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FedUpWithIt All

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132. I won't hold my breath for you to give a shit but....
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 10:28 AM
Jun 2012

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"Things are getting more and more demeaning towards women. It's degrading. It's very, very violent.""I sit there everyday and I sew up anal tears and anal prolapse and the physical conditions of what people are putting their bodies through is getting very, very far away from sexuality as we know it." - "Doctor" Sharon Mitchell, Adult Industry Medical (AIM)

"My first scene was one of the worst experiences of my life. It was very scary. It was a very rough scene. My agent didn't let me know ahead of time... I did it and I was crying and they didn't stop. It was really violent. He was hitting me. It hurt. It scared me more than anything. They wouldn't stop. They just kept rolling."
"Drugs are huge. They're using viagra. It's unnatural. The girls will be on xanax and vicodin." ~~~~~
-Sierra Sinn

"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 didn't like it, too bad, you did it or no pay." ~~~~~
-Elizabeth Rollings

"When you suffer from childhood sexual abuse or were severely abused as a child, you usually repress those memories. You are unable to say, 'I am doing this because I was abused as a child and this is all I know how to do. This is all I know how to feel.' I think a lot of the women are in denial and they don't realize what post-traumatic stress disorder is. You either totally go a whole different direction and turn your life around and get as far away from that abuse as you can – or you re-live the experience, and a lot of these women are re-living what they know how to feel."
- ex-porn performer Carol Smith, in Not For Sale

" Howard (Stern) asked me if I'd ever been molested or abused. It was the one question I wasn't prepared for." 'No', I told Howard, in answer to his question. I lied like a rug. I wasn't ready to tell anybody about any of this (being gang raped, beaten and left for dead), and I certainly wasn't ready to deal with Howard's reaction. I didn¹t want anyone to think that I was in the business because I was a victim." (Pgs. 391 and 395)
- Jenna Jameson, in "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star"

" Step One: Teenager becomes a model. Reason ­ Like all teenagers, she thinks she's special.
Step Two: Teenager starts dating a tattoo artist and biker. Reason ­ He's older, badder, and allegedly wiser.
Step Three: Teenager becomes a stripper. Reason ­ Work, money, and approval of boyfriend.
Step Four: Teenager starts modeling nude. Reason ­ It's just like real modeling, except with the stripping added in.
Step Five: Teenager starts acting in soft-core all-female adult movies. Reason ­ Revenge.
-Jameson, page 126

"Most girls get their first experience in gonzo films – in which they’re 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. And these girls, some of whom have the potential to become major stars in the industry, go home afterward and pledge never to do it again because it was such a terrible experience.”
-Jameson

"I went through more heartbreaks and became suicidal. I was taken to the hospital for panic attacks. I tried to overdose on xanax, strangle myself, and cut my wrists but not nearly deep enough. I was too scared of the pain."
-Crissy Moran

"I hung out with a lot of people in the Adult industry, everybody from contract girls to gonzo actresses. Everybody has the same problems. Everybody is on drugs. It's an empty lifestyle trying to fill up a void.
"I became horribly addicted to heroin and crack. I overdosed at least 3 times, had tricks pull knives on me, have been beaten half to death."
-Becca Brat

"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. It's never ending."
-Jersey Jaxin

"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. I couldn’t fight him off anymore. After the scene, they wouldn’t give me a ride home. I called a taxi and went to a medical clinic to check me out due to the severe pain I was in. A day later I received a phone call from Vince to keep my mouth shut about the rape. He threatened me that I didn’t know who I was messing with and that his edited footage of what happened would prove me a liar. When I went to Red Light District to get my check, I was only paid for vaginal, not the anal rape. The anal scene was so traumatizing that I hid out for six weeks. "
-Corina Taylor

"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."
-Roxy

"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 didn't really care how I felt; he only wanted to finish the video."
-Genevieve

“I like to hide — hide everything, you know?... And I'm not happy... I don't like myself at all... My whole entire body feels it when I'm doing it and... I feel so — so gross.”
-Belladonna

"I honestly felt that if I had to have another strange man in my face, his hands (God knows where they’ve 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’ve exploded. And what would’ve been stuck to the walls would’ve probably been nothing. Just pieces of skin, bone, the brain of a robot, and what would have been left of a once huge and warm heart."
-Ashlynn Brooke

