Jordan Wolfson's Scupture

My friend posted a video of this and I knew I just had to see it. I feel I'm a growing art snob since this is the first time I've seen a piece and wept. Jordan Wolfson seemed to have captured many topics that are personal to me. It's like he read my journal and knew how to express exactly what I felt.

Many of these topics relate to my upbringing. First, the "dummy." It's an observer. The big, expressive eyes, seeing all of the people who visit this piece. It's on a track that's connected to chains. It gets into odd positions. It doesn't seem to have a choice in whether it's pulled this way or that way. At one point, the dummy has his leg pulled one way and gets contorted into a position that would be uncomfortable. Aside from being the observer and contortionist, the dummy is made from many pieces and is not able to stand on its own. All of these are characteristics of my own personal childhood experiences.

Second, the song.  For years after my parents' divorce, love songs were a sore spot for my mom. This song along with the dummy on chains reminds me of how I've watched my mom's heart break repeatedly from unsatisfying relationships.
Conversely, it reminds me of my 20's, when I attempted to date and never had a working relationship with anyone.

It seems like a simple sculpture but to me, it struck me as something related to my life.

Just some Random Thoughts

I like the cartoonist J.Scott Campbell. His style is just amazing.
I'm happy to see some of the fashion designs of Kat Von D. I like the Napoleon type jackets. I just wish it wasn't so expensive. I remember when I used to love the L.A.M.B designs from Gwen Stefani and they were also expensive. 
Last night, I stopped to have a drink at my favorite local bar. I went by myself and spent time talking to lots of different people. I was talking with this one woman and she told me that she had gotten into a bar fight the year before. This guy sat down with us, the way that friends of friends of friends do, and he started talking. Well, he started to get offended that she said "police" like "po-lice" (similar to po-po, if you've heard it). He told her not to "church" it up for him-- thinking that she was saying it that way because he was black and she wanted to impress him. She was talking in a slight ghetto accent for quite some time during the night(and I don't mean to be offensive here, there's just a certain way that people talk and it's people from all different ethnicities who talk like this when they've been in or near the ghettos). She was just out of hot water when she said something in a Southern accent. He was joking that her shoe must taste good. Then, she went on to other topics and said the word "retarded." Now, this isn't in my vocabulary but I work with lots of teens who use it freely and I've grown used to it. I might not have been paying too much attention to the conversation because I didn't hear her say it.  He got really offended and said his son was Autistic. He then associated me with her, even though I had just met her an hour or so earlier. So, he gets mad and if I were her, I would have turned around and just sat there, not talking. Instead, she goes on and on, saying she can't apologize now. So, near the end of the exchange, she says, "Have fun with your son." He was so mad-- tensing his jaw, cussing, and making fists. As I said, I was head down, not trying to get involved. I started talking to someone else about music.
I assumed after this, the guy leaves. He was fairly upset. She even said more things as he was across the room. He stared at me, like, "Did she just say something more?" and I didn't even understand what she was talking about. It sounded like it was something offensive.
I grabbed my keys to leave. She sees the guy and goes over to apologize. It has not been more than 2 minutes. I would not have done that at all. People need about 20 minutes to calm down and if I were her, I would be so embarrassed that I would either leave or not talk to anyone for a little bit. I walked out. He walked out to get away from her and she followed him to his car. He called his friend over, the friend called the bar owner over, and she walked over to her friend who I was talking to. He was offering me a ride home but I hadn't had a drink for at least 90 minutes so, I was good to drive. She started talking to him about how this other guy yelled at her and she couldn't apologize to him. Then, she started crying. If it were me, of course I'd cry. I don't like tense situations. I wasn't sure why she was crying. I've noticed in the past, I've cried because I wasn't getting my way and I didn't like the consequences, i.e. some professors who had given me a bad grade and didn't want to talk to me directly about it. I finally sat down with them and as expected, they did not want to hear any way of working it out meaning I had to retake the class, most likely with them because it was a small school. Sometimes crying is definitely a way to manipulate so I definitely wondered with this girl if she was crying for that reason.
I'm just glad I wasn't in a bar fight because most likely, I would have accidentally been involved just by being around. :(

I've been driving around lately and have seen some guys with signs in one town saying that they will work. I was in a different town and saw someone with a sign that said, "Anything helps." Yes, anything does help but I would respect him more if he said he was willing to work instead of making money by just standing there. I thought about the way that I've seen some women cry while holding their signs. I try to understand that yes, the situation sucks and it's not what they would have wanted. So, it must be at times really trying and upsetting. I don't like seeing their crying because I wonder if they do get more money because they are crying. So, it doesn't feel right to me.
I've seen some people who were working together and it seemed like they had a goal-- like they just needed to get money for something that they were doing, i.e. gas or a place to stay for the night. They were very active, not just walking but like talking to each other and going to different cars with high energy. That's why it seemed that they had a goal.

