Sharon Mitchell’s estimate was slightly lower-she put the number at 66%, not including another 12-28% with other STDs and 7% with HIV.
One male porn performer who starred in 600 films with over 3,000 women noted that everyone in the porn world has herpes, both males and females. Such things are an open secret inside the porn industry. They have an increased risk of sexually transmitted disease (including HIV), domestic violence, and have about a 25% chance of making a marriage that lasts as long as three years.” Their work environment is particularly toxic…The terrible work life of the pornography performer is often followed by an equally terrible home life. “The experience I find most common among performers is that they have to be drunk, high, or disassociated to go to work. Mary Anne Layden, an expert on the porn industry. “Once are in the industry, they have high rates of substance abuse, typically alcohol and cocaine, depression, borderline personality disorder,” noted researcher Dr. It’s not surprising that the intense violence of the porn industry is ruining the women and girls who end up selling themselves to it.
There are many reasons not to look at pornography, and I’ve written many columns in this space detailing those reasons: The mainstreaming of rape culture, the creation of addictions, the destruction of marriages and families, and even the warp-speed spread of erectile dysfunction.īut there is another reason not to look at pornography: Simple compassion for the women and girls who get chewed up by the industry and then abandoned.Įven Miriam Weeks-also known Belle Knox, the “Duke University Porn Star”-who once described porn as “freeing and empowering and the way the world should be” in an interview with CNN, later admitted in interviews that the porn industry had ruined her life. Those reasons weren’t good enough for the progressives, who shrugged off her suicide as if she deserved it-and after all, what’s one more dead porn star? In December, fellow porn actress Yuritzan Beltran also died from a drug overdose-and later that month, the 23-year-old August Ames hung herself after being viciously bullied online by social justice warriors who were livid that Ames had declined to shoot porn scenes with a male performer who also did gay porn in order to avoid the risk of STDs. Janu( LifeSiteNews) – Earlier this year, 20-year-old porn actress Olivia North was found dead in Las Vegas, a girl who professed to be “lonely” and still grieving the loss of her boyfriend, who had died of a drug overdose.