Laura: Ex-Porn Performer, & Fighter
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning: This discussion includes frank, explicit, discussions about pornographic content, suicide ideation, and abuse that may be triggering to some. Listener discretion is advised.
Laura grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania but had a challenging childhood. She experienced childhood neglect, and from a young age, porn was normalized in her life. Her warped understanding of love led her to seek out validation from men, which eventually led to her working in the porn industry. During this conversation, podcast host Garrett Jonsson talked with her about her misconceptions about the porn industry, how her time in the porn industry negatively impacted her, and what she’s up to today since leaving porn.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know, I just had like an unsettling feeling about it. And I remember the one girl saying to me, I had braces at the time. And I remember her saying that she wished that she had braces and that I should, you know, play off of that, you know, get fake glasses and put pigtails in my hair and, you know, make myself look younger because I would make more money if I looked |
| 0:22.4 | younger than what I was. And I was 25 at the time, so I was like, what do you mean by younger? |
| 0:28.2 | And then when I realized it was like, oh my gosh, they mean like underaged, underaged girls. |
| 0:34.0 | That was very uncomfortable for me. |
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