“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."
-Jessie Jewels

"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 cervi 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."
-Tamra Toryn

"I already had a past history of abuse by men, including my alcoholic father who beat my mother daily and then shot himself in the head in front of me when I was nine years old." "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! I swore I’d never do porn again..."
-Alexa Milano

“For masturbation videos, unsanitized sex toys were offered as props. On set, if a girl was having reservations, or second thoughts, the producers would become very belligerent. I remember during one particular production, this girl, who was new to porn, came with her boyfriend. She couldn't have been any older than 19 or 20. When it was time for her scene, she said she wasn't sure she wanted to do it. She was very distraught, and nervous, but the producers and her boyfriend just kept egging her on. They told her how sexy she was, and eventually became very irate, telling her how she shouldn't be there wasting their time if she wasn't serious. Most producers have absolutely no patience with the girls, even though being on set is a very traumatizing experience. There is no room for compassion in the porn industry.”
-Ashley Brooks

"Well, I grew up in a small town in Ohio , and when I was 10 years old, I was raped by a high school boy that was about 16. And from there, my mother had an older boyfriend that molested me, so my entire childhood was really shaped by these really traumatic sexual experiences, which ultimately led me to the streets of Hollywood and to porn."
-Traci Lords, in a Fox News interview

&quot Traci Lords) makes abundantly clear how easily the internal struggles of any sweet, curious young girl can be manipulated. The product of a broken home with a brutal father and a weary mother, the one-time Nora Kuzma is raped at age 10 but her 16-year-old crush: 'How could I deny it?' she writes of her resulting self-image. 'I was a whore.'"
-From a review of Traci Lords¹ book Underneath it All

" Half the women I knew outside porn had been sexually abused as little girls, so it only stood to reason that the statistics might apply in porn as well. One study of the general population claims it is two out of three. The puzzling refrain I'd begun hearing from porn outsiders: "There are plenty of people with histories of sexual abuse who didn't grow up to be porn stars." That's missing the point: The ones who did become sex workers were abused. All of them, that's my guess."
-From Ian Gittler, A Diary of Six Years in the Life of a Porn Star. Rolling Stone October 14, 1999

"Although the money was as good as promised — $1,000 to $2,000 for an eight-hour shoot — life on the porn set was degrading and dangerous. And, it was spiritually killing her. "I went through the motions, but I was dead inside," she says.
In despair, she tried to commit suicide by slashing her wrists, driving drunk and overdosing on drugs. "
-Shelley Lubben

"Degradation drives the business. … There are things going on right now that are way over the line." - Khan Tusion, porn producer

"Where else but in porn can you see a guy who just met a girl that day crack her around, choke her out." - Brandon Iron, porn producer

"The girls get torn up like usual." - Vince Vouyer, porn producer

"I find myself not that much unlike the slaves and slave traders of some 400 years ago. I participate in the most heinous of ALL trades- THE BUYING AND SELLING OF HUMAN FLESH. I trade my own flesh for monetary compensation and I sell the flesh of others for the same." - Lexington Steele, porn performer/producer

"This industry is full of people that hate - literally HATE women." - Julie Meadows, former porn star

Here are the facts about the not so glamorous porn industry.

• 36 porn stars died that we know of from HIV, suicide, homicide and drugs between 2007 and 2010.
• 66% of porn performers have Herpes, a non-curable disease.
• 2,396 cases of Chlamydia and 1,389 cases of Gonorrhea reported among performers since 2004.
• Over 100 straight and gay performers died from AIDS.
• 26 cases of HIV reported by Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM), since 2004.
• 70% of sexually transmitted infections in the porn industry occur in females according to County of Los Angeles Public Health.
• Chlamydia and Gonorrhea among performers is 10x greater than that of LA County 20-24 year olds.
• The largest group viewing online pornography is ages 12 to 17.
• More than 11 million teens regularly view porn online.
• There are 4.2 million pornographic websites, 420 million pornographic web pages, and 68 million daily search engine requests.
• 50% of men and 20% of women in the church regularly view porn.
• Of 1351 pastors surveyed, 54% had viewed Internet pornography within the last year.
• Of all known child abuse domains, 48 percent are housed in the United States.
• At the 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a gathering of the nation’s divorce lawyers, attendees
revealed that 58% of their divorces were a result of a spouse looking at excessive amounts of pornography online.
• Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online, and the content is becoming much worse. In 2008, Internet
Watch Foundation found 1,536 individual child abuse domains.
• Worldwide pornography revenue in 2006 was $97.06 billion. Of that, approximately $13 billion was in the United States.


