consider what is best for all of us as a whole.)
That being said again, I just don't see why people who have no issue with porn sites that arguably encourages rape or pedo-lust get all riled up over the very *notion* that someone might be a prostitute.
And then, people are expressing that even though "prostitution" makes our industry look bad, they are pissed because they're not getting a cut of "donations" as affiliates. Make up your minds! You can't accuse someone of having illegal business dealings that you find to be "wrong", and then wonder where your pimp/revshare payment is.
Plus: As far as I know, being a dominatrix is not actually illegal if you're not having *sex* for money. Even with all the insinuations being thrown around in this discussion, there is no actual crime being committed in what EmpressM is doing. Believe it or not, but it's perfectly legal to straight-up charge someone $200 for being tied up and yelled at. Spanking someone is not prostitution. Flogging someone is not prostitution. Forced feminization play is not prostitution (Now, if you're not reporting that income, that's when you might get bothered by the IRS.)
Also, if people are so freaked out at the thought of promoting something that maybe possibly could be construed as having something to do with prostitution, then I hope you don't promote Adult Friend Finder of any dating sites. Where do you think the technologically hip hookers of new find their johns? [Ah, Bill beat me to this, I've been writing this reply while reading the thread.]
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