(Inspired by the Tawnee Stone thread)
Can you still “enjoy” their work?"
No. Are you kidding? That’s creepy and just plain wrong.
Yes. Hey, I still enjoy Casablanca and everybody in that is dead.
Tawnee’s not dead, Jim. And yes, even if she were, I would continue to treasure her work for all of eternity.
Stag reels from the 30s and 40s are big favorites of mine. I’m sure all those folks are dead.
No problem at all.
The late vice presidential candidate Marilyn Chambers’ full-front nude scene with a close up of the pubic area is still on Youtube.
The only way I wouldn’t is if I knew them personally.
And I say that from experience.
This statement is creepy and just plain wrong.
Oh sure. Heck most of my sexiest actresses of all time are dead.
As long as she died after the movie was made, I’m okay.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, pull over. **Madeleine LeBeau’s **not dead, and she was the sexiest part of Casablanca.
You and your impossible standards.
I think I know what the OP is getting at maybe, but instead of putting words into E-DUB post I’ll just give an extra detailed answer rather than a straight yes or no.
If the porn star died young at the end of a hard-run unhealthy stereotypical “porn star” life: if it came out that she was repeatedly cheated out of money that was owed by producers, if she had a destructive drug habit, if it came out that her destructive lifestyle was a way of dealing with abuse that she suffered while young, if she as a young adult was involved in abusive relationships, if her death brought out information that made me think she had done porn out of desperation and a belief that she had no other options and nothing else to offer the world . . .
Learning of her death would make it impossible for me to enjoy viewing her work ever again.
You can even leave death out of the equation. I try to seek out “sex positive” porn. If it ever seems like the performer is not completely into it, I just can’t watch- it’s just disturbing to me and I feel complicit in something bad.*
Now, if a happy healthy porn star might happen to tragically die in a random accident or from a non-work related and non-“live fast die young” related illness, then I would still be able to happily enjoy her work. If an older porn star were to die after a long happy life, I would still be able to happily enjoy her work.
*I know that I can never really know the details of a performer’s life or her reasons for doing porn. Truthfully, all I need to assuage my conscience is a performance that allows me to suspend any concern for the performer’s well-being. I do set a higher bar than that as far as what I consider “ideal”, but that’s the low bar below which I won’t drop.
Still, there is plenty of porn out there that immediately makes me think “Uh, that girl does not want to be there.”
Agreed!
I have trouble watching Shauna Grant. She had such a wholesome girl next door appeal. Real life she was really messed up on drugs. Her drug dealer bf got arrested and she committed suicide with a gun. It’s hard not thinking about that if I see her films.
Just a regular death? I don’t mind watching films they appeared in.
alot of them in the industry are mixed up in bad crowds …
and some end up in the cooler, unfortunately =/
[Grig] I prefer to think of her as fighting celibacy in a higher dimension![/Grig]
I have trouble watching Shauna Grant because she so clearly didn’t want to be in porn and therefore couldn’t have seen less interested in sex if her life depended on it (no pun intended). That caused her (along with other issues no doubt) to start on drugs and then she was somehow even less interested in sex, if that was possible. Compete dead fish (see no pun note above).
So in that case, I can’t watch her because she unwatchable, not because she committed suicide.
Well, you ARE the Last Pornstarfighter!
This is exactly why I try to avoid knowing too much about pornstars.
We’re hitting the age when boomer porn stars are dying of natural causes, like Juliet “Aunt Peg” Anderson. It helped that the women back then weren’t all 18 year old nitwits. Juliet didn’t do her first porn before she was 39, and basically invented her own character. Sure, some of the Golden Age actresses had drug problems and got screwed over by producers, but how is that even a tiny bit different than the rest of Hollywood?