Here is an article about a blog writer for Duke’s website confronting and interviewing a freshman student who has decided to get into the adult movie industry to pay her tuition: http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/02/14/portrait-porn-star
Personally, I believe that any person should have the right to do what they want to (including prostitution, porn, and other taboo professions) to pay their bills. I think things like this are liberating as long as they are consensual, and let’s face it, people are going to partake in these sorts professions whether they are legal or not, so why not have a safe and healthy way to do them. My first question about this subject is, how do the rest of you feel about people who have professions in industries such as these? And my second is, why do you think that people, such as the blog writer for Duke and their friend who told them about their co-ed feel that just because she is in the industry that they have the right to invade her privacy with out knowing her and assume they could ask her whatever they wanted to? Like they said in the article, is it simple to look up”how to be a porn star,” so why not just do the same and write their article about students in porn that way? Do you think she faces this situation every day? Do you think this would happen if she were a male in the same situation? Mary Pettengill
-Mary