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Horrifying Truths Of The Adult Film Industry

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The adult film industry was once considered a very profitable, glamorous and exciting industry for both male and female performers; in the last decade many of its horrific and unchaste secrets have been leaked and has ultimately unmasked the industry’s deceiving persona.

Sexual depictions and images have existed since prehistoric times, yet the ethical concerns and social implications concerning porn’s wide availability and general existence has been a controversial topic since the modern conception of pornography was first established during the Victorian era.

The internet established a multi-billion dollar porn industry.

Various groups, including feminists and religious communities have sought to have pornography suppressed under obscenity laws with varying levels of success across the globe. Over the last decade many retired performers from the industry have shared their opinions, and even revealed some of the industry’s most shocking secrets; among the most common of these are the allegedly abusive, threatening and over-demanding producers/directors, the fact that there are minimal-to-no sexual health checks, and the fact that agencies often support additional “escort” work.

Escort services have reached at an alltime peak with more men richer and alone than ever.

Some of the women entering the industry are troubled or have distressing pasts, and  are just desperate to earn some quick cash. Shelley Lubben, a former porn actress, wrote an article about the truth behind porn. She describes her own shocking experiences and that of the other women around her,  “many actresses admit they’ve experienced sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse and neglect by parents“.  These women are more commonly taken advantage of during their fragile state, and as a result are more likely to be sent down a darker path of substance abuse and self-loathing.

The most accessed forms of pornography today are streamed and downloaded over the internet, directly to the users’ devices. Piracy of these ‘films’ has thus become increasingly popular, making a dramatic impact on the industry’s profitability and therefore the earnings of its ‘stars’ as well. This, combined with the larger talent pool and the fewer roles available, means that many women are forced to source a second form of income. An increasing number of desperate women  resort to illegal escorting and prostitution. In the past  “Escorts were considered dirty, bottom of the barrel. Nobody was open to admitting they did it,” however, now it is so common that most of the actresses expect that their collegues are partaking in such activities.

A lesbian escort agency.

The extreme competition and limited number of roles has enabled off-screen casting, allowing directors and producers to exploit and manipulate women into performing things that they are entirely uncomfortable with “I had a horrific experience in France with a producer….. He would fly into rages at the drop of a hat and try to manipulate you into doing things that were way beyond your boundaries.” porn star Kaz B told Buzzfeed in a interview.

Within almost every interview, with either a retired performer or an actress currently “enjoying” the porn star lifestyle, the disturbing health violations common within the industry become increasingly highlighted. Although sexual health certificates which need to be renewed regularly, in some areas every 14 – 21 days, are required from each performer, many productions or professionals in the industry neglect or even fully dismiss these health and safety precautions. “A producer who has a very bad reputation expected me to shoot a scene with a girl who had gonorrhea,” Kaz B said in her interview with Buzzfeed.

Efforts to improve the health, safety and working conditions for performers in the industry have been attempted. A recent example is ‘Measure B’, otherwise known as the County of Los Angeles Safer Sex In the Adult Film Industry Act, which was aimed at criminalizing any porn filmed without a condom within LA. However, it was killed by State Assembly in August 2014.

It is fair to say that a handful of these women within the industry are pampered, earn loads of money and are overall living an opulant lifestyle commonly associated with the adult film industry.

However, it should be more widely known that thousands of women  who subject themselves to this line of work are not so lucky.

Sources:

Salon: When porn stars become escorts: Lucrative new trend could also be risky

Salon: Porn industry, rejoice: California kills controversial “condom bill”

CBN: The Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn

Buzzfeed: UK Porn Stars Reveal The Highs And Lows Of Working In The Adult Industry

LifeSiteNews: Shrinking profits leading women from pornography to prostitution: experts

Bodycam Shows Police Tasing Armed Woman in Florida Walmart (VIDEO)

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Shocking video shows the moment a Florida deputy tased an allegedly meth-addled woman who threatened customers and staff with a knife inside a Walmart.

Marion County Deputy Christopher Witte is heard in the bodycam video ordering the woman multiple times to drop the knife during the recent dramatic confrontation inside the Summerfield store, WWSB reported.

The woman, identified as Brandy McGowan, was threatening people with a knife and a brick, store managers reportedly told authorities.

Witte and his partner, Detective Pamela Thomas, located the suspect in the clothing department, where she brandished a pocket knife and spoke incoherently, the news outlet reported.

With his handgun drawn, Witte repeatedly instructed McGowan to drop the knife, but she ignored him for several moments before he finally switched to his Taser and deployed it.

The shock caused her to fall backward as the two officers rushed to cuff her behind her back.

