Sam Benjamin, porn director, reflects on the industry’s attitude towards women for AlterNet: …in due time, I came to learn that within the context of the heterosexual L.A. industry, while my overt task at hand was to make sure that the girls got naked, my true responsibility as director was to make sure the girls […]
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Shocking Footage of Women Abused on the Porn Set (a California workplace)
See also: Shelley Lubben: Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn Ex-Porn Star Shelley Lubben Talks about Days on the Set: Tedious, Intoxicated, Painful, Risky Why Jersey Jaxin Left Porn Porn Stars Speak Out: STDs, Drugs and Abuse Amazing.net Milks Pain for Profit (explicit)
Former Porn Star Jessie Jewels Story
Porn defenders like to claim that “choice” and “consent” shield the industry from criticism, but the lived experience of porn performers suggests the validity of this consent is often questionable. Jessie Jewels tells her story at the Pink Cross Foundation: First thing, gives a cocktail beverage on the scene. I took it. I was nervous […]
ABC News: “HIV-Positive Performer Shuts Down L.A. Porn Industry”
Reported yesterday on ABC Nightline: A porn actor’s positive HIV test, which prompted a temporary shutdown of Los Angeles’ billion-dollar adult film industry Monday night, has reignited the debate over mandatory condom use in X-rated productions…“Testing is not a substitute for condom use, and it never will be,” said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS […]
Porn Stars Speak Out: STDs, Drugs and Abuse
An excerpt from Shelley Lubben’s blog: Male Porn Star states on his blog “Christian Sings the Blues” January 28, 2008: Drugs are a major, major problem in my business. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. I can’t tell you the number of girls who have disappeared and dropped out of the business because […]
“Playboy mansion? More like a squalid prison: Former Playmates tell of ‘grubby’ world inside Hugh Hefner’s empire”
Today’s Daily Mail reports on life at the Playboy mansion of Hugh Hefner: Hefner likes to have anywhere between three and 15 girlfriends at any one time. One of the group will be chosen to be Girlfriend No 1. She will share Hefner’s bedroom at all times, while the others are merely visitors… ‘Every Friday […]
Poets & Writers: “The Porn Star Who Came to Dinner”
The September/October 2010 issue of Poets & Writers magazine has an outstanding article on Mike McGrady, who co-authored Ordeal with Linda Lovelace. Some excerpts: Linda’s tale was a harrowing journey into the depths of hell. She was raped, she was pimped, she was held hostage, and she was forced to do things that nobody would do […]
Dr. Gail Dines: “Pornography Debases Men, Women & Culture” – Video
Dr. Gail Dines gives a 9-minute PornHarms.com briefing on “Pornography Debases Men, Women & Culture”. Dr. Dines just published PORNLAND: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. See also: Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit) Gail Dines is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. For 20 years she has lectured across the country […]
The Vice Guide to Becoming a Whore in 2004 (explicit language)
Vice magazine describes what it’s like to be a prostituted woman (April 2004 issue): …No matter what the empowered academics in San Francisco pretend to believe, whoring—in any form—is hell, and the only reason women do it is to get money for coke NOW! If you want to try it out, be prepared to have […]
Video: Dead Porn Stars Memorial
Former porn actress Shelley Lubben offers this video memorial on her YouTube channel: See also: Donny Pauling: “Is This Sexy?” (4/20/10) Ex-Porn Star Shelley Lubben Talks about Days on the Set: Tedious, Intoxicated, Painful, Risky Porn: A Deadly Occupation