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Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
Quote:She looks young, younger than her 18 years. Sitting on a bed in a hotel room wearing baggy pajamas, glasses, and a far-away look, she looks at the camera and says bluntly, “A lot of s**t in my life has been ruined because of sex.”
It is then that you see her eyes. They look somehow old.
Hundreds of thousands of fans know her as Belle Knox, one of the most popular names in porn. The media often refers to her as the “Duke University porn star,” after a classmate revealed that she was paying her tuition by starring in porn shoots. We later discovered that the name her friends and family know her by is Miriam Weeks.
She has been touted far and wide as proof that porn can be empowering and evidence that feminists can sell their bodies as objects and still be, well, “feminist.” Here, porn supporters told us with satisfaction, is a nice girl from a Catholic home who loves to do porn just because she loves sex. Porn is, as Weeks told the cameras, “empowering” and “freeing” and “the way the world should be.”
And then, recently, Weeks did a series of interviews for an upcoming documentary. In them, she paints a much different picture than the freeing, empowering, sex-fueled fantasy world her fans and porn supporters claim she inhabits.
“The sex industry has a way of making you very cynical and very bitter,” a tired-looking Weeks tells an off-camera interviewer, “In a way I’ve started to become kind of a bit bitter and a bit cynical.”
Why? “It teaches you to be street smart and not to trust people…I’m so used to being on the lookout for scammers, people who are going to try pimp me out or traffic me. I think my experiences have aged me. I don’t have the mind of an eighteen-year-old. I have the emotional baggage of someone much, much older than me.”
Some of this baggage is what propelled her into the porn industry in the first place.
In many interviews, Weeks talks obsessively about how porn gives her control over her own sexual destiny: “In porn, everything is on my terms. I can say no whenever I want to. I am in control.” Later on, we discover why this is so important to her: Weeks reveals that she had been raped. “What porn has done for me,” she says firmly, “is it has given me back my agency.”
Even amidst the perverted adulation of porn-addicted fans, however, she still bears the scars of self-loathing. In some cases, literal scars. One day looking in the mirror, she became so overcome with self-hatred that she smashed the mirror and cut herself, slicing the jagged letters “FAT” into the flesh of her thigh. Thus, the reactions of many who found out that she had done porn shoots – who called her “ugly” and “a dumb whore” and said that she “should die” - proved devastating to Miriam. It is this ugly misogyny that increasingly fuels many porn viewers, and gives delusional publications like Salon the excuse they need to claim that working in porn has not hurt Miriam Weeks, but only opponents of porn who try to “shame” her.
Listening to Miriam tell her story, it boggles my mind that people can still defend the porn industry, or call it “empowering” or “the way the world should be.”
Miriam herself admits that her first scene, shot for a company she refers to as “Facial Abuse,” was “a really, really rough scene. I wasn’t prepared for how rough it was. It was weird having some random photographer watch me have my a** kicked on camera.” She talks about getting literally torn up during porn shoots. She admits that porn shoots in which she was physically beaten up until she sobbed were probably shoots she should have refused. Yet she didn’t.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/porn-i...-porn-star
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
Another hero for the liberals.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
Good thing she got away from patriarchy, where a husband might cherish and protect her. Nope, she's empowered now. You've come a long way baby.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
Funny they mention that her eyes look a lot older. I've noticed that before about girls who sleep around a lot.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 02:30 PM)All Dukes_All Day Wrote: Funny they mention that her eyes look a lot older. I've noticed that before about girls who sleep around a lot.
Lot's of times that is a result of the heavy drug use these women use to cope with what they are doing.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
the conservatives in this thread make me LOL.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 02:38 PM)john01992 Wrote: the conservatives in this thread make me LOL.
Says the porn addict who has never had a girlfriend.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 02:51 PM)DrTorch Wrote: (09-24-2014 02:38 PM)john01992 Wrote: the conservatives in this thread make me LOL.
Says the porn addict who has never had a girlfriend.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 02:51 PM)DrTorch Wrote: (09-24-2014 02:38 PM)john01992 Wrote: the conservatives in this thread make me LOL.
Says the porn addict who has never had a girlfriend.
care to explain why southern states watch the most porn???
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
You been breaking records at hand hockey, John?
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
Back to the actual OP, that article is clearly written with an anti-porn agenda even while reading it. a basic google search will show that a lot of the quotes/facts in that article are misrepresented.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 03:03 PM)john01992 Wrote: Back to the actual OP, that article is clearly written with an anti-porn agenda even while reading it. a basic google search will show that a lot of the quotes/facts in that article are misrepresented.
Don't worry John. No one is going to force you to seek help.
