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Itâs shocking in some ways that the porn industry is so mainstream and so popular, considering that at the same time there had been a chorus of voices speaking out against sex trafficking. Doesnât the porn industry, I asked Lubben, feed into sex trafficking?
âA lot of people think that pornography fuels sex trafficking and it does,â Lubben said firmly. âBut it does that because it is sex trafficking. Itâs called [a] cutthroat business because itâs trafficking; all of us have been coerced into doing a scene we didnât wanna do. We went to fraudulent doctors or fraudulent clinics they sent us to. In fact, their clinics - the main porn star clinic closed down a couple years ago, because a lot of us were standing against it - but we had a former porn actress who has a PhD in sexology, and she would put on a white lab coat and tell the girls, âCall me Dr. Sharon Mitchell.â So all these girls think that sheâs a medical doctor, and they would go there for her medical advice and for STD treatment and testing. So thatâs just one way theyâre fraudulent.
âAnother way [is that] pornographers make false promises: âIf you do this scene I promise that youâre going to get this money, or youâre going to get the box coverâ or, âYou wonât have to do this kind of scene anymore.â Itâs all based on lies. And so youâve gotta be tough to be in that business.
âYou know, most of these films are made in private locations, and private mansions, or hotel rooms whereâs thereâs no government access. So itâs like two young girls, 18, 19, 20-year-old girls on a mostly older male set. The producerâs male, the crewâs maleâŠso of course, weâre intimidated into doing scenes we donât wanna do. I canât tell you how many times Iâve showed up and they said, âYou need to do this scene,â [and] I said, âNo, thatâs not what my agent said,â or âThatâs not what I was told to do,â and theyâre like, âWell, youâre gonna do it or weâre not gonna pay you, weâre going to sue you.â And now with the Internet they tell the girls, âIf you donât do this scene, weâre going to send your porn to your family members, weâre gonna ruin your reputation, youâre never gonna work again, weâre gonna take away your finances, weâre gonna physically hurt you,â or they threaten to sue them. This is sex trafficking. Every porn star has been trafficked at least at one time or another in the porn industry.â
It is because of this that Shelley Lubben, after eight years, finally left the porn industry after meeting a pastor, who later married her, sticking with her through ten long, painful years of recovery. In 2007, she started the Pink Cross Foundation, which works to bring porn actresses and porn actors out of the porn industry, offering them hope and healing, and warning young people enamored with the industry of the darkness and pain that awaits them within.
Before I hung up the phone, I asked Shelley Lubben one final question: âIf you could say one thing to someone whoâs looking at pornography, what would you say?â
She barely had to pause. âYouâre contributing to your demise,â she answered. âAnd to your familyâs demise, and your wifeâs. I canât tell you how many porn addicts have lost their families and jobs. Itâs really sad. And theyâre contributing to children being raped. Iâm likeâfor a better reason not to click on porn, [think about] child porn. Just think, right now as Iâve been talking to you, there are little children that are being drugged and raped. How could anyone click on porn knowing that?â
And indeed, after hearing Shelleyâs story, many, many people have come to just that conclusion: Porn is a destructive force. Porn has ruined many lives. For the good of our families, our society, and ourselvesâitâs time to count the cost, and cut porn out for good.
âIn addition to being coerced, lied to and repeatedly exposed to non-curable life-threatening diseases, many women experience severe damage to internal body parts.â
â Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn
âThe truth is there is no fantasy in porn. Itâs all an illusion. A closer look into the hardcore scenes of a porn starâs life will show you an act the porn industry doesnât want you to see. The real truth is we porn actresses want to end the shame and trauma of our box office lives but we canât do it alone.â
â Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn
âDamaged little girls are exactly what the porn industry preys upon and depends upon. It is estimated that 90% of porn performers are sexual abuse survivors and the average age of a porn actress is 22.8 years old.â
â Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn
âFurthermore, when the deaths of 129 porn stars over a period of roughly 20 years were analyzed it was discovered that the average life expectancy of a porn star is only 37.43 years whereas the average life expectancy of an American is 78.1 years.28â
â Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn
âThe porn industry was never supposed to happen this way. But 1 out of 4 Americans made it happen. While women and men in porn destroyed themselves with drugs, alcohol and suicide we sat idly by at our computers with âpopcornâ in one hand and our mouse in the other greedily clicking away at their lives. May God forgive our evil.â
â Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn
âIn fact, porn can literally kill you. Since 2000, there have been at least 34 drug-related deaths among performers...â
â Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
â...Itâs hardly surprising Americaâs children, most having been well groomed in sexual immorality over 40 years, have ended up on MySpace or Facebook uploading sexy pictures of ourselves. Where else can a hyper sexualized kid get so much attention?â
â Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
Porn is fuelling a new, violent sexual ideology in our teens. It has to stop.
