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I’ve had about enough of Belle Knox.

The 18-year-old Duke University freshman who is a porn star and proud of it recently went on a whirlwind media tour, including stops on ABC’s The View, CNN’s Piers Morgan Live, and HuffPost Live, in which she complained about America’s patriarchal society and described how porn empowers women.

In her interviews for both print and television (as well as several personal columns she’s penned) she goes on and on about how much she loves filming porn, how much she gets off on it. Yet the women’s studies major maintains she began filming porn to pay her way through school, even though she turned down college scholarships to impressive universities.

Today, she has become the darling of the Left, with many fawning articles a Google search away that paint her as brave and strong.

Sure, she’s fielded a few tough questions, but big deal. The fact that she is America’s sweetheart right now sickens me, because the attention and fame is misplaced, and says a lot about what’s wrong with this country today.

I’ll tell you about the porn stars we should really be focused on. The ones who are strung out on drugs, and are used and abused by an industry that could care less about their personal plights. We should care about the porn stars who have been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases through criminally negligent producers. We should care about the women who peddle their bodies because they have been victims of sexual abuse in the past and don’t know any better. We should care about the young girls – those 18-year-olds and probably younger – who are naïve enough to see porn as a way to make easy money and have no real understanding of the lifetime implications of their choices.

Why don’t we make a fuss about those young ladies? Why don’t we shout their stories from the rooftops? When was the last time Piers Morgan or Barbara Walters interviewed a former porn star who described how the industry wrecked her, inside and out?

Jennifer Kabbany is associate editor of The College Fix.

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