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You probably are just noticing it more now that you are now less naive then you were then.

It just happens that a percentage of people in porn are going to use drugs... and guess what... it is like that in the normal world at well. I mean is the mall going to hell because the kids from Foot Locker were smoking a blunt behind the building. Is Disney going to hell because the cast members get wasted on a nightly basis.

Do i think it is a good thing, no. But, i cannot be judgmental as I have dealt with my own drug issues.

As far as 18yr olds representing the industry on TV.... that sounds like sour grapes from 6yrs of being unrecognized. Sorry, i don't say it being mean, i am just saying how that statement comes off.

You may not care about the biz, but well... I do. You say helping out is a waste of time... well you have biotech training supposedly... why don't you go down and volunteer at AIM, not paid but volunteer, maybe reduce their overhead.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.




No Rob, while the drugs may have always been there, people are more free with it and do it in the open in front of others and offer like its no big deal, that's the difference. In high school and some parts of college I was never offered or see that kind of act in the work place in retail. Of course not cuz they'd be taking a chance of getting fired. I never saw that at the Medical Billing offic e I worked at nor the Lab. People have no shame in the biz because they have no job to lose and that's what I find is disrespectful but really that's not the main issue. It's how our fellow co-workers today treat each other and take care of themselves... hygiene, you know showers, not working when having a yeast infection, things of that sort. It's certainly not the same years ago.

My years of being unrecognized isn't so extreme as you say. Perhaps I've been announced as a nominee of unsung siren a few times but really even if I did win something it says nothing about who i really am so it doesn't really matter. I can't imagine you not agreeing that it's a joke to have a 18 yr old of all people to go on national television to represent this industry. I certainly wouldn't take the offer if it was there. It has nothing to do with being under-rated at all.

Beginning of Summer last year when I had gone in for a test, I offered my time to help out part-time volunteering. I left my contact info and never heard a word. I called a week later and an unfamiliar voice, (lots of new employees at the office now) and she seemed to have not know what I was talking about so I left my number again. No word. So obviously they're not in any desire of help.

And if I may recall Rob, you did have quite the collection of profound things to say about the industry when you had left for Florida and all. They weren't positive ones either. And to blame that on your dependency of whatever it may be sounds like an excuse to me. I honestly believe there is more to it, whatever it may be. Perhaps dependency is part of it but not the whole thing. So I'm not the only one. I know that much.

It's past my bed time. Good night.