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here are a few of the things I had to believe in order to be a successful Porn Star.

First Belief: Porn Stars are different than prostitutes because we pay taxes, it’s on camera, in front of the world, and not in some dark scary alley. It’s different because the person I am being paid to have sex with is being paid to have sex with me too. There are conventions that welcome me, such as the AVN Expo in Vegas, whereas there are no conventions (with fans) for prostitutes. Therefore, I am not a prostitute.

Second Belief: My participation in pornography doesn’t hurt anybody, not even me.

Third Belief: My parents should be proud of me for being such a successful woman in this male-driven business.

Fourth Belief: Using my sexuality to obtain money, respect and success is empowering.

Fifth Belief: Doing this temporarily will take me somewhere better permanently.

When I quit, and started going to therapy, I had to deconstruct each of these beliefs, as they’d become so ingrained in my way of thinking they had taken over my way of living.

First Truth: There really is no difference between being a Porn Star and being a prostitute. One is a bit safer than the other and tested for STD’s, but for the most part they are the same. In fact, the majority of Porn Stars sideline as prostitutes, or “Escorts,” although they will deny it vehemently.

Second Truth: My participation in pornography, while accepted by my family (I was honest from the beginning), still broke the hearts of those who love me. My Mom and Dad had wanted more for me than selling sex. My little brother had to deal with kids at school who made fun of him because his sister was a whore. My little sister, who once looked up to me, thought I was taking the easy way out. And as mentioned, I’ve been in therapy for the past year and a half trying to rehabilitate myself from the damages both I, and my participation in pornography, caused. To say “selling sex for money won’t harm you” is to say seismic activity today, won’t cause tidal waves hundreds of miles away tomorrow.

Third Truth: My parents are proud of me no matter what I do. But they knew I could do more.

Fourth Truth: Using my sexuality to be financially stable, respected and successful is not empowering. It is manipulative and the same as sleeping with your boss to get a raise. I am a hustler and a master manipulator. Going back to school is empowering because I am creating a sustainable future with my mind, not my vagina.

Fifth Truth: Doing porn temporarily will dig you deeper down the pornographic hole. When and if women are lucky enough to climb out, they will need tons of therapy to understand why they choose to prostitute themselves for mere peanuts. And if they don’t get that kind of help, it is my personal opinion they will be faced with challenges in their intimate and social lives, daily.

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Fifth Truth: Doing porn temporarily will dig you deeper down the pornographic hole. When and if women are lucky enough to climb out, they will need tons of therapy to understand why they choose to prostitute themselves for mere peanuts. And if they don’t get that kind of help, it is my personal opinion they will be faced with challenges in their intimate and social lives, daily.

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penny is definitely speaking from a bourgeois perspective though.

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she's a success in a male driven industry?

Pardon me, but the last time I checked the entire industry was built around splooging on women. Women get paid far more and men buy porn to jack off on women

how, then, is it a male industry?

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Why do we never hear about gay pornstars having "emotional problems" and being "victims"?

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Aurora is going to be a lawyer! If I had a nickel for every dumb stripper who has told me the same thing over the years, I could buy Gunker a dishwasher:


http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-09/porn-star-aurora-snow-goes-from-barely-legal-to-milf/2/

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I was 18 years old—“barely legal,” in industry jargon—and halfway through my first year of college at UC Irvine, worried about the debt I was incurring.

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But I'm still at my core the girl who changed her major in college to business

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The University of California, Irvine's business school, which trains students for master's and doctorates in business, plans to start offering its first bachelor's degree next year.

The Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine plans to start training students for a bachelor's in business administration starting in fall 2008.

The school is looking to enroll about 150 undergraduates per school year, according to Vijay Gurbaxani, associate business school dean.

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Or....she's just a big fucking liar. That's probably the only prerequisite for law school she's met.

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Or....she's just a big fucking liar. That's probably the only prerequisite for law school she's met.

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She got other bad lawyer qualities.

She's proven she's pretty much willing to do just about anything for a buck.

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I diagnose self-loathing

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While we're talking about Aurora Snow, I have more important question ....

Does anyone know what movie this scene is from?

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I can't figure out if this was ever on a dvd

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Thx. Have the scene, but I'm obsessed with sourcing EVERYTHING and like you, I cannot tie it to a DVD.

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Jennifer, you have been throwing people under the bus almost from the day you entered porn. (Folks should ask Christian what it was like to have you as a friend.) Your "recovery" is just the logical end of the pendulum's swing from enthusiastic sex worker to self-important civilian. If you want to leave the adult indistry behind, then stop talking about it. I think your real addiction is to attention, which Dr. Drew and his industry have been only too happy to enable. The only change I see in you is that you have stopped vicitimizing younger partners and have moved on to vicimizing other adult indistry members. Just leave us all alone, we don't need your "help."

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hahaha WOW are you really going to use Christian as an example? Did you know when I asked that he use a condom when we work together he said I am not his real friend??? SO, real friends are willing to throw personal health and safety aside and have sex with people we think are performing in unsafe ways without a condom just because they are "real friends"? Get real dude...

And are you actually in the business? Or do you just enjoy the personalities from behind the comfort of your computer where you can decide on whatever truths you need them to have in order to get off?

As I've said many times before, I am not against pornography, but I do think it is important to discuss the negative repercussions of being a performer in that industry as very few women have had the courage to come forward and do so because of the negative responses they get from strange people with strange points such as yourself.

If you are going to make a point, make sure it's a valid one. Bringing up Christian and saying I victimize people (be it my partners or people in the industry) are incongruent statements. I talk about the industry because it was a big part of my life, and healthy people are encouraged to discuss things that are on their minds. You don't need my help, you need more than I could ever provide.

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Aurora is going to be a lawyer! If I had a nickel for every dumb stripper who has told me the same thing over the years, I could buy Gunker a dishwasher:


http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-09/porn-star-aurora-snow-goes-from-barely-legal-to-milf/2/

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Penny Flame was one hot little firecracker in her day. It's too bad she's a selfish traitor to the industry that made her a star.

And I've never been able to get my rocks off to one of her scenes since she wrote an extensive blog about farting in her dog's face. That just showed a total lack of class.

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Penny's selfish? dude the whole industry is about chiseling each other for a couple hundred ro a couple thousand bucks. Traitor? The porn industry is not like a nation or a religion, its a bunch of disfunctional people who get together to make fuck films. She owes no loyalty to the other talent and producers.

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Why the fuck would anyone want to be a lawyer nowadays? It's a great way to spend years in school and have dick to show for it.

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