My sister's 83 year old mother in law does porn to survive

[irishlover]

Only in America, land of opportunity. I guess Republicans would be proud of her entrepreneurial spirit. When you're 83, alone, female and don't have a lot of options to survive, posing for elder porn must seem like a good idea. Everybody's struggling in California right now as parts of the state burn even before the Santa Ana winds have hit. Taxes are through the roof and services are cut all over the place. People are losing their businesses and their homes and their financial ability to help family members is next to nil. Don't get me wrong, she has made this choice consciously, has tremendous pride, a sense of independence and doesn't want to be a burden on her surviving son. She worked all her life up until last year and has not been able to find employment since. Is she a victim and if so, of what? The elderly photographer who talked her into this? The economy that has made day to day survival so hard? The cultural dismissal in this country of old women?

All I know is this: when 83 year old women live out the remaining days of their lives undressing and performing for pornography pushers, something deep and horrible is wrong with this country.

[msongs]

1. sounds like a family support mom problem to me if she is that desitute nt

[lbrtbell]

12. Not all families can afford to support each other

Many of them are struggling just to get by, themselves. :(

[im1013]

2. I'm not in California, so I haven't heard anything about this.

Do you have a link?

[create.peace]

3. republicans are probably the ones buying it! omg, as i have entered into my 60s, i haven't all of a

sudden found just any old guy hot! i thought porn was about fantasy, shows what i know! is she happily doing it? can't anyone supplement her income any other way??

[imdjh]

14. It's a context thing, I think.

Where I live, the MEDIAN age is 75 years. Now there are plenty of teenaged and twenty something good looking guys (though not nearly enough considering how many ugly ones there are and when I say ugly I don't mean hot-ugly or ugly-sexy, I mean plain old garden variety bad genes ugly) but there are a boatload of handsome AND SEXY fifty to sixty guys out there. There are some tradesmen who had combined good luck and hard work who look pretty powerfully manly at sixty. OK so they tend to get fewer and far between after sixty, but it's only a matter of time. A man with a boat, a pension, and nicely tanned muscles isn't bad.

[create.peace]

15. i guess the question is, do these hot 60 something guys like 83 yo bods on women. i mean, my dh

seems to like me, and there's a lot more of me than there used to be, but i don't find the heads turning like they did till i was 40! more power to 83 yo, if she still feels like baring it all! i used to model for life drawing, and knew when i passed from seductive looking to a character! i grew up thinking of rodin's http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record%3Bid=53535%3Btype=101 She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife, youth is fleeting!

[Chemisse]

4. I didn't realize there was such a market for that kind of porn

In fact, I never heard of it before.

I think we as a society should care for the elderly better. People should be able to retire and not live in extreme poverty afterward.

But frankly, I admire her spunk!

[eShirl]

10. There is a market for EVERY type of porn.

And for everything that's out of the ordinary, there is a fetish.

("Turn, turn, turn... ")

[notesdev]

5. I saw this stuff several years ago

I was an email admin at a major government department, and one complaint we got was about grandmother porn. I'm not big on the idea of editing out bad memories, but if I were ever to go for that, what I saw in that email would be at the top of the list.

[Sal Minella]

6. Poor you. Ye Gods. I can't imagine.

I am very careful not to get near the mirror unless I have clothes on or a robe or am not wearing my glasses. Ackky.

[notesdev]

8. Whatever you do

don't try it wearing latex garters and a rubber rain hat.

[progressoid]

11. ...

I know I shouldn't laugh but I guess when I'm tired and I have a headache and I'm listening to Funkadelic that post made me giggle. :spray:

[Sal Minella]

13. Can. Not. Begin. To. Imagine.

[patrice]

7. Hard to comment without knowing more about the son. Family roles & responsibilities

should always be a starting point in any determination.

That said, though I have problems with hardcore stuff, if she's good looking enough and NOT being exploited, old-men have as much right to their sexuality, within reason, as anyone else.

[Control-Z]

9. I know a sixty something YO

who does phone sex to supplement her (questionable) disability. I'll leave it at that.