You can always count on the Daily Beast to point out whats wrong with porn, and you can always count on them showing up at AVN acting like heroes..
Lets hope the Dave Rock shit aint true.. But…..
She’s Quitting Porn to Join the Marines
ienna Rose had had enough. “It’s time for Vienna Rose to die,” she tweeted on March 19th. “I’m done with porn.” She didn’t want to be part of an industry where “the most vile people are rewarded,” and urged all 18-year-olds in adult to “get the fuck out now while there’s still time.”
A few hours later, I received a direct message from Rose. When we connected by phone, she told me that a pair of stories I’d written—one about adult star Heather Vahn’s horrifying abuse allegations against rising adult actor Tommy Wood, the other exploring how XXX content has gotten rougher due to MindGeek’s control over the means of porn production and distribution—helped her arrive at the decision.
“I’d been wanting to say my piece for a while and didn’t know how to go about it,” she says. “I think it’s very dangerous to put this narrative out there to women, young women especially, that sex work is this huge money-making thing. I feel like we feed that to women, that you’ll come in here and start making lots of money, but because porn is so oversaturated that is genuinely not the case anymore.”
According to Rose, when she joined the porn industry in August 2017, the standard rate for a boy-girl scene was $1,000. One year later, the price went down to $800. Now, there are women doing scenes for as low as $500-600. “Top performers are the minority. The majority, actresses like me, will only work four times a month,” she explains. “I made between $5,000 to $8,000 on a busy month, and on a slow month it would be between $3,000 to $5,000. In a year, I made at most about $80,000—and that’s not even factoring in the things we have to pay for, like hair, makeup, and agent’s fees, which are usually 18-20 percent.”
