Finding a Consensus - Is It Possible?

[RawAlex]

Seska, let me just say this:

The issues of personal protection and such that comes with being a sex worker are very different from the issues and situations that face the adult business as a whole. Attempting to create a single forum and a single voice to cover all of those issues would be likely between impossible and unlikely.

I personally think that those people who are web models / sex stars / internet models need to form their own group for the purposes of advancing what is important to them vis-a-vis that part of the business. There are major issues that I appreciate there, and they need to be looked at carefully and championed by the people who are most affected by them.

Personal website operators (especially those who choose to do it outside of the mainstream) don't need a "walmart" porn company dictating to them how to operate their business. At the same time, the "walmart" porn company cannot change it's business practices to satisfy a small but vocal minority.

Here is my suggestion in all of this:

Each "area" needs to regroup itself (and many people would be in more than one group) and bring people forward as the spokesperson for thier stuff. Those people could then be brought together under a sort of coalition of adult businesses and performers, which would have all of the voices together. Each group could work by itself to champion the issues that are important only to itself, developing and expressing ideas and concepts that are important to it's group. Within the whole, those ideas could be put forward in a meaningful way that would assure that all sides are heard.

We don't all have to agree all of the time, but we have to have the respect for what other people do. That won't happen if you attempt to jam everyone under one tent and hope that a war doesn't break out.

Alex