Brandy McGowan was allegedly threatening customers at a Florida Walmart with a knife and brick before being tased by police.

It was later determined that the woman entered the store holding the brick and began threatening customers, WWSB reported.

She later located a pocket knife on display, opened the package with a pair of scissors from the store and continued to threaten employees and customers.

After McGowan was arrested, it was discovered she had ingested about four grams of methamphetamine earlier in the day, according to the outlet.

Marion County Deputy Christopher Witte drew his gun and ordered Brandy McGowan to drop her weapon, and when she did not comply, he deployed his Taser.

The shock of the Taser caused Brandy McGowan to fall to the floor.

It was later determined that Brandy McGowan consumed meth before entering the store.

McGowan was transported to a hospital for evaluation and was then charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.

She was held at the Marion County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

WARNING: This Is How Your Kids Will Look Like In 2030 If You Don’t Act NOW

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This shocking video, which features a 32-year-old 300-pound man in the emergency room having a heart attack as his life of unhealthy eating and video-game habits, which began in childhood, flashes before his eyes, sends a powerful message. The Public Service Ad, Rewind The Future, aims to warn parents to make changes in their kids’ lifestyle while they are still young so that the kids don’t have to carry the weight of an unhealthy lifestyle with them into adulthood that can cause serious obesity-related health problems.

In the video, the doctors ask Jim, the man on stretcher, “How the hell does that happen?” Jim then goes back in his childhood where he is sipping soda on the couch, playing video games, eating French fries and cookies in the office, and gasping for air as he pushes his child on the swing. His parents are shown ordering the pizza, pouring his breakfast cereal and feeding him juice as a baby. Do you think changing Jim’s unhealthy ways at a young age could have prevented his obesity and heart attack at 32?

The PSA was created by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. The organization explains, “Don’t worry, we didn’t create the video to make you feel guilty. We created it to fast forward to the year 2030 to show you what the future might look like for kids if we don’t act now.”

Will the parents get the point, or is this anti-obesity ad unnecessarily stressful and will scare parents?

Source:

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/06/14/this-video-will-change-the-way-you-look-at-healthy-eating/

What Does Marijuana Do To Your Lungs?

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Since tobacco smoking causes cancer, marijuana smoking must as well. Right? Wrong.

Marijuana decreases the risk of lung cancer. Marijuana does not cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Thus, Pot is safer than cigarettes.

Professor emeritus of medicine at UCLA and one of the United States’ leading pulmonologists who has been studying weed and its effects on lungs for more than 30 years, Dr. Donald Tashkin once sought to prove pot causes lung cancer, but the evidence forced him to conclude that average weed smoking does not cause lung cancer or impair lung function:

“The smoke content of marijuana is very similar to that of tobacco. There is a higher concentrate of cancer-causing chemicals in marijuana tar, and it reaches the lungs before any other organ, so there is this idea that they are related in causing the same health issues of the lungs. But through my studies we failed to find any positive association [with cancer]. Instead, the association would be negative, between lung cancer and the use of marijuana. The likelihood is, that despite the fact that marijuana smoke contains carcinogens, we don’t see the same heightened risks of cancers that we see in tobacco.”

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Dr. Tashkin is not alone in his analysis. To investigate the association between cannabis smoking and lung cancer risk, data on 2,159 lung cancer cases and 2,985 controls were pooled from 6 case-control studies in the US, Canada, UK, and New Zealand within the International Lung Cancer Consortium. Results from the pooled analyses in 2014 provided little evidence for an increased risk of lung cancer among habitual or long-term cannabis smokers.

“I was opposed to legalization because I thought it would lead to increased use and that would lead to increased health effects. But at this point, I’d be in favor of legalization. I wouldn’t encourage anybody to smoke any substances. But I don’t think it should be stigmatized as an illegal substance. Tobacco smoking causes far more harm. And in terms of an intoxicant, alcohol causes far more harm.” – Dr. Tashkin

Dr. Tashkin also found that smoking marijuana, unlike smoking tobacco, does not cause COPD.

“Reasoning for this may be that marijuana is a potent anti-inflammatory and suppressive. But COPD is activated by tobacco smoke and other toxic substances. The other major impact of tobacco smoking on the lungs is the association between smoking tobacco and the development of destructive pulmonary disease, the third cause of death in America.”

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Again, his current findings echo results from previous research. In a large cross-sectional analysis of US adults aged 18 to 59 using data from two rounds of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), researchers from Georgia’s Emory University found in 2015 that occasional and low cumulative marijuana use was not associated with adverse effects on pulmonary function.

