Debunking the Myths from the Darkside of Porn

The Myths Of Porn take on serious issues that have become common myths with little, to no truth behind them. The scariest issues/myths are the ones that assume that choice is not an illusion, and that a female chooses her profession the way a lawyer, or doctor would. This website reveals the real truths, and debunks these so-called myths, or common misconceptions.

There were many excellent articles that led to greater insight to these myths, but I wanted to focus on two: “Fool for Love” by Craig Horowitz, and the story by Kim McKeller. Kim’s story is an incredibly moving piece that seems to be an autobiographical tale of her life living with pedophile father selling his child’s (Kim’s) body acting as a pimp. Despite being of blood relation, Kim was basically a sex slave for high paying older men. The word ‘slave’ made appearances in several other supporting articles that involved the topic “Women who chose to be strippers and hookers chose these careers, so who are we to judge them?” Any time this word is used, you know there is nothing good that comes from it. Many of the articles described thousands of young women being trafficked for sex slavery at a very young age, but in my opinion there were none more compelling and upsetting than a father selling his 6-year-old daughter’s body over and over again.
It is amazing that Kim ever made it out of that situation alive, let alone with the ability to write a well-composed short autobiography. This story shows us that some people have no choice over prostitution, and their lives can be manipulated from the youngest of ages to serve as a slave.

The other article within Myths Of Porn is “Fool of Love” by Craig Horowitz. “Fool of Love” tells the story of your average man, with a loving wife and children. At work he was a successful Real-Estate attorney, who worked hard and earned a great living to bring home to his family. The man, Mitchell Rothken, currently resides in a prison somewhere because he fell in-love with a stripper, who turned out to be playing him the whole time, and embezzled money from clients to support the stripper’s needs. Mitchell claims to have no control over his obsession with this stripper. The interesting part of the story was that nobody knew the details of his life, other than himself. At home he led a normal life, where his unknowing wife had no idea about Mitchell fully supporting and spoiling his stripper girlfriend. This whole story relates back to the myth 4, which says “men like variety in women so porn use helps a man stay faithful to his woman.” It would be interesting if you could do a case study on this case and many others like it, and deduct whether or not there was a direct correlation with the use of porn, or lack there of.
Another famous case that comes to mind is that of Lou Pai, an Asian-American corporate executive who had an obsession for strip clubs. He ultimately got a stripper pregnant, left his wife, and ran away with the stripper. Lou Pai may be more familiar to you when I mention that he was formerly an Enron executive before the company’s seemingly inevitable downward spiral. Both of these cases involve a gateway that some men tend to use for “variety” needs in order to stay “faithful to his woman.” Apparently, these two men did not know the meaning of faithfulness, nor did they honor resort to porn to repress their need for a variety of women.

Each one of these stories shows how common myths can be misleading, and downright inaccurate! Myths Of Porn does a great job stringing together a series of examples and articles that debunk these misconceptions, and tell truths about what really happens in the shadows of porn.