My roommate's cat is sleeping on my bed right now and she's snoring. I love little cat snores.

I gave up Facebook for Lent. I'm just ready to go back on to edit everyone and switch people over to my professional page-- the ones who I care about but I don't want to get updates about all the time. I want to really reduce my personal page to only anyone who actually interacts with me. I mean there are also people I'm close with who I don't mind getting updates about (but we don't interact much).
At this point, I'm just tired of getting only game requests. I love playing Sims but I don't want to have that be the only way people interact with me. I want to think that I'm funny and that people genuinely care about me.

For a second, I had thought about joining the Catholic church. I was hung up about the story of Jesus but I reframed it to be that he was a saint. I can handle that. As a prophet, I just don't get the story. But today, I realized that my life is too liberal to be a part of the Catholic church. I go to Planned Parenthood and I don't mind supporting their mission for women's health, even when women have difficulties paying for treatment. Health and reproductive health is too important that money doesn't need to be an issue. I also think that in some situations, parents should not be notified about their girls getting reproductive services because that could cause further abuse. I hang out with gay people. I don't want to think that they will go to hell for their sins. I don't think they are sinning. I also didn't like when my Baptist friend said she did not attend her cousin's wedding because the cousin is gay. She said she loved her cousin but she didn't like the sin so she wasn't going to go and support her at her wedding.  I don't want to be like that.
It just sucks because I feel like there isn't a church who believes in God, doesn't talk about Jesus and is liberal. I was a part of the Unitarian church. I had lots of issues with having a community that was so supportive, however, I wanted to talk more about God (and they just can't do that because of the Athiests) and my pastor was very persuasive and wanted to sit down with me to talk about my church hopping. She wanted to make connections for me. And she really wanted me to join the church. I did not want to join as a financially contributing member. I felt that it was about money and I didn't want to keep with it. I didn't like the pressure.I also tend to have issues with consistency with a community of any sort. And as I said before, I also wanted to talk more about God.
I bought a "St. Michael/ Guardian Angel" pendant on Saturday. I keep praying that I get taken where I need to be for that day. I ask for guidance. I even did a meditation to meet a spirit guide today. I met a very high energy girl. I'm guessing it's a new or different one. I think some psychics believe that there's only one. I believe that there are many guiding spirits of pets, angels, relatives and whoever decides to attach to you for a short time or a long period of time. This girl was so fun. She encouraged me to have more fun in my life. Then, I proceeded to have a very long day that only focused on work before going grocery shopping and taking a nap. After the nap, I couldn't concentrate at all. I tried to write and nothing. I couldn't keep my focus long enough to finish a sentence. I definitely couldn't read or do artwork in such a state. I turned off my computer and cleaned up my room a bit before going back on the Internet for funny pictures.

I realize now, as I'm watching Dougie Howser, that he was keeping a journal on his computer-- possibly the first noted BLOG?! LOL. 

So, in order to break addictions, there has to be other options of things to do. So, I felt that I had an addiction to Facebook. I've used Twitter more often. I worry that that is part of the same addiction. At first, though, I thought that Twitter was different and I could use it in a different way. But now, I'm not sure. I just don't know what I want to do. It seems like it's all really the same and I just don't want to be a part of it now.

When I was at the grocery store today, I had to get the store card again. I lost the ring that I had with all of my information on it. So, I go to customer service. Correct me if I'm wrong, but usually, they ask for your phone number and they have the info. They kept insisting that on this computer-- and only this computer, they needed to have either my driver license number or my social security number. That didn't seem right to me. I wondered if I really gave my social security number for a stupid store card. The only thing that I really like about it is gas points-- get a certain amount of points and get up to 40 or 50 cents off of gas. It's kind of nice. But I was reading on the internet that these companies only perpetuate more spam mail. So, I figured that at one time they needed social security numbers to connect people to their spending habits to send targeted ads to those people. This might relate to gas points because it really motivates people to sign up for these stupid cards that track everything.
Once the woman was finished, she said, "Thank you" and then walked away abruptly. I felt like WTF!? Did you just rip me off? Did I, the customer, bother you from your work? But it's also the Connecticut way. People are just sort of mean until you drink with them or get to know them--- at that point, they're your friend forever. It's why I love CT.CA people just don't do that. They're nice until they get to know you, then they don't care unless you have something for them.

