I am not a mental health pro, but in my own opinion I believe they get into the porn industry due to a combination of:
1)low self-esteem and finally getting ‘attention’ of being wanted.
2) The ‘right/wrong’ people/friends guiding you.
3) Money. Feeling like you can’t make it any other way. That your body is your only asset.
Then again, a big dose of narcissism might be all it takes for some.
I think many have probably been sexually abused as children.
In many interviews, Weeks talks obsessively about how porn gives her control over her own sexual destiny: “In porn, everything is on my terms. I can say no whenever I want to. I am in control.”and
I can say definitively that I have never felt more empowered or happy doing anything else. In a world where women are so often robbed of their choice, I am completely in control of my sexuality. As a bisexual woman with many sexual quirks, I feel completely accepted. It is freeing, it is empowering, it is wonderful, it is how the world should be.”
She's lying to herself. She's said as much in other quotes...
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.
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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,”