"When you suffer from childhood sexual abuse or were severely abused as a child, you usually repress those memories. You are unable to say, 'I am doing this because I was abused as a child and this is all I know how to do. This is all I know how to feel.' I think a lot of the women are in denial and they don't realize what post-traumatic stress disorder is. You either totally go a whole different direction and turn your life around and get as far away from that abuse as you can – or you re-live the experience, and a lot of these women are re-living what they know how to feel."
- ex-porn performer Carol Smith, in Not For Sale "
Howard (Stern) asked me if I'd ever been molested or abused. It was the one question I wasn't prepared for." 'No', I told Howard, in answer to his question. I lied like a rug. I wasn't ready to tell anybody about any of this (being gang raped, beaten and left for dead), and I certainly wasn't ready to deal with Howard's reaction. I didnąt want anyone to think that I was in the business because I was a victim." (Pgs. 391 and 395) - Jenna Jameson, in "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" "
Half the women I knew outside porn had been sexually abused as little
girls, so it only stood to reason that the statistics might apply
in porn as well. One study of the general population claims it is
two out of three. The puzzling refrain I'd begun hearing from porn
outsiders: "There are plenty of people with histories of sexual abuse
who didn't grow up to be porn stars." That's missing the point: The
ones who did become sex workers were abused. All of them, that's my
guess."
-From
Ian Gittler, A Diary of Six Years in the Life of a Porn Star. Rolling
Stone October 14, 1999
"Well, I grew up in a small town in Ohio , and when I was 10 years old, I was raped by a high school boy that was about 16. And from there, my mother had an older boyfriend that molested me, so my entire childhood was really shaped by these really traumatic sexual experiences, which ultimately led me to the streets of Hollywood and to porn."
-Traci Lords, in a Fox News interview
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