Valley Advocate Website Announces 2008's "Best" Adult Entertainment Club; Holsopple's Inside Report on Stripping (explicit language)
Posted by NPNAdmin at 5/15/2008 3:07 PM 
Categories: Feminist Perspective, Debate on the Issues, Business Ethics, Media Ethics, Strip Clubs, Prostitution
Categories: Feminist Perspective, Debate on the Issues, Business Ethics, Media Ethics, Strip Clubs, Prostitution
If you visit the Valley Advocate website today and click through to their "Best of 2008" page, you'll see it leads off with "Adult entertainment club", partly because this category starts with "A" and partly because the Advocate considers this to be just another leisure option, on par with "Art gallery" or "Charity event"...
Within the "Best of 2008" issue itself, the Advocate uncritically relays that the Mardi Gras strip club offers a "convergence of elegance and energy mixed with sophisticated and sensual decor."
As our readers know from our May 4 post, "Profitable Exploits: Lap Dancing in the UK", this "elegant" framing is common in the strip club industry:
For a deeper level of insight than you'll find in the Advocate, here are excerpts from a study (PDF) conducted by someone who stripped for 13 years...
Rather than expose this industry for what it is, the Advocate has decided to party with the exploiters and the abusers. Let editor Tom Vannah know how you feel about this.
See also:
Ask the Valley Advocate's New Owner to Drop the Sex Ads
Dear Mr. Brown:
Congratulations on your recent purchase of the Valley Advocate. I hope you will take this opportunity to free the Advocate of the ads for escort services and adult enterprises that compromise its progressive mission. New York Press took a similar step this summer after being acquired by Manhattan Media...
The Truth About Lap Dancing: A Performer Speaks Out
The key fact is that everyone knows they can make more money by breaking the rules. In a culture where you are literally selling yourself for cash, and you are working on commission, then you’d have to work very hard indeed to stop people going for extra money if they know they can make it.
Since there are no incentives to encourage dancers not to break the rules, and the customers are always prepared to pay more to get more, then licensing terms will always be broken...
Lap dancers don’t have employment rights like everyone else. They are self employed so they aren’t paid a wage, they don’t get holiday pay, sick pay, all the other things which people are entitled to in other jobs. Instead they work like prostitutes, they only get money if they get a man. And they will get as much out of each man as they can. And unlike enforcing licensing terms, when it came to the regulations enforced on the women, the management was absolute: you went on the pole or you were fined £20. You would then be called to the pole again and if you missed that you would be fined another £20. And so on...
Getting drunk was considered by many to be the aim of the night as well as making money. If you had managed to get drunk on other people’s money then you had done well...
There is still an horrendous power imbalance between the genders. Lap dancing clubs feed and breed that power imbalance. Lap dancing is the opposite of empowering...
I now realise that lap dancing is one of the hardest things I ever did. I found it tough, soul destroying and it had begun to strip me of my humanity. I began to see everyone in terms of how much I could get out of them. I had begun to really hate men, to be bored in their company. I stopped caring about people around me because I was surrounded by this atmosphere of constant mistrust.
Springfield Republican Reports on Strip Clubs and the Mafia
"The individual stated that the owners of these businesses do not want to pay Bruno, but that Bruno was pressuring them to pay this money through intimidation of organized crime," the source reported. The affidavit identifies the alleged payers as the Mardis Gras on Taylor Street, Teddy B's strip club on Worthington Street, two other unnamed strip clubs and the Red Rose restaurant on Main Street...
"The presence of two subjects inside the Mardi Gras on weekend nights serves to represent the interests of (LCN) in New York..."
Carolyn McKenzie: Undercover with the Viewing Booths; Disease, Intoxicants Prevalent Among Strip Dancers (explicit language)
Former Stripper Tells Easthampton Hearing about the Life: It Stinks
CNN: Anna Nicole Smith, 1967-2007
Smith was working as a topless dancer in Houston, Texas, when she made her first appearance in Playboy...
[Larry] King said Smith reminded people of late movie star Marilyn Monroe. Monroe died at 36 of a drug overdose in 1962...
Strip Poker Men's Club: Women's Lib to Blame for Men's Going to Strip Clubs
Strip Club Tips: How to Savor an Exquisite Blend of Fantasies, Lies, Exploitation and Despair (explicit language)
For a stripper's perspective, we present a selection from 37 Stripper Rants, as posted in March to gripe site Ofuzi...
