Miriam Weeks, Duke Porn Star: 'Belle Knox' Says The X-Rated Industry Is A 'Deadly Business?' [VIDEO]
Porn actress Miriam Weeks recently gave personal details on what it's like to be in the X-rated business, which unfortunately can come with dire consequences.
After a girl named Alyssa Funke reportedly tried to get involved with the adult entertainment industry, she was harassed and bullied to the point where it led to an alleged suicide. Weeks responded to the incident in a column she wrote on Friday for Funke published on XO Jane. She mentioned how dangerous it is for a woman to want to be in X-rated films due to society's harsh reactions.
"I have read the criticism that because I have said I feel 'empowered' by porn that I am somehow encouraging other young women to go down this same path," Weeks wrote. "Absolutely not. Your story is proof of that. Until our society's first inclination is not to verbally set stone and shame a woman to death for participating in pornography, it will always be a deadly business."
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Weeks then revealed how she went through a terrible situation when she was outed as a porn star, which apparently led to suicidal thoughts.
"In my bleak state it sounded so beautiful," she wrote. "Maybe my bullies would regret what they'd done. I thought of my parents crying and wondering what had gone so horribly wrong and why I didn't tell them. At least I wouldn't have to face them. It all seemed so hopeless.
"But then I felt a flicker of hope inside me," Weeks continued. "I kept going."
