Kelsy Burke has been deeply immersed in the history of battles over porn. She talks about 'Pornography Wars' and the narrow prospects for a lasting truce.
Elizabeth Waterman’s new photo book, “Moneygame: Where Women Rule the Stage,” features humanizing photos of strippers in five major U.S. cities.Burke emphasized that she is presenting her findings, not her opinions: “I’m careful in the book about not telling people what I believe about porn or what they should believe.”Did you come into this project with preconceived notions you had to shed?
Interviewing people blew my preconceived notions apart. I had assumed that the people who used moral and religious arguments were uniformly the people opposed to pornography, but my assumptions were rooted in stereotypes. Is there room for compromise or listening, or is this like other culture war battles over, for example, theThe antiporn movement folks see everything as black and white, so there’s little gray area. They think the idea that women would freely choose to perform in porn is an impossibility; no sex work can be consensual, it’s by its nature exploitative. So it’s hard to start a dialogue because there’s no openness.
You say you don’t want to be prescriptive, but it feels like you are challenging blind, willfully naive porn consumption.
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