Please click on the triangle “play” icon in the middle of the picture below to hear why Jersey recently quit porn, how harmful to one’s health the porn industry can be, and how dehumanizing and degrading the industry is.
Part 2:
As you can hear in the interview, another former porn star, Shelley Lubben, is kindly working very hard to help Jersey. Below is an excerpt of what Shelley writes about Jersey on her website. Following that is an excerpt of their interview.
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“I met Jersey Jaxin about two months ago through Myspace and she allowed me to come and spend time with her and listen to her story. She spoke about many things from her sexual abuse from her father to the abuse she went through in the porn.
Much of her life can be summed up in one word: ABUSE.
She made me cry during our meeting quite a bit but especially when I asked her what she did in her off time when she wasn’t doing porn and she replied, “I hold my roommate and we just cry”.
(Please click on “Continue Reading” for the rest.)
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That TOTALLY messed me up… Two months later this precious woman calls me and says, “Guess what Shelley, I’ve left porn for good!”
I want you all to hear and know the truth from the very mouths of the women who make porn. I want you to know that there IS NO FANTASY in porn and that women suffer abuse EVERY SINGLE DAY!
She wants you to know that Jersey Jaxin is now dead and that her real name is Tanya and that it’s time for Tanya to be the person she was meant to be. She even cleaned up her myspace to show her fans and all of us that she is serious and is never going back to porn. Please visit her myspace and leave her encouraging comments… This will… give her strength to rebuild her life. I am so thankful for all of you… Just look at how well Sierra Sinn and Becca Brat are doing and YOU have something to do with that!
I want to give Tanya some relief from the many years of suffering she has endured. She has only known pain and abuse since she was a little girl and now I want all of us to reach out to her. She is moving to another state where there are mainly Super Walmarts. If you would like to help Tanya as she begins her new life please send Walmart cards to my PMB Box and I will forward everything I receive to her as soon as I receive them from you.
Let’s keep helping the porn stars rebuild their lives! YOU are making a HUGE difference in the lives of women by your giving.
Tanya already sends a BIG THANK YOU to us for your support and love as she courageously rebuilds her new life.
You can send the Walmart cards here to my post mail box at:
Shelley Lubben
PMB Box 33
6077 Coffee Rd 4
Bakersfield, Calif. 93308
Or if you’d like to help in some other way please visit my web site here.
Thank you SO MUCH for caring about the porn stars! Love, Shelley”
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Here’s a partial transcript of Shelley’s talk with Jersey.
Shelley: “I hear you left porn. What’s going on?”
Jersey: “I’m just tired of the industry. The way that they treat as though we are just a piece of meat. That we don’t have a mind and our body is everybody’s and we have no soul.”
Shelley: “Did something happen that made you say, ‘That’s it! I’m done.'”
Jersey: “Someone I thought was my friend chose money over me and tried to get my fiance to leave me by offering him double pay. I’ve completely had it. I can’t deal with it anymore… I want everything in my relationship to be only me and him.”
Shelley: “You told me some pretty scary things about the porn industry.”
Jersey: “Guys punching you in the face. You have semen… Twenty or thirty guys all over your face, in your eyes. You get ripped. Your insides can come out of you. It’s never ending. Your viewed as an object not as a human with a spirit. People don’t care. People do drugs because they can’t deal with the way they’re being treated.”
Shelley: “What percentage of porn people use drugs?”
Jersey: “Seventy five percent and rising. Have to numb themselves… There are specific doctors in this industry if you go in for a common cold, they’ll give you vicodin, viagra, anything you want because all they care about is money. You are a number. You’re bruised. You have black eyes. You’re ripped. You’re torn. You have your insides coming out of you. It’s not pretty and foofoo on set. You get hurt.”
“The main thing going around now is crystal meth, cocaine and heroin. …You have to numb yourself to go on set. The more you work, the more you have to numb yourself. The more you become addicted, the more your personal life is nothing but drugs… Your whole life becomes nothing but porn.”
“I was a drinker. I drank a lot. Vodka was my drug. Vodka was my numbing toy. Before sets, after sets, and if it was a set where people didn’t care, they’d have it there waiting.”
Shelley: “Do pornographers provide drugs?”
Jersey: “Some of them do. Some of them do it in front of you. I used to have a problem with cocaine that I overcame. It’s hard when they’re putting it in front of you and saying, ‘Do this.'”
Shelley: “Talk about some of the degradation the women have to go through.”
Jersey: “You may see a 45-minute set that took us 13 hours. …We’re ripped, we’re tired, we’re sored, we’re bleeding, we’re cut up, we have dried semen all over our faces from numerous guys and we can’t wash it off because they want to take pictures. You have this stuff all over you and they’re telling you, ‘Hold it!'”
“You can say anything you want [stop or pain etc] and they don’t listen. There’s the ultimate thing where you squeeze their leg to ease up and most of them don’t care. They have another scene to go to. It’s all about the money. They’ve forgotten who they are and they don’t care who they’re hurting.”
“I’m on the road right now heading to a different life. I’m going to try to make it as a normal person because I’m done.”
“You have no soul in the porn industry.”
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For more information please see:
Shelley Lubben’s well documented List of Dead Porn Stars and How They Died.
The Adult Industry Medical Foundation publication “Types of Porn and Their Occupational Safety Risks”.
The excellent article “The Adult Film Industry: Time to Regulate?”, by Corita Grudzen and Peter Kerndt. A PubMedCentral/U.S. National Institutes of Health publication.
Corita Grudzen is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Peter Kerndt is the Director of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Program in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
This is a great blog you have here. An incredible amount of resources to provide the truth about the awful porn industry. Thanks for all your work.
Praise God for saving this woman. Thank you for your blog.
This interview is disturbing and I hope more people tune in to hear this young woman’s story of how the porn industry is a humiliating and dehumanizing environment for all involved. I am a proud and open Gay man. I also believe the gay male porn industry should be exposed for its abuses. I think there is this perception that gay porn is harmless or doesn’t have as many problems as straight porn, but I do not believe this is true. A close friend of mine participated in a few low-budget gay xxx films and he stated that the gay porn industry is absolutely abusive. Again, thank you for posting this woman’s story.
Jersey Jaxin or Tanya Burleson is a beautiful girl and I’m very sad about it because I thought she wouldn’t leave the porn industry. In the year 2008, she had left porn for good. Jersey Jaxin’s decision is the correct and the best decision of her life because it will change her life, and it’s for the good of all. Praise be the light, and may the light shines upon her.