April 28, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Iâve been saying for quite some time that pornography is dangerous for more reasons than those that we typically discuss. Pornography is not dangerous just because it is spiritually dangerous. Pornography is not dangerous just because it is addictive, unhealthy, and unrealistic. Pornography is dangerous because it is becoming a new ideology of sex, in which women are objects to be abused and consumed and men are sexual aggressors, using the girls and women to physically extract as much so-called âpleasureâ as possible.
When I first spoke on this issue at the University of Ottawa with my fellow anti-porn colleagues Daniel Gilman and Peter Mahaffey, many people showed up angry, desperately wanting to refute the idea that porn fuels rape culture. But when it came time to take questions, there were none. As we heard from many people afterwards, the fact that pornography is a celebration of degradation was just too obvious.
Iâve had this sick and disturbing fact confirmed by expert after expert. When I talked to Dr. Mary Anne Layden of the University of Pennsylvania, she explained to me that the sexual exploitation industries teach men something very simple: If you can buy something, you can steal it. And in ten years of working with sexual trauma victims, sheâs discovered that pornography played a part in every single situation. Dr. Paul Jensen of the University of Texas told me that when he speaks to men, he just asks them a simple question: Does porn help you become the man you want to be? Men know instinctively, he says, that pornography does something dark and awful to them.
My personal conversations with hundreds of high school students across the country have given me a heart-breaking and personal glimpse of how this generation struggles with the virus of pornography that has spread through their homes and their schools, their social networks and their entertainment. And thus, an article in the Daily Telegraph of the United Kingdom this week called âPornography has changed the landscape of adolescence beyond all recognitionâ did not surprise me at all, in spite of the appalling details it revealed.
Columnist Allison Pearson was describing a recent conversation between herself and a number of other parents. âPorn has changed the landscape of adolescence beyond all recognition,â she noted. âLike other parents of our generation, we were on a journey without maps or lights, although the instinct to protect our children from the darkness was overwhelming.â
It was when a doctor in the group spoke up that the group was stunned into silence. According to Pearson:
A GP, letâs call her Sue, said: âIâm afraid things are much worse than people suspect.â In recent years, Sue had treated growing numbers of teenage girls with internal injuries caused by frequent anal sex; not, as Sue found out, because she wanted to, or because she enjoyed it â on the contrary â but because a boy expected her to. âIâll spare you the gruesome details,â said Sue, âbut these girls are very young and slight and their bodies are simply not designed for that.â
Her patients were deeply ashamed at presenting with such injuries. They had lied to their mums about it and felt they couldnât confide in anyone else, which only added to their distress. When Sue questioned them further, they said they were humiliated by the experience, but they had simply not felt they could say no. Anal sex was standard among teenagers now, even though the girls knew that it hurt.
And where are these brutal expectations coming from? Every adult knew without asking: From pornography. Anal sex, especially of the violent variety, is now mainstream in porn, as the research of Dr. Gail Dines and others show us.
This is resulting in a sharp upswing in emotional problems among girls, something Iâve seen time and time again when interacting with high school students as well. Researchers with the Journal of Adolescent Health, Pearson reports, have been shocked to see a 7% spike in emotional issues in a mere five yearsâand in girls between the ages of 11 to 13. In a culture saturated with pornography, girls especially feel the pressure to conform to the fantasy that has consumed the minds of the boys and spilled out to invade their reality.
All of these problems are interconnected. âTake female insecurity, warp and magnify it in the internet Hall of Mirrors, add a longing to be âfitâ and popular, then stir into a ubiquitous porn culture, and you have a hellish recipe for sad, abused girls,â Pearson writes. âIt explains why more than four in 10 girls between the ages of 13 and 17 in England say they have been coerced into sex acts, according to one of the largest European polls on teenage sexual experience. Recent research by the Universities of Bristol and Central Lancashire found that a fifth of girls had suffered violence or intimidation from their teenage boyfriends, a high proportion of whom regularly viewed pornography, with one in five boys harbouring âextremely negative attitudes towards women.â
Up until now, the response has been a feeble attempt at further sex education, which many experts think may have a hand in the problem to begin withâonce you open the Pandoraâs Box of teen
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