Posted on 06/12/2014 9:57:11 PM PDT by Morgana
LOS ANGELES, CA, June 12, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new study from UCLA's School of Public Health shows that pornography performers face physical harm, sex abuse, and sexually transmitted infections.
Presented at the Centers for Disease Control’s 2014 STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, the study found that 10.3 percent of performers -- 75 percent of whom were women -- were "physically hurt during a film shoot." Nearly 14 percent of performers "performed a sex act [they] did not want to do.” Credit: Shutterstock.com
Additionally, 23.7 percent of the 366 respondents said they had gonorrhea or chlamydia, and one-third of performers had used a drug besides marijuana in the prior three months. Nearly 59 percent of respondents had used marijuana in the three months prior to the study, which was done from August 2012 through June 2013.
Shelley Lubben, a former porn actress and the president of Pink Cross Foundation, said the study's results understate the real abuse of performers. "The study shows 10.3% are HURT physically during a porn set -- meaning they fell or they stepped on glass or their breast implant ripped open and they have to go to the hospital," she told LifeSiteNews.
"It does NOT, however, cover those who are physically abused as is the norm in porn," Lubben explained. "Physical abuse is a woman who is strangled, kicked, hit, slapped, gagged with a penis, and physically restrained while being raped by one or several male performers. The study isn’t talking about that -- that number would be much higher, about 90 percent."
Lubben also said the study's results were questionable because "women in porn often lie or don't realize the truth of what they are involved in." She says that "the study is asking mentally ill, sexually diseased, drug and alcohol-addicted people to answer honestly."
"But at least the study can give the public a peek at what this industry is about," Lubben said.
Despite the risks inherent in the pornography industry, performers are not as well paid as they were in the past. While the industry brings in billions, many engage in illegal escorting and prostitution in order to make ends meet. Lubben says that "people who support pornography are supporting physically diseased, mentally ill, drug and alcohol addicted people who are being extremely abused in a California workplace."
In 2013, the industry put itself on moratorium three times because of the contraction of HIV/AIDS by several performers.
A 2010 study in the journal Violence Against Women found that "88.2% [of porn scenes] contained physical aggression, principally spanking, gagging, and slapping, while 48.7 percent of scenes contained verbal aggression, primarily name-calling. Perpetrators of aggression were usually male, whereas targets of aggression were overwhelmingly female."
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She was a complete train wreck. One of her ex-boyfriends, from that industry, pummeled her face so badly that she needed reconstructive surgery. At 40 she looked like a 55 year old stretch faced botox addict. She was addicted to drugs, her teenage son was a drug dealer, and she made my buddy's life a living hell. Totally scuttled his career. He finally divorced her and was left with two toddlers that had lasting effects from a doped up mommy. His career was over, he couldn't get a job because his reputation was destroyed. To his colleagues he was "that guy that married a porn star."
The poor woman. Why did she ever go in that I’ll never know.
I wonder what will happen to Miriam Weeks, the girl from Duke University who said she had to do porn to pay for school. Will be interesting to see where she is in about five years.
The problem is that the government has made it legal without a single vote, under the claim that it is free speech.
Watch out this thread might get pulled. Any thread that is critical of pornography gets pulled, with an insulting comment.
Why do these threads get pulled?
Is that true?
I had a very close childhood friend who ended up being a stripper in order to pay for college. Next thing I knew, her whole life was about the stripping and nothing about college. She told me horror stories about what happened backstage: other young women so strung out and/or drunk that they were vomiting and defecating on the floor in the locker room trying to get “ok” to go on stage. It really broke my heart.
She was way too smart, and too beautiful, to have been in that world, but there she was. She was surrounded by gross people who I could not tolerate, and sadly that ended our friendship, but I think of her often and hope she is ok.
Go rent the old movie “Star 80” to see what the life is really like for girls that do this.
I have given up trying to figure out why threads get pulled other than lack of sense of humor.
It’s been a while since I saw Star 80, but I think it was true story about a girl who became a playboy centerfold, but not a true hardcore porn star. Nevertheless, I am sure that the porn industry has created nothing but misery for the vast majority of its participants, despite efforts to make celebrities out of some of its “stars.”
The harm is not confined to people.
The porn industry is notorious for destroying hundreds and
hundreds of pool tables every year.
That was Dorothy Stratten, who was killed by her psycho BF.
Speaking of humor.
Most of the underpaid hookers stand on the street while the really good ones run for office.
If it feels good, do it. That’s why suicide and drugs and porn should be legal. Throw in abortion and euthanasia....of old, then crippled, then poor, no wait, homophobes!....and that’s how we go from Libertarian ideologies to Democrat Progressivism.
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