Cumulative lifetime marijuana use, up to 20 joint-years, is not associated with adverse changes in spirometric [a person’s ability to exhale] measures of lung health. Although greater than 20 joint-years of cumulative marijuana exposure was associated with a twofold increased odds of a FEV1/FVC less than 70%, this was the result of an increase in FVC [forced vital capacity], rather than a disproportional decrease in FEV1 [forced expiratory volume]as is typically associated with obstructive lung diseases.

The largest and longest study ever to consider the issue [Researchers tested the lung function of 5115 young adults over the course of 20 years, starting in 1985 when they were aged 18 to 30], published in 2012 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that occasional marijuana smoking does not impair lung function.

Marijuana may have beneficial effects on pain control, appetite, mood, and management of other chronic symptoms. Our findings suggest that occasional use of marijuana for these or other purposes may not be associated with adverse consequences on pulmonary function.

Marijuana plus tobacco equals lung poison

Consultant Physician at St. Lucia’s Victoria Hospital, Dr. Martin Didier, warns:

“Tobacco contains over 4,000 toxic substances which destroys your lungs. Marijuana for all we know is less toxic, probably contains up to 400 but the combination of smoking marijuana and tobacco they interact and it changes the whole thing into a poison. A poison which destroys the structure and function of the lungs with a lot of consequences.”

Marijuana use alone doesn’t cause significant abnormalities to the lungs

Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, told ThinkProgress:

“If we’re serious public policy people, we would let the scientists figure this out. Does one set of vegetative matter produce a certain range of carcinogens? If so, to what degree and amount? How do people consume it? This entire discussion should be based on science. But the laughable thing is that the government is against this type of research. All we have are anecdotes but we need science that meets the standards of a proper peer review.”


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Pedophilia Vaccine: This Single Injection Stops Pedophiles from Abusing Children

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Researchers at the Karolinksa Institute in Sweden have identified an existing drug known as degarelix, which is capable of preventing pedophiles from abusing children.

Degarelix is a hormone therapy drug, which is currently used in the treatment of prostate cancer. It blocks brain signals which stimulate the testicles to produce testosterone. The drug is administered by simply injecting it into the pedophile.

According to health experts, testosterone is link to high sexual arousal, diminished self-regulation and low empathy. The drug blocks receptors in the limbic system of the brain which promote anger.

The Telegraph reports that drugs have been used in the past to chemically castrate sexual offenders. But it is always done after the abuse has taken place. Aside this weakness, many of the drugs used also have serious side effects such as breast growth, bone thinning, and mood changes.

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However, the new treatment using degarelix would work before a crime has been committed. Researchers said they hope that men who mostly sexually abuse children will voluntarily ask for treatment.

The researchers said they have already carried out a research, which indicates that many pedophiles want help, and will therefore volunteer to be treated with the new drug.

“In 2012 we raised money to establish a telephone line where people who are worried about their own sexuality can call and talk to a professional. We have the proof of principle that people with these worries really want help, and we have shown if help is offered people will come forward,” assistant Professor, Stefan Arver who took part of the study said.

The drug has been tested on five Swedish pedophile men who voluntary called a sexual offenders helpline, in order to get treated of their sexual inclinations.

The researchers said the initial trials showed that after three days, the men had no detectable levels of testosterone, and within two weeks their risk of abusing children, had dropped substantially.

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The effect of the drug lasts for three months, and another injection could be given afterwards if sexually inappropriate behavior and thoughts returned to the person.

According to the researchers, their study of the drug is only exclusive for men because men are the ones who mostly sexually abuse children. They admitted that some women also sexually abuse children, but it is a small proportion, and not such a problem as compared to men.

Statistics show that between one in 20, and one in 35 men are sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children. Due to the high rate of the figure, researchers believed it could be as a result of orientation in the same way as homosexuality or heterosexuality.

Currently, the research team is trying to identify biomarkers which could indicate if a person was prone to pedophilia. Last year, researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Oxford University found that 40 per cent of the risk of committing a sex crime is genetic, with the remaining 60 per cent down to personal and environmental factors, such as being abused as a child.

In the United Kingdom alone, more than 36,000 sexual offences were recorded against children in 2015. The Home Office estimates that the cost associated with each child sexual offence is around £37,000. This includes the costs of police investigation, legal proceedings and medical treatment.

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The Swedish researchers are far advanced with their study, and they believe that they will soon get results. However, the only difficulty they are facing now is finance. Nobody is funding the research.

They have therefore launched a project known as Paedophilia at Risk – Investigations of Treatment and Biomarkers –  on the crowdfunding site Walacea. The Researchers need about £38,000 to fund the project. You can click here to support the project. Let us all help in order to get pedophilia disorders out from the society.

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