No industry objectifies women more than porn. Millions of people turn to their computers or phones to get off to sexy beautiful women. There is absolutely nothing wrong with indulging in the fantasy land porn creates.

What isn’t fantasy is the life Shyla Stylez lived. We tend to forget that pornstars are people too. This is not just a porn problem. People with jobs in the public’s eye like in sports, politics, acting, and music are also easily forgotten as real-life people. There is a mysticism or larger than life image that develops around public figures so we think they are free from the struggles of everyday life.

It is easy to say hateful things to an artist over social media if you don’t like their music or yell out racial slurs to a football player on the field when they screw up a play. Public figures are not objects immune from abuse. They have emotions like you and I.
  There job happens to be in the public sphere and when their shift is over they go home like everyone else. Porn was Shyla’s job, and like everyone else she had a life outside of her job.

Shyla was not only looked at as an object to fantasize about and fans’ reactions to Shyla’s death demonstrate just that. If Shyla was seen as just an object to fans then there would not be the outpouring of grief that there is on social media.
 Porn fans are criticized regularly for lusting and fantasizing over pornstars, but they have shown the ability to disconnect entertainment from reality better than a lot of people and treat Shyla with the respect her and her family deserve.  

If you look at the Toronto Sun’s article on Shyla’s passing, it is full of disrespectful digs at the legitimacy of her work and attempts to make her death a joke.

First off, the picture they use of Shyla sends the wrong message of who she was and judging by the comments on the article it was successful in doing so.
 Secondly, it was unnecessary to mention movie titles Shyla and the pornstars they quoted in story were in. There was no need to mention Jesse Jane starred in “Crack Addict 7” or “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Anal.” This is just the author mocking the importance of Shyla’s death.

Compare that article with the comments on Shyla’s Brazzers profile page since her death and it is completely different. Fans left their respects and reminisced about her career.

For me personally, Shyla made me a porn fan. She was the first pornstar I ever saw and although I didn’t know her name at the time I soon learnt it and became a fan.

Porn is a job. A job Shyla was not forced to do, but a job she loved and became a legend at. There is nothing for her, her family, or fans to be ashamed of. Porn is a sexually liberating experience for some and is a doorway to explore nasty perverted fantasies for others. We are lucky that Shyla Stylez allowed us to explore our sexual fantasies and desires with her, and she will be forever missed.