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French porn star piqued over Macron's desire to crackdown on X-rated films
A star of French porn films has challenged President Emmanuel Macron to meet with him and female porn actresses after France's leader aroused his anger by linking the porn industry to violence against women and inequality. Manuel Ferrara was furious over the president's speech at the weekend which outlined his plan to tackle violence against women and ensure equality between the sexes. According to Macron pornography makes women "an object of humiliation" and that action needs to be taken because porn films are now so widely watched among school children.
Ferrara hit back on Twitter and invited the president to discuss the issue. "I am involved in this industry that you are trying to demonize by making this kind of remark. I am ready to sit down with you and discuss a topic that by all accounts you know nothing about. I'm waiting for your call!" In an interview with France Inter radio the porn star continued to criticize the president saying he found his remark "shocking". "He demonizes the porn industry and is jumping to conclusions (faire un amalgame). It's the same with video games. It's like saying 'a teenager who plays Call of Duty is going to pick up a gun and kill everyone in his school'."
[...] On Saturday Macron announced his plan to extend the powers of France's broadcasting regulator CSA to cover X-rated films as well as launch an awareness campaign on pornography in secondary schools. "The CSA plays an indispensable role in regulating audiovisual content everywhere and stopping the most undignified behavior becoming a form of tacit propaganda," said the president. "Today we do not regulate access to video games, internet content and pornographic content that is increasingly available."
Also at BBC and Reason (archive).
(Score: 2, Disagree) by isostatic on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:16PM (11 children)
How does porn make any money? Given that pretty much any porn you could want is available for free, and there are (so I'm told) tens of thousands of videos, how can anyone actually make any money distributing it, let alone filming new stuff?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:19PM (1 child)
Why does anybody pay for stuff on Patreon, or pay camgirls?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @08:47PM
People pay camgirls? I've been doing it for free!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:20PM
I guess some folks just prefer blatantly unrealistic actors in their porn. Beats the hell out of me why but to each their own.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:06PM
A lot of the time the free stuff uploaded to streaming sites is just clips from the full-length product, which can be rather difficult to dig up from pirates uploading it.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:09PM (2 children)
How does music make any money? Given that pretty much any music you could want is available for free, and there are (so I'm told) tens of thousands of songs, how can anyone actually make any money distributing it, let alone recording new stuff?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:56PM
People pay for things like spotify. Do people really pay for porn?
Well I guess they must, after all Trekkie Monster said "In volatile market, only stable investment is porn!"
But when people used to pay for porn in the 70s and 80s (with magazines like playboy and videos from seedy shops), it seems far easier to get free porn now (hence Macron's complaint).
(Score: 2, Informative) by idetuxs on Thursday November 30 2017, @10:59PM
Obviously through real life concerts, shows and branding. That's about it. The streaming industry have its share but it's not significant to the artists.
You can relate this to a sports player, say Mayweather, Lio Messi, etc. People show up to watch them and companies pay them to appear alongside their products.
How PORN does this?? It can't.
I don't know if it's true but recently saw a documentary in Netflix about porn being an industry that mainly serves money laundering schemes. Most of the companies are owned by MindGeek (PornHub, Xvideos, RedTube, YouPorn, website with specific fetishes, etc) which is pretty weird.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:17PM (1 child)
I don't think there's a lot of money in the industry. But it's very cheap to make a porn video -- production values are usually rock bottom and it shows.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:59PM
Honestly, this is why I prefer porn from the 70's and 80's, when they were still shooting on film. Production values were way higher because they actually needed a budget. Once stuff started going straight from the CamCorder to the Shelf things really went down hill. Some good stuff exists online but it seems that online stuff really caters to different fetishes...which can be a good thing.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:43PM (1 child)
Having worked at a porn company (network/server security).
I can honestly say LOTS of people pay for porn. On avg most of the sites we ran made 80-100K/month. Niche sites would be EVEN more.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by takyon on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:56PM
Millennials will ruin it, as usual.
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