Strip Clubs: Dancers Pay to Work There
Profitable Exploits: Lap Dancing in the UK
"Waitressing, I cleaned the floors and I own a box of men's wedding rings that I found on the floor."
The Science Behind Pornography Addiction (explicit language)
[Performers in the sex industry] have high rates of substance abuse, typically alcohol and cocaine, depression, borderline personality disorder which is a particularly serious disorder and dissociative identity disorder which used to be called multiple personality disorder. The experience I find most common among the performers is that they have to be drunk, high or dissociated in order to go to work. Their work environment is particularly toxic. One study on strippers indicated that they were likely to be punched, slapped, grabbed, called cunt and whore and to be followed home or stalked...
Prostitution: "It is high time to expose and challenge the liberal consensus"
...In the book, Matthews describes most women he has met on the streets as "extremely desperate, damaged, and disorganised". "Many of these women, who are supposed to be 'working', are obviously off their faces with drugs and drink," he says. "Which other 'profession' would that be tolerated in?"
Ex-Porn Star Shelley Lubben Talks about Days on the Set: Tedious, Intoxicated, Painful, Risky
While waiting around, jaded porn performers usually end up in the rest rooms with bottles of alcohol and lines of speed or outside in their cars for a heroin fix or gathered in the back yard with other actors to smoke marijuana...
I tried to kill myself. I swallowed several bottles of prescription pills and sliced my wrists but it seemed no matter what I did, I couldn't die. So I turned off the pain and became a lifeless zombie. Then there were times the pain and trauma would surface and I'd throw fits of rage, yelling and breaking things. I was mad at God, hated myself and hated my parents. Only alcohol and drugs could soothe my pain...
Jenna Jameson's Tragic Backstory; Seeking Virgins with Paris Hilton
...Jameson had acquired a devastating crystal-meth (amphetamine) habit. It nearly killed her. Rescued by a friend, she was sent back to her father to recuperate: she was so emaciated that she had to be put on the plane in a wheelchair, and when he came to meet her at the airport, he didn't recognise her.
Raffaëla Anderson and the French Porno Industry (explicit language)
...Raffaëla Anderson explains that, as a teenager, she had an admiration for Dutch porn actress Zara Whites, whom she was seeing on TV. Raffaëla was seeing a participation in the porno industry as a good way to earn money easily to be able to flee her abusive familial environment, and acquire a desired autonomy. However, she did not expect the difficult and abusive situation she was going to find herself in, inside of that industry. She was taking drugs and drinking alcohol to be able to cope with the "job"...
Interview with Ex-Porn Star Traci Lords: Abused as a Child; High on the Set; Power, Not Arousal; Bad Pay
KING: So in many of the porn films, you'd be stoned while doing them?
LORDS: Oh, yes. As often as possible. I was stoned for about three years, from 15 to 18, almost constantly. I was suicidal. I was wild...
Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit)
In pornography, women are
NOW ON SALE AT AMAZING.NET/GOFLIX.COM...
Dumb Blonde Bitches (24hr)
Extreme Audition #6
What happens when you have a tiny little blonde walk into your studio? Well a lot of fun for Michael Kahn. This pretty little thing was in tears by the end of this video. She had no tolerance for pain and so it was great fun to beat her little ass.
New Blood
Hold on tight and smile Bitch! The only difference between a filthy cunt whore on the street and a porn star is the camera.
Pain #26
Can you maintain ninety minutes of masochistic mayhem?! Watch today's most worthless degenerates line up for abuse and debasement. On the street. In private. Female pigs have been stripped of all dignity. Listen to their wretched screams. Watch their distorted pained faces. Then jerk off to the brutal inhumanity of it all!
Young Dumb And Full Of Cum
The Hottest In Hardcore! They're Cute And Have A Mind Like A 20 Watt Bulb!...
Big Black Ass Next Door #16
Tag on box cover: "NAPPY-HEADED HOS!"
Homeboys dog the bitches out on camera. Watch as these hoes get tricked into sucking dick and giving pussy for free.
