Hot Girls Wanted (2015)

Hot Girls Wanted: Directed by Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus. With Tressa Silguero, Riley Reynolds, Rachel Bernard, John Anthony. A documentary about young women who have been drawn into the sex trade – and how easy it is for a web-savvy generation to end up making porn.

“I say it should have been called u0026quot;Young Girls Wantedu0026quot; because what enabled the objects of this film to make money in the adult industry was definitely not their looks, but their ages.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHot girls Wanted is an interesting (albeit skewed) documentary about one very small aspect of the adult industry. HGW focuses on a few girls who go off to a flop house in FL to take advantage of the money available to them via making adult videos. The film focuses in on just one or two of these girls, thus giving you an extremely myopic look at what is arguably the biggest, most lucrative industry in history. While you couldnu0026#39;t possible get a feel (pun intended) for the adult industry by following even a hundred or a thousand talents around, just how much can you expect to learn from following a few? And these few are rock bottom amateurs being managed by a rock bottom amateur.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI find it amusing how people rectify capitalism with instances of it where other people are making money doing things that they a) donu0026#39;t like, b) wouldnu0026#39;t do themselves, and/or c) wouldnu0026#39;t want family doing. Seems to me that the phrase u0026quot;theyu0026#39;re being taken advantage ofu0026quot; or u0026quot;theyu0026#39;re being manipulatedu0026quot; comes in quite handy to folks who canu0026#39;t grapple with the fact that quite often, what makes money valuable is that it gets people to do stuff they normally wouldnu0026#39;t do. Maybe itu0026#39;s a plumber who deals with feces on a daily basis, maybe itu0026#39;s the person thatu0026#39;s flipping burgers for minimum wage, or maybe itu0026#39;s someone exhibiting sexual behavior on film. And while Iu0026#39;m certain there are people who do all of these jobs and love doing them, the fact is that most are doing it for the money. You could make the same movie and title it u0026quot;Plumbers Wantedu0026quot; or u0026quot;Short Order Cooks Wanted.u0026quot; Either would make the exact same point.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut of course we have the double standard that sex is all at once wonderful and special, but at the same time u0026quot;badu0026quot; to do for money. Please do this little thought experiment… Imagine that there are no more STDs, and that people are able to control their ability to breed 100%. No one ever gets sick, and no one ever gets pregnant (or impregnates someone) if they donu0026#39;t want to. Now ask yourself if itu0026#39;s OK for people (your wife, kid, etc…) to work in this industry. If the answer is u0026quot;nou0026quot; then you have some deep thinking to do. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs far as the u0026quot;moralityu0026quot; of adult content in and of itself, I will offer this… If you wouldnu0026#39;t condone your wife, daughter, mother, son, neighbor, anybody doing it, then you ought not be watching/consuming it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd I loved the puppy:)”