“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.”
“...every time someone watches that movie [Deep Throat], they're watching me being raped.”
— Linda Boreman (a.k.a. “Linda Lovelace”), former porn actress
“I have never met [a porn actress] that hasn't been sexually abused by an uncle, by a father, by a boyfriend, by somebody. They all have that in common.”
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Traci Lords (formerly Nora Louise Kuzma), rape victim (age 10) and former porn actress
“Many porn actresses admit they’ve experienced sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse and neglect by parents which ultimately led them to the porn industry. Some were raped or physcially abused by relatives and molested by neighbors... I have yet to meet a porn star that doesn't have either physical or sexual abuse in her background... Porn is NOT glamorous.”
— Shelley Lubben (a.k.a. “Roxy”), former porn actress
“Even in our wildest imaginations, most women are unable to fathom the vicious acts done to women by the pornography industry in the name of free speech, profit, pleasure, and, yes, entertainment. Facing head-on the hatred and contempt for women exposed in visual pornography, as much as it hurts, fuels our anger and a lot of incendiary activism.”
— Nikki Craft, feminist activist
“Pornography is the very best consciousness-raising tool that male supremacy offers to women.”
— Sheila Jeffreys, anti-porn feminist
“Even soft-core pornography portrays women as sex objects who exist only to give sexual satisfaction to men. They are ‘pets’ or ‘playmates’ valued only from the neck down. Many porn addicts now admit they find it hard not to view women as chunks of meat because of viewing pornography.”
— Shelley Lubben (a.k.a. “Roxy”), former porn actress
“It totally made me realize how I trusted this system that wasn't to be trusted at all, because it obviously doesn't work... I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world.”
— “Lara Roxx”, former porn actress, contracted HIV while filming in 2004
“People do drugs because they can’t deal with the way they are being treated. Seventy five percent and rising are using drugs. Have to numb themselves... You’re bruised. You have black eyes. You’re ripped. You’re torn. You have your insides coming out. It’s not pretty and foofoo on set. You get hurt.”
— Tanya (a.k.a. “Jersey Jaxin”), former porn actress
“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.”
— Gloria Leonard, former porn actress
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