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A Duke University freshman who was outed as an adult film star by a fellow classmate has spoken out, defending her choice to star in X-rated videos so she could put her way through school.
The young woman who calls herself "Lauren" said that starring in adult films is a way for her to foot the $60,000-a-year tuition at the Top Ten school in Durham, North Carolina.
"I worked as a waitress as a job for a year in high school," she told Duke's student newspaper, The Chronicle. "Not only did it interfere with my school where I was barely sleeping and wasn't doing my work, but I also was making $400 a month after taxes."
The experience, Lauren said, was humiliating. "I felt like I was being degraded and treated like s***," she said, saying that in her mind, a blue-collar job is much more demeaning than staring in a raunchy adult film.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/duke-freshman-paying-tuition-porn-star-article-1.1698497#ixzz2uHyV3TyF
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/02/14/portrait-porn-star http://www.xojane.com/sex/duke-university-freshman-porn-star http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/24/duke-s-freshman-porn-starlet-isn-t-ashamed-and-she-shouldn-t-be.html#url=/articles/2014/02/24/duke-s-freshman-porn-starlet-isn-t-ashamed-and-she-shouldn-t-be.html
Chuuku Davis
(565 posts)I think
big_dog
(4,144 posts)nothing came up under duke
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)R B Garr
(17,009 posts)hoping for flames. Really childish.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)n/t
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)you're new at this, I'll presume.
got anything that's not flamebait?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Journeyman
(15,043 posts)Not surprising it's more lucrative, but I wonder at the ultimate psychological toll. For some, it's probably not an issue. For others, however, I could see how work in blue movies might be exceptionally degrading. But then, I can see that happening from all kinds of labor. There are, it seems, an infinite number of ways we can be screwed by corporate America (whether the corporation makes sheets or uses them) . . .
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)the freedom to choose how she wishes to run her life. What I wonder is what she will be thinking ten or more years from now about her decisions she made as a first year college student.
Packerowner740
(676 posts)What reaction is she going to get when prospective employers start checking her references and doing background checks and they find her employment past.
liberalhistorian
(20,822 posts)agencies need legal counsel, too!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Holy fucking DAMN
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Duke is always in the top ten and the others in the top ten -- Penn, Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, etc are all around that much -- tuition plus room and board and various student costs.
RBStevens
(227 posts)Good god, please.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024558768
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024521560
Plus a couple self-deleted OPs on international monetary theory.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)the international monetary theory.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)RBStevens
(227 posts)two more to go...
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Seriously, what point are you trying to make?
undeterred
(34,658 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)And none of our business.
Good for her.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)What offends people more, I wonder: that she is willing to be in pornographic movies or that someone might enjoy watching the movies.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I had to give up six years of my life to the military to get my degree, so I certainly don't blame her for going this route. Why is this such a big deal to some people?
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)freshman in N. Carolina is paying her tuition?
Why did you feel the need to post this here?
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)want my freaking question answered, OP!
liberalhistorian
(20,822 posts)the OP's screen name and his "swoop and poop" maneuver pretty much says it all!!
alp227
(32,073 posts)With limited opportunities (retail? unpaid internship?) as college students, young people will do anything and everything to survive independently and avoid the shame of living at home. Vices like drug dealing and porn out of desperation. Reminds me of Lorde's song "Royals". Just my short & sweet response, no time for an extended rant. Peace.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)And I don't blame or judge her. It's admirable that she's investing the money wisely instead of wasting it on crap.
Good luck to her.
Lex
(34,108 posts)A true story.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,822 posts)If she's a Dem, then everyone will be all over it like white on rice.
liberalhistorian
(20,822 posts)article; most of them are saying meh to her line of work and that the real crime is the horrendous tuition of 60k a year. And they're right. If she's doing it voluntarily and she doesn't have a problem with it, then who else has the right to weigh in with judgment?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Didn't the "struggling man/woman works in sex industry to pay for college/med school/law school or earn capital to start own business" -story become cliché like 15 years ago??
Hell, almost ten years ago I had a friend of a friend moonlighting as a dominatrix to pay for law school, and she was probably earning ten times as much as these low-rent porn producers pay for amateur talent...
MO_Moderate
(377 posts)Thought she was doing something terrible, like posing for Sports Illustrated.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)What the fuck?
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I do think that her 'blue collar job is much more demeaning' statement is a stupid thing to say.