Aspen Brock On A Current Affair

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From A Current Affair's website:

During most of her hard-core adult movie shoots, Cleo Cameron (a.k.a. “Aspen Brock”) was strung out on heroin to cope with the shame she felt. “I tried to stay as high as I could,” Cleo remembers. “I was so disgusted with myself. The fact that I had this director saying, ‘I’m gonna make you a star,’ it didn’t matter. I knew how degrading what I was doing was.” Today, Cleo is clean, sober and the mother of two children.

“I really felt that this story had to come out,” says Anne Bissell, author of the book, Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor. She’s eager to tell “the true story…not the glamorized ‘Pretty Woman,’ Heidi Fleiss, Jenna Jameson b.s. that’s out there, but the real story, the real truth.” Bissell and Cameron have joined forces to start “Sex Industry Survivors Anonymous.”

Host: "...We see glamorized images of perfect bodies having carefree sex. On the other side of the door though is a much darker place, ruining lives and turning troubled young women into human wreckage. This is a story about two women who escaped and decided to help others."

Reporter: "Anne Bissell and Cleo Cameron look like typical working moms. But they're not. Anne used to be a hooker. Cleo is a former porn star. Together they're working to help other young women avoid the same destructive path."

Anne: "The sex industry is totally glamorized. People wear porn star t-shirts. We've made Jenna Jameson our idol. Young girls think they can make a lot of money doing this. It's glamorous."

Reporter: "Today Anne and Cleo run a self-help organization for sex workers [Sexindustrysurvivors.com] who want to break free."

Anne: "It's based on a twelve-step program."

Reporter: "Anne says her novel tells the story of her life, which began in Denver, Colorado and took its first sad twist early on. When her father left her family, she says she was sexually abused by an older man, a sex addict with a taste for young girls. Burdened by poor self-esteem, Anne turned on herself."

Anne: "When I was eleven, I started taking pills and drinking to cope with things."

Reporter: "By 17, she'd become a prostitute."

Anne cries on camera.

Reporter: "Somehow Anne found the strength to walk away from the sex trade, graduate college, and find a job in the computer industry. But she was still haunted by her past and needed the support of others who shared her history. That's how Anne met Cleopatra, once known as X-rated actress Aspen Brock.

"Cleo claims she was also sexually abused, did a stint as a stripper, fought a nasty drug habit, and became an adult movie star. But with fast money rolling in, Cleo hoped to regain custody of a child she'd lost."

Cleo: "The first two weeks, I made something like $15,000. I thought I'd get an attorney now and be able to see my son."

Reporter: "Instead she picked up a heroin habit."

Cleo: "I felt like a shell of a human being."

Cleo found help at Sex Industry Survivors Anonymous.

Reporter: "Today Anne lives in Ventura, California with her husband Ray and son Brendan. Cleo has been sober for three-and-a-half years and she and her fiance Chris recently had a baby girl."

Cleo: "My son is back in my life."

Reporter: "Both women have done more than survive, they've prospered, but they worry about those who might never get the chance."

Anne: "In Las Vegas, there are a lot of women buried out in the desert. Their pimps kill them. They don't care about these women. You're talking about a real person with a heart and soul and we need to get back to the heart and soul of our own humanity."

Jay Allen writes:

It's always good when both sides of a national debate speak their minds so clearly and with such force of conviction. I hope this report sparks dialogue that makes people aware of the other side of Jenna Jameson's "autobiography."

RE the below, this is one of truest things I've ever seen on this yahoogroup: "Sexual dysfunction is a very common trait in sex industry survivors. We call it "The Split." This is a complete sexual shut down or disassociation between the body and the mind during sex. Others also describe this as turning a trick without getting paid."

I may someday write a lengthy book chapter about my own experiences with women of erotica who ended up with exactly the same problem(s).....the way I've put it is "when sex has become the same thing as a handshake," there's a great sense of loss there, and the women who experience it are much the worse for this. As are their lovers.

RE "Aspen Brock," I'm actually familiar with her, we spoke once and I've seen two of her films she sent me, "White Trash Whore" and some other gangbang film, while she campaigned to be in Carnal Comics. In White Trash Whore, they put a toilet seat over her head and rape her mouth, and I think they DP her on the toilet. Now I would normally have long since forgotten her and these horror-show movies were it not for the fact that I was 99% positive she was on heroin at the time. I could tell from her demeanor, body language, vacant eyes and voice slurs in the films, and I could tell from talking to her - at the time, I was dating and managing the career of a well known heroin-addict porn star and spending time with her on the road, so I knew all-too-well the manifestations. At the time, when Aspen was talking about doing a comic, I gravitated toward the notion even tho I was already wrapping up my involvement with Carnal. I had this urge to, I dunno, throw her a rope. I sensed she was in deep trouble - the other film of hers she sent me, she starts crying when they start the anal sex. There's tears running down her face, she's sniffling and wiping them off with her makeup smearing, while some guy pounds her ass and a black guy stands behind them yelling "I'm next! I'm next!" There's very little contemporary porn that sticks in my mind, but I recall poor Aspen Brock in those two movies, and how sad it made/makes me.