Karma and Soul Mates

My Beliefs about Karma and Soul Mates

I believe a few things about karma. One, karma is cycle and patterns. Two, these cycles and patterns can be seen throughout a life and sometimes they can be broken. Three, these cycles can be carried over from previous lives. Everyone has a pattern-- whether it be that they date people who cheat, they can't seem to find love, or when someone is attracted to a certain culture or a certain time period.
In everyone's life, there are ebbs and  flows. Sometimes money, friends, and love are in an abundance; other times you can't pay a bum to hang out with you-- mostly because you don't have the money but also because there wouldn't be one who wanted to be around you. This is just the natural cycle.
What happens in one lifetime can be made up for in another lifetime. For example, if one person had good luck and fortune in one life time, that pattern can either continue or it can b the opposite that they'd have bad luck and misfortune.
Sometimes we have karma with people. It might be unfinished business. It might be that we are changing roles through several lifetimes, like within our families and close friends. This leads into Soul Mates. To my understanding, there are several types of soul mates. There are people who come in briefly into your life and they help you in some way. There are your family and close friends that are meant to be in your life for the long haul. Then, there's the romantic love soul mate-- the one and only. However, I believe that throughout many lifetimes, our souls are going through journey of attaining goals and they're reaching different levels in their journey. Sometimes, we meet with our soul mates before this life and decide whether or not to meet them during this life. It might be that we need to attend to a goal for our soul journey and that goals is so intensive, we won't meet the soul mate.

In conclusion, karma is the cycle of a lifetime and over the course of several lifetimes. Soul mates include many people, including helpers, friends and family, and romantic love soul mates. We can decide to not meet our soul mate in this lifetime.

You're Branded

You're branded. You've been branded from the time you could remember and on. First, you had Fisher Price. You had all these things that Fisher Price made. Then, you moved onto books and movies. All of those are brands. Then, you were at the peak time of consumerism. You wanted toys, you wanted movies, you wanted music, video games, game consoles; you wanted the same brand of backpacks as everyone else, the same clothing from the same brands. You didn't want to be the kid that didn't have those things. Those weren't the cool kids. They were most likely poor. And being poor was looked down upon. You didn't want to be seen as poor.
Today, kids have Disney. Disney brands just about every kid with adventure heroes, princesses, Tinkerbell, and Disney Radio. These princesses and heroes have a character already. There's no need for kids to display any sort of creativity because they know how Belle, Tinker Bell, and Jasmin would react in any given situation.
I really think that any shirt that has a company logo should be given out for free or they should pay you to wear it. You are advertising them. You know these shirts-- Old Navy, Ambercrombie, American Eagle, Ed Hardy, etc. There is no point in buying these shirts. You are advertising for them. Even if it's not obvious, we are aware of brand names. Some people can tell you about an Express shirt or a Calvin Klein shirt and know when they see them. You are still advertising them even if it's just by the tag on the shirt.What sense does it make that you are paying to do their advertising? It's like you're paying to be a walking billboard for them. It's not advertising that you shop there-- although in some circles that would be considered cool.You are just advertising the company.
We've also been branded by jingles, slogans and commercials. While no one wants to admit the power of the influence of commercials, no one wants to admit, either, that there isn't much choice. If you know the name of the brand, then you are likely to buy the name that you know. How many times have you seen a brand you haven't seen before? When you have, have you passed it up to get the name brand? The other day, someone said, "Don't get mad, get glad." He was branded. He's telling me something to kind of make me laugh but at the same time, it made me upset because he's branded. He's identifying that he's branded. He's trying to get me to admit that he's branded and I'm branded the same way. I know the commercial that he's talking about. There are times when the younger generation has no idea what I'm saying, although there's only a few years of difference between us, and there are times when I have no idea what they are talking about because I don't have the same commercial and slogan base that they do.
When I didn't have a TV, it's been interesting to see how people relate to each other. They watch the same shows, start talking about the story plots and where it could possibly go, they talk about the characters they like and who they despise.  At least today, people can communicate to the shows and producers, which some shows and network advertise, such as HBO. There is some interaction. Before, there wasn't. You watched what you watched and that was it. You could discuss it and be part of the cool kids who watched the cool shows.
Even the people who don't think that they are branded are still branded unless they go out of the way to not be branded. If they get hand made clothes or choose to make their own. And the people who think they are rebellious by dressing out of the norm or dying their hair-- are still getting their clothing and hair dye from somewhere. You can't run away from being branded. It's not easy. You can't even run away from being a consumer. You're always a consumer and a slave to money.
Now, choose which brands you really want to advertise and what you want to say about yourself when you choose what you wear in the morning or afternoon and night. Also, consider buying dolls and toys from toy shops. No, not Toys R Us or K.B. Toys. I'm talking about the little toy stores where there are educational toys. These places also have princesses and ballerina and action figures that don't have a defined character-- meaning that kids can actually use their imagination to create characters, stories, conflict and resolution.