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Do you have a link for the call out? DURHAM D Jun 2012 #1
Go look at Scootaloo's manifesto Taverner Jun 2012 #4
That wasn't a call out. Fawke Em Jun 2012 #41
too busy playing with yourself? dionysus Jun 2012 #139
If you don't like threads complaining about porn, I have a solution fishwax Jun 2012 #2
for the win! n/t Scout Jun 2012 #3
arguing with you is playing chess with a pigeon, I swear... Taverner Jun 2012 #6
LOL Scout Jun 2012 #19
Post removed Post removed Jun 2012 #5
" Now go back to whatever rock you crawled out from" -- lol, that was rude fishwax Jun 2012 #15
Quid pro quo... Taverner Jun 2012 #17
for what, quoting you? fishwax Jun 2012 #25
Sorry - I just get pissed at moral crusaders of any stripe Taverner Jun 2012 #24
I see. Are you pissed at those who are trying to stop kiddy porn? BTW LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #62
I believe there are other ways of prosecuting Xyzse Jun 2012 #74
Ah, so you feel the act should still be criminal with kiddy porn, but possession decriminalized? LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #75
Not quite Xyzse Jun 2012 #101
Oh please, REALLY? Kiddy porn is horrible and people who deal in it should be shot, but Zalatix Jun 2012 #110
If you don't like threads complaining about threads that complain about porn... Dr. Strange Jun 2012 #8
:) fishwax Jun 2012 #16
+1! n/t Spazito Jun 2012 #13
+1000 nt Mojorabbit Jun 2012 #133
+1,000,000 The OP lacks basic comprehension skills. nt. shcrane71 Jun 2012 #147
This belongs in Meta: demmiblue Jun 2012 #7
+1 HuckleB Jun 2012 #151
Whoa, Taverner. lapislzi Jun 2012 #9
So some guy taking pictures of his wife is misogyny? Got it. Taverner Jun 2012 #12
Did you even read my post? lapislzi Jun 2012 #27
Is this porn? snooper2 Jun 2012 #10
That is disgusting zappaman Jun 2012 #11
What's disgusting is this... snooper2 Jun 2012 #30
Turtle Humps Shoe Ian David Jun 2012 #36
ROFL ROFL They do everything slow LOL snooper2 Jun 2012 #38
This is what Mitch McConnel does in his wife's closet. n/t Ian David Jun 2012 #39
Gah, I'm going to puke at that mental image! nt a la izquierda Jun 2012 #118
.... one_voice Jun 2012 #43
For X-mas sake, post a NSFW warning before posting that kind of smut!!! LAGC Jun 2012 #106
Nah, that's just your garden variety upside-down cowgirl. 11 Bravo Jun 2012 #152
go away, 'batin datasuspect Jun 2012 #14
lol Taverner Jun 2012 #22
You shouldn't take the ramblings of a brony so seriously. LeftyMom Jun 2012 #18
:) Taverner Jun 2012 #20
If you don't like murder, I have a solution: ZombieHorde Jun 2012 #21
Yep, porn=murder. Riiiiiiight.... Taverner Jun 2012 #23
If Porn = Murder, then I am Sperm-Hitler. n/t Ian David Jun 2012 #28
Bill Hicks Taverner Jun 2012 #31
I was trying to make the point that your advice doesn't address the argument against porn. ZombieHorde Jun 2012 #35
So we should restrict or demonize what consenting adults do in private because 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #49
Yes we should, because porn=murder, LOL!!!! Zalatix Jun 2012 #111
I never said any of that. You're being weird. nt ZombieHorde Jun 2012 #116
You're the one who stated that there was a "societal harm" associated with porn 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #119
No, I said the OP doesn't address the argument against porn. nt ZombieHorde Jun 2012 #124
Ok, it looks like I misread your statement 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #127
Right. I don't know how harmful the different types of porn are, ZombieHorde Jun 2012 #128
My bad then 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #129
No problems. I sometimes read extra stuff into posts as well. nt ZombieHorde Jun 2012 #135
The "porn causes societal harm" meme hifiguy Jun 2012 #125
Because porn = rape 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #126
Porn = Rape like Elective Abortion = Murder. hifiguy Jun 2012 #130
Agree 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #131
Exactly. LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #59
+1! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2012 #79
A better comparison would be suicide or euthanasia 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #32
Also, if you don't like it, don't make it. n/t Ian David Jun 2012 #44
Maybe the dumbest post in this thread! Congrats! n-t Logical Jun 2012 #149
Damn! Too late! I already looked at it today (twice). n/t Ian David Jun 2012 #26
