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		<title>By: Johnny</title>
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		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But I mean, this whole thing is about her across-the-board objections to porn, and we get only a passing mention that her BF is a PORN ACTOR!? Most people who LIKE porn would probably have trouble dealing with that.

I almost want to call bullshit here. Something&#039;s off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But I mean, this whole thing is about her across-the-board objections to porn, and we get only a passing mention that her BF is a PORN ACTOR!? Most people who LIKE porn would probably have trouble dealing with that.</p>
<p>I almost want to call bullshit here. Something&#8217;s off.</p>
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		<title>By: Madamoiselle L</title>
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		<dc:creator>Madamoiselle L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is exactly what I was saying, Johnny. Very inconsistent. 

And IMO, porn doesn&#039;t &quot;make&quot; her boyfriend &quot;annoying&quot; as he would be asking for or feeling her out for these activities anyway. If he is &quot;annoying&quot; he&#039;s that way by himself. She seems to want to blame porn for her relationship problems, when it is obviously a personality and &quot;novelty seeking&quot; difference.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is exactly what I was saying, Johnny. Very inconsistent. </p>
<p>And IMO, porn doesn&#8217;t &#8220;make&#8221; her boyfriend &#8220;annoying&#8221; as he would be asking for or feeling her out for these activities anyway. If he is &#8220;annoying&#8221; he&#8217;s that way by himself. She seems to want to blame porn for her relationship problems, when it is obviously a personality and &#8220;novelty seeking&#8221; difference.</p>
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		<title>By: Johnny</title>
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		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wait a minute... the author objects to porn in every way... porn scares the author, fills her with embarassment, makes her feel awkward, and makes her BF annoying... and that BF is... a former porn actor?

Does this not add up to anyone else? Something&#039;s off here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wait a minute&#8230; the author objects to porn in every way&#8230; porn scares the author, fills her with embarassment, makes her feel awkward, and makes her BF annoying&#8230; and that BF is&#8230; a former porn actor?</p>
<p>Does this not add up to anyone else? Something&#8217;s off here.</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m curious about the range of sexually explicit material that the poster has viewed. I have discovered that a lot of the readily available (free, internet) porn makes me very uncomfortable. It does feel to me like a violation.
I enjoy a lot of porn from the 70s better. The actors seem more like they are having fun in front of a camera.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m curious about the range of sexually explicit material that the poster has viewed. I have discovered that a lot of the readily available (free, internet) porn makes me very uncomfortable. It does feel to me like a violation.<br />
I enjoy a lot of porn from the 70s better. The actors seem more like they are having fun in front of a camera.</p>
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		<title>By: Madamoiselle L</title>
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		<dc:creator>Madamoiselle L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One more thing, the author states: &quot;I’m happy with the sex I have.&quot; Obviously, her boyfriend ISN&#039;T. And therein lies the problem. 

Not the porn. His need to take the staleness of the same old same old sex, juxtaposed with her her &quot;I&#039;m happy with what we always do. Why try anything new?&quot; Myriad relationships do not survive this very quandary. 

And I don&#039;t see the author as addressing THIS as the real issue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One more thing, the author states: &#8220;I’m happy with the sex I have.&#8221; Obviously, her boyfriend ISN&#8217;T. And therein lies the problem. </p>
<p>Not the porn. His need to take the staleness of the same old same old sex, juxtaposed with her her &#8220;I&#8217;m happy with what we always do. Why try anything new?&#8221; Myriad relationships do not survive this very quandary. </p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t see the author as addressing THIS as the real issue.</p>
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		<title>By: Madamoiselle L</title>
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		<dc:creator>Madamoiselle L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Porn is a fantasy. 

It is unrealistic almost by definition. How exiting would it be to see the woman struggle with her diaphragm or suddenly remember that today was the day to shove her Nuvaring in and then watch her position it for 20 minutes? During the shoot? Sexy. I have, however, seen plenty of porn where the man is using a condom, and a few where intravaginal spermicides were used. I have also seen some where obvious Tubal Ligation and Vasectomy scars are seen on the models. All porn is not devoid of birth control. 

As for bestiality WHY does everyone who has ANY issue with ANY form of sexuality, from homosexuality to pornography HAVE to compare it to having sex with animals? Bestiality is wrong because it is sex without CONSENT. Because an animal simply CANNOT give consent and without consent, of course it&#039;s creepy and wrong. However, I&#039;ve seen a lot of porn and never actually seen any of this stuff. 

Yeah, there are unrealistic things in porn. Baldly shorn pubes, too many fake breasts, bleached anuses (yep) but a lot of porn is made for men, and that&#039;s the kind of stuff that OBVIOUSLY sells, or they wouldn&#039;t continue to make it. My Man and I prefer &quot;Vintage Porn&quot; from the 70s and 80s, because this stuff is not that common. 

