Yesterday’s chosen post considered the contents of porn, while today we’re look at the ethics of porn production. Where the contents of the material deals with pain in particular, you often hear from consumers who would like to be reassured that nobody is being mistreated in the course of production. Frankly, even if the consumers didn’t care about the cast & crew at all, it would still be a good idea to hold the producers to some set of standards of behaviour.
Pandora Blake attempts to define these standards in a handy bullet-point list, looking at things like consent and boundaries, pay and working conditions, and marketing rhetoric. It’s a fine list as it is, but it’s not a finished manifesto, so we are invited to make suggestions for its improvement. (I didn’t, because I like it as it is. Do you?)
Oh, yay, thanks for the link. I’m glad you liked the post. It was written for my own reference as much as anything else, and I’m still only just starting to meet my own criteria (the fair pay one was the last to be met, given my low budget and the fact I’m mostly working with friends) but I’d love to see more producers be open and explicit proud about their production ethics, rather than trying to hide it all behind a non-consensual fantasy. Here’s hoping I’ll set a trend
I hope to see more and more of this type of attitude amongst producers, although I do not expect it to happen with all producers at once. Every mile is walked one step at a time.
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