the local strip club has a sign that says wed is amateur night. i've never been in there but am told it's like a night at the zoo...A couple things stood out. This is a business that chews up girls fast and spits them out fast. The filmmakers profiled a handful of girls living in the filthy, suburban Miami home of a 23-year old "talent agent" who drives them from shoot to shoot, participates in some of the scenes himself and takes 10% of their earnings (on top of the rent he charges them). He's rolling in money.
The girls come from small towns in flyover country. They're working jobs waitressing or fast food, making minimum wage. They're not college bound. They've never gone anywhere or done anything exciting. They have dreams of making it huge in the business and then relocating to Hollywood to live a life of glamour.
In reality, they last on average about 3 months before fresh new faces arrive at Miami International Airport to replace them. At this point, their shelf-life can only be extended if they're willing to work in the far more degrading "extreme" porn films.
One scene that stuck out was when the girls say, "I don't want my friends or family to find out about this." and the "talent agent" replies, "They will. They always do. It takes about a month and then someone in your hometown who knows you will run across your video and from there it will spread quickly." At least he was being honest.
The scene where the 18-year old former cheerleading captain returns home for Christmas to Texas and her devastated parents was just heartbreaking.
By the end of the film, girls who had just three months prior thought they had the world at their fingertips are left broken, broke, humiliated shells of themselves and the talent agent has 8 brand-new 18-19 year old girls living at his house, paying rent.
Anyways, very well-done documentary if you can stomach the subject matter.
Thanks for the post. I was going to post this yesterday, but w as afraid the Mods were going to pull it due to the subject matter.
Ya think feminists will complain about this at all?
What a cad this video pimp is?
Just dang!
We all have choices in life. You can’t be exploited if you choose not to.
Years and years ago, a neighbor and I were down in Hollywood grabbing a couple of beers, and he said, “Now I’m gonna show you the saddest thing you ever seen in your life”. We went to the Greyhound station, as a bus was pulling in, with more than a few wide-eyed would-be ingenues stepping off.
He said, “Now, all these kids come here, thinking they’re gonna be movie stars. Most of them ain’t. More than a few will end up in porn” (the San Fernando Valley isn’t that far away, after all) “and after a few years, they’ll be back here, headed on the bus back home. I wanna warn ‘em, but you know what.......they ain’t gonna listen.”
He was an interesting neighbor, to say the least. I’m pretty sure he was a gangbanger, at the very least a dealer, but I never had any problems with him. In fact, he alerted me to a gang of thieves that was in cahoots with the apartment manager, and suggested I change the locks on my door. I followed his advice, and that was right neighborly of him.
He was also a huge science geek - he was entirely self-taught, but his bookshelves were filled with books on quantum physics, geology, astrophysics and the like, and he had the gift of explaining complex ideas in plain English.
A remarkable fellow, one I’ll likely never forget.
Perhaps the worst part is that the rest of their lives are probably ruined. Who will want to hire or marry them after this? And the fact that these clips are on the Internet insure they will be around practically forever.
Video prostitution. Its not only young girls that are taken in by it.
I didn't realize the perky one landed at Yahoo.
the local strip club has a sign that says wed is amateur night. i've never been in there but am told it's like a night at the zoo...This is what happens when a girl has her ego catered to excessively. She thinks "all I need is my one big break, and I'll be a star". Instead she gets used, abused, and spat out when she's no longer young and fresh.
You see it in the dating market too. Young women thinking that "Prince Charming" will come by and marry her and carry her off to his mansion where she will live happily ever after. Meanwhile, she disdainfully ignores the guys who WILL marry her, because she doesn't see them as being good enough. Then she winds up in her late 30's, with her biological clock ringing, expecting to "settle" for one of the "nice guys" she rejected, only to find they're married and she's left out in the cold.
