A warning to America's youth and young adults: no matter how easy the job looks, how enticing the money is and whatever promises some porn impresario offers (this is the fast track to the movie studios!), stay clear of the porn biz. There are plenty of exploitative employers who will work you as hard as possible for a travesty of a living, but at least those prove character including the one attribute that the Master Class cherishes in the common man: the willingness to suffer for the gain, indulgence, and power of the cruel bastards who really rule America.
Yes, pornography attracts troubled people... but so does all hard, ill-paid work. Farm laborers do not have a high suicide rate.
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Adult actress Olivia Lua died Thursday in Las Vegas. Lua's agency, LA Direct Models, announced her passing in a statement quoted by XBIZ.
In many of the photos she posted on her Instagram, Olivia Lua looked thoughtful. Maybe appraising her look in a selfie, maybe wondering how her followers would react to her pics.
It's hard to figure out what was on her mind, and it's also hard to determine why people—men or women—go into porn at all. What does seem clear is that it's consuming them. And killing them.
LA Direct Models head Derek Hay reportedly acknowledged something that is obvious at this point: This kind of tragedy is becoming commonplace.
“Much comment has recently been made on the number of adult stars having passed in the last year," Hays reportedly said, "and with great sadness we must inform that the list has grown longer. May she rest in peace.”
In the last month and a half alone, the following deaths have hit the porn world hard:
- Adult actress August Ames committed suicide after an avalanche of cyber-bullying.
- 20-year-old LA Direct Models client Olivia Nova died, her cause of death unknown.
- Yuri Luv died from a drug overdose.
- And Shyla Stylez, 35, also passed from unknown causes.
Rolling Stone reports that these performers dying in the prime of life has the porn industry at large understandably concerned:
But the rash of sudden, consecutive deaths has prompted some performers to call for change in an industry with a low barrier to entry, minimal oversight and nearly non-existent job security despite extreme working conditions. Unlike pre-Internet porn stars, performers today face the added pressures of social media interactions, increased competition without increased pay and a demand for more physically taxing sex scenes – all of which can exacerbate existing mental health or substance abuse issues. So is the adult industry doing enough to protect its performers?
AVN Hall of Famer Ruby told Rolling Stone that as far as she's concerned, the porn industry "really don't care whether we die or not."
"In fact," Ruby continued, "I'm going to be probably a little crass here, but this is true: They'd prefer we die because they can make money off of us forever."
https://www.maxim.com/news/porn-star-oli...-23-2018-1
At least if you work in a fast-food place:
1. You have protection from sexual harassment. Porn is sexual harassment at its purest.
2. No embarrassing photos of you from your work will haunt you for the rest of your life.
3. You will not feel pressures to participate in the mindless consumerism that degrades life.
4. You can make money for college, preparing for a trade, or starting a business.
5. Work assignments will be varied, but you might find out what specialization to enter. Specialization, whether in clerical work, customer service or in operating a machine may lead to sub-average pay, but at least that is not poverty.
6. You can live in a low-cost area if you so wish if you think that big cities are human jungles.
7. You learn good habits useful in life.
8. You will be around more people that you can trust.
Yes, pornography attracts troubled people... but so does all hard, ill-paid work. Farm laborers do not have a high suicide rate.
....................................
Adult actress Olivia Lua died Thursday in Las Vegas. Lua's agency, LA Direct Models, announced her passing in a statement quoted by XBIZ.
In many of the photos she posted on her Instagram, Olivia Lua looked thoughtful. Maybe appraising her look in a selfie, maybe wondering how her followers would react to her pics.
It's hard to figure out what was on her mind, and it's also hard to determine why people—men or women—go into porn at all. What does seem clear is that it's consuming them. And killing them.
LA Direct Models head Derek Hay reportedly acknowledged something that is obvious at this point: This kind of tragedy is becoming commonplace.
“Much comment has recently been made on the number of adult stars having passed in the last year," Hays reportedly said, "and with great sadness we must inform that the list has grown longer. May she rest in peace.”
In the last month and a half alone, the following deaths have hit the porn world hard:
- Adult actress August Ames committed suicide after an avalanche of cyber-bullying.
- 20-year-old LA Direct Models client Olivia Nova died, her cause of death unknown.
- Yuri Luv died from a drug overdose.
- And Shyla Stylez, 35, also passed from unknown causes.
Rolling Stone reports that these performers dying in the prime of life has the porn industry at large understandably concerned:
But the rash of sudden, consecutive deaths has prompted some performers to call for change in an industry with a low barrier to entry, minimal oversight and nearly non-existent job security despite extreme working conditions. Unlike pre-Internet porn stars, performers today face the added pressures of social media interactions, increased competition without increased pay and a demand for more physically taxing sex scenes – all of which can exacerbate existing mental health or substance abuse issues. So is the adult industry doing enough to protect its performers?
AVN Hall of Famer Ruby told Rolling Stone that as far as she's concerned, the porn industry "really don't care whether we die or not."
"In fact," Ruby continued, "I'm going to be probably a little crass here, but this is true: They'd prefer we die because they can make money off of us forever."
https://www.maxim.com/news/porn-star-oli...-23-2018-1
At least if you work in a fast-food place:
1. You have protection from sexual harassment. Porn is sexual harassment at its purest.
2. No embarrassing photos of you from your work will haunt you for the rest of your life.
3. You will not feel pressures to participate in the mindless consumerism that degrades life.
4. You can make money for college, preparing for a trade, or starting a business.
5. Work assignments will be varied, but you might find out what specialization to enter. Specialization, whether in clerical work, customer service or in operating a machine may lead to sub-average pay, but at least that is not poverty.
6. You can live in a low-cost area if you so wish if you think that big cities are human jungles.
7. You learn good habits useful in life.
8. You will be around more people that you can trust.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.