The creating of a porn movie is no more akin to real life sex than the creating of ANY movie is to any form of real life situations. Too many takes, camera tricks and time lapses to make things different, a script, unrealistic relationships, treating the actors like &quot;objects.&quot; It is no different in ANY Hollywood studio where a G PG PG13 or R rated movie is being made. 

Movies ARE fantasies. Unless you watch, what is in my opinion, horrible &quot;amateur do it yourself porn&quot; where people are ugly and pimply and wiggly in the wrong places, and take to long to change positions, and they miss the Money Shot, because the camera was on a tripod and his back was turned, you are gonna get Fantasy Sex in well made porn. 

People want to see attractive people who are GOOD at sex and seem to enjoy it in a pornographic movie. NO, you aren&#039;t watching it to see an Oscar Grade performance, you watch it because it enhances your horny. I don&#039;t see why the author would expect anything else. 

If she doesn&#039;t care for ALL porn, that&#039;s fine. There are so many different types, that there is nearly something for everybody, but she has every right not to like it and not to watch it. BUT, does she expect to really change anyone else&#039;s mind about it? I doubt that this article could do that. 

Does PORN &quot;make&quot; her boyfriend &quot;annoying&quot; (NO) or is that just the way he IS and is he simply wanting a little spice in their sex life? I doubt porn is &quot;making&quot; him want a damn thing he doesn&#039;t want anyway.

&quot;What do you think about a threesome?  Can I come on your face?  Can we do double penetration?  Can I use all five of our sex toys on you at once?  Can we have sex while wearing masks?&quot; Outside of the threesome, which might have some residual issues on their relationship (depending on each one&#039;s tolerance factor and jealousy rating) none of the stuff he is asking for is out of the ordinary for a lot of people. (And You only have FIVE sex toys?) I&#039;m wondering why someone so inhibited is dating a man who is NOT inhibited, and so uninhibited that he USED TO MAKE PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIES. 

I find it VERY odd that this author has so many problems with pornography and sexual experimentation BUT is LIVING WITH a &quot;former porn star.&quot; WTF? 

