Exploitation and super-skinny porn.

While many defend pornography, especially ethically produced porn, I can't imagine that anybody would be willing to suggest that anorexia porn is anything but reprehensible and exploitative in the extreme.

From The Guardian:

Anorexic women targeted by 'super-skinny' porn websites

As the use of pro-anorexia websites increases, some vulnerable women are finding themselves the targets of grooming by the porn industry. Nicola Hobbs reports

'As you know, beauty has one name: being thin. Our models are underweight, skinny, thin, bony – just like you. We want you. Regardless of the costs, we want you to join our agency. Let's face facts, on anorexic porn websites, men are masturbating watching your pictures. You are a superstar of starvation and if you were selling and marketing your frame you would be more wealthy than most of us because men would pay any price for watching those pictures."

This was the email Sasha McDonald was sent last year from a pornography agency specialising in anorexic images. McDonald was 15 when she was first diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. "I was very lonely and felt worthless," she says. "I retreated into an online pro-anorexic [pro-ana] community and shared everything. I didn't realise the danger I was putting myself under." Despite receiving professional support, McDonald found herself becoming more entrenched in the online anorexic world. She wrote a blog of her battle with anorexia, recording the small amounts she ate and publishing photographs of herself in her underwear as evidence of her emaciated body.

Read the rest of the article here.

And to see to see an example, click here (WARNING: if you're struggling with an eating disorder, or have recovered from an eating disorder, this site may act as a trigger).