Sunrise Adams-made a few attempts at the real estate world and is now considering returning to Vivid because at 22 she can't make a living any other way, everyone recognizes her and her whole family keeps ripping her off.

Others get pregnant and try to come back (olivia saint)

Some get married and return to the middle of the country (guage)

Add these into the crack whores, O.D.s, community college cosmotology programs and strip clubs and you pretty much round out the field.

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Like posted above, some just become moms and or settle in the quiet life. It’s better then being on the “Dead Porn Star list”

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Corina's Yahoo Group

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If they get noticed too much in the mainstream public, these girls are more limited to their choices in post-porn careers. That's the bummer about being in porn.

As for girls finding their love of the love, I've recently talked to a girl who was once in the industry 8 years ago and she said it's hard to find a decent guy who would love you and marry you. I mean there are guys but so many get too uneasy knowing the fact that she had performed with so many men. Her best friend also had the same problems. Truthfully, I think many girls in the industry today have problems keeping a good guy around.

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To narrow it down for a second, what about these girls' sex life after porn ?

I guess that's why some men may be afraid to get into a serious relationship with a former pornstar... Thoughts would whirl around a guy's mind, such as: Is one man enough to satisfy this girl who slept with so many? (Silly question but : Do girls who've retired from porn actually miss being regularly DPed?) Can she still enjoy meaningful sex (put her soul into it) after she's done it with strangers, for money?

There is probably more than one way to lead a healthy sex life, and I'm not implying any kind of judgment here. But I wonder how a porn career might transform a girl's sex life forever? (Even though -- to decide to get into porn in the first place -- she must have had a special way of considering sex/her body from the start.)

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Of course, "happy ending" can be subjective: Dyanna Lauren is married to a (older) strip club owner; Jenteal seems to be making it in civilan life, still married to her pre-porn boyfriend and raising their three kids; Shane seems to be doing well (as does Bunny Luv/Celeste) as a non-performer still working in the industry. Dr. Sharon Mitchell, who runs the medical-testing shop for the industry, use to be a performer. Raylene seems to have a good post-porn business renting locations for porn company shoots.

Still, with the exception of Jenteal, "personal lives" seem to be greatly effected by having been in porn. Indeed, I remember seeing old "recruitment" interviews with Bill Marigold telling girls about to sign for her first porno, that life will never be the same again, and that no "decent" man will ever repect, or want, her once she's done porn. Pretty tough stuff, but it was meant to be--and, with the exception of hit-and-miss hook ups with rockers (examples: Tommy Lee, Axl Rose, Vince Neil), most porn girls, even while in the biz, have a difficult time finding a guy off the set.

Finally, the "sugar daddy" thing is very, very, very rare--but I hear it still happens. Racquel Darrien lives in Las Vegas and is rumored to have a sugar daddy, although in Vegas the older guy/younger woman thing is so common it's not a true sugar daddy thing. Also, Annette Haven, the top brunette pornstar of the 1970s, is suppose to have a post-porn relationship with a wealthy, Northern California man. And, most recently, newly-retired Tawny Roberts is suppose to have begun a relationship with a wealthy, non-porn biz guy, and is with him in NYC...far from the LA porn scene.

Still the "happy endings" are very rare.

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I can fully understand why it is difficult to be actively performing and then just walk into civilian life. There will just be too many people who will recognize you, and your product will still be readily available.

Non-porn-community people are, generally, narrow-minded assholes when it comes to hypocritical "morality" issues... and I don't think this will change in our lifetimes.
But give it 5+ years after a girl stops performing onscreen, and most girls will be able to walk down the street unnoticed.

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[Now I'm begining to understand why some women feel threatened by their husbands/boyfriends watching porn...]

These things poison people's minds. Just like I suspect a lot of porn stars wonder how many guys are going out with (in real life) them simply as trophy hunters, instead of truly caring about them. Whether it's true or not, it would happen enough that it would lurk in the back of your mind.

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Since Howard has admitted to fucking celebrity "party girls" (example: Angie Everhart) it seems two-faced to me that he would brand porn girls as unclean; when the fact is most porn girls are very health and hygiene minded, and are checked out (for infections) more than girls you/I are likely to meet in clubs.

Bottom line: the Extremely Negative Image a girl suffers from (which, in my opinion, is made worst by the "extreme" and gross-out porn acts currently in vogue) stays for years and years after they have retired. And makes transitioning into another career--or having a good post-porn personal relationship--so much more difficult. I bet no matter what else Traci Lords does in her life, when she dies the headlines will still be "Pornstar Dies."

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well, there´s nothing much i can add ... so i´ll just say ... good points and interesting thread

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Edited by - cubesnake on 6/4/2006 10:15:11 PM

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We've tended to focus on how other people would consider former pornstars, like boyfriends, potential employers, new acquaintances they make, or just people passing them by at the shopping mall... But what about from those girls' own point-of-view, leaving aside what the world might think:

How does the average ex-pornstar look back on her porn years, do you think?

(Like I said, and like picman also pointed out, there hasn't been any research made on this topic and there never will be, but maybe we can come up with hypotheses...)

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XOXOX- Taryn Thomas

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BTW: Love your work.

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if a girl is happy well adjusted and smart she should do fine after she leaves porn.

if she had drug problems or problems with men and family problems then screwing a bunch of strange men for money is not going to make that any better in fact it shouldn't be a suprise that it will just make their life much much worse.

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Except, I suppose, to wonder whether anyone has ideas about how to get started with this stigma erasure?

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Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
I wonder where all the porn stars go
'Cause when you need one, they are never around

I think they moved out to the suburbs
And now they're blonde, bland, middle-class Republican wives
They all have blonde, bland, middle-class Republican children
Blonde, bland, middle-class Republican lives

Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
I think I know where all the porn stars go
They all become Volvo-driving soccer moms

/Everclear

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94.1FM WYSP Philadelphia, PA - Kidd Chris Show, Afternoon drive interview with Shelley Lubben (download)

Apparently Ms. Lubben (known as Roxy during her days) is another one of these pornstars turned hooker, druggie, etc. and she wants to "save the girls". She left the business in 1994 I think she said. Notice, Chris cuts her a little slack, but still plays it up as a big joke! Dammit, I love Philly radio.

To phrase what Derek117 eluded to earlier, "Once a pornstar, always a pornstar."

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