Safety in Mental Health Facilities *Warning: Graphic Photos*

 I've been following the story of safety in California state mental health facilities. In October of 2010, a patient who had permission to walk around the Napa State Hospital grounds cornered a social worker between two buildings and beat her to death. Employees there said that each one of them had been assaulted by patients.
Today, NPR did another story (linked here) about the California state mental health facilities, particularly one in Los Angeles. The employees picket at lunch time, gathering support from those who drive by. They had talked about it's not if they get assaulted, it's when they get assaulted. Even though California is in debt, they were able to give an extra $10 million dollars to the state facilities. I'm not entirely sure how many state hospitals there are and if this includes any state hospital or just the mental hospitals, but if there's more than 10, that's about or less than $1 million dollars each. They are the only state facilities that are hiring during the time of debt because there are great issues with safety. In the article, Diana Dooley, the secretary of California's Health and Human Services Agency, says that even $100 million dollars isn't enough "in terms of advocates of the patients and the workers and the need." No, no, I think that $100 million dollars is enough to hire more people, have police presence, and to ensure safety regulations and precautions of both workers and patients.

I wonder about the facilities that are not state run. In the 1990's, many state run facilities in CT were closed. Some former patients are still being reintroduced into society and trying to make it work with some state supported agencies. Others had difficulty and were sent either out of state or to other in-state facilities. There are a few for-profit, privately ran facilities remaining in CT. Although the state and federal government can give money for certain things such as becoming a teaching hospital or accepting patients with state insurance, there is little that can be given in the name of safety.

This is the arm of my coworker, Mike, after a rough code from a young patient. Codes are when patients' behavior are out of control.

I worked at a privately run behavioral health facility for over 2 years. For two years, they worked me hard and often criticizing every little detail while not showing much appreciation for me or many other workers. At some point, they decided it would be better if they were a hospital that accepted patients with state insurance. For all of its history, it had been a place for upper class (wealthy) people to go to when they were mentally unstable. It had been a place where there was a sense of community and stays were long. Over the course of the years, the length of stay became shorter and shorter and the patients have become increasingly hostile and physically aggressive. Once the state insurance was accepted, patients who had been in prison and who were low income were admitted. The staff was concerned at the onset that there would be issues with people who had previously been to jail for violent crimes.

I saw many fights, heard of many attacks, and witnessed some of these attacks on patients and staff. The administrators were saying that they were not admitting violent patients while all staff knew they were. In one instance a patient (Patient A) was isolated from the community because he attacked another patient (Patient B). And staff and administrators blamed the Patient B for flirting with the Patient A. They did not point out that the Patient A waited for the chance when no staff would be around so that he could attack her. It could be that the administration's definition of violence was different from the rest of the staff.

Administration felt that they would be best to cover their own butts. They made every person who worked for the hospital, including the desk clerk, secretaries, and people who worked in the gift shop, to attend a safety meeting. They gave lots of cock and bull stories and emphasized that everyone had a role in safety. After taking this course, any incident that caused harm to a patient or staff was blamed on every staff who was around. This included the injuries sustained to a security guard who was injured while pulling two patients apart during a fight. He was blamed for the injury because he was doing his job. This safety meeting was developed after they had lawsuits on their hands (Isn't that a big surprise?-- sorry, had to get sarcastic there for a second).

This is another angle of Mike's arm after a rough code.

