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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
The documentary. I would be interested in seeing it. And I don't doubt that drug use and depression is rampant in the porn industry. Few little girls dream of doing porn when they grow up. At the lower end of the spectrum, the women do porn for lack of better options, as you have noted. Perhaps if they were not prevented from engaging in extracurricular activities in high school after failing a drug test, these women would have higher self esteem and would not have resorted to porn.
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I saw the documentary that Not Me is describing (I think I did, anyway). I think it was a Frontline documentary, although I didn't see the very beginning or the very end so I'm not positive. It was definitely on public, non-commercial TV. And it definitely showed some pretty out-there stuff, including Lizzie Borden (she of "Working Girls" fame) producing a flick where guys simulated gang-rape of a woman, complete with a beating that she wasn't warned was coming.
They also interviewed a number of the women involved, and they were not getting into this industry because they didn't have other options to make a living, or because they were kept out of extracurricular activities. They were in it because having anal sex with six guys on video was the only way that they, as 18-year olds, could make several grand a week. I feel the same way you apparently do about the referenced aspect of the War on Drugs but it really has nothing to do with the choices these women make.
