Talk:Performer Availability Screening Services

Except as used in a metadata discussion about the root word itself, use of the term "porn," together with all parts of speech arising from that root word, is pregnant with negative value judgments regarding the creators and consumers of erotic art. The term "erotic" should be used in its place. The term porn is associated with an unworthy or corrupt use of one's talents for the sake of personal or financial gain. Whether persons engaged in frank, explicit sexual acts for money should be regarded as unworthy or corrupt is irrelevant as well as gratuitously insulting in the context of this article. Whether this or that behavior is unworthy or corrupt as opposed to worthy and virtuous is meaningless in the context of the public and private health issues associated with the depiction of sexual behavior in all of its manifestations - for educational and training purposes; for the purpose of stimulating mental processes prefatory to coitus or masturbation; or as an object of art in a non-sexual artistic context. The reasons that obtain for the use of the term "sexually transmitted diseases" instead of "venereal disease" and "sex worker" for "prostitute. William Stephen Paleos (talk) 15:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)