A newly released online docu-drama stars Duke University student Miriam Weeks, the world’s most famous porn star of the moment.
“In the series, Weeks is portrayed as a sweet, insecure young woman grappling with her two identities – student and sex worker,” Fox News reports. “Instead of episodes, the series is broken down into 5 chapters like ‘#pornstarproblems,’ and ‘How to Hustle in the Sex Industry.’ It’s a raw glimpse into a seedy, sex-saturated world showing everything from Knox getting tested for STDs to discussing how she towels off after sexual acts, to the struggle of attending school, where she says she is cyberbullied.”
Perhaps the best analysis of this series so far comes from LifeSite’s Jonathon Van Maren, a culture wars columnist who apparently watched the series and summed it up in a gripping way, illustrating that while Belle Knox claims porn has empowered her – her eyes, words and stories tell a much different, darker tale:
“The sex industry has a way of making you very cynical and very bitter,” a tired-looking Weeks tells an off-camera interviewer, “In a way I’ve started to become kind of a bit bitter and a bit cynical.”
Why? ” … I think my experiences have aged me. I don’t have the mind of an eighteen-year-old. I have the emotional baggage of someone much, much older than me.” …
Listening to Miriam tell her story, it boggles my mind that people can still defend the porn industry, or call it “empowering” or “the way the world should be.”
Miriam herself admits that her first scene, shot for a company she refers to as “Facial Abuse,” was “a really, really rough scene. I wasn’t prepared for how rough it was. It was weird having some random photographer watch me have my a** kicked on camera.” She talks about getting literally torn up during porn shoots. She admits that porn shoots in which she was physically beaten up until she sobbed were probably shoots she should have refused. Yet she didn’t. …
For one shoot, Miriam recalls almost tearfully, her agent wouldn’t tell her who she had to “work with.” When she arrived at the set, she realized he was fifty years old. She wanted to leave, but then she’d have to pay a 300 dollar “kill fee,” the director would have been furious, and, she says, she could never have worked for that company again. So she did it.
“I felt like crying during the entire scene and afterwards I was really, really upset,” Miriam says tearfully to the camera, looking like nothing more than the hurting 18-year-old girl she is. “I just thought of my mom, who was always there for me and always protected me…I think about my mom a lot when I do porn scenes. Just how sad she would be that her little daughter was doing this.”
… Miriam Weeks, we see in her heart-breaking interviews, is just a hurting 18-year-old girl being used by an industry that takes girls like her, exploits their insecurities, promises them empowerment, and then subjects them to abuse and degradation until they can’t handle it any more. Then the carnivorous recruiters simply go out looking for fresh flesh to feed the baying cannibalistic mob, burning with insatiable lust and shouting their demands for new girls, new girls to degrade and discard.
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