The Fantasy Of Porn - Convergence Summit
The Fantasy Of Porn - Convergence Summit
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<strong>The</strong> Greatest Illusion on Earth<br />
TRUTH BEHIND<br />
the <strong>Fantasy</strong> of <strong>Porn</strong><br />
Shelley Lubben, Th.B<br />
Founder and President, Pink Cross Foundation
From Prostitution to <strong>Porn</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Grooming Process
Step 1: Street Prostitution<br />
Childhood Background<br />
Parental neglect and verbal abuse<br />
Kicked out of home at age 18<br />
No life skills or driver’s license<br />
Homeless on a curb in San Fernando Valley<br />
Recruitment<br />
Lured in by pimp
Step 2: Escort Agency<br />
Another prostitute recruited me<br />
off the streets<br />
Introduced me to madam who trained me in<br />
“glamorous” prostitution<br />
▪ Female Hygiene and physical attraction<br />
▪ How to hustle money and barter for gifts<br />
▪ How to fake sex acts<br />
▪ How to get out of risky situations, (cops, physical<br />
abuse, etc..)
Shelley 1986-1992<br />
Teenage Survivor of the Sex Industry
Step 3: Strip Clubs<br />
Worked underage at strip clubs to avoid risks<br />
and harms of prostitution<br />
Risks in Strip Clubs<br />
▪ Owners forced dancers into sex acts for employment<br />
▪ Forced to work in unsanitary work conditions to include changing<br />
room with soiled costumes, drugs and paraphernalia, used rags with<br />
bodily fluids, broken glass, etc..<br />
▪ Customers propositioned sex constantly so prostitution was<br />
inescapable<br />
▪ Sex acts inside of club in corners and private dances<br />
▪ Free alcohol and drugs so addiction is inevitable<br />
▪ Fights in bars and murders
Consequences of Sex Work<br />
Six years in strip clubs, escort agencies, and<br />
prostitution houses resulted in:<br />
▪ Self-hatred<br />
▪ Suicide attempts<br />
▪ Near death experiences with clients<br />
▪ Alcoholism and drug abuse<br />
▪ Raising child from a prostitution act<br />
▪ Major mental disorders such as bulimia, substance abuse,<br />
paranoia, major depression, PTSD and demonization
Step 4: Lured into <strong>Porn</strong><br />
<strong>Porn</strong> star featured danced at the strip club I<br />
worked at and lured me in with:<br />
$2,000 a porn movie<br />
<strong>Porn</strong> was legal<br />
<strong>Porn</strong> was safe since actors got STD testing every 30 days<br />
Promises of fame, fortune and safety sounded really good to a<br />
burned out prostitute and stripper<br />
Unbeknownst to me porn stars receive kickbacks for bringing<br />
“new” meat to porn producers<br />
First amateur scene in a nightclub
Roxy 1993-1994<br />
Shelley died in 1992<br />
Force Fraud Coercion Threats Disease Death
<strong>Porn</strong> is Sex Trafficking
Roxy the <strong>Porn</strong> Star<br />
US <strong>Porn</strong> Industry Slave Trade<br />
Years in the <strong>Porn</strong> Industry – 1993 - 1994<br />
Unprotected sex – No condoms allowed.<br />
Tested for HIV every 30 days<br />
Unsafe high risk sex acts (DP, Anal, Gangbang)<br />
Movies filmed in private homes on a mostly male set<br />
Male porn directors controlled the work environment<br />
Subjected to unsafe and hazardous work place to include<br />
Excessive drugs and alcohol<br />
Physical violence such as hitting, choking, hair pulling, etc..<br />
Verbal abuse and threats by pornographers
<strong>The</strong> Promise of <strong>Porn</strong><br />
<strong>Porn</strong>ographers promised I would be kept safe<br />
in this “healthy” environment
<strong>Porn</strong> Industry:<br />
Consequences<br />
Herpes<br />
Non-curable disease<br />
HPV<br />
Pregnancy loss<br />
Early cervical cancer<br />
Removal of half of my cervix<br />
Hemorrhaging<br />
Severe anemia<br />
Uterine ablation
Hard Recovery<br />
After eight hard years of a strong recovery from:<br />
alcoholism and drug addiction<br />
sexual trauma<br />
mental illness<br />
major physical damages<br />
PTSD, flashbacks, nightmares
Adult Industry Medical Healthcare (AIM)<br />
Majority of porn performers are tested at AIM (Medical Clinic with<br />
pornographers and porn stars as Board of Directors)<br />
Performers not required to test for HPV, HEP A, B, C or Herpes<br />
Industry standard every 30 days to test for HIV, Gonorrhea,<br />
Chlamydia<br />
Tests become unreliable quickly due to multiple sex partners on<br />
and off the sets to include prostitution<br />
AIM Doctors offer a false sense of security<br />
“Doctor” Sharon Mitchell founder of AIM and former porn<br />
actress states to porn performers:
“Doctor” Sharon Mitchell:<br />
Facts<br />
“Doctor” Sharon Mitchell is not a medical doctor<br />
“Herpes is always 66%...chlamydia and<br />