Ghetto Booty Vol. 6
Fast girls.. Fast money... Nowadays girls are bout making their money anyway they can and we got a whole bunch to spend but only if she dont mind givin it up in front of our little camera of course. So we found 5 bout it freaks that were bout gettin their paper which was cool because they are going to need it to wipe up all the nut!
Porn Actresses: Most Careers Are Short, Few Are Lucrative (explicit language)
Although the industry is dependent on fans for survival, many of the respondents reported a fairly negative image of the imagined viewer... Ironically, then, actresses and actors are motivated in part to receive recognition from a group they know little about and often disparage. In addition, they reported little pride in the products they produce. Like most artifacts in the "sleaze industry", porn is disposable, mass-produced, fungible, and easily forgotten... Unlike the "straight" industry, actors and actresses are paid a flat fee for their performances, and receive no royalties for successful projects.
Within the "Best of 2008" issue itself, the Advocate uncritically relays that the Mardi Gras strip club offers a "convergence of elegance and energy mixed with sophisticated and sensual decor."
As our readers know from our May 4 post, "Profitable Exploits: Lap Dancing in the UK", this "elegant" framing is common in the strip club industry:
All clubs promised ‘luxury’ in their advertising, and appealed to potential clientele as a ‘better class’ of person than those who frequent strip clubs, for example, by using the term ‘gentlemen’s club’...
All club owners denied that the lap dancing business was part of the sex industry, but all, without exception, accused other club owners of running disreputable clubs offering sexual services. Their own clubs, in contrast, were seen as part of the leisure industry...
For a deeper level of insight than you'll find in the Advocate, here are excerpts from a study (PDF) conducted by someone who stripped for 13 years...
Strip Club Testimony Stripclubs are popularly promoted as providing harmless entertainment and as places where respectful men go to watch and talk to women (Reed 1997). Stripclub customers are described as normal men who use stripclubs to avoid adultery and therefore find a safe outlet for their sexual desires in balance with their marital commitments (Reed 1997)...
by Kelly Holsopple
The Freedom and Justice Center for Prostitution Resources:
A Program of the Volunteers of America of Minnesota
Regardless of the agreements claiming independent contractor status, clubs maintain enormous control over the women. The club controls the schedule and hours, requires strippers to pay rental fees, tip support staff large amounts, and even sets the price of table dances and private dances. Clubs have specific rules about costuming and even dictate the sequence of stripping and nudity... At nude clubs, it is common for the performers to be shaved clean, giving them an adolescent and even childlike appearance...
Women are fined heavily by club management: $1 per minute for being late, as much as $100 for calling in sick, and other arbitrary amounts for "talking back" to customers or staff, using the telephone without permission, and touching stage mirrors...
Despite the stripclub’s representation of a dancing job as flexible, strippers attest that their relationship with the club becomes all consuming and everything associated with being a stripper interferes with living a normal life. And despite the common perception that a woman can dance her way through school, many strippers report that their jobs take over their lives. Long and late hours, fatigue, drug and alcohol problems, and out of town bookings make it difficult to switch gears... Furthermore, stripping usually involves prostitution (Boles and Garbin 1974; Forsyth and Deshotels 1997; Prewitt 1989; Ronai and Ellis 1989; Thompson and Harrod 1992)...
Strippers at gentlemen’s clubs are further informed by management that they are not allowed to buy their own drinks, that they have to be sitting with customers, and can never turn down a drink, even when their drinks are full...
Some stages are elevated runways so narrow that strippers say that cannot get away from customers on each side touching them...
On stage, some women’s thoughts wander, while others’ focus on angry desperation. "I daydream about nothing in particular to pass the time of 12 minutes." "I’m thinking about how good I look in the mirrors and how good I feel in dance movements." "I tell myself to smile." "I think about getting high and that I am making money to get high." "I am giving these guys every chance to be decent, so that I don’t have to be afraid of them." "I am filled with disdain for the customers who do not tip, but sit and watch and direct you to do things for no money." "I think of how cheap these fuckers are, what bills I need to pay."
A variety of private dances are promoted in strip clubs...
Lap dancing requires the woman to straddle the man’s lap and grind against him until he ejaculates in his pants. A variation involves the woman dancing between his legs while he slides down in his chair so that the dancer’s thighs are rubbing his crotch as she moves...