Cancel her subscription, this lady has enough issues.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Porn is a fantasy. </p>
<p>It is unrealistic almost by definition. How exiting would it be to see the woman struggle with her diaphragm or suddenly remember that today was the day to shove her Nuvaring in and then watch her position it for 20 minutes? During the shoot? Sexy. I have, however, seen plenty of porn where the man is using a condom, and a few where intravaginal spermicides were used. I have also seen some where obvious Tubal Ligation and Vasectomy scars are seen on the models. All porn is not devoid of birth control. </p>
<p>As for bestiality WHY does everyone who has ANY issue with ANY form of sexuality, from homosexuality to pornography HAVE to compare it to having sex with animals? Bestiality is wrong because it is sex without CONSENT. Because an animal simply CANNOT give consent and without consent, of course it&#8217;s creepy and wrong. However, I&#8217;ve seen a lot of porn and never actually seen any of this stuff. </p>
<p>Yeah, there are unrealistic things in porn. Baldly shorn pubes, too many fake breasts, bleached anuses (yep) but a lot of porn is made for men, and that&#8217;s the kind of stuff that OBVIOUSLY sells, or they wouldn&#8217;t continue to make it. My Man and I prefer &#8220;Vintage Porn&#8221; from the 70s and 80s, because this stuff is not that common. </p>
<p>The creating of a porn movie is no more akin to real life sex than the creating of ANY movie is to any form of real life situations. Too many takes, camera tricks and time lapses to make things different, a script, unrealistic relationships, treating the actors like &#8220;objects.&#8221; It is no different in ANY Hollywood studio where a G PG PG13 or R rated movie is being made. </p>
<p>Movies ARE fantasies. Unless you watch, what is in my opinion, horrible &#8220;amateur do it yourself porn&#8221; where people are ugly and pimply and wiggly in the wrong places, and take to long to change positions, and they miss the Money Shot, because the camera was on a tripod and his back was turned, you are gonna get Fantasy Sex in well made porn. </p>
<p>People want to see attractive people who are GOOD at sex and seem to enjoy it in a pornographic movie. NO, you aren&#8217;t watching it to see an Oscar Grade performance, you watch it because it enhances your horny. I don&#8217;t see why the author would expect anything else. </p>
<p>If she doesn&#8217;t care for ALL porn, that&#8217;s fine. There are so many different types, that there is nearly something for everybody, but she has every right not to like it and not to watch it. BUT, does she expect to really change anyone else&#8217;s mind about it? I doubt that this article could do that. </p>
<p>Does PORN &#8220;make&#8221; her boyfriend &#8220;annoying&#8221; (NO) or is that just the way he IS and is he simply wanting a little spice in their sex life? I doubt porn is &#8220;making&#8221; him want a damn thing he doesn&#8217;t want anyway.</p>
<p>&#8220;What do you think about a threesome?  Can I come on your face?  Can we do double penetration?  Can I use all five of our sex toys on you at once?  Can we have sex while wearing masks?&#8221; Outside of the threesome, which might have some residual issues on their relationship (depending on each one&#8217;s tolerance factor and jealousy rating) none of the stuff he is asking for is out of the ordinary for a lot of people. (And You only have FIVE sex toys?) I&#8217;m wondering why someone so inhibited is dating a man who is NOT inhibited, and so uninhibited that he USED TO MAKE PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIES. </p>
<p>I find it VERY odd that this author has so many problems with pornography and sexual experimentation BUT is LIVING WITH a &#8220;former porn star.&#8221; WTF? </p>
<p>Cancel her subscription, this lady has enough issues.</p>
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		<title>By: jeff bawden</title>
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		<dc:creator>jeff bawden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>love and pornography are opposed i notice when im in love i cant stand porn ,why is this?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>love and pornography are opposed i notice when im in love i cant stand porn ,why is this?</p>
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		<title>By: Spes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Spes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ha! You sound like me, Living in Texas, when I was about 14 years old. I remember saying that sex was only for making babies and having a baptist Sunday school teacher ask me, &quot;If it&#039;s only for making babies, then why would God make it so enjoyable? Don&#039;t you think he likes for us to be happy?&quot; She certainly had one hell of a point. Not to mention quite a bit of mental and emotional intimacy can be wrapped up with sex, so it definitely goes beyond just the physical.
As for the main topic. I can sympathize. I don&#039;t care for porn either. It&#039;s a huge turn-off. I&#039;d much rather have sex than watch it. I also don&#039;t care for husband to look at it, but I certainly won&#039;t tell him not to. I just ask that he keeps it discreet. I think limiting one&#039;s partner&#039;s outlets for their fantasy life can cause a lot of resentment. I like occasional erotic literature and I know I would be more than upset if my husband would try to ban me from reading whatever I want.
And no, it&#039;s not an issue of having not seen the &#039;right&#039; porn as so many claim. I&#039;ve seen porn since I was six, and I still prefer my imagination.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ha! You sound like me, Living in Texas, when I was about 14 years old. I remember saying that sex was only for making babies and having a baptist Sunday school teacher ask me, &#8220;If it&#8217;s only for making babies, then why would God make it so enjoyable? Don&#8217;t you think he likes for us to be happy?&#8221; She certainly had one hell of a point. Not to mention quite a bit of mental and emotional intimacy can be wrapped up with sex, so it definitely goes beyond just the physical.<br />
As for the main topic. I can sympathize. I don&#8217;t care for porn either. It&#8217;s a huge turn-off. I&#8217;d much rather have sex than watch it. I also don&#8217;t care for husband to look at it, but I certainly won&#8217;t tell him not to. I just ask that he keeps it discreet. I think limiting one&#8217;s partner&#8217;s outlets for their fantasy life can cause a lot of resentment. I like occasional erotic literature and I know I would be more than upset if my husband would try to ban me from reading whatever I want.<br />
And no, it&#8217;s not an issue of having not seen the &#8216;right&#8217; porn as so many claim. I&#8217;ve seen porn since I was six, and I still prefer my imagination.</p>
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		<title>By: Mary</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This whole article took a very strange twist, in my eyes!  At first, I didn&#039;t want to write in any comments because I didn&#039;t want to make the author feel worse than it appears she already does, but, seems to me that having a significant other in the industry has turned her off to it for some of the reasons outlined and some underlying ones not mentioned.  As Joey Jackson tried to state, it&#039;s partly a &quot;control&quot; issue in some relationships.  As if women, since they have the final say when it comes to &quot;having&quot; sex, they seem to have the attitude that every intimate moment has to be on their terms (even the ones that a husband/boyfriend has with himself) (And I am NOT saying I agree with disrespecting one&#039;s partner).  This is the real issue that destroys some personal relationships.  The women, talking only about her feelings (and not accepting their partners or relegating their partners basic, sometimes not pretty, drives to the closet) and the men either acquiessing, leaving or starting affairs because they are made to feel their desires are too uncouth to be acceptable.  I&#039;m not saying women shouldn&#039;t have feelings, I&#039;m just saying that sometimes it seems like those &quot;feelings&quot; are just a veiled ploy at gaining complete control in the bedroom.  There has to be give and take in every aspect of a relationship for it to be truly satisfying to both.  I also wanted to add commentary/rebuttal to &quot;Living in Texas&quot;...Sex is NOT just for making babies!  The Discovery Channel should make you aware of that.  If the statement is made that it&#039;s only natural to have sex to have babies, then you should also understand it&#039;s only natural to have sex for pleasure, as well as a lot of other reasons (and it does occur in the animal kingdom with various species for various reasons beyond making babies).  That&#039;s basic and we are more than animals, but still animals, nonetheless.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This whole article took a very strange twist, in my eyes!  At first, I didn&#8217;t want to write in any comments because I didn&#8217;t want to make the author feel worse than it appears she already does, but, seems to me that having a significant other in the industry has turned her off to it for some of the reasons outlined and some underlying ones not mentioned.  As Joey Jackson tried to state, it&#8217;s partly a &#8220;control&#8221; issue in some relationships.  As if women, since they have the final say when it comes to &#8220;having&#8221; sex, they seem to have the attitude that every intimate moment has to be on their terms (even the ones that a husband/boyfriend has with himself) (And I am NOT saying I agree with disrespecting one&#8217;s partner).  This is the real issue that destroys some personal relationships.  The women, talking only about her feelings (and not accepting their partners or relegating their partners basic, sometimes not pretty, drives to the closet) and the men either acquiessing, leaving or starting affairs because they are made to feel their desires are too uncouth to be acceptable.  I&#8217;m not saying women shouldn&#8217;t have feelings, I&#8217;m just saying that sometimes it seems like those &#8220;feelings&#8221; are just a veiled ploy at gaining complete control in the bedroom.  There has to be give and take in every aspect of a relationship for it to be truly satisfying to both.  I also wanted to add commentary/rebuttal to &#8220;Living in Texas&#8221;&#8230;Sex is NOT just for making babies!  The Discovery Channel should make you aware of that.  If the statement is made that it&#8217;s only natural to have sex to have babies, then you should also understand it&#8217;s only natural to have sex for pleasure, as well as a lot of other reasons (and it does occur in the animal kingdom with various species for various reasons beyond making babies).  That&#8217;s basic and we are more than animals, but still animals, nonetheless.</p>
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		<title>By: Mina</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>.....Some info on the Pink cross org