gonorrhea, however, along with hepatitis, seem<br />
to stick to everything from dildos to flat surfaces<br />
to hands, so pardon my expression, but we are<br />
usually up to our asses in chlamydia.”<br />
Since 2004 Los Angeles Department of Public<br />
Health (LAPDH) reports:<br />
▪ 2,396 cases of Chlamydia and 1,389 cases of
Killer <strong>Porn</strong> Industry Facts<br />
<strong>The</strong> porn industry is a reservoir of STDs:<br />
rampant sexually transmitted diseases proven by fraudulent doctor and real medical<br />
doctors<br />
<strong>The</strong> porn industry is a cesspool of death:<br />
37 premature deaths out of 1,500 people that we know of from HIV, suicide, homicide<br />
and drugs between 2007 and 2011.<br />
20 more died from medical causes to include lung disease, heart failure and cancer.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se are only the deaths.<br />
11 more died from car accidents apparently due to drugs and alcohol.<br />
That's a total of 68 porn performers in forty-eight months between 2007 and 2011 who<br />
died prematurely from HIV, suicide, drugs, murder, accidents and medical illnesses. No<br />
other industry has these kinds of statistics, not even the music industry which is at least<br />
ten times bigger than the porn industry.
Average Age of Death<br />
When the deaths of 129 porn performers over a period of roughly 20<br />
years were analyzed it was discovered that were an unusually large<br />
number of premature deaths from such causes as drugs, suicide,<br />
murder, alcohol abuse, accidental death, and disease.<br />
It was also discovered that the average life expectancy of a porn<br />
performer is only 37.43 years whereas the average life expectancy of an<br />
American is 78.1 years.
Why is this industry legal?<br />
q <strong>The</strong> <strong>Porn</strong> Industry has been legal in California since 1988 and not through<br />
legislation, but rather through a court action, People versus Freeman, which made<br />
it legal.<br />
q We know it to be a very large industry that grosses as much as $13 billion a year<br />
with over 11,000 films produced annually. And, the estimated retail value of this<br />
industry to LA County in 2002 was about $3 billion.<br />
q <strong>The</strong>re is approximately 200 production companies that are known to operate. Five<br />
to ten of them are the largest of the producers that make about 40% of the films.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re also are five major film distributors here and more than 700 legal<br />
custodians of record. Any production company that actually makes film must be<br />
registered under federal law and have an individual that maintains all the records,<br />
primarily to be sure that no person under age 18 is involved in the production of<br />
an adult film. We estimate there is about 6,000 employed workers, about 1,200 of<br />
these are performers. Most, 75% of the performers, are female, a smaller number<br />
of regular male performers.
What is being done?<br />
q Ex porn stars began testifying against the illegal and deadly practices of the porn<br />
industry since 2008 beginning at the California State Capitol.<br />
q California started listening. In June of 2010, after a unanimous vote by Cal/OSHA<br />
Standards Board an advisory committee was established to hear more testimony<br />
and learn more about the rampant STD and safety and health issues within the<br />
industry and what needed to be done. This is a huge victory for us!<br />
q In April of 2011, Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video company was fined $14,175 for<br />
multiple ‘serious’ violations of Cal/OSHA labor laws. He plans to appeal. We plan<br />
to be there.<br />
q But there is more to be done…
Call to Action!<br />
Call to Action!<br />
Individuals and organizations and churches can no longer<br />
stand by on the sidelines and ignore the porn pandemic.
What you can do<br />
Here’s what you, your church or<br />
group can do:<br />
Join Pink Cross. We need your financial help<br />
to fight pornography and rescue women and<br />
men out of the porn industry.<br />
Write a letter to your local newspaper editor
Conclusion<br />
<strong>The</strong> porn industry refuses to comply with current health standards<br />
under Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations and have<br />
publicly admitted their non-compliance to safety and health laws.<br />
<strong>The</strong> porn industry refuses to comply with sex trafficking laws under<br />
Title 18 Section 1591 of the US code and have publicly admitted<br />
their non-compliance to federal laws.<br />
<strong>The</strong> porn industry is an illegally operating and unsafe and<br />
hazardous slave trade that must be shut down.