A 19-year-old college student committed suicide just
two weeks after making her first pornographic video for website CastingCouch-X.
The 19-year-old was a straight-A student at the University of Wisconsin-River
Falls, but took her life after the abusive messages via Twitter and Facebook soon
began to role in.
It turns out upon a little investigation that women in the pornographic film industry, who were created never to separate their emotions from their sexual faculty, often become depressed fter shooting scenes, and then often do things to take their minds off of the sinful activity, i.e. getting drunk or doing drugs like
Xanax, cocaine, or ecstasy to fight the depression.
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| Alyssa Funke |
Michelle
Truax, who works with the anti-pornography non-profit XXXChurch, says that almost all – if not all – of the women who
have been mentored through its ministry have suffered with bouts of depression. Truax: "It
goes so much deeper than just the obvious. We have found that all of the women
we have mentored have had issues in their past that caused them to seek out
this type of work in the first place. Some will tell you that it started with
stripping and the high they got from the attention was incredible for them,
because they had never received that kind of attention before."
According
to Truax, however, "then it escalates into other things." She says
that "ultimately it is a false high, a big letdown, because the attention
is superficial." Deep, healthy relationships based on love are not found,
"so it further tears at the core issues that were already under the
surface before."
Craig
Gross, who founded XXXChurch, says that his organization has "a mentor
program in place for women that does not discriminate. In other words whether
you are in the industry, or out of the
industry, or somewhere in between, we have a network of women to mentor and
walk with these gals." Would that Alyssa had known.... May God have mercy on her.
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