During private dances women are conscientious about their boundaries and safety. "I don’t want him to touch me, but I am afraid he will say something violent if I tell him ‘no’." "I was thinking about doing prostitution because that’s when customers would proposition me." "I could only think about how bad these guys smell and try to hold my breath." "I spent the dance hyper vigilant to avoiding their hands, mouths, and crotches." "We were allowed to place towels on the guys’ laps, so it wasn’t so bad." "I don’t remember because it was so embarrassing."
...The greatest response to questions regarding preparation for work was "drink". Women drink while getting ready to go to work and they drink while doing their hair and make-up once in the dressing room...
One hundred percent of the eighteen women in the survey report being physically abused in the stripclub. The physical abuse ranged from three to fifteen times with a mean of 7.7 occurrences over the course of their involvement in stripping. One hundred percent of the eighteen women in this study report sexual abuse in the stripclub. The sexual abuse ranged from two to nine occurrences with a mean of 4.4 occurrences over the course of their involvement in stripping. One hundred percent of the women report verbal harassment in the stripclub. The verbal abuse ranged from one to seven occurrences with a mean of 4.8 occurrences over the course of their involvement in stripping. One hundred percent of the women report being propositioned for prostitution. Seventy eight percent of the women were stalked by someone associated with the stripclub with a range of one to seven incidents. Sixty one percent of the women report that someone associated with the stripclub has attempted to sexually assault her with a range of one to eleven attempts. Not only do women suffer the abuse they experience, all of women in the survey witnessed these things happen to other strippers in the clubs. The overwhelming trend for violence against women in stripclubs was committed by customers of the establishments. Stripclub owners, managers, assistant managers, and the staff of bartenders, music programmers or disc jockeys, bouncers, security guards, floorwalkers, doormen, and valet were significantly less involved in violence against the women. According to the women in this study, almost all of the perpetrators suffered no consequence whatsoever for their actions...
Customers spit on women, spray beer, and flick cigarettes at them. Strippers are pelted with ice, coins, trash, condoms, room keys, pornography, and golf balls. Men pitched a live guinea pig and a dead squirrel at two women in the survey. Some women have been hit with cans and bottles thrown from the audience. Customers pull women’s hair, yank them by the arm or ankle, rip their costumes, and try to pull their costumes off. Women are commonly bitten, licked, slapped, punched, and pinched...
Stripclub customers frequently grab women’s breasts, buttocks, and genitals. Customers often attempt and succeed at penetrating strippers vaginally and anally with their fingers, dollar bills, and bottles. Customers expose their penises, rub their penises on women, and masturbate in front of the women. Women in this study consistently connected lap dances to the sexual abuse they suffered in the club. "That’s the first thing men try to do when they get close to you and always in a lap dance." Stripclub owners, managers, and staff also expect women to masturbate them and some have forced intercourse on strippers...
Customers, owners, managers, and staff alike engage in harassing name-calling. Women are continually called "cunt, "whore", "pussy", "slut", and "bitch". Women in this study charge that men in the stripclub called them other demeaning or degrading names like ugly, looser, fat, pregnant, boy, stupid, crack, slash, snatch, beaver, dog, dyke, lezzie, brown eye, hooters, junkie, crackhead, and shit.
Forty four percent of the women report that men associated with the stripclub have threatened to hurt them physically. These women report from three to 150 threats during their involvement in stripping. Threats range from verbal threats of slaps, ass whippings, and rapes to physical postures of punching and back hand slapping. "When I wouldn’t let a customer grab on me, he would call me a bitch and threaten to kick my ass or rape me." "When a customer grabs and the woman and the girl takes action, they threaten"...
Women say that prostitution is influenced and suggested by management. One woman new to stripping was dumbfounded at how little money she was making taking her clothes off, so she asked the manager for his advice on increasing tips. He suggested turning tricks and said he could help her set up dates. Management sets up tricks, says it is good for business, and obligates women to turn over money from prostitution to the club. Women say prostitution is promoted even though owners tell women they would be punished if they turn tricks...
