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PLEASE WATCH our powerful new video of our volunteer, ex “porn star” Jessica, telling her shocking story of doing porn. She also exposes other porn industry abuses, such as rampant drug use, illegal exposure to STDs, and much more. NOTE: This is a speech to a college class that Jessica did last month.
Please like and share, and leave encouraging positive feedback for Jessica here or on the video at YouTube. Thanks for your support! 🙂
VISIT JESSICA’S PAGE at our website to read her story written in her own words, watch more videos, listen to radio interviews, and to support her volunteer efforts with us:
NEW HARM STORY! Ex porn performer Jessie Rogers shares how she got into porn, how harmful it was and why she left! ~~~~~~~~~~~~
JESSIE’S STORY:
I got into porn the day after my 18th birthday. Here’s how it happened…
A week before I turned 18, I was just scanning around the “jobs” section on Craigslist, not even looking for porn. I found an ad in the TV/film/video section that said “MAKE $20,000 – $30,000 A MONTH MODELING.” In the description it said nothing about porn or video work, they simply asked people to e-mail them a photo. Once I sent the agency a photo of myself, they got back to me instantly, asking when I could go see them. All they mentioned at the time was that they were looking for people to do “Playboy-style nudes.”
Once I got to the office to speak to them in person, we talked for hours, and the woman working there finally told me that she “basically booked girls for porn.” Then she handed me a sheet to circle the things that I was okay with doing. The only thing I circled was “solo.” She looked at it and said, “Well, the problem with this is that you won’t be able to make as much money as I proposed to you.” So I went on and circled “b/g” and “g/g,” which means boy/girl (me and a boy), and girl/girl (me and another girl). I didn’t circle anything else because I never intended to do anything else.
Every time I got interviewed by a company in the porn industry, my answers to the question “Why porn?” stayed relatively the same: “I love sex, so why not?” or “Getting paid for something I do anyway sounded like a dream job.” Etc. etc. The truth is that what draws people in is the quick money, especially for young girls coming out of high school. They may have some vague idea of what porn is like from having seen some of it, but in reality they have no clue what it actually is like to do it, until they get too deep into it.
That’s what happened to me. As embarrassed as I am to admit this now, I will humble myself and say that I was very naive when I first started in porn, and I believed all the things that people in the industry told me were true. I was so drawn to the money that I let myself believe all the lies that people fed me. I even believed my own lies that I told myself.
I am 20 years old now, and I retired from porn just a few months after I turned 19, so I didn’t do it for very long. However, it was long enough for me to finally see through all of the lies, and for the true colors of the “adult industry” to be exposed to me. Porn is not empowering, neither is it safe. But it did take quite a lot for me to face this and accept it. All of my plans to only do what I first agreed to changed after just a few months in the industry, after which I ended up jaded, disassociated, and brainwashed.
READ THE REST OF JESSIE’S STORY AT THE LINK BELOW: (Scroll down past video)
In this video we go behind-the-scenes of a “F*ck a Fan” porn shoot and orgy in a clip from the excellent UK documentary “Date My Porn Star.” We witness the heartless abuse of the women involved, and then we interview documentary participant Danny Austin. Danny briefly did porn himself and was a fan of porn — until he saw the truth of how fake and exploitative the industry really is.
Also please don’t forget to COMMENT here and at YouTube, and to SUBSCRIBE to our AntiPornographyOrg channel. More new videos are coming soon, including a companion video to this one that exposes the harsh reality of a porn casting session, with another interview with Danny about how uncaring the porn industry is.
~~~ To learn more about the important issues raised in this video, please check out the many helpful references about pornography harms in the DESCRIPTION of this video at YouTube (see link above). The description also contains some informative references about our volunteer, ex porn performer Vanessa Belmond, who also appeared in the same documentary:
Once again, please don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our AntiPornographyOrg YouTube channel that this video is from, as well as our related channels below, to support the cause and get alerted to new video uploads, including more videos in this series and more videos of sex industry survivors speaking out.
PLEASE DONATE to support our efforts to help survivors exit the abusive sex industry & transition to healthier lives, and our efforts to assist survivors & others to speak out against the sex trade! Thanks! 🙂
Here’s a fun video from our friends at the Pornbusters channel at YouTube. Check it and feel free to let it inspire you to become a PORNBUSTER yourself! 🙂 Also check out the lyrics below and some of Pornbusters’ other videos! (Playlist embedded below, and link to playlist provided.) ENJOY! 🙂
WHO YA GONNA CALL? PORNBUSTERS!
When you surf the web
and find illegal crap
Who ya’re gonna tell?
PORNBUSTERS!
When it’s YouTube sex
Stuff you wanna flag
Who ya gonna tell?
I’m no victim of porn
I don’t buy into porn
You see a woman raped
Whether real or staged
Who you’re gonna tell?
PORNBUSTERS!
Porn ain’t no fantasy
It’s all reality
Give a damn and watch
PORNBUSTERS!
I’m no pornified man
and I’m proud of who I am
If you’re all alone
don’t get trapped in porn
Just call….
PORNBUSTERS!
