Russell, 

> Nobody has used the word "erotica". Erotica is pornography by another
> name. Ignoring, for a moment, any concept of whether pornography is
> good or bad or whatever makes it far easier to decide what constitutes
> pornography. 

"Erotica" is on a woman's bookshelf.  "Porn" is the same material, under
a 16-year-old boy's mattress.

> It's OBVIOUS that many of these women are
> involved in the sex industry in one way or the other - pornography or
> prostitution or whatever. A surprising statement? Not one I'm
> (probably) going to justify, but if you don't agree that it's obvious
> then you've been looking at too much porn yourself :-).

While I myself have not investigated domai.com, I suspect you may be
objecting to certain "enhancements" that some of the women there
(probably) possess.  I would argue that such "enhancement" is not
necessarily an earmark of making a trade of one's body; apparently,
over 130,000 breast augmentations were performed in the US last year
alone.  While I'm certain many of those women did nothing which
actually improved their appearance, I'm equally certain that not all of
them are sex workers.  I live in a small-ish university town in Iowa,
and I see such "augmentations" (usually most obvious beginning
about this time each year) much more commonly than I would
expect, given the age and background of most of the women around
here.

Although it could easily be argued that the unreachable body image
fostered by porn (hard or soft) feeds back into these young women,
whether they are aware of it or not...

Mike H.
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