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Thanks, Toni, for stepping in on this discussion, and I'm sorry I forgot to CC you on an email I sent to a few gals about this. (Looks like you found this thread anyhow!)
One of my favorite women in the business whom I emailed didn't even want to bother posting a reply in this thread. It's a shame that there are a number of women I know of who tend to stay out of debates like this because they don't have the energy to scream to be heard over all the men who don't want to listen to them anyhow. That's not good for fostering online community, it's losing out on valuable ideas by people who have decided it's not worth bothering with even *trying* to share them. (Not that I blame anyone for not using up their time fighting with people on ye olde internet.)
For right now, I'm not going to bother with this get into heated discussion on this any more, because I don't think the majority (or vocal minority) here actually gives a toss about hearing what females and performers have to say, although they all agree that it sure would be great to have a chick as a spokesperson to make them look good.
It's obvious that I am coming from a completely different world than most of the people posting here. I genuinely love what I'm creating, I take tremendous pride in the work I do, I believe I produce porn that helps to break down negative body images and sexual stigmas to make more people feel sexy within themselves. Porn is one part of my deep commitment to creating better things in this world on a number of levels, in my own small ways. I'll continue to educate people about how wonderful and beneficial and fun *some* of the adult industry is, shatter stereotypes about who a "smut peddler" is, and make ground-breaking porn that myself and my models are extremely happy with. (And you better believe that it's far more ground-breaking and "extreme" to assert that big/hairy/menstruating women are sexy, than to choke women purple and piss on them.)
I'll just throw out one last thing. I've been repeated insulted over and over on this board about how I better recognize that some of you have been in this business since the 90s, so I need to shut up and respect my elders. I can only laugh at the irony of that statement. The sex industry was not invented in 1995 by a bunch of dudes on their computers. I have never been inspired by a "free site", but I have been moved by the words and creations of performers and producers like Nina Hartley and Annie Sprinkle, and I have a feeling they've been around a lot longer than anyone's TGP. In fact, I got interested in this business after reading about the strong, intelligent women who were prostitutes in the old west who braved all manner of harsh conditions so they could be independent and call their own shots.
I have a feeling that passionate women will continue to inspire me on a day to day basis, and I'll continue to be touched every time someone tells me that one of my sites helped motivate them to create their own wonderful porn, or when a model tells me how truly proud they are to be on one of my little sites. It's not as exciting or profitable as running a massive sponsor program selling the latest gimmick and hoping customers forget to cancel their trials, but I'm content in knowing that I'm doing good things to forward positive human sexuality via pornography every single day. THAT, by itself, is my activism, and it needn't involve trying to force and fight a bunch of men into considering that maybe female models have something to say about what it's like to be a female model.
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