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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: 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.