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for Starbucks and make minimum wage and bring home a couple hundred dollars everytwo weeks or she can work with me and make $500.00 a day to start. I’d have themcome over to my house. They’d see the lifestyle I lived and they would paint themselvesinto it.Matt: Did you sense “liberation” taking place in these women? Did they feel freer?Unhindered? More joyful? Happier?Donny: No. You watch the lights go out in their eyes over time—literally. They come inall bright eyed and sparkly and thinking that this is going to be a great opportunity, andthen you really watch their souls dim. That’s the best way of describing it. The lights justturn off.50% of porn actresses50% use ecstasy. 44%544% of porn actressesuse cocaine. 6Matt: And I imagine once they’ve justified that this is something that is ok to do, oncethey’ve done it—is it difficult to get out? I mean, you’re now “damaged goods”—notthat I would see them that way, but I imagine women might think of themselves thatway.Donny: You know, a lot of people see them that way. They really do.I have one girl who wrote to me. I’ll just read her letter. She says,“Hey there, I haven’t talked to you in a long time. I’m hoping that what I amreading is true.” She is talking about me getting out of the business. “Goodfor you. I’ve wanted to talk to you for a few years now, but I haven’t had theguts. Life’s been kind of hard since I took those pictures for you seven toThe hardcore truth | 10