The fact is that many of the nurses and mental health workers say repeatedly that there aren't enough staff, especially for evening shifts and on weekends. An evening weekend shift has the least amount of people. Patients pay attention to these things. If they were to make sure of a calculated time to attack others or to get out of control,  they would do it at that time.

Administrators and doctors have the most control over policy. They also tend to have numerous biases and lack understanding of the duties of mental health workers and nursing staff. I challenge any of the doctors or administrators there to work as a mental health worker at mental health worker pay for a week. I would expect that after experiencing the difficulty with duties as well as  lack of  good pay, appreciation, and other staff around, there would definitely be changes. On a side note, many mental health workers work 16 hours and go home for 8 hours only to come back for another 16 hours. If you've ever been up for that long, it doesn't make for a good, alert worker. I would hope that doctors and administrators would have a better understanding of the difficulty of a the job of a mental health worker or worse if they could even imagine being in that job.

After I gave my notice to terminated my employment there, there were more out of control patients, security guards who usually work at night would be called in for earlier shifts, and more of my sweet coworkers were attacked. A known violent patient was admitted while the doctors and administrators were surprised and said they didn't know how that happened. In the following four days of this patient's admission, he assaulted at least two staff and knocked out another. He was supposed to be in chemical restraints, which meant that he was on a great amount of medication that made him too drowsy to do much than sleep. He went to a facility for violent patients where staff receive hazard pay and can retire at an early age because of the difficulty of their work. As time has gone on, I have encouraged all of my coworkers to demand hazard pay. At this point, I'd love to see them picket and watch administration scramble.

At this point, the LOS is very short, staff is burning out fast, and the administration is only looking at the bottom line and to protect themselves. They appear to me to have little interest in the well being of staff or patients. It's gotten the feel that staff just baby sits and can't do anything while patients act out or require higher levels of care than the facility can't provide.

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As you can tell this is a subject that I'm very passionate about and will continue to write about.

Thoughts on Videos of Draco Reptilians

About two years ago, a patient was admitted to the mental health facility. She was about 17. At times, she could keep herself together and other times, she would talk about the evil and reptilians she had read about on the Internet. To say the least, I was curious about these things she had read. I had been told many times that the two bumps (I assume they are from using expired eye make up) on my eyelid scare people because it reminds them of a lizard. I was fearful that she would think I was a reptilian person.
Here's what my eyelid looks like:

Lately, a friend on Facebook has been posting videos and articles about the Illuminati and Reptilian people. Since most of the video clips are from youtube, I tend to get lost in looking at them. I've seen a lot of Reptilian videos where the person assumes that if you are watching it, you know what to look for. I saw one that was explained what to look for (the link is here ). This and other videos include:
1. Blinking more than 3 or 4 times.
2. While blinking, "whatever they wear over their eye" is pulled upwards.
3. As they change on camera, they put their hands in their face or divert away from themselves.
4. A green tint around their eyes or mouth.
5. Scaly skin particularly around their eyes.
6. Eyes look cat-like or reptilian.
7. Teeth appear to come and go.
8. There's a large amount of Reptilian women who are in porn and their eyes and body change right on camera. 

First, the blinking. There are many politicians and news anchors who blink a lot. It might be because they are lying, nervous, or it's a character flaw. It's a difficult thing to overcome and control.

Second, none of this stuff is at all contributed to camera, computer or processing glitches. Many of the videos, (an example is here ), can be contributed to just glitches. I try to put myself in the theorists place. A few explanations that I can think of are that their energy field affects the camera or an overall, "that's what they want you to believe." At one point, I even thought if it happens to the same person over and over again then maybe it's more than coincidence. Then, I did see incidents happen again and again, with two different reporters. I thought about the likelihood that one of the reporters has the same equipment on scene with her all the time since she is often "on scene."  The other one is often reporting from all over the world and the feed is not so great so there are glitches.
Third, a lot of points three through seven are tough. The video quality is usually bad-- from either the original recording, the recording of the original, or by the pixilation from their tampering with the video and image. I don't think anyone accounts for stage lighting or angle. I've seen some videos where people are moving around quite a bit and in some angles their eyes and teeth look one way when in another they look completely different two seconds later.

Fourth, the women in porn. Yes, this again. Eyes change a lot depending on mood. What they were showing in these videos were women giving blow jobs (that were delicately removed from the video to only focus on the face of the woman) and when she looked up at the guy, her eyes changed. Maybe she's just really into it and that's why her eyes are changing.