I don’t care about porn
What I really want is make love
A ridiculous thing to wear!
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!
Who ya gonna join?
PORNBUSTERS!
If you feel like porn and you’re all alone and desperate you better call
PORNBUSTERS!
Let me tell you something:
Porn busting makes you feel good
Why would you waste your time with porn
When it makes you want more and more?
Just call!
Please check out and share this extremely powerful and informative new video of a presentation by Gail Dines of Stop Porn Culture on how pornography constructs the sexuality of boys and young men to become Johns.
Please note that this video is just one of many valuable resources that was shared on our Facebook Page recently by supporters of this important cause. There are MANY OTHER interesting and informative resources posted there in our POSTS BY OTHERS section of our Facebook Page, so we urge all of you to regularly visit there and to check out, like, comment on, and share those helpful posts. Also please feel free to post interesting and useful resources there yourselves! Thanks. 🙂 (Click on the drop down menu that says HIGHLIGHTS, under our Facebook cover photo and apps menu, and then select POSTS BY OTHERS. Or just click the link below.)
Please check out and share this trailer for the MUST-SEE documentary “Sexy Baby”. (@SexyBabyMovie) WARNING: GRAPHIC!
This film can be seen tonight on Showtime and re-airs a number of other times throughout December. It can also be rented or bought RIGHT NOW at iTunes! (http://bit.ly/TDNVcN)
“Sexy Baby” powerfully shows the negative impact of the mainstreaming of pornography and its infiltration of social media on girls and young women in our culture. ALL TEEN GIRLS, YOUNG WOMEN AND THEIR PARENTS SHOULD WATCH THIS FILM, IDEALLY TOGETHER, and then check out the Sexy Baby Movie website and discuss all of the issues addressed by the movie and the site! http://www.sexybabymovie.com
So please like, comment on and share this post to help spread the word, and don’t please don’t forget to also LIKE AND SHARE the Sexy Baby Movie Facebook page. Thanks!
From SexyBabyMovie.com:
“Sexy Baby is the first documentary film to put faces to a seismic cultural shift: the cyber age is creating a new sexual landscape…. Most youngsters know someone who has emailed or texted a naked photo of themselves. Many kids have accidentally or intentionally had their first introduction to sex be via hardcore online porn. Facebook has created an arena where kids compete to be “liked” and constantly worry about what image to portray – much of what was once private is now made public. And the list goes on.
With this vast collection of information, we decided to tackle the topic through personal storytelling. At first glance, it may seem difficult to understand why we put a former porn star, a plastic surgery patient and a 12-year-old girl, in the same film. But this was no accident. We found that the adult entertainment world, represented in our film by Nakita, is trickling into the mainstream world and affecting both Laura’s and Winnifred’s lives – but in profoundly different ways. Nakita becomes an ironic role model of sorts. Laura is an embracer of mainstream culture. And Winnifred is our eyes and ears, constantly questioning the status quo. Please visit our character page to meet them.”
This organization was formed by 1) myself, (Anti-Pornography Activist), 2) Diana E. H. Russell, PhD (see DianaRussell.com), and 3) A long-time activist against sex trafficking of women and girls. Please check out our work and our many educational resources at our new website: AntiPornography.org
Please note that the website is under construction. However please feel free to take a look at what is already there, (many documentaries, for instance), and to visit any or all of these AntiPornography.org related sites while we complete our main website:
Please stay connected and help out the cause by subscribing at YouTube, sending a friend invitation at YouTube and MySpace, adding AntiPornography.org to your favorite pages at Facebook, and following at Twitter.
For more information about the documented harms of pornography, especially peer reviewed journal articles and studies, please visit the extremely informative new websitePornography Harms at PornHarms.com.
“Dedicated to providing the most accurate peer-reviewed research on the harm from pornography, along with relevant news and opinion.”
“This conference will bring together activists, researchers, survivors, parents, and other concerned community members to continue developing our anti-pornography analysis and building our resistance movement. Come and join us for two days of keynotes, workshops, and discussion.”
Registration cost is $50/supporter, $25/low-income. To register, click here.
Featuring: Lierre Keith, Gail Dines, Jennifer Johnson, Sharon Cooper, M.D., Dr. Carolyn West, Wendy Maltz, LCSW, DST, Rebecca Whisnant, Jane Caputi, Chyng Sun, Ann Scales, Diane Rosenfeld, Clare McGlynn, Donna Hughes, Samantha Berg, (Genderberg) and Jill (One Angry Girl), Matthew Ezzell, Cameron Murphey, Robert Jensen, Linda Thompson, Natalie Nenadic, Donna Hughes (Dignity), Denise McGoldrick, Gretchen Krull
Full info and links here:
2007 Stop Porn Culture Conference Opening Remarks by Gail Dines:
For the other videos from the same conference please click here.
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The AMAZING and very eye-opening Stop Porn Culture video slideshow “Who Wants to Be a Porn Star?“ is now once again available on the Internet! It exposes the true harsh reality of the porn industry and analyzes it with many profound and disturbing insights. To watch it right now click HERE.
