Pornography

Porn stars & sexual abuse

It is believed that large numbers of women involved in pornography are survivors of incest or child sexual abuse.

  • Jenna Jameson.  While a young teen, she lost her virginity to a boy while passed out at a party.  She was later gang-raped by several boys from another high school – an experience she believed she was not meant to survive.  Early in her career as a stripper and model for Penthouse and Hustler, Jameson developed an addiction to crystal meth.1
 
  • Traci Lords.  At twelve she fled from her abusive, alcoholic father to Lawndale, California.  While in high school, she became pregnant, had an abortion, a nervous breakdown, and ran away from home.  While living with her mother’s ex-boyfriend, she obtained a fake driver’s license and entered the porn industry at the age of 15.2
 

 

Footnotes:

  1. Yahoo! Movies, "Jenna Jameson Biography," n.d. Retrieved Jan. 2007 from http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800307593/bio.
  2. Wikipedia, "Traci Lords," n.d. Retrieved Jan. 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traci_Lords.

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