Uh oh - looks like we'll have to confess our sins to the resident moralists Taverner Jun 2012 #29
STOP SAYING PONIES! LeftyMom Jun 2012 #33
I don't care what people do as long as it doesn't involve ponies. Leopolds Ghost Jun 2012 #81
You can also see both sides of an issue. randome Jun 2012 #34
Porn serves a purpose. It drove sales of home movies (film, VHS, DVD) as well as the Internet. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #37
I agree with everyone. RandySF Jun 2012 #40
The problem lies here: Fawke Em Jun 2012 #48
For me to "get it" RandySF Jun 2012 #50
You don't think porn that portrays women Fawke Em Jun 2012 #54
I think most men know the difference. Ian David Jun 2012 #57
And this is all about how men feel?...Sorry, we women who are the subjects of most of it, have whathehell Jun 2012 #70
Yes, men are terrible monsters who will spooge all over you as you sit on the bus... Ian David Jun 2012 #73
I told my girlfriend she needs to be more like The Black Widow ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2012 #83
What a sad joke.. whathehell Jun 2012 #164
I don't think men beat women because it looks like something cool they saw in a porno. n/t Ian David Jun 2012 #168
EXACTLY, thank you. LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #77
"who are, by and large, both physically and socially/emotionally more vulnerable then men." ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2012 #85
Thank you. MadrasT Jun 2012 #158
You're making a lot of leaps there.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2012 #69
The portrayal of males in porn is hardly nuanced and multidimensional FiveGoodMen Jun 2012 #96
But you are! Sans__Culottes Jun 2012 #114
Someone should invent a phrase for "cum receptacle". UnrepentantLiberal Jun 2012 #146
Do you think banning porn would stop some men from objectifying women? nt Incitatus Jun 2012 #113
The almost religious faith held by some in the notion hifiguy Jun 2012 #123
You don't seem to be overly concerned about UnrepentantLiberal Jun 2012 #145
+1000 n/t Ian David Jun 2012 #55
I'm tired of my daughters asking it, too. randome Jun 2012 #76
thank you for all of that. nt seabeyond Jun 2012 #92
Agreed! n/t hrmjustin Jun 2012 #42
Mama always said ... "Porn is like a box of Chocolates ... " JoePhilly Jun 2012 #45
Your mama was a strange gal. randome Jun 2012 #86
You have no idea ... JoePhilly Jun 2012 #104
Kind of hard to not look at it when it's piped in nightly on broadcast TV, closeupready Jun 2012 #46
They can have my porn Capt. Obvious Jun 2012 #47
Lol! RiffRandell Jun 2012 #53
But we have to DEAL with people who look at it. Fawke Em Jun 2012 #51
Yup. I have heard from so many young women who are so tired LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #60
Yup, just like we have to deal with people who watch violent movies. Zalatix Jun 2012 #112
Agreed. But as usual, Monty Python supplies the hifiguy Jun 2012 #52
Between equal rights BOG PERSON Jun 2012 #56
My not looking at it doesn't change the fact that Chorophyll Jun 2012 #58
What, are you saying "urethra gang-bang" is misogynistic? No way! LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #61
Or are you saying when they choke and slap the girls, it's women-hating? No way! (Sarcasm) LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #64
Or are you saying when they force a woman to vomit, that's abuse? No way! (Sarcasm) LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #65
How about a double anal film that announces the actress will have to wear a colostomy bag from now LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #66
Or how about a film that recommends "surprising" your loved one with some A2M, against her will? LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #67
But I know, all those things are just good wholesome loving fun between men and women and LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #68
Whoa zappaman Jun 2012 #71
Paragraphs work as well as separate posts. randome Jun 2012 #72
wow.... opiate69 Jun 2012 #87
Not the kind of stuff I'm watching, stuff I am aware of because of feminist blogs and links. LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #88
You know.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2012 #89
Just another example of trying to shame a woman into silence for bringing up a serious issue. LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #91
And I am leaving because as a victim of rape as a child and then as an adult, this is way too LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #93
