Max Hardcore - Hero or Zero ?

[Mediaguy]

Liz: Good words, soundly voiced (though I think the Klan is sicker than Max Hardcore by far).

Rhetorical: are you comparing what a terrorist would inflict on innocent (non-consensual) people the same as Max's schtick?

CWDW:

But unfortunately a lot of the time the women who really want that and the ones that are being coerced are actually one and the same- a lot of the attraction to that kind of shit is based in childhood trauma and other things that might skew one's judgement.

I don't know that I'd agree with the "actually one and the same" line - that would be hard to claim, stats wise, on the vast preponderence of adult performers...

Yes some people with "bad" or "hard" backgrounds can be led to this work, but not the same as with say stripclubs, which are a lifestyle. Adult actors aren't constantly "doing it" and "getting dirty" on a daily basis. And some of these same "types" end up in regular office jobs where they end up used and abused by higher-ups...

I've known people who shoot for programs featuring very abusive-looking content here in Montreal, and they all know it's basically play-acting, and they love their jobs and go back to them without the need for the money due to whatever child traumas that might lead to needs for abuse, drug dependency and what not...

If that sort of "abuse" were real in the shoots, somebody somewhere would call the cops...

It's all theatre.