Who knows if her heroin addiction predated her porn "career" - I doubt it matters. Both things, heroin and porn, she had to "survive" them. I'm glad she's telling her story.

Jamie Ralph Gardner writes:

The second video that you had of Aspen Brock was Gangbang Auditions 3. You had a dub of it on one of your 6 hour speed video tapes. She does cry during the scene but the Director does show compassion toward her. Several times, he asks her if she is OK. He keeps telling Aspen that it's up to her what she wants to do. There is no black man saying "I'm next! I'm next!" It was a black guy that caused her pain when he was having anal intercourse with her. He was going slow with her. He didn't deliberately cause her pain.

Trancript of Aspen Brock sex scene from Gang Bang Auditions 3.

Aspen Brock: f---, OK, hold on.
Aspen Brock: Hold on
Gregg Allen: Slow
Gregg Allen: Go nice and slow guys. Are you OK?
Aspen Brock: Yeah.
Gregg Allen (inaudible)
Aspen Brock: No, I'm OK.
Gregg Allen: Are you sure?
Gregg Allen: You can back it up.
Aspen Brock No, it's OK, don't pull it out. Once you're in, don't pull it out. OK, alright.
Gregg Allen: Just relax, are you OK?
Gregg Allen: You talk to him. He's not going to move, you move. As much or as little as you like.
Aspen Brock: Oh God. No, no, don't pull out. Just keep going. Do you have a tissue where I can wipe this away?
Gregg Allen: Don't come out.

A guy uses a kleenex to wipe away her tears.

Mark Davis: Mine is small, it's not going to hurt.
Aspen Brock: Yeah, right
Mark (laughter).
Gregg Allen: He's a more sensitive lover then this lucky guy.
Aspen: Oh God.
Gregg Allen: Are you OK?
Gregg Allen: You can talk to him. You can let him know to slow down or go faster. Do what feels good for you.

THE GUY PULLS OUT HIS PENIS SLOWLY AND ANOTHER GUY TAKES HIS PLACE.

Aspen Brock (laughter)
Gregg Allen: A 3 second grace period
Aspen Brock is no longer crying and she is calm.
Gregg Allen: There you go.
Gregg Allen: Let me see that pretty face.
Aspen Brock: I'm afraid I look like I'm crying though.
Gregg Allen: No, you look like your having fun?
Aspen Brock: OK.
Gregg Allen: Are those tears of pleasure?
Aspen Brock: Yes (laughter)

A GUY PULLS OUT AND ANOTHER ONE TAKES HIS PLACE.

Gregg Allen: You like the asshole?
Aspen Brock: OH yeah.
Aspen Brock (smiling): I like it yeah.
Gregg Allen: Do you love it?
Aspen Brock: I like it yeah.
Gregg Allen: Yes, you have 3 cocks down you.

ASPEN BROCK IS BEING DOUBLE PENETRATED AND A GUY'S PENIS ACCIDENTLY FALLS OUT OF HER.

Gregg Allen: Oh, thank you very much.
Aspen Brock: Oh, damn it! (she sounds irritated)

ASPEN GETS DOUBLE PENETRATED AGAIN.

Gregg Allen: Open up your mouth really wide. There you go.
Aspen Brock: Oh yeah. Oh yeah, f---! (she looks like she is in pain)

THE VIDEO SWITCHES TO THE GUYS CUMMING ON HER FACE.

Aspen Brock: I'm a cum dumpster, fill me up.
Aspen Brock: I like it yeah.
Gregg Allen: That's a girl.

Jay Allen writes:

Your surreal transcript below backs up what a sad debacle took place that day. My pity for her is only increased by looking over the text - now I'm even more of a mind to contact her and offer to help her efforts to be heard.

Your definition of "compassion" seems akin to the Marqui De Sade's - compassion would have been giving that poor girl her clothes, a check and sending her home. What you describe as "compassion," I see only as "We need this footage to cash OUR checks so don't break her, and then who gives a f--- about her."

"Aspen Brock (laughter)" - some "laughter," that was a woman's last mental defenses crumbling before your eyes, like the rape victim who tries to "befriend" their attacker somewhat, just in order to psychologically survive the horrible ordeal - - - - that kinda crap is about as sexy as a snuff film.