Also please check out their other slideshow: “It’s Easy Out Here For A Pimp: How a Porn Culture Grooms Kids for Sexual Exploitation.” Available for download soon from Stop Porn Culture website.
If you’d like to be get future SPC updates emailed to you, please request that from SPC by emailing them HERE.
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The “Who Wants to Be a Porn Star?” slideshow is SPC’s first line of offense in the battle to reclaim this culture from the misogyny, racism and brute power of the pornographers. Please join SPC in the struggle for a violence-free world.
NOTE: Please contact SPC HERE for information about buying a copy of the slide show if you can’t attend a training.
Check the SPC MySpace site for the full update, more info on SPC, and previous conference videos. Also please visit the main SPC web site and events page for other events, activities, the anti-porn slideshow, helpful resources and more.
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A must-see, GROUND-BREAKING new documentary on pornography has just been released to help educate the public about the harms of pornography. Please visit the website for “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships.” Many video clips are available there, including one of Noam Chomsky discussing the issue of “choice” in regards to performers participating in the porn industry. Or, you can see the whole film HEREright now at Media Education Foundation.
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AntiPornographyBlog YouTube videos: (With commentary by APB)
The active discussion about these videos is at YouTube, so please feel free to visit my channel and each video there. And don’t forget to subscribe to my channel there at YouTube, as I will be uploading more videos in the next few months.
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P.S. Please note that more posts will be posted at this blog in the future, so feel free to subscribe to RSS feeds, etc. In the meantime please don’t forget to visit AntiPornography.org. There are already many resources, documentaries and videos there to educate anyone interested in learning about the harms of pornography.
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.
“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.) (more…)
RussellsParadox, a visitor to our AntiPornographyBlog YouTube channel, asked the above question. The space to reply at YouTube was limited, so we are posting the full response here. The simple version of it is as follows:
1) If you are referring to the United States, regardless of what anyone think, most pornography is actually technically already illegal. It just isn’t prosecuted.
2) We believe that there are legal measures that can and should be put into place that can significantly reduce the harm done to individuals during the production of pornography. (And as a result of what happened during that production.) These measures can also reduce the harm done to women, children, and society in general from the existence of, consumption of, and influence of violent, degrading, and sexist pornography. Such measures would include: restricting access of Internet pornography and other types of pornography to those who are 18 and over, raising the age of participation in pornography to 21 years old, and improving the health and safety standards of pornography production in a variety of ways, including implementing mandatory condom use.
So that’s the short answer. For a longer and more detailed response with references included, please continue reading. (But be forewarned: there is very graphic, disturbing, and likely triggering content ahead!)(more…)
Some of you may not be aware that there are some individuals within the pornography industry itself who are speaking up directly about the harms of the pornography, and who are advocating for positive reform. For instance, besides writing her book that exposes the harsh realities of the industry, “How To Make Love Like A Porn Star, A Cautionary Tale”, Jenna Jameson has openly advocated for raising the age of participation in pornography to twenty-one:
“I have major misgivings about talking to girls who are eighteen or nineteen years old about signing a contract. At eighteen years old it’s hard to make a life choice. I truly believe there should be an age verification at twenty-one years old for this industry.” (Full interview with PR.comhere.)
Another performer, Devyn Devine, who is a newcomer and not as well known, (and who is also a sociology student), wrote an article for Adult Industry News, (AINews (dot) com), called Does Porn Dehumanize. In it Devyn writes:
“There is a correlation between mass media and violence. Using my last column as a springboard, if mainstream is doing it, then the porn industry takes it to the next level.”
“Think about it. We see nudity in mainstream movies, but see full-fledged, over exaggerated (Really, honey, do the implants NEED to be that big?) full frontals in porn. We see simulated sex in mainstream, and we see full on, get down and dirty, give it to me baby harder and harder sex in porn. Now we see ads that promote female violence and portray us like we are nothing more then a piece of trash to be walked on. What desensitizes us to things is the recurring image and message over and over again.” (more…)
Anti-Porn Film and Slideshow. Plus Stop Porn Culture Info
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** A GROUND-BREAKING documentary about pornography is available! **
Visit the site HERE for
"The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships."
See clips: I.e. Noam Chomsky on "choice" in porn.
See the whole film HEREright now at Media Education Foundation.
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*** The AMAZING and very eye-openingStop Porn Culturevideo slideshow "Who Wants to Be a Porn Star?" is available on the Internet! It exposes the true harsh reality of the porn industry and analyzes it with many profound and disturbing insights. To watch it right now click HERE.
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** STOP PORN CULTURE Info **
-- NEW SLIDESHOW: "It's Easy Out Here For A Pimp: How a Porn Culture Grooms Kids for Sexual Exploitation." Available for download from Stop Porn Culture website.
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If you'd like to be get future SPC updates emailed to you, please request HERE.
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The "Who Wants to Be a Porn Star?" slideshow is SPC's first line of offense in the battle to reclaim this culture from the misogyny, racism and brute power of
the pornographers. Please join SPC in the struggle for a violence-free world.
StopPornCulture.org
NOTE: Please contact SPC HERE for information about buying a copy of the slide show if you can't
attend a training.
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