Buy a Porn Star an iPad

There is a story on The Daily Beast today about how porn stars are using Twitter. Apparently they have some special Twitter porn service that doesn't do anything but manage porn star Twitter accounts, which in itself is an interesting exercise in entrepreneurship.

But the part that caught my attention, 'way down in the story, was how porn actresses use their Twitter accounts to solicit, and receive, gifts from fans:

“On the place on Twitter where you can put your website I put my Amazon wish list,” says DeArmond. She also likes to tweet out her wish list. She says three packages—jewelry, shoes—a day is normal in her mail.

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Not to be outdone, Kristina Rose says: “I got an iPad yesterday. The fan had it engraved on the back to say ‘Slutwoman A.K.A. Kristina Rose.’ I love Twitter.”

As I've written frequently, infatuation literally means 'made foolish.' And I've been made foolish a lot. A whole lot. But holy shit, I've never been made this foolish. Let's skip the part about being porn actresses. They could be rock stars or anesthesiologists – it wouldn't matter. Buying someone you don't even know, have never met and will never meet gifts off her Amazon 'wish list' – knowing full well she's just trolling for them? That's crazy.

I guess I'm seeing this as sort of the flip side of the coin for the gnarly old zen master pressuring young female students to fuck their way to enlightenment with him.