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Zeeak4444 posted...

@Gamer99z posted...

RE_expert44 posted...

Why did she kill herself instead of going down a different career path?

It's next to impossible for a professional porn star like her to just change careers.

You can see Bree Olson somewhat talking about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NyzCJx4IiI

You can make the argument about personal choice and how nobody forced them into it, etc. but the point is that once you've done it, it's next to impossible to actually just transition into a normal life after that.

I haven't watched the video yet so I won't comment on it specifically but I get the crux of the argument, it still doesn't justify what's been said at times.

Mainly on two points:
1) it's not exclusive to them for a few reasons. Anything from people who worked with paper their whole life having no applicable skills to be competitive with the fresh blood in the scope of things. Not the same situation but it is the same result. people blackballed from their field. People who have worked low skill jobs are almost guaranteed to be locked there for life without pursuing a degeee. We could make arguments for anything from prisoners to soldiers to just general old people discriminated against in subtle manners. It sucks, she has my empathy, but no more so than swaths of people out there.

2) Normal job is redundant these days. With that type of fan base she could go cammodel and be perfectly fine. Not once has that been mentioned, nor has private company been mentioned. LIttle Caprice runs her own shit for a reason.

Even if she wanted to get out of porn she could host parties, organize adult events. Endless options.

People are acting like she has it worse than 80% of the population when the opposite is actually true.

Edit: to clarify, empathy about the work deal. Not about the suicide, nothing I have said in this topic has been in relation to her suicide.

Edit 2: tagging in case you missed it after that influx of posts.

I agree that there are options and that a lot of it is self imposed to an extent. When you've got someone like her who's seemingly been doing professional porn since as soon as she was of legal age to do so and didn't pursue other options like college during that time, it can be hard to go from making like 10k a month out in Los Angeles shooting porn and then the only other thing you're qualified to do is flip patties at McDonald's for minimum wage. It's hard to break that cycle at that point and just stop doing porn or change to another career, especially with how you're treated just in your day to day life. Even if you try to go to school and pursue other options you run into issues where you can face discrimination if you try to join a more professional workplace and field on par with that of a convicted felon or something.

And yeah you can get into cam work and stuff but that's hardly really considered changing careers, you're still ultimately stuck in the same place with the same type of work and in the case of someone like Bree in the video, she wanted out of that type of work all together.

In local news out here a little while back there was a teacher that got fired for having done porn like a decade ago once and her ex bf sent an email to someone at the school district about it when they broke up.
I'm not saying porn stars necessarily have it worse than other people in similar positions of being low skilled workers or for other types of discrimination such as being a convict (which is pretty fucked up that porn stars face discrimination on par with criminals) but that simply saying to change careers isn't really always a realistic option for most professional porn stars on the level August was.
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