Pink Cross Foundation was founded on January 24, 2008 by former porn actress Shelley Lubben and her husband Garrett Lubben. Shelley began working with adult industry workers in 2002 when she began volunteering as a teacher and counselor at local rescue missions and prisons in the State of California.

Shelley has worked at Madera Rescue Mission, Bakersfield Rescue Mission, Central California Women&#039;s Facility Prison, and Valley State Prison for Women. Having a passion to reach out to adult industry workers all over the world, she was stirred to action and put up a web site in 2004 sharing her story and the truth about the abuse she experienced in the porn industry.

Unprepared for the overwhelming response she received from the public, she realized something more had to be done about the destruction pornography was inflicting upon adult industry workers and the general public. She also realized, God had called her to expose the filthy and abusive porn industry and to be unafraid and unrelenting.

Inspired by the Spirit of God, she and her husband Garrett founded Pink Cross Foundation to reach out to adult industry workers offering emotional, financial and transitional support to those who want out of porn and also help for those struggling with pornography and other victims of pornography. Pink Cross Foundation was officially incorporated on January 24, 2008.

Shelley currently travels internationally and speaks on the negative effects of pornography urging people to stop contributing to the porn industry while also inspiring them to live the amazing lives God has for them.

Learn more about Shelley here.

Porn is not glamorous. Get the facts. Get help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;..Some info on the Pink cross org</p>
<p>Pink Cross Foundation was founded on January 24, 2008 by former porn actress Shelley Lubben and her husband Garrett Lubben. Shelley began working with adult industry workers in 2002 when she began volunteering as a teacher and counselor at local rescue missions and prisons in the State of California.</p>
<p>Shelley has worked at Madera Rescue Mission, Bakersfield Rescue Mission, Central California Women&#8217;s Facility Prison, and Valley State Prison for Women. Having a passion to reach out to adult industry workers all over the world, she was stirred to action and put up a web site in 2004 sharing her story and the truth about the abuse she experienced in the porn industry.</p>
<p>Unprepared for the overwhelming response she received from the public, she realized something more had to be done about the destruction pornography was inflicting upon adult industry workers and the general public. She also realized, God had called her to expose the filthy and abusive porn industry and to be unafraid and unrelenting.</p>
<p>Inspired by the Spirit of God, she and her husband Garrett founded Pink Cross Foundation to reach out to adult industry workers offering emotional, financial and transitional support to those who want out of porn and also help for those struggling with pornography and other victims of pornography. Pink Cross Foundation was officially incorporated on January 24, 2008.</p>
<p>Shelley currently travels internationally and speaks on the negative effects of pornography urging people to stop contributing to the porn industry while also inspiring them to live the amazing lives God has for them.</p>
<p>Learn more about Shelley here.</p>
<p>Porn is not glamorous. Get the facts. Get help.</p>
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