I think in a lot of ways it was because I was easy to manipulate and a lot of people will say now like

I was dating harder after you did pornography and were a sex worker, like no it was harder when I was younger because I was so naive

and men used to really take advantage of me now because I've experienced all of that like no man's going to take advantage of me.

Hello everyone welcome to another episode of High Low with Amrata. Today we have on

Lana Rhodes. She is somebody that I connected to personally when she

posted pictures of my book and I was very drawn to her because I knew her from her work in the adult film industry and her stuff on

YouTube and I was just very excited to have this conversation with her.

We've had a lot of different people who have worked in sex work on the podcast before,

Mia Khalifa, Chloe Cherry to name a few and had a lot of conversations

about sex work and the industry and we're going to cover a lot a lot of things today.

I want to put a big fat trigger warning on this episode. We talk about a lot of things

eating disorders, sexual sexual assault mental health drug use so just for anybody

who doesn't want to hear those things I this episode might not be for you. Without further ado, here is Lana Rhodes. Welcome back to High Low with Emrata.

Thank you so much for being here.

You were on my list a year ago. as somebody I wanted to come on the podcast.

So, yeah, I think you asked me before you put out your first episode and I really wanted to do it, but our

schedules just haven't lined up until now.

So I'm really I just feel like it's perfect. It's almost been exactly a year and I'm just really

happier here. Thank you. So there's so much I wanted to talk to you about, but I wanted to start with just what your

childhood was like growing up in Chicago, right?

Yeah, I'm from Chicago originally.

That's such a broad question. Do you how specific? What was that like?

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