as opposed to.. opiate69 Jun 2012 #94
Seriously, you weren't trying to shame? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2012 #98
No, I wasn't attempting to shame. I was trying to talk about examples of porn that many of you LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #102
I know a little bit more than Playboy ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2012 #107
Or how about that horrible porno that advocating mass murdering half the human race? Warren DeMontague Jun 2012 #95
You certainly know your porn 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #121
I read feminist blogs that talk about this stuff. I automatically am drawn to blogs like that LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #122
I noticed that too. Curious familiarity for someone so (seemingly) repulsed by porn. n/t. apocalypsehow Jun 2012 #148
Like the anti-gay folks 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #153
what's A2M? snooper2 Jun 2012 #154
it's art for art's sake. it's a vital expression of the human spirit BOG PERSON Jun 2012 #80
Can't wait until the chainsaws come out and they start hacking off female limbs in movies for real LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #82
Yeah, just like man on dog marriage ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jun 2012 #90
I wish they would at least change some of the titles to be more respectful. n/t Ian David Jun 2012 #63
As I said on the original thread Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2012 #78
New brain research challenges the myth that men are more visual than women. seabeyond Jun 2012 #97
in a world without porno, nightingales would belch BOG PERSON Jun 2012 #84
*** Warren DeMontague Jun 2012 #99
Oooooo...they're gonna be alerting that! Hah-hah...I've already served on one jury on this apocalypsehow Jun 2012 #105
You porn obsessed misogynistic objectifier maniac! UnrepentantLiberal Jun 2012 #150
How can watching porn be "misogynist"? William769 Jun 2012 #100
I like porn Boxcar Willie Jun 2012 #103
This message was self-deleted by its author DURHAM D Jun 2012 #108
Bumping for more discussion. DURHAM D Jun 2012 #109
I would imagine also that if one doesn't like criticism of porn LanternWaste Jun 2012 #115
ok Jerky McPornhead dionysus Jun 2012 #117
THANK YOU! That is what I've been trying to say, that SOME of that stuff is really women-hating, LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #120
I won't hold my breath for you to give a shit but.... FedUpWithIt All Jun 2012 #132
Thank you for this. I wonder how many reading this LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #138
I'm sorry you've seen a darker side of the world. FedUpWithIt All Jun 2012 #141
thank you. LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #142
LOL, can you guys find anything that is not from a fundy website? snooper2 Jun 2012 #155
Good catch, snooper! opiate69 Jun 2012 #157
Are you suggesting that a person's religious beliefs eliminate their right to legal and humane FedUpWithIt All Jun 2012 #160
Pray the Spirit of Pornography over California and our whole country be cast down in Jesus name. snooper2 Jun 2012 #156
It's the same stuff that's on Shelley Lubben's sites (a religiou right con). Waiting For Everyman Jun 2012 #161
Because it is a compilation of quotes from other sources and from a variety of people. FedUpWithIt All Jun 2012 #163
The sites being quoted are faking the information -- you care about THAT or you don't. Waiting For Everyman Jun 2012 #165
If you don't like my opinions don't agree with me Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2012 #134
WTF?? Really? From the guy who started a thread that anyone who doesn't like porn is anti-woman? riderinthestorm Jun 2012 #136
porn to him is like guns to the 2nd amendment folks... dionysus Jun 2012 #137
• Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online, and the content is becoming LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #140
. Son of Gob Jun 2012 #143
Makes you wonder what these people do masturbate too? Sea-Dog Jun 2012 #144
are you really telling everyone on the board you can not jerk off unless you have porn? really? seabeyond Jun 2012 #159
are you really telling everyone you use the fundy videos you spread around DU? really? Waiting For Everyman Jun 2012 #162
what do you masturbate too? Sea-Dog Jun 2012 #166
some people have sex with actual other people Scout Jun 2012 #167
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