Goat wroteThey're being paid. I suppose it's similar to stuntmen, which I'd say is more dangerous work, but does its existence really say so much about society?
My bad. Everyone else, guys, I just learned, I don't know if you know this, but slavery was cool, because the slaves had food and shelter.
And it's not like stuntmen, stuntmen take precautions to avoid the actual damage of a film. Stuntmens roles are to stand-in for an actor, to be trained in avoiding danger while performing daring feats in a vaccuum. That would be like if pornstars were trained to avoid taking a dick while making it look like you are taking a dick by bending your ass a certain way or putting your hand back there.
Being a pornstar is more like being a boxer. Yeah, you're going to be a vegetable after you're done, your brain is concussed multiple times a night, but you're going to have bling around your neck. Pornstars are going to be able to pay off their college loans, but they are going to have to wear a diaper for the rest of their lives lest they fart and shit themselves.
And pornography's existence says nothing about the state of society. It's normalization and dissemination throughout society means that it influences society in a particular way. That might or might not be just fucking stupid.