Adolescent Pornography

....quite a eery combination, right?

We all know of the story of Belle Knox, who finds doing pornography empowering. Don't ask me how she thinks that way, it's a mystery to even me. But even Miriam Weeks (her real name) was financially pressured into the industry.

About a week or two, I came across this story: Minnesota college student, 19, commits suicide after classmates bully her for appearing in porn flick

Alyssa Funke was relentlessly taunted for appearing in an amateur 'Casting Couch' film earlier this year. The straight-A freshman at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls bought a shotgun in April and used it to commit suicide on her family's boat on a suburban St. Paul lake.

The story has a deja vu component: in 1984, Colleen Applegate, whose porn star name was Shauna Grant, committed suicide after returning to the porn industry from a hiatus. Regardless, our society is facing a troubling problem: young ladies, younger than myself no less, entering the porn industry. 

Two of the three young ladies had rough backgrounds:

-Funke sadly came from a very dysfunctional home. Both her parents had rap sheets (father for theft, mother and mother's boyfriend for child neglect and drug dealing). 

-Weeks' was, despite bios about her not making a deal out of it, was a military brat, identifies as bisexual, was watching porn at TWELVE and sexually active at 16 (no one should be sexually active before they are 18 in my opinion, and I'm not including the nude picture of her that got out and )
-Applegate had a normal home life but suffered from depression and had some issues with her parents.

My belief? You should be at least TWENTY ONE, yes, 21 years old to star in a pornographic film. I'm not sure how ready the mind of an eighteen year old is to do pornography.