Some thing that I keep in the back of my mind is that a lot of these videos have either some soft music (and usually does not match my taste) or nothing at all. Now, maybe you haven't had these experiences but there are videos out there where it's quiet and you're looking at a scene, focusing really hard when image quickly comes on the screen, screams and scares the bejubus out of you. I find myself staring so hard at the screen and it's usually quiet that I start jumping ahead in the video to make sure that there's nothing that's going to pop up to scare me.

In the end, I think if I could see a well polished video with some admission of skepticism, I might really consider these theories. Right now, it's easily dismissed with simple psychology, as well as lighting, cameras and computer glitches.

Things I take into consideration when it comes to porn

Porn is one of the many issues that feminist tend to have heavy debates over. There are certain facts I agree with the anti-porn feminists about- 1. porn is tough work and 2. people are exploited when they do it. Most anti-porn feminists want porn banned. I definitely do not agree that society would be better if porn were banned.

One of my main concerns is that if porn gets banned, where does the censorship stop? Many people know the saying that they can't put into words what porn exactly is and how it becomes obscene or offensive but they know it when they see it. My imagination goes to the extreme-- when would a picture or painting of a naked body be allowed? I worry that people would become very sensitive to any nudity, whether or not it was art or porn or artistic porn, and that there would be no naked pictures. Two areas that I'm concerned about is where would people find informative pictures about their bodies and would videos about techniques or "how to spice up your sex life" type movies be allowed? I also wonder about romance novels and erotica literature. Do they get banned too? I don't have the answer for those questions. In the past, when porn has been banned from being mailed, great works (such as Playboy and Lady Chatterly's Lover) as well as information about women's bodies and birth control were constricted. I am very concerned about this happening  again if porn were banned.

If there were no naked pictures, there would be some consequences to this. One, people would not be informed about their own body. There are some medical artists who would be able to do justice to an informative representation of a penis, vagina, or breast. It would not have the same effect as seeing real pictures of the body. While the medical pictures can be descriptive of what is average, it cannot entirely describe the variety of vaginas and penises that are out there. Two, there are people out there who aren't great at socializing. It may be because they are mentally or physically handicapped or just socially awkward. You may or may not know someone like this. Without porn and without nude photos, these people would be at a disadvantage. Just like everyone else, they have the right to happiness and for some, that can be masturbation in leui of a relationship with another person. Most of the time these articles written by anti-porn feminist are focused on the perceived inner workings of violent men. They make claims that men watch porn, begin treating women like objects, and raping and murdering them. And there are a few people out there like that. Those people also watch TV and drink water (yes, that was a flippant statement, made in jest). Those aren't the people I'm talking about. I'm talking about the sweet people. The ones who yearn for relationships. The ones who go into their fantasy world of having wife or husband or lover, someone who takes care of them, someone who they would love and adore. They're the ones who want sex and to make love. Yet, they don't. They don't have that and that goal may or may not ever be achieved in their lives. They have the right to view porn, if they choose. I dare say, it can even be healthy.

The other main concern is that if porn continues, there needs to be strict standards. Companies should be boycotted if they allow actors and actresses to wear out their bodies i.e. work for hours, doing multiple penetration, etc, to not wear protection, and not get independent health check ups on a regular, 3 months at least; 6 months at most, basis. There are some porn companies who already have these type of standards. What I would really like to see is people going into Russia to change their porn industry. I understand this is a big thing. I have found Russian porn is the most offensive. They really do make you believe that they are raping and murdering women. If it's not the real thing, it sure looks like it.

An important factor that I consider if how much more women are paid compared to men in the porn industry. Most research focuses on men watching porn and women as the actresses in porn.  I tend to focus on the opposite-- women who watch porn and men as the actors in porn. In all the research and opinion articles, women who watch porn are ignored. There is little said about the men in porn movies. It seems that others dismiss them. By ignore them, it could be possible that these writers are objectifying them or minimizing their role. I imgine that the reason is "Oh, they're just a penis" or "They enjoy having sex with women anyway."

All-in-all, it's best to consider the other ways that porn impacts society. Allowing porn to continue opens up the pathways to have easy access information about the human body. Porn also benefits those who are socially inept. Still, there needs to be better standards of care for all actors and actresses who choose to work in this industry.