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Duke University porn star who once said “porn is empowering” tells the real heartbreaking story
The Young Conservatives ^ | 9/27/2014 | Joshua Riddle

Posted on 09/28/2014 2:54:44 PM PDT by Beave Meister

A student at Duke University started doing porn to pay for her tuition. She became a media sensation and liberals everywhere loved telling her story. She would do interviews and say things like porn is “empowering” and “freeing”.

She is in a documentary coming up and now that she has been in the industry for a little bit her view of porn has dramatically shifted.

“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? “It teaches you to be street smart and not to trust people…I’m so used to being on the lookout for scammers, people who are going to try pimp me out or traffic me. 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.”

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Oh my goodness. I can't believe people in the porn industry used this young woman.....(end sarcasm here).
1 posted on 09/28/2014 2:54:44 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

“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.”

You don’t say.


2 posted on 09/28/2014 2:56:45 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Beave Meister

Very sad story of a lesson hard learned.


3 posted on 09/28/2014 2:56:59 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Beave Meister

Just utterly speechless.

The net result of secular society.


4 posted on 09/28/2014 2:59:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Beave Meister

Some people can learn from others. Some have to learn it for themselves.


5 posted on 09/28/2014 2:59:22 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Beave Meister

Humans are not capable of making long term, rational decisions in their late teens and early 20s. That is the time when they are preyed on by these vultures. I wonder how many young men and women would do things differently if you asked them 10 years later? Virtually all of them.


6 posted on 09/28/2014 3:09:10 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: Beave Meister

It’s not surprising that she didn’t tell the truth originally. It’s hard to be truthful about yourself when you are doing things you shouldn’t.


7 posted on 09/28/2014 3:17:23 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: vladimir998

Yeah, no kidding. Didn’t see that coming, huh? [/s]

I’ve never really understood the distinction between being a prostitute and being a porn start. In the end, they are both selling sex for $$. The porn star does it in front of a camera and untold numbers of people get to view it. To me, this is much more embarrassing (humiliating) than run-of-the-mill prostitution. And, of course, once its on the Internet, the shame never goes away. It doesn’t seem be to worth the fig leaf of calling yourself an “entertainer”.


8 posted on 09/28/2014 3:17:30 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: armydawg505

Humans are not capable of making long term, rational decisions in their late teens and early 20s.


I disagree. I made some damn good decisions and so did many of my friends. But, yeah—lots of people engage in short term thinking. However, many never stop doing it with age.


9 posted on 09/28/2014 3:19:08 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Beave Meister
(from the article):" I don’t have the mind of an eighteen-year-old. I have the emotional baggage of someone much, much older than me.”

You knowingly chose this career
and you chose to stay with this career.
Tough Crapola !

10 posted on 09/28/2014 3:19:57 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Beave Meister

Life has consequences !!


11 posted on 09/28/2014 3:20:45 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

And she still thinks of her mom while she’s doing sex scenes. I’m also unsympathetic.


12 posted on 09/28/2014 3:21:40 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: Beave Meister

This is just September. Here she is in February: http://www.xojane.com/sex/duke-university-freshman-porn-star


13 posted on 09/28/2014 3:24:34 PM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Beave Meister
" I have the emotional baggage of someone much, much older than me.”

And now you have the worn out plumbing of someone much older, and unfortunately the attraction to those normally interested in you of someone much older.

You chose this and reveled in it, for a while. Now you are used up and worn out, deal with it.

14 posted on 09/28/2014 3:24:56 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: rbg81

Somehow, an inanimate object (the camera) magically turns a generally-illegal-immoral activity into “art”.

Haven’t quite figured that one out myself.


15 posted on 09/28/2014 3:25:32 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: rbg81

Duke student, eh?

What milquetoast marshmallow mind low UQ major was she “studying”?

Fem studies?

Advanced Marxism?

Lesbian art?


16 posted on 09/28/2014 3:25:40 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Beave Meister

America has entered a post Christian era of neo pagan decadence and decline. The popular culture celebrates the porn industry. Porn workers are almost always portrayed in a positive manner. The reality of their torments and misery is never mentioned.


17 posted on 09/28/2014 3:31:39 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Beave Meister

Its a shame that her parents didn’t teach her right from wrong.


18 posted on 09/28/2014 3:35:42 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: definitelynotaliberal
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"

She thought about daddy for that one. Lesbian, interracial, degradation, multiple ports at the same time, anything goes except sex with a fifty year old white man.

19 posted on 09/28/2014 3:37:51 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: LucianOfSamasota

“Its a shame that her parents didn’t teach her right from wrong.”

They did. They were horrified when they found out.

The father is a devout Catholic who happens to be a U.S. Army doctor: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577362/EXCLUSIVE-Welcome-home-daddy-Im-porn-star-Heartbroken-devout-Catholic-Army-doctor-returns-Afghanistan-beloved-daughter-Duke-student-starring-X-rated-films.html

The mother is an Indian (sub-continental) American and this sort of thing does not fly well in Indian families: http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2014/03/13/porn-star-belle-knox-aka-miriam-weeks-mother-half-desi-mother-indian-american/


20 posted on 09/28/2014 3:41:14 PM PDT by vladimir998
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