Porn is not sexy. It’s degrading, dangerous, and harmful for all parties involved.

For @zetsubouloli​, and to the millions of people who have been lied to about the porn industry.

tw abuse, sexual content

Girls who were 17 a month ago, a week ago, a day ago, are pressured into doing porn in a million ways. They are threatened, coerced, tricked, forced to become addicted to drugs, and certainly lied to about how hardcore they will be asked to go. 

Porn stars talk about their most “popular” scenes. 
“I got the **** kicked out of me… most of the girls start crying because they’re hurting so bad… I couldn’t breathe. I was being hit and choked. I was really upset and they didn’t stop. They kept filming. [I asked them to turn the camera off] and they kept going.” • “[One particular film] was the most brutal, depressing, scary scene that I have ever done. I have tried to block it out from my memory due to the severe abuse that I received during the filming. The [male performer] has a natural hatred towards women, in the sense that he has always been known to be more brutal than ever needed. I agreed to do the scene, thinking it was less beating except a punch in the head. If you noticed, [he] had worn his solid gold ring the entire time and continued to punch me with it.” • “It was the most degrading, embarrassing, horrible thing ever. I had to shoot an interactive DVD, which takes hours and hours of shooting time, with a 104 degree fever! I was crying and wanted to leave but my agent wouldn’t let me, he said he couldn’t let me flake on it. I also did a scene where I was put with male talent that was on my ‘no list’. I wanted to please them so I did it. He stepped on my head […] I freaked out and started balling; they stopped filming and sent me home with reduced pay since they got some shot but not the whole scene.”
http://fightthenewdrug.org/10-porn-stars-speak-openly-about-their-most-popular-scenes/

Sex-trafficking linked to porn industry.
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johnhenry-westen/want-to-stop-sex-traffick_b_6563338.html

Sex-trafficking linked to porn industry again.
 https://www.shelleylubben.com/sex-trafficking-and-pornography-link-between-two

And again.
http://abc13.com/business/porn-expo-planned-for-sw-houston-kicked-out-of-hotel/1439112/

Porn increases demand for sex-trafficking. 
http://www.cnet.com/news/utah-governor-declares-porn-a-health-hazard/#!

Porn inspires young men to go to prostitutes.
http://www.sahilonline.org/newsDetails.php?cid=1&nid=41479

Porn stars discuss the industry. 
“When in response to his suggestions I let him know I would not become involved in prostitution in any way and told him I intended to leave, [T******] beat me up physically and the constant mental abuse began. I literally became a prisoner, I was not allowed out of his sight, not even to use the bathroom, where he watched me through a hole in… the door. He slept on top of me at night, he listened to my telephone calls with a .45 automatic eight shot pointed at me. I was beaten physically and suffered mental abuse each and every day thereafter. He undermined my ties with other people and forced me to marry him on advice from his lawyer.”
https://castimonia.org/2013/08/15/multiple-pornstars-speak-out-about-the-reality-of-the-pornography-industry/

Porn star discusses physical problems of porn no one warned her about.
 “I had a lot of anal tears, vaginal tears. I would take pain killers so I could smile. My throat would bleed from the face-f***ing. I got out of it, but who wants to date me now? Even when I’m 60 or 70 those videos will be online. It stays with you.”
http://gawker.com/former-porn-star-recalls-her-horror-story-of-a-career-1450244388

Most successful male pornstar speaks out about horrors of the industry.
“I made my first porno. I walked out with four crisp $100 bills. Got on my motorcycle. Drove home. I remember thinking ‘What have I done?’ Little did I know it would turn into [me becoming] the most popular, decorated male porn star of all time. I didn’t know what love was. I didn’t even know if I could feel love. I looked at women like objects. There was no emotion in the act of making love. I had to go to work to do the porn to buy the drugs to bury the pain of doing the porn.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx-p9Wr6xg0

Two x-porn stars discuss the industry.
“I was barely 18 when I did the anal scene. I felt humiliated. Horrible. [The director] put his mark on me. Everyone knew he’d destroyed me.” “We worked in conditions of pure filth.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRZZAuPyG7I

Sex and drug addiction rampant among porn stars.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/ex-porn-star-speaks-out-about-sex-addiction-in-por?utm_term=.ipE67my6e#.leNqyJ9qe

“Modeling agencies” lure young girls to California only to tell them they make porn. No way to get home, the girl’s are pressured into their first times.
http://theurbandaily.com/2015/08/18/amber-rose-prostitution-ring/

And a bonus: Porn causes ED in men, even young men.

1. http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/porn-erectile-dysfunction
2. http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/health/are-you-watching-too-much-porn-20130821
3. http://globalnews.ca/news/1232726/porn-causing-erectile-dysfunction-in-young-men/
4. http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_3800/3837_erectile-dysfunction-and-porn.html

I won’t even get into how men who watch porn are ranked as being inferior at sexual intercourse by their partners, or how men who watch porn report less pleasure when having sex and less satisfaction with how their spouses/partners look OR the fact that many women can’t stand the idea of their partners masturbating to images of younger, “prettier” girls.

I ALSO won’t talk about the upsurgence in incest-based porn, which becomes more popular of mainstream websites every year (in the guise of step-sister and step-mother) OR how studies show porn contains more instances of violence each and every year (slapping, hitting, verbal abuse) OR how “teen” porn is holding strong as the most popular choice for men of all ages.

AND I won’t even touch porn addiction, even though tens of thousands of men wish they could stop viewing porn but find themselves coming back to it time and time again.

I also won’t even bother to get into the spiritual problems associated with porn.

I’m not trying to be rude, but there’s nothing just good about porn. Ask anyone who’s given it up permanently if they regret doing so. You’ll get a negative every time. Life is better without synthetic “love.”