Excerpt below from Shelley Lubben’s upcoming book "The Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn":
Many believe the widespread fairytale that women enjoy making porn movies but in reality there are no happy endings for the women of porn. Women do NOT enjoy making porn movies and a closer behind-the-scenes look will show you several reasons why.
In the world of hardcore sex, an average day on the set for a porn actress is a long and tedious process. Women are told to come in around 8 am for makeup but it’s only to make sure porn actresses arrive on time to work. Porn stars have a habit of arriving late because they’re often hung over from drugs or alcohol from the night before.
After make up, porn actresses usually wait around long hours until it’s their turn to do their scene. Some scenes take an hour and some take several hours to film. It really depends if the male actor in the first scene could "perform" or not. It also depends if female actresses have to stop the clock because they can’t handle the pain of a hardcore sex scene.
While waiting around, jaded porn performers usually end up in the rest rooms with bottles of alcohol and lines of speed or outside in their cars for a heroin fix or gathered in the back yard with other actors to smoke marijuana.
To add to the mind-numbing process, women are never able to experience sexual pleasure because of the continuous cutting during sex scenes. In the background the director constantly yells, "cut" and the flow of action is interrupted in order to get a better shot, adjust lighting or to wipe up bodily fluids. Repeatedly pornographers stop the scenes and ask actors to "freeze" in position during very hardcore sex acts, which causes great physical and emotional pain for porn actresses.
I speak from personal experience when I say to be in the middle of a hardcore sex act with several actors at the same time and told to "freeze" in position for several minutes while lighting or cameras are adjusted is extremely painful and degrading. It’s also very humiliating when scenes are stopped in order to wipe up bodily fluids such as semen, feces and blood.
Despite the fact that women do not enjoy making porn movies, they continue to lie to their fans and proudly insist they enjoy making porn movies. Of course they do. They get paid hundreds and thousands of dollars to lie because this is their occupation. Porn stars are paid professional liars who know how to "act" and they do it well. In fact, because porn stars spend a great deal time in front of the camera and never step out of character, they usually have greater acting abilities than mainstream Hollywood actors.
I used to brag endlessly to fans and pornographers about my extreme "Italian" sex drive and how I loved making porn movies. I would go on and on about how I needed more and more to fulfill my insatiable appetite. I lied 100% of the time to 100% of the people. Lying is the native language of porn stars because they can’t afford to tell you the truth. Not only would it ruin the fantasy for their fans but more importantly, it would ruin the amount of their paychecks. Don’t believe porn actresses when they proudly proclaim they enjoy making porn movies. They’re ACTING.
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That remids me of Raffaella Andersson in the documentary La Petite Morte and in her book Hard, she makes similar coments about her life in the french porn industry. But at least, christian Shelley have some empaty for pornographers, the whole “hate the sin not the sinner”. Secular Raffaella have nothing but comptempt for them. Well those are contrarian voices that need to be heard too. Not everyone should be a fanboy.
Hey Rics,
Thanks for writing that about me. I want everyone in the industry to know that I love them all and pray for them daily. Whether pornographer or porn star, God loves them and has an awesome plan and purpose for their lives much grander than porn, the thing sent to destroy their souls.
Try LIFE, it’s better! Come on, there’s more to life than porn. I promise!
Much love,
Shelley
Hmmmmm, porn is not glamourous, porn strips away dignity, self respect, any and all traces of humanity and when it’s over it tosses you aside and moves onto the next flavor of the month. This all maybe true, in some circumstances, but I’ve seen it happen to MAINSTREAM actors as well. How many aspiring Hollywood hopefuls have had their dreams crushed because they could not get the big budget role in an A film? Look at the past famous actors, writers, directors in Hollywood whose lives ended in tragedy? Look at Chris Farley, John Belushi, Ed Wood, Phil Hartman, each of these people lost their lives due to excess, abuse, tortured souls. Don’t think for a moment that porn is the bigger evil – it’s not, on a larger scale, girls can walk away, start a new life “get over it” and move on. But Hollywood has done more damage to people than any porn stars tragedy. Think about it.
It could have been an honest and powerful book if she had just spoken in “I” statements about her own personal experience, rather then assuming that her experience can be applied wholesale to everybody else in the business. This way she sounds like a person who is trying to convince others, seeking justifications in generalizations and refusing to take full responsibility for her own actions. It‚Äôs a weakness that turns this writing effort into a wasted opportunity, noble intentions none withstanding.
Nothing takes the Glamour out of porn like Luke’s Camera of Death, or even better, Luke’s Videocamera of Death.
Hey, the videocamera is not that bad!
No, it’s not the camera that’s bad. Evil is bad.