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#end­teen­porn

The porn industry has been using and abusing teens in porn for decades and it's destroying impressionable, vulnerable young lives. Teen porn is selling the fantasy of having sex with a child or minor. Enough is enough. We need your voice in this fight!

Sign the petition to raise the age of entry into porn from 18 to 21

Why people are signing this petition

lehovzki Izabella 3 days ago
I want to end porn slavery for good!
Catherine Jones 5 days ago
porn industry is destroying too many lives.
Kristina Christian 7 days ago
To protect our youth, and society, and to protect the viewers of dangerous material.
Abhinav Daniel 10 days ago
A person just doesn't have that mind maturity to understand the adverse effects of this
Amanda Blackburn 11 days ago
Displaying pedophilia is wrong, even if the actors are just pretending to be underaged.
Ava Linning 15 days ago
Stop Teen porn
Adrian Schlaack 15 days ago
Im a Father.
Sophie-Maria Fischer 15 days ago
I watched your documentary, no more words needed.
Z M 16 days ago
Pornography needs to be monitored and censored to a much higher degree than it has been.
Lenard MacCoy 17 days ago
This is EVIL and people should be in JAIL for this shit
Jamie Ahsan 20 days ago
Whole porn industry should be banned
Afsal . s 22 days ago
Porn videos make that slaping chokeing videos that's so iritatting
Kuda Simo 27 days ago
No teen porn
Michael Lloyd 27 days ago
Andrea O’Neal 27 days ago
To protect teens/young adults from abuse
Jay Kau 1 month ago
It’s common sense.
Timothy Severson 1 month ago
I'm a father and I have values and morals
Megan Ross 1 month ago
Kira Gunn 1 month ago
Porn is evil, underage depiction in porn is evil, it's destroying lives and has to end.
Bongi Jewu 2 months ago
To stop the promotion of teen sexual exploitation

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Open Letter to the Porn Industry
from Ex-Performers

Dear porn industry,

We, the undersigned former porn performers and survivors, are calling on porn producers, directors, and agents to stop recruiting impressionable teens into porn. The implications of appearing in a pornographic film are significant, with potential lifelong consequences. For many, it has destroyed their lives. We are asking you to end this injustice by raising the age of entry into porn from 18 to 21.

Before we began shooting porn scenes, we had no understanding of the extreme physical, emotional, or psychological trauma that awaited us. Some of us weren’t even old enough to drink alcohol, and, as brain science reveals, the decision-making part of our brains wasn’t fully formed.

Even to perform stand-up comedy in most venues, individuals have to be 21 because of the environment they’re in. Yet, as teenagers, we were penetrated in dehumanizing and dangerous sex acts by grown men—sometimes groups of them—subjecting our young bodies and minds to extreme trauma.

At the hands of agents, producers, and directors, we have experienced:

  • Being made to appear as an underage minor
  • Being made to enact sadistic pedophilic fantasies
  • Being rushed into signing consent forms, with no idea what we just said “yes” to
  • Being coerced in high pressure situations to do sex acts we’ve clearly said we will not do
  • Being victims of violent sexual assaults
  • Sustaining physical injury, psychological trauma, and/or being placed at risk of sexually transmitted infections

The fact that this trauma is immortalized in images and videos only multiplies the damage. Once this content is circulating on the internet, nothing can permanently remove it. This is one of the greatest sources of our pain, because we feel re-traumatized with each new view.

Maggie, a signatory on this letter, shares, “Between ages 18-19 I was in about 130 pornographic movies… Violent sex and making girls look like teenagers, or younger, was the goal. At times the violent sex made us bleed, at which point the cameras would stop rolling, while it was cleaned up. Once it was cleaned we would just resume filming again. I was so naive as an 18-year-old. I desperately wanted to believe I was in control of this very scary situation. Now when I look at myself in these movies, I see myself being raped over and over again.”

Maggie’s story is representative of so many young performers whose youth is being exploited and abused for someone else’s pleasure and gain. There is a crisis of suicides, widespread drug and alcohol abuse, and an early mortality rate, predominately among young female porn performers.

In 2017-2018 alone, young porn performers Olivia Nova, August Ames, Turi Luv, Yurizan Beltran, and Shyla Stylez all died within just months of each other. All of them were under 21 when they entered the porn industry.

And it’s not just performers from the industry who are raising concerns about this. Producers and directors are speaking out about the dangers to young performers.

Prominent porn producer and Adult Video Network Hall of Famer, Axel Braun, shared, “After 23 years in the business, I have come to strongly believe that an 18-year-old fresh out of high school has a completely different perspective on life than he or she will have three years later… I simply don’t feel comfortable anymore, shooting talent under 21.”

Many other voices from within the industry mirror Braun’s sentiment.

We know that porn producers and agents scout 18 to 20-year-old girls because of their youthful appearance, and for many of us this was the case because the “teen” genre brought higher profits. But what’s being sold is the fantasy of having sex with a child or minor, and being compelled to perform in scenes like this is extremely damaging to our mental and emotional health.

What’s even more abhorrent is that performers like us are being used to create content that is normalizing child sexual abuse and promoting a criminal fantasy to millions of viewers worldwide, many of whom are acting out this abuse on real children.

We are grateful to still be alive because far too many of our fellow young performers have died by suicide or drug overdose. They may be gone, but their tragic passing lights a fire in us to be all the more vocal about this critical message.

We’re tired of being chewed up and spit out by an industry that profits off the vulnerability of youth. We’ve had enough. Using teens in porn is blatantly exploitative, deeply traumatizing, and is destroying beautiful young lives.

We are calling on porn industry producers, directors, and agents to stop using vulnerable teens in porn. You can end this by raising the age of entry into porn from 18 to 21.

Signed,

Brittni De La Mora
Jersey Jaxin
Jewell Baraka
Flick Shagwell
Maggie Smith
Diana Grandmaison
formerly known as Desi Foxx
Amy
Aimee
Alexandra Mayers
Daniela R.
Alia Dewees
Jan Villarubia
formerly known as Elizabeth Rollings
Kate Zak
Felicity Feline
Joshua Broome
Aaron Crowley
Danielle Williams-McCord
Evelyn Taylor
Stephanie
Kelly R. Patterson
Crissy Outlaw

Sign the petition

If you have been, or are currently, a part of the porn industry and would like to be an official signatory of the open letter, please email [email protected].

Have you been exploited in the creation of porn?

Have you been exploited in the creation of porn? If you experienced exploitation or any kind of abuse in the porn industry and would like to share your story, get assistance, or become an official signatory of the open letter please fill out this form.

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