The problem with people like Joe Francis is that he is exploiting non-unionized, unprotected, poorly compensated, unlicensed (and often incapacitated) temp workers, and profiting handsomely from this exploitative labor market. Eligibility to work as a model for pornography, and legal hiring for pornography, should be contingent on the model's membership in a sex worker union, which would a variety of legal, health, pay scale and other occupational protections. If we moved to such a model, then we might have some hope of rationally addressing this issue within the context of existing social norms about the appropriate legal age limits for contracting one's labor. And no one would have the legal right to drive by a crowd and say "here's 100 bucks to pull up your shirt" to a bunch of young women lacking union cards.
I fully support making the commercial display of breasts contingent on compulsory union membership, or at least a reality television show based on this concept. Will disgruntled Girls Gone Wild go on strikes, making room for low-rent scabs? Will Mardi-Gras flashers demand a living wage, prompting college kids everywhere to go on sex-positive hunger strikes? Will women who post lewd pictures of themselves online be prosecuted for failure to join the sisterhood of porn? The possibilities are endless.
