Free Will in Porn Valley

"Some argue today that pornography pollutes its users into evil; and that the performers are coerced, forced, seduced, or otherwise in a weakened state of free will. That latter position is used politically only in regard to the women performers, related to the false belief that only women performers are degraded, not the men. (Watch a few porn films with a sophisticated eye: you will see that much of the time, though in different ways, each sex is degraded. Look even closer and you may tachistoscopically glimpse regret, charity, forgiveness, and absolution, usually through humor.) And if you get behind the scenes, as this book has tried to do, you can see that what the performers are experiencing in reality is not sheer erotic joy but plenty of threat, sweat, and degradation."--Robert J. Stoller, Coming Attractions