Hi Jelly Bean,
First I would say I agree with your professor’s insight that from a perspective of comparison, removing ones dignity can change a persons self-image and can cause them to feel objectified. Similar in ways to how Hollywood, music, video games and mainstream media turn kids into killers and much like how fashion, advertising, social pressure and trend turns creative individuals into obedient drones. The respect for the act is diminished.
Respectfully I add that pornography and slavery is definitely similar in cases where unwanted pain, unhappiness or non-consensual suffering is caused to anyone involved. That is disrespectful and nobody should tolerate that.
Do I feel objectified as a sex worker? Well I am a sex worker. It is how I make my living and no I do not feel objectified, I feel free and alive. Do I feel like porn is like slavery? No, it is my free willing, adult choice to do what I do with my life. No one holds me to act against free will. Neither do I conform to social pressures. I feel more liberated than many of my peers in banking, politics, religion, military and entertainment or media-misinformation careers.
Making porn I feel happy to be living a blissful life. Free and honest with all my experiences; physical, mental and spiritual. I make enough money to live comfortably in exchange for very little time and for doing what I love. It gives me huge freedom to explore and chase my dreams and passions. I do so simply by loving life and accepting all choices that have lead me to be who I am, in this moment.
When one considers the greater slavery of monetary survival in this modern world and compares that to my simple and pleasurable life; I think the scales of fulfillment tip in my favor. I for one feel very lucky to enjoy this life style. I feel happy ans as free as a slave can be, given the circumstances of our today’s moral and monetary world.
Much love for the nice comments and I don’t think it sounds weird at all.
Many thanks,
Keni