Pornography
Kimberly's Story
"I began what I thought would be a lifelong career as a stripper. I planned to work my way to the top. I wanted to be a Playboy Centerfold and maybe even Playmate of the Year. But stripping was not the glamorous job that the porn industry made it out to be. After the newness wore off I began to realize that this was just a place of prostitution and addiction. It was dark and dirty. I pretended that the men who came to see me genuinely liked me. I pretended the girls I worked with were sincere in their friendships with me. I lived in a world of pseudo relationships, false intimacy, and became deeply addicted to the drugs I was using. I would smoke pot to numb the pain of the place I called "work". I had to get stoned to get naked on stage because I felt so degraded and humiliated. I was loved for my body parts not my character. I was bit, hit, pinched, and grabbed every night that I worked. What I thought would be the most glamorous job, turned out to be the most dirty, humiliating, degrading job."1
- Retrieved Jan. 2007 from http://www.victimsofpornography.org.
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