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Originally Posted by bubbsy
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I don't know if one article is enough to convince me that its fine, especially when that one study had a contributing author who was previously a porn actress and also the founder of a company that would benefit from the porn industry thriving (the person being Sharon Mitchell, the company being the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation - it's closed now, but was obviously open during the study as that's where they got their sample of porn actresses from). It's kind of like when studies on weight and obesity are done by people associated with diet companies, it seems a bit sketchy. I'm also curious how big the "sample of women" was that they compared the porn actresses to and who was included in this sample.
This person
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.fr/2012...s-happier.html also had a good point. He/she obviously had access to the full article (I don't), and said that every porn actress they surveyed was from LA. How much better are the conditions for porn actresses in LA than in other parts of the world? Are porn actresses who are happy with their job more likely to volunteer for the survey than porn actresses who aren't (if it's something you find demeaning, but you continue to do it, is that something you'd be psychologically willing and ready to confront just for a survey)? Are they more likely to emphasize how happy they are in order to justify what they're doing (same point as the previous question)?
Also, if the sample of women that they compared them to were also all from LA, is it possible that these women had particularly low self-esteem? If you live in the city of the stars where physical attractiveness is deemed so important, would you be more likely to grow up with lower self-esteem than populations in other places where it's not quite so in your face? I have a lot of questions about the whole thing I guess.