The School of Belle Knox-Duke Porn Star

I think it's sad that this woman chose to degrade herself to make money.

hen my judgment about her will change drastically, and for the worse.

This girl made a very bad decision.

It is a way for women to make a heck of a lot of money in a career.

I think women in pornography do much better then men do in professional sports.

Drug addiction is rampant and suicide quite common.


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Porn actresses had a history of more drug use than the comparison group, but they differed on recent drug use only on marijuana.

It was found that porn actresses were not less psychologically healthy compared to the general public. In fact, the opposite pattern was found, although self-esteem is only one component of psychological health. This finding does not support the beliefs held by the general population found in prior research (e.g., Evans-DeCicco & Cowan, 2001), which reported that individuals believed porn actresses were less psychologically healthy compared to women not involved in pornography on a composite measure that included self-esteem. It should be pointed out that the matched sample did not have low self-esteem scores. In fact, the matched sample had self-esteem scores comparable to averages found in other studies (e.g., Baranik et al., 2008), so it was the case that the porn actresses had higher scores than the general population. Some evidence of high self-esteem ratings that may be related to the current findings were reported by Herold, Corbesi, and Collins (1994) who found that women who were topless at a beach had higher self-esteem than women who were not topless. Topless women reported a sense of personal freedom, whereas women who were not topless reported embarrassment. Porn actresses are typically nude in their scenes and appear in front of camera crews and audiences who later watch the movies in which they appear. It is likely that low levels of embarrassment are experienced among porn actresses, and being able to be completely naked in front of others might be associated with an elevated self-esteem. Although exhibitionism was not measured, that may also be a common characteristic of porn actresses. For an exhibitionist, performing in an X-rated film may be associated with an environment where that characteristic is rewarded. Self-esteem has been conceptualized as the extent to which one values, approves, or likes oneself (Blascovich & Tomaka, 1991). Thus, if porn actresses are exhibitionists, it may be the case that performing sex acts on film are associated with heightened feelings of self-approval because they may be receiving reinforcement from management, coworkers, and fans, which may subsequently be related to elevated levels of self-esteem