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user-inactivated  ·  3712 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm the Duke University Freshman Porn Star and for the First Time I'm Telling the Story in my Words

    It doesn't happen to everyone.

I wonder exactly why it's different in this case. Duke's culture is famously toxic regarding matters like this ... also maybe Suicide Girls isn't well known enough to catch fire in the same way as whatever she did.

I read in her interview that she's not sure she would do it all over again if she'd foreseen the potential negative consequences. I think that's sad; she shouldn't have to have regrets about having a financial problem and solving it in an inventive and legal way. It seems pretty clear cut to me that she's right and society's wrong here (and from an economic point of view very few things make more sense than going into porn if you're an attractive 18 year old) -- but I do think it's a bit naive that she assumed everything would be okay with her double life. Not to say that she should care; again, she's making a lot of money while her friends are graduating with crippling debt. But it's odd that she didn't see the fallout coming.