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On society's list of most shameful professions, the pornographer would be near the top. What must pornographers think of themselves? They would argue that their industry has joined the mainstream, yet for porn performers, it's a sordid career fraught with perils of drugs, disease and, in the darker corners of porn, exploitation and abuse.
Take the case of a true pervert, Paul Little, who calls himself "Max Hardcore." The British author Martin Amis submerged himself in the sleaziest subcultures of sex on film for the British newspaper The Guardian a few years ago. He recalled the making of Little's...
Porn: Just Another Business?
His personal acts weren't intune with his beliefs true, but easy to be moral with you aren't facing the poor house and unlike today they was no food stamps, no government bailouts--you could very well starve. And since as most slaveowners his slaves made up a good portion of his wealth, freeing them just wasn't an option.