Women disclosed that they were recruited into prostitution through stripping. Although the strip industry markets stripping as something other than prostitution, some women consider prostitution an extension of stripping and stripping a form of prostitution. Pimps season women first with stripping and then turn them out into brothels or escort services for more money. Tricks, sugar daddies, pimps, and drug dealers in the stripclub seek to engage women in prostitution. Another young woman said that soon after she became involved in stripping, a pimp who posed as a customer in the stripclub manipulated her into an escort service by promising that she could make more money in less time simply by accompanying businessmen to dinner. She agreed in order to feed her crack addiction and as her addiction increased she slid down from gentlemen’s clubs to escort service to brothel to street and crack house prostitution...
Women report that they have to have the right attitude to make money (Ronai 1992). This ordinarily was described as being drunk, high or numb (Forsyth and Deshotels 1997). Others feel it required tolerance. "The ability to ignore customers for just being there." ...Women in stripping feel it doesn’t take much skill to be a stripper (Forsyth and Deshotels 1997; McCaghy and Skipper 1970). "It would be nice to say women need dance talent but it’s not true." "Tits, pussy, and blonde hair is all it takes." Instead they referred to dissociation to abuse. "It takes a willingness to do it…anybody can do it." "It takes somebody who can shut themselves off and be really fake." "…the ability to take a lot of abuse." ...Women in stripping want a union to protect strippers, decent working conditions, fair treatment, and an end to cruelty by management. Lastly, strippers think that women and girls don’t know what they are getting into when they first start dancing...
The women in this study condemn the men associated with stripping and the impact stripping has on them as the worst parts of stripping. Women do not like the way customers treat them (Thompson and Harred 1992). Furthermore they say they do not like talking to customers, asking men for money, and resent having to have to deal with them at all. They find customers irritating because they are drunk and have negative attitudes towards women. Women characterize customers as scum, psycho mama’s boys, rapists and child molesters, old perverted men, idiots, ass-holes, and pigs. Strippers are largely disgusted by customers and describe them as pitiful and pathetic, stupid and ignorant, sick, controlling and abusive. "They smell so sour, they breathe very heavy and kind of wheeze when women are near." "They are weak abusers who have to subordinate women and girls to feel like a man." "I see my dad. They’re old enough to be my father." "Yuck. I am repulsed by the sight, sound, smell, and touch of them." "I’m embarrassed for them." The women offer insightful evaluations of stripclub customers. They say that these men do not know how to communicate. Moreover, they perceive that customers are out of control, have power and abuse problems, and will do anything to degrade women because they hate women. Strippers also state that customers want a free show and think women are cheap. In contrast, a few women positively perceived some customers as nice and added they are thankful to those who tip well.
Women in this study undoubtedly denounce stripclub owners as pimps and "glorified pimps" and maintain that owners misuse power and are sick. The women also label managers as pimps citing that they mistreat women, that they make every attempt to take money from the women, and that they are sick because they are affiliated with the industry and know the harm they do. Strippers accuse managers of being threatened and jealous of the money women make and that women are just a dollar to management. Finally, women refer to staff music programmers, doormen, bartenders, bouncers, floorwalkers, and valet as wanna-be pimps because they always want to be tipped. The women see staff as derelicts who can’t get a job anywhere else and who think they are cool for working in a stripclub. Strippers perceive staff as creepy and disrespectful and as "looky-lous" who just want to look at naked women for free. Women criticize staff by pointing out that at least owners are making big money. Few women had positive responses, but those that did felt they got along well with staff and had no real hard feelings...
Women in this study expressed mostly negativism regarding their experiences in stripping with themes of abuse, deception, drugs, and low self-esteem...
Above all, women in stripping reject the popular image of stripping and clarify the common misperceptions about stripclubs. "That no one touches you, women enjoy it, and it’s okay for men to go there." "That women actually get to wear a costume and actually get to dance." "That we get sexually aroused doing this." "That men are there to have harmless fun, when they are really there to abuse women." "That it is a big party and that the women want to be there for some reason other than money, like sex or to meet men or because they are nudists or exhibitionists." "That you are doing things you want to be doing." "That they are not degrading us because girls always are justifying it with college." "That it is not prostitution." "That it is glamorous, fast money, easy work, way to get ahead."
...The verbal harassment, physical and sexual abuse, and financial exploitation women suffer in stripclubs is unparalleled in any other legitimate workplace.
Rather than expose this industry for what it is, the Advocate has decided to party with the exploiters and the abusers. Let editor Tom Vannah know how you feel about this.
