RE: Being a porn actor is considered a profession?
June 2, 2014 at 11:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2014 at 11:08 pm by naimless.)
As with anything, it depends on your subjective background, perceprtion, terminology, and definition.
Medieval and early modern tradition recognised only three professions: divinity, medicine, and law — the so-called "learned professions".
One could consider porn under the "medicine" category, although it is arguably misused if that is the aim of the profession.
A modern definition of profession is any paid occupation, which pornstar certainly ticks on most occaisions.
However, most people still use the word especially referring to an occupation that involves prolonged training and a formal education/qualification, which I think is what you are getting at.
Again, it could be argued that the sexual abuse as a child is their "prolonged training" and their proceeding to fuck away the pain in their private lives is an "education", with the "formal qualification" no doubt also recognised in the form of extra spunk on one's face or blow and crack from one's pimp.
In short I'd consider someone like Asa Akira a professional pornstar, similar to a top athlete of a sport, but I would probably not use porn as common example of a profession and I don't think the majority of people consider it a profession due to the classical definition of the word.
But to conclude, language is not set in stone so the word is really whatever one perceives it to be. The word will no doubt evolve again as the people brought up with the classical definition die off.
Medieval and early modern tradition recognised only three professions: divinity, medicine, and law — the so-called "learned professions".
One could consider porn under the "medicine" category, although it is arguably misused if that is the aim of the profession.
A modern definition of profession is any paid occupation, which pornstar certainly ticks on most occaisions.
However, most people still use the word especially referring to an occupation that involves prolonged training and a formal education/qualification, which I think is what you are getting at.
Again, it could be argued that the sexual abuse as a child is their "prolonged training" and their proceeding to fuck away the pain in their private lives is an "education", with the "formal qualification" no doubt also recognised in the form of extra spunk on one's face or blow and crack from one's pimp.
In short I'd consider someone like Asa Akira a professional pornstar, similar to a top athlete of a sport, but I would probably not use porn as common example of a profession and I don't think the majority of people consider it a profession due to the classical definition of the word.
But to conclude, language is not set in stone so the word is really whatever one perceives it to be. The word will no doubt evolve again as the people brought up with the classical definition die off.
