What is Ethical Porn?

With a substantial increase in the search term ‘amateur’ over the last few years, presumptions have been raised that people are getting interested in seeing ‘real’ people have ‘real sex.’

For some, this is sex-positive. For others, amateur porn is so dominated by sex workers and industry film makes, that it refers more to a style of filming rather than a formal statement about human beings engaged in the production process.

In the same way ethical porn can end up being a selling point or a genre. Just a fresh way of doing exploitative porn that appeals to modern users.

Ethical becomes the tipping point.

It may come as a surprise to a culture obsessed with talking about sex that very little good solid research is available on the subject of pornography. While we like to talk, we don’t like to be honest.

For those of us that want to use pornography, for whatever reason, the current agreed standard is that it should be paid for. A paywall won’t ensure the removal of exploitation but it will make the consumer aware that the performers are real people who do a job and should be paid.

If we start to think of pornographic actors as human beings, we begin the journey of engaging with the product we are supporting with our clicks.

The sooner we do this, the sooner we can ditch the stigma and look at the subject with clarity.

Sources for this article:

Ethical porn – does it exist and who makes it? ABC News