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In reply to the discussion: HOF Post: 'Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity' [View all]redqueen
(115,177 posts)17. Thanks for this thread. Here are some ex-porn star testimonies:
Corina Taylor: When I arrived to the set I expected to do a vaginal girl boy scene. But during the scene with a male porn star, he forced himself anally into me and would not stop. I yelled at him to stop and screamed No over and over but he would not stop. The pain became too much and I was in shock and my body went limp.
Jenna Jameson: Most girls get their first experience in gonzo films in which theyre taken to a crappy studio apartment in Mission Hills and penetrated in every hole possible by some abusive asshole who thinks her name is Bitch.
Alexa James: The first shoot I did was with a man who was probably 40 and he was as thick as a soda can. He held me down and shoved it in me with no lube tearing my vagina. When I started to tear up and cry he flipped me over and continued from behind be so they wouldnt get me crying on film. He pulled my hair and choked me over and over again even when I told him it hurt and I could barely breathe.
Linda Lovelace: My initiation into prostitution was a gang rape by five men, arranged by Mr. Traynor. It was the turning point in my life. He threatened to shoot me with the pistol if I didnt go through with it. I had never experienced anal sex before and it ripped me apart. They treated me like an inflatable plastic doll, picking me up and moving me here and there. They spread my legs this way and that, shoving their things at me and into me, they were playing musical chairs with parts of my body. I have never been so frightened and disgraced and humiliated in my life. I felt like garbage. I engaged in sex acts for pornography against my will to avoid being killed.The lives of my family were threatened.
Andi Anderson: After a year or so of that so-called glamorous life, I sadly discovered that drugs and drinking were a part of the lifestyle. I began to drink and party out of control! Cocaine, alcohol and ecstasy were my favorites. Before long, I turned into a person I did not want to be. After doing so many hardcore scenes I couldnt do it anymore. I just remember being in horrible situations and experiencing extreme depression and being alone and sad.
Alexa Milano: My first movie I was treated very rough by 3 guys. They pounded on me, gagged me with their penises, and tossed me around like I was a ball! I was sore, hurting and could barely walk. My insides burned and hurt so badly. I could barely pee and to try to have a bowel movement was out of the question. I was hurting so bad from the physical abuse from these 3 male porn stars.
Jessie Jewels: People in the porn industry are numb to real life and are like zombies walking around. The abuse that goes on in this industry is completely ridiculous. The way these young ladies are treated is totally sick and brainwashing. I left due to the trauma I experienced even though I was there only a short time.
Genevieve: I had bodily fluids all over my face that had to stay on my face for ten minutes. The abuse and degradation was rough. I sweated and was in deep pain. On top of the horrifying experience, my whole body ached, and I was irritable the whole day. The director didnt really care how I felt; he only wanted to finish the video.
Jersey Jaxin: Guys punching you in the face. You have semen from many guys all over your face, in your eyes. You get ripped. Your insides can come out of you. Its never ending.
Elizabeth Rollings: I didnt want to feel the pain of penetration from an over average sized man, being told to freeze in a position until the camera man was happy with his shots was very painful. I had peoples body fluids forced on my face or anywhere else the producer pleased and I had to accept it or else no pay. Sometimes you would get to a gig and the producer would change what the scene was supposed to be to something more intense and again if you didnt like it, too bad, you did it or no pay.
Lucky Starr: I was worried about my first anal scene for quite a few days then the big moment arrived. It REALLY hurt! I almost quit and said, I cant do this. When it was all over, I was so happy and relieved I was able to do it
Ashlyn Brooke: I honestly felt that if I had to have another strange man in my face, his hands (God knows where theyve been all over me) him calling me his baby and having to exude some sort of forged passion for the world to see, I probably would have exploded. And what would have been stuck to the walls would have probably been nothing, just pieces of skin, bone, the brain of a robot, and what would have been left of what would have existed once as a huge and warm heart.
Roxy: After only 30 movies I caught two sexually transmitted diseases. Herpes, a non-curable disease and HPV, which led to cervical cancer where I had to have half of my cervix removed. Porn destroyed my life.
Anita Cannibal: Yeah, there are a lot of cover-ups going on. There is a lot of tragedy. There are a lot of horrible things.
Tamra Toryn: As for myself, I ended up paying the price from working in the porn industry. In 2006, not even 9 months in, I caught a moderate form of dysplasia of the cervix (which is a form of HPV, a sexually transmitted disease) and later that day, I also found out I was pregnant. I had only 1 choice which was to abort the baby during my first month. It was extremely painful emotionally and physically. When it was all over, I cried my eyes out.
Jessi Summers: I also did a scene where I was put with male talent that was on my no list. I wanted to please them so I did it. He put his foot on my head and stepped on it while he was doing me from behind. I freaked out and started balling; they stopped filming and sent me home with reduced pay since they got some shot but not the whole scene.
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I will watch the video and thanks for posting it here or anywhere on DU.
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#1
True, but they can be banned from HOF if they break the SOP of the group. I understand your feeling.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#2
Yes, It is usually a good idea to preface an OP with HoF warning. Although, even that cuts both ways
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#3
How does one educate someone that does not sit still long enough to listen and is too
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#14
Leave it up, if for no other reason than to be a burr in the side to some.
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#12
'to qualify every discussion criticizing porn with the mantra 'but some of it isn't so bad!' is the
freshwest
Aug 2014
#25
Anyone lurking DU and finding such will despise Democrats unless they are part of the problem.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#31
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
redqueen
Aug 2014
#41
Sorry about the self delete, redqueen. Need some time to think and compose a carefully worded reply.
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#39
I am glad to hear that girls and young women are fed up! They will be living with this for years.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#21
Where are the men now? Who among the DU men will read that in it's entirety and what will
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#35
Well, I'm a DU male, and it doesn't look like anyone else is answering you.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2014
#48
I have heard of Nina Hartley. It is the go to reply for this type of question.
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#59
I have talked more porn these past few months than I have in my whole life
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#63
The 'Free Speech Coalition' group. Priceless. Women excluded from membership, obviously.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#23
It's about the money. The 'women' I spoke of are the women in the films. No voice for them.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#26
Oh yeah, they just get ignored, unless their opinions align with the industry's.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#27
I want a woman to come in here and tell me they are turned on by what they just read in that post.
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#36
I often wonder if those who so enthusiastically defend other people's right to porn ever look at it.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#47
okay but, they are called actors for a reason. You understand where I learned all this
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#65
yes, and sorry about the self delete. I replied to myself and so I remedied it while you were
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#71
ha. but I had already self deleted before I realized you had replied and I was reposting when you
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#73