Pornography
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"No healthy six-year-old growing up in a healthy home environment says, “I hope I grow up to be a porn star, stripper or prostitute.” Once they are in the industry they have high rates of substance abuse, typically alcohol and cocaine, depression, borderline personality disorder… and dissociative identity disorder which used to be called multiple personality disorder. The experience I find most common among the performers is that they have to be drunk, high or dissociated in order to go to work. Their work environment is particularly toxic. One study on strippers indicated that they were likely to be punched, slapped, grabbed, called whore and to be followed home or stalked. The terrible work life of the pornography performer is often followed by an equally terrible home life. They have an increased risk of sexually transmitted disease including HIV, domestic violence, and have about a 25% chance of making a marriage that lasts as long as 3 years."1
Dr. Mary Anne Layden
Co-Director, Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, University of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportatin, "The Science Behind Pornography Addiction," Nov. 18, 2004. Retrieved Jan. 2007 from http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=1343&wit_id=3912.
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