This is tragic story about a young woman who hates herself...a story we hear too often from the porn industry.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 03:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:03 PM)john01992 Wrote: Back to the actual OP, that article is clearly written with an anti-porn agenda even while reading it. a basic google search will show that a lot of the quotes/facts in that article are misrepresented.
Don't worry John. No one is going to force you to seek help.
This is a made up story for conservative agenda story about a young woman who hates herself...a story we hear too often from the porn industry.
FIFY
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 03:09 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:03 PM)john01992 Wrote: Back to the actual OP, that article is clearly written with an anti-porn agenda even while reading it. a basic google search will show that a lot of the quotes/facts in that article are misrepresented.
Don't worry John. No one is going to force you to seek help.
This is a made up story for conservative agenda story about a young woman who hates herself...a story we hear too often from the porn industry.
FIFY
This story is very real John. I'm surprised an avid fan like you hasn't actually read anything about this woman. If you had, you would know she has been in the media for a while and the story has not been positive.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
Eh, apparently she's smart and at Duke. She's paying her own way through college. Good for her.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 03:11 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:09 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:03 PM)john01992 Wrote: Back to the actual OP, that article is clearly written with an anti-porn agenda even while reading it. a basic google search will show that a lot of the quotes/facts in that article are misrepresented.
Don't worry John. No one is going to force you to seek help.
This is a made up story for conservative agenda story about a young woman who hates herself...a story we hear too often from the porn industry.
FIFY
This story is very real John.
just not in the way that lifesitenews is describing it...
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 03:14 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:11 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:09 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:03 PM)john01992 Wrote: Back to the actual OP, that article is clearly written with an anti-porn agenda even while reading it. a basic google search will show that a lot of the quotes/facts in that article are misrepresented.
Don't worry John. No one is going to force you to seek help.
This is a made up story for conservative agenda story about a young woman who hates herself...a story we hear too often from the porn industry.
FIFY
This story is very real John.
just not in the way that lifesitenews is describing it...
Ok, what's a better take?
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 03:14 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:11 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:09 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:03 PM)john01992 Wrote: Back to the actual OP, that article is clearly written with an anti-porn agenda even while reading it. a basic google search will show that a lot of the quotes/facts in that article are misrepresented.
Don't worry John. No one is going to force you to seek help.
This is a made up story for conservative agenda story about a young woman who hates herself...a story we hear too often from the porn industry.
FIFY
This story is very real John.
just not in the way that lifesitenews is describing it...
I know reality takes all the fun out of it for you. It's a human being John. Have some compassion.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 03:20 PM)DrTorch Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:14 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:11 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:09 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: Don't worry John. No one is going to force you to seek help.
This is a made up story for conservative agenda story about a young woman who hates herself...a story we hear too often from the porn industry.
FIFY
This story is very real John.
just not in the way that lifesitenews is describing it...
Ok, what's a better take?
the other dozen or so articles written about the exact same subject. LSN got all their quotes from a multipart online documentary that she made. all the quotes cited by LSN are cut out from larger quotes. The documentary she is making doesn't come anything close to being "anti porn." all the other websites that wrote an article do not have the "anti porn industry" take the LSN has of it.
most of her anti porn gripes are related to the way people treat her because she does porn not the way the actual industry treats her. for example one of the quotes in the OP is "sex ruined part of my life" but the actual quote is "sex ruined part of my life, some in my family don't talk to me anymore" another example is when LSN tried to make it look as if the cutting was related to her porn career....nope that happened when she was in 8th grade.
most of these quotes are cherry picked and none of them accurately reflect the point that she was making.
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RE: Porn is super-empowering: just ask the Duke University porn star
(09-24-2014 03:30 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:20 PM)DrTorch Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:14 PM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:11 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (09-24-2014 03:09 PM)john01992 Wrote: FIFY
This story is very real John.
just not in the way that lifesitenews is describing it...
Ok, what's a better take?
the other dozen or so articles written about the exact same subject. LSN got all their quotes from a multipart online documentary that she made. all the quotes cited by LSN are cut out from larger quotes. The documentary she is making doesn't come anything close to being "anti porn." all the other websites that wrote an article do not have the "anti porn industry" take the LSN has of it.
most of her anti porn gripes are related to the way people treat her because she does porn not the way the actual industry treats her. for example one of the quotes in the OP is "sex ruined part of my life" but the actual quote is "sex ruined part of my life, some in my family don't talk to me anymore" another example is when LSN tried to make it look as if the cutting was related to her porn career....nope that happened when she was in 8th grade.
most of these quotes are cherry picked and none of them accurately reflect the point that she was making.
What about the ones of the violence from the industry?
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