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In reply to the discussion: Porn in the USA is a "major public health crisis?" For real? [View all]Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)99. Per the video referenced it's probably this one
None of which, she maintains, has anything to do with why she entered the sex trade. When Weeks started at Duke, her father was working in a private practice. Then he got called by the Army Reserves to go to Afghanistan for less than half of his previous salary. Weeks says she begged Duke to revisit her financial-aid package, but "they didn't care." Staring at a monthly bill for $4,300 that they couldn't pay, her parents suggested she take out private loans, despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt she'd rack up by the time she graduated. In high school, Weeks had worked as a waitress a job she has said she found more degrading than the sex trade so she knew how impossible it would be for someone without a car or a college degree to make anywhere near enough to cover her tuition. In desperation, Weeks joked to her roommate, "Oh, screw this, I'll just be a porn star."
And then, having said the words, she started to actually consider it. "I Googled 'how to be a porn star,' and all of these agencies popped up. And then there's this website called SexyJobs.com. It's like the Monster.com of porn." Weeks took a few naked selfies and submitted them, along with her height (five feet four), weight (95 pounds) and a short description ("'I'm a college girl with a naughty side' or something like that" . Within days, she got a call from a company called Facial Abuse that offered to fly her to New York for her first shoot, at a rate of $1,200 per scene. The night before leaving, Weeks says, "I was horny. I remember thinking, 'This is gonna be really hot.'"
While Weeks maintains that everything that happened at the shoot was consensual, it was not the best experience. "They try to figure out what makes you tick and fuck with you. I remember getting naked, and the guy said, 'You have cuts on your legs. You're a cutter.' He could tell I had written the word 'fat' in my thigh, so he started calling me fat." Once they called "action," she was pushed to the ground and slapped. "And I said, 'Stop, stop, stop. No, no.' And then they stopped, and they were like, 'We have to keep going.'
"And I was like, 'Just please don't hit me so hard.' But it went on like that, me getting hit, pushed, spit on. I was being told I was fat, that I was a terrible feminist, was going to fail all my classes, was stupid, dumb, a slut. But I got through it. You know how you kind of zone out sometimes? I just disassociated." It wasn't until she got back to Duke that she felt the weight of it all. "I remember just being a wreck, like, 'Oh, my God, what have I done? This is the most embarrassing thing ever. What if somebody finds it?'"
But still, she needed the money. To better protect herself, Weeks signed with Matrix Models, which booked her five scenes including the "hottest" threesome with James Deen during Thanksgiving vacation, flying her to L.A. She told her parents she was staying at school over break. She told her roommate that she was going to California realizing that someone should know where she was but didn't explain why. In fact, no one in her life had any idea she was doing porn especially not her parents, who thought she was still a virgin.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-blue-devil-in-miss-belle-knox-meet-duke-porn-star-miriam-weeks-20140423
I recommend one read the whole article. I'm not passing judgment one way but considering what college tuition costs these days coupled carrying a massive debt from student loans I'm not surprised that some students would turn to porn.
And then, having said the words, she started to actually consider it. "I Googled 'how to be a porn star,' and all of these agencies popped up. And then there's this website called SexyJobs.com. It's like the Monster.com of porn." Weeks took a few naked selfies and submitted them, along with her height (five feet four), weight (95 pounds) and a short description ("'I'm a college girl with a naughty side' or something like that" . Within days, she got a call from a company called Facial Abuse that offered to fly her to New York for her first shoot, at a rate of $1,200 per scene. The night before leaving, Weeks says, "I was horny. I remember thinking, 'This is gonna be really hot.'"
While Weeks maintains that everything that happened at the shoot was consensual, it was not the best experience. "They try to figure out what makes you tick and fuck with you. I remember getting naked, and the guy said, 'You have cuts on your legs. You're a cutter.' He could tell I had written the word 'fat' in my thigh, so he started calling me fat." Once they called "action," she was pushed to the ground and slapped. "And I said, 'Stop, stop, stop. No, no.' And then they stopped, and they were like, 'We have to keep going.'
"And I was like, 'Just please don't hit me so hard.' But it went on like that, me getting hit, pushed, spit on. I was being told I was fat, that I was a terrible feminist, was going to fail all my classes, was stupid, dumb, a slut. But I got through it. You know how you kind of zone out sometimes? I just disassociated." It wasn't until she got back to Duke that she felt the weight of it all. "I remember just being a wreck, like, 'Oh, my God, what have I done? This is the most embarrassing thing ever. What if somebody finds it?'"
But still, she needed the money. To better protect herself, Weeks signed with Matrix Models, which booked her five scenes including the "hottest" threesome with James Deen during Thanksgiving vacation, flying her to L.A. She told her parents she was staying at school over break. She told her roommate that she was going to California realizing that someone should know where she was but didn't explain why. In fact, no one in her life had any idea she was doing porn especially not her parents, who thought she was still a virgin.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-blue-devil-in-miss-belle-knox-meet-duke-porn-star-miriam-weeks-20140423
I recommend one read the whole article. I'm not passing judgment one way but considering what college tuition costs these days coupled carrying a massive debt from student loans I'm not surprised that some students would turn to porn.
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So I assume that you think there's nothing we can do about all the violence in the porn industry...
YoungDemCA
May 2014
#36
Try to come up with something yourself while not climbing into bed....
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
May 2014
#51
If you want to post a story and link that's fine, but what is the follow up
R. Daneel Olivaw
May 2014
#8
Sorry, I can't put every viewpoint of an article with the DU paragraph limit
davidn3600
May 2014
#11
I think what some are saying could be among the dumbest arguments I've heard of...
davidn3600
May 2014
#19
"Never mind the fact that probably 99.9% of men in this country have viewed pornography before. "
YoungDemCA
May 2014
#39
You're wasting your time. These people care more about talking about the religious affiliations of
redqueen
May 2014
#28
Morality in Media's "Dirty Dozen" includes Holder, American Library Association
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
May 2014
#58
Did you read the interview with Weeks in the Rolling Stone? She started watching porn at 12,
seaglass
May 2014
#54
jesus god. fuck that shit. honestly, I wonder how these men live with themselves.
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2014
#92
Nah, you just ran in to deflect a clown punching of another right-wing concern group
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
May 2014
#60
The OP is a criticism of a right wing group getting together to ban porn
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
May 2014
#73
I think what you posted there points out the shades of grey in 'consensuality'.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
May 2014
#103
My mistake to assume your non-sequitor was in fact related at all to the thread you posted in.
Kurska
May 2014
#47
My view is that the pornography industry is more a *symptom* of a broader culture...
YoungDemCA
May 2014
#45
Somewhere I read was that Utah views prone by a larger degree than any other state
lostincalifornia
May 2014
#62
Leading to a shortage of hand soap which in tern is allowing the spread of bacterial infections?
yourout
May 2014
#80
I just googled, "spanking college coeds" and I was shocked at what came up ......
Botany
May 2014
#86
those are not causes of death as much as they are contributing factors (underlying causes)
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2014
#95
Amy Winehouse and Bon Scott are two alcohol deaths that I can think of off the top of my head
Go Vols
May 2014
#105
yes, she poisioned herself to death with alcohol. The cause was poision. Alcohol in small doses is
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2014
#108
they did not even die in the same year. Your knowledge of two random famous people's underlying
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2014
#110
since men cant get it up for real women in their lives due to their obsession, i would say there
seabeyond
May 2014
#114