g1ndude wrote:By definition, a whore is a prostitute. And by definition, a prostitute is someone who has sex for money.
Ipso facto, a porn actress is indeed a whore.
I would say there may be an overlap in duties (venn diagrams at dawn) between both those roles, but in other areas no overlap at all. Some fundamental differences can even be considered mutually exclusive.
Consider 'discretion' for example.
A significant part of the reimbursement that a prostitute recieves for her work is paid to keep their transaction private (concealed from public view).
With a porn model the opposite applies. A significant part of the reimbursement she receives for her work is paid so that that transaction can be made public.
Another key difference is to the prostitute and her customer the exhange is intended to be ephemeral (privacy reasons), whereas to the porn model and her producer, the exchange is inteded to be recorded. Again, generally mutually exclusive.
Furthermore, a porn model (bondage and bdsm shoots for example) may not have sex in a professional capacity with anyone at all during the creation of her work. Yet the work she creates ticks most standard dictionary definition of pornogrpahy (can be summarised as 'writing or images intended to arouse erotic or sexual feelings')
I also expect that a written precondition of her participation in the creation of that work will be that she does not give consent for intercourse. And without that condition being accepted, she will refuse to participate at all.
Then there are porn models who do what they do purely because they are sexual exhibitionists.
In these circumstances there will be no financial exchange at all, but the activity the model engages in will still meet that same standard dictionary definition of 'pornography'.
In these circumstances, a model recieves a reward in the form of her sexual gratification at the prospect of being the centre of others sexual attention (such models usually refuse to accept money for it, as they consider that such a transaction will confuse others to their motivations).
The best that can be said is that 'there is some overlap of duties', but that they are fundamentally two different terms and professions that involve two different sets of intentions, motivations and (many) duties.
But I do agree with you that this is a semantic squabble and belongs in 'General' and not Ella's performer thread, so if you want to argue this out then it belongs there.