See also:
Ask the Valley Advocate's New Owner to Drop the Sex Ads
Dear Mr. Brown:
Congratulations on your recent purchase of the Valley Advocate. I hope you will take this opportunity to free the Advocate of the ads for escort services and adult enterprises that compromise its progressive mission. New York Press took a similar step this summer after being acquired by Manhattan Media...
The Truth About Lap Dancing: A Performer Speaks Out
The key fact is that everyone knows they can make more money by breaking the rules. In a culture where you are literally selling yourself for cash, and you are working on commission, then you’d have to work very hard indeed to stop people going for extra money if they know they can make it.
Since there are no incentives to encourage dancers not to break the rules, and the customers are always prepared to pay more to get more, then licensing terms will always be broken...
Lap dancers don’t have employment rights like everyone else. They are self employed so they aren’t paid a wage, they don’t get holiday pay, sick pay, all the other things which people are entitled to in other jobs. Instead they work like prostitutes, they only get money if they get a man. And they will get as much out of each man as they can. And unlike enforcing licensing terms, when it came to the regulations enforced on the women, the management was absolute: you went on the pole or you were fined £20. You would then be called to the pole again and if you missed that you would be fined another £20. And so on...
Getting drunk was considered by many to be the aim of the night as well as making money. If you had managed to get drunk on other people’s money then you had done well...
There is still an horrendous power imbalance between the genders. Lap dancing clubs feed and breed that power imbalance. Lap dancing is the opposite of empowering...
I now realise that lap dancing is one of the hardest things I ever did. I found it tough, soul destroying and it had begun to strip me of my humanity. I began to see everyone in terms of how much I could get out of them. I had begun to really hate men, to be bored in their company. I stopped caring about people around me because I was surrounded by this atmosphere of constant mistrust.
Springfield Republican Reports on Strip Clubs and the Mafia
"The individual stated that the owners of these businesses do not want to pay Bruno, but that Bruno was pressuring them to pay this money through intimidation of organized crime," the source reported. The affidavit identifies the alleged payers as the Mardis Gras on Taylor Street, Teddy B's strip club on Worthington Street, two other unnamed strip clubs and the Red Rose restaurant on Main Street...
"The presence of two subjects inside the Mardi Gras on weekend nights serves to represent the interests of (LCN) in New York..."
Carolyn McKenzie: Undercover with the Viewing Booths; Disease, Intoxicants Prevalent Among Strip Dancers (explicit language)
Former Stripper Tells Easthampton Hearing about the Life: It Stinks
CNN: Anna Nicole Smith, 1967-2007
Smith was working as a topless dancer in Houston, Texas, when she made her first appearance in Playboy...
[Larry] King said Smith reminded people of late movie star Marilyn Monroe. Monroe died at 36 of a drug overdose in 1962...
Strip Poker Men's Club: Women's Lib to Blame for Men's Going to Strip Clubs
Strip Club Tips: How to Savor an Exquisite Blend of Fantasies, Lies, Exploitation and Despair (explicit language)
For a stripper's perspective, we present a selection from 37 Stripper Rants, as posted in March to gripe site Ofuzi...
Strip Clubs: Dancers Pay to Work There
Profitable Exploits: Lap Dancing in the UK
"Waitressing, I cleaned the floors and I own a box of men's wedding rings that I found on the floor."
The Science Behind Pornography Addiction (explicit language)
[Performers in the sex industry] have high rates of substance abuse, typically alcohol and cocaine, depression, borderline personality disorder which is a particularly serious disorder and dissociative identity disorder which used to be called multiple personality disorder. The experience I find most common among the performers is that they have to be drunk, high or dissociated in order to go to work. Their work environment is particularly toxic. One study on strippers indicated that they were likely to be punched, slapped, grabbed, called cunt and whore and to be followed home or stalked...
Prostitution: "It is high time to expose and challenge the liberal consensus"
...In the book, Matthews describes most women he has met on the streets as "extremely desperate, damaged, and disorganised". "Many of these women, who are supposed to be 'working', are obviously off their faces with drugs and drink," he says. "Which other 'profession' would that be tolerated in?"
