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Jan Villarubia: "I was given drugs and alcohol before being filmed and then porn producers would record me saying that I was NOT under the influence of any drugs or alcohol prior to filming.

I gladly accepted the drugs and alcohol because I didn't want to feel the pain of penetration from an over-sized man or from being told to hold poses for still camera shots while being penetrated and choked."

Aaron Crowley: “There came a point where [my talent manager] unzipped his pants and pulled out his penis and sat in a chair and said, ‘If you want to be a part of this industry, this is a part of it.’

And what he was doing there was basically seeing if I would be comfortable with exactly what was gonna happen to me in porn, where I was no longer in control of my body. Was I going to submit and do what I was told? Was I going to acquiesce to the demands of the producers and everyone else on set?

That’s sexual assault. But because it’s porn and because sex is the nature of the industry, sexual assault is the nature of the industry. It’s normal. This is exactly what goes on. He was right there, saying sexual assault is a part of this industry.”

Felicity Feline: “I worked for a site called Facial Abuse…it’s basically a site that is extremely degrading and rough. It promotes explicit, horrible acts onto women…mainly to vomit…and be called names and to do really awful things on camera…I was 21 years old and confused so I agreed to do it. I wish more than anything that I never shot for that company. So the scene starts off with an interview type of thing…They start asking me questions like have you ever been molested as a child or touched by family members? They start asking these weird questions to dig for information that they can use against me… They wanted to break me.

c: exoduscry

A snippet from Aurora Snow's interview with The Daily Beast, that shines a light on the real abuse and real exploitation in the industry.

" But stopping was not in her contract. Snow says someone grabbed her and tried to forcefully penetrate her anally with one of the approved devices, but she did not consent to extras utilizing them. She dodged him just in time and yelled at him, but he laughed at her.

“He was laughing like I was a joke, saying things like ‘But you’re Aurora Snow, you can take it.’ But I could not take it. I was shattered—my nerves so frayed I was entirely unable to explain how what I consented to turned into something I never imagined.”

Snow said she was not in a scene she agreed to. No one came to her defense. The cameras kept rolling."

"For example, one study found that 1 out of every 8 porn titles shown to first-time users on porn home pages described acts of sexual violence. And according to studies analyzing the content of porn videos themselves, it’s estimated that as few as 1 in 3 porn videos (33.9%) and as many as 9 in 10 videos (88.2%) show acts of physical aggression or violence, while 48.7%—about half—contain verbal aggression. These studies also found that despite the levels of violence and aggression, the targets were almost always portrayed as responding with pleasure or neutrality."

"But that’s not all. This study from 2011 found that women are more likely to watch porn—especially the more hardcore categories—when they have suffered sexual assaults and psychological violence at the hands of their families. Just read this personal account, and this personal account to see personal experiences that back this up. Also, not surprisingly, more research has shown time and time again that there is a direct connection between pornography and sexual assault."

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Lastly, comparing fetishized sexual assault to war is not only tone deaf, but disingenuous at worst and ignorant at best. There are thousands, maybe even millions of testimonials from the families of women and little girls who have been raped during real life wars, and from the women and little girls themselves. There are testimonials directly from the men who have committed these sexual assaults, who are proud of it, who keep photos and diary entries as trophies.

c: wikipedia

"Rape, among other acts of wartime sexual violence, was frequently committed against female Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War. It was an aspect of the various human rights abuses perpetrated by the United States and South Korea, as well as by local Vietnamese combatants. According to American political scientist Elisabeth Jean Wood, the sexual violation of women by American military personnel was tolerated by their commanders. American professor Gina Marie Weaver stated that not only were documented crimes against Vietnamese women by American soldiers ignored during the international legal discourse that occurred immediately after the conflict, but modern feminists and other anti-war rape campaigners, as well as historians, have continued to dismiss them."

c: wikipedia

"Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term comfort women is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安婦),[6] a euphemism that literally means "comforting, consoling woman". During World War II, Japanese troops forced hundreds of thousands of women from Australia, Burma, China, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, New Guinea and other countries into sexual enslavement for Japanese soldiers; however, the majority of the women were from Korea."