The Porn Stars Retirement Home...

[max_tranmere]

I think being a porn star is a short-term decision in your life, but it has permanent effects on your life. Rather like getting a tattoo - it seemed a good idea at the time, it was cool when I was young, but now I'm middle-aged it is still there and will always be there. What happens when ex-porn girls become ex-porn middle aged women? Or ex-porn old women? Bearing in mind the films and photos will be around forever, and decisions she took when in her 20's because of the porn have effects even now (like the decision to never have children, like the fact she now has 'trouble' in a certain area of her body because she was sodomised so many times in her 20's) it seems to me that once a porn star always a porn star.

In the future maybe they should build The Porn Stars Retirement Home on the Sussex coast (that region is full of retirement towns) where the old geezers and old girls can chat about their time in the porn biz all those years ago! lol. But seriously, can people try and think ahead a few decades and imagine how porn people will feel when they are old. Do you think they may have any regrets looking back as they sit there collecting their pensions? I am making no judgements about porn or its participants - we are all obviously porn fans on this forum. I am just wondering if any are likely to be looking back and possibly regreting it when they are old. We will have to speculate as porn is relatively new, and no former stars have got that old yet. The fact some ex-porn people dont talk about it, and play down their involvement, kind of suggests they are regreting it a bit already - otherwise why be so quiet about it?

[Sam Slater]

You're right. I'm sure many pornstars will have their career come back and haunt them as they get older and get kids/grandkids. It's even worse now in the age of the net where scenes and google searches can bring up things from 15-20 years ago pretty easily.

But this is more a problem with society than the decisions the girls made in their youth. If society evolves to accept the sex industry like most other vocations then people wouldn't need to think they have to keep their past a secret.

[Dave Wells]

I'm there !

[max_tranmere]

Ginger Lynn in the USA was described as one of the first pornstars. Certainly the first who had a kind of popstar cache and fame. She was, of course, big in the 1980's and she is now 46 or 47. There would be one or two less famous ones from the 1970's who would be 50-something now, so you woulnd t have any ex porn people older than that. There wouldnt be many ex Brit porn people who are over the age of 40 as it is a relatively new thing in the UK. It will be interesting when ex porn women and men do hit old age and reminise and talk about their porn pasts. Maybe they SHOULD open a Porn Stars Retirement Home in a few years time and they could all sit there on the verander, looking out to sea, and reminising about their porn lives! lol!

[eroticartist]

It is not a "short term decision "hence "granny porn" and you don't have to be a porn star to be sodomised because some women love to be sodomised also there is no proof that anal sex causes problems.

So what if the images will be around forever, because it is only if you think sexual imagery is inherently wrong that you will think this way and of course you do and you are "making judgements."

Maybe by the time that contemporary pornstars grow old they will become the new idols. Personally I would be more worried if I were Tony Blair or any of his ilk and all those old images of death and the mass murder of innocent civilians came back to haunt me from the killing fields.
Mike Freeman.
Bringing about social change.

[Dave Wells]

Bollocks, I'm 50 !

[max_tranmere]

I have not suggested porn imagery is inherently wrong. I do wonder if some of the people involved may think that though, otherwise why do so many keep what they do a secret from their families?

[beutelwolf]

max_tranmere wrote:

> But seriously,
> can people try and think ahead a few decades and imagine how
> porn people will feel when they are old. Do you think they may
> have any regrets looking back as they sit there collecting
> their pensions?

Well, porn (as a serious commercial entity) started in the late 1960s, so some of the early porn stars are already in that situation.

We can already see that some have regrets: at the time they thought hardly anyone would end up seeing the stuff and the change in technology has rendered that assumption as short-sighted. As a result, egafd (and also bgafd) receive requests that certain people (or their pictures) are removed from the database. The other issue is that motivations have changed: in the 1970s crossing the line to porn was a bit rebellious, anti-censorship, anti-establishment, etc. while now it is more like yet another activity in the sex industry.

But not everybody has regrets. Never heard any regrets from Brigitte Lahaie, or Uschi Karnat. In fact, the latter started in the early 1970s and kept on going till at least the mid 1990s - and I would not be too surprised if she was still at it...

[BGAFD Admin]

To save anyone else the bother of pointing out the bleedin' obvious... The reason people in the industry tend to hide what they do from their families isn't down to a sense of personal shame, or the taking of a moral u-turn, but simply because their families - and thus, their relationship with them - might be disturbed by the truth. If we didn't know you better Max, we might suspect you of being deliberately obtuse simply for arguments sake. Surely not? !duckie!