Ex-Porn Star Shelley Lubben Talks about Days on the Set: Tedious, Intoxicated, Painful, Risky
While waiting around, jaded porn performers usually end up in the rest rooms with bottles of alcohol and lines of speed or outside in their cars for a heroin fix or gathered in the back yard with other actors to smoke marijuana...
I tried to kill myself. I swallowed several bottles of prescription pills and sliced my wrists but it seemed no matter what I did, I couldn't die. So I turned off the pain and became a lifeless zombie. Then there were times the pain and trauma would surface and I'd throw fits of rage, yelling and breaking things. I was mad at God, hated myself and hated my parents. Only alcohol and drugs could soothe my pain...
Jenna Jameson's Tragic Backstory; Seeking Virgins with Paris Hilton
...Jameson had acquired a devastating crystal-meth (amphetamine) habit. It nearly killed her. Rescued by a friend, she was sent back to her father to recuperate: she was so emaciated that she had to be put on the plane in a wheelchair, and when he came to meet her at the airport, he didn't recognise her.
Raffaëla Anderson and the French Porno Industry (explicit language)
...Raffaëla Anderson explains that, as a teenager, she had an admiration for Dutch porn actress Zara Whites, whom she was seeing on TV. Raffaëla was seeing a participation in the porno industry as a good way to earn money easily to be able to flee her abusive familial environment, and acquire a desired autonomy. However, she did not expect the difficult and abusive situation she was going to find herself in, inside of that industry. She was taking drugs and drinking alcohol to be able to cope with the "job"...
Interview with Ex-Porn Star Traci Lords: Abused as a Child; High on the Set; Power, Not Arousal; Bad Pay
KING: So in many of the porn films, you'd be stoned while doing them?
LORDS: Oh, yes. As often as possible. I was stoned for about three years, from 15 to 18, almost constantly. I was suicidal. I was wild...
Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit)
In pornography, women are
- cum dumpsters
- fucktubes
- slut sandwiches
- m.i.l.f.'s
- wet cunts
- fresh teen ass
- horny old broads
- hot slits
- slanteyed sluts
- naughty schoolgirls
- tight pink pussies
- stupid hoes
- naughty nymphos
- big booty ghetto girls
- drunk bar sluts
- cameltoes
- pathetic bitches
- little hoochies
- squirting skanks
- kung pao pussies
NOW ON SALE AT AMAZING.NET/GOFLIX.COM...
Dumb Blonde Bitches (24hr)
Extreme Audition #6
What happens when you have a tiny little blonde walk into your studio? Well a lot of fun for Michael Kahn. This pretty little thing was in tears by the end of this video. She had no tolerance for pain and so it was great fun to beat her little ass.
New Blood
Hold on tight and smile Bitch! The only difference between a filthy cunt whore on the street and a porn star is the camera.
Pain #26
Can you maintain ninety minutes of masochistic mayhem?! Watch today's most worthless degenerates line up for abuse and debasement. On the street. In private. Female pigs have been stripped of all dignity. Listen to their wretched screams. Watch their distorted pained faces. Then jerk off to the brutal inhumanity of it all!
Young Dumb And Full Of Cum
The Hottest In Hardcore! They're Cute And Have A Mind Like A 20 Watt Bulb!...
Big Black Ass Next Door #16
Tag on box cover: "NAPPY-HEADED HOS!"
Homeboys dog the bitches out on camera. Watch as these hoes get tricked into sucking dick and giving pussy for free.
Ghetto Booty Vol. 6
Fast girls.. Fast money... Nowadays girls are bout making their money anyway they can and we got a whole bunch to spend but only if she dont mind givin it up in front of our little camera of course. So we found 5 bout it freaks that were bout gettin their paper which was cool because they are going to need it to wipe up all the nut!
Porn Actresses: Most Careers Are Short, Few Are Lucrative (explicit language)
Although the industry is dependent on fans for survival, many of the respondents reported a fairly negative image of the imagined viewer... Ironically, then, actresses and actors are motivated in part to receive recognition from a group they know little about and often disparage. In addition, they reported little pride in the products they produce. Like most artifacts in the "sleaze industry", porn is disposable, mass-produced, fungible, and easily forgotten... Unlike the "straight" industry, actors and actresses are paid a flat fee for their performances, and receive no royalties for successful projects.
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