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a b c 2004 GAYVN Awards Winners Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Posted December 3, 2004, ATKOL Gay Video forums; web archived. Aaron Crowley: And often what it is, what I experienced often in the porn industry is the receiving individual was a gay individual and the one who was portraying the violence was a straight person, a straight man. Even as a popular mainstream performer, she experienced more trafficking, abuse, and exploitation, eventually breaking free and connecting with other sex industry survivors. So from your first time in the porn industry, what was it that drove you to perform more consistently in porn over that next, you know, seven months, almost a year? Aaron Crowley: Um, so I think if I have any final words, my final words would just be to those who are still on the fence and trying to decide where they stand.

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I it’s almost like you were, and I’m not blaming you when I say this, but I’m just making an observation. Um, cuz she pointed out like, you know, a lot of people will point out that in straight porn, the woman is being, being, um, aggressed against like there’s violence towards her. Um, and then, you know, thank God I woke up and you know, my husband was asleep next to me and I just looked over. In a letter addressed to the "porn industry," 20 former adult entertainers urged the leaders of the pornographic film business to increase the minimum age of entry into the industry from 18 to 21. citation needed] 2002 Grabby Awards nominee for Best Supporting Actor, Best Duo Sex Scene and Best Trio Sex Scene.but no nightmares and, and things like that weren’t the main way that I learned to cope with, um, what had happened.

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Joey Stefano – 1987 Gay XRCO Awards winner, "Best newcomer"; 1990 Adam Gay Video "Dave" Awards winner, 1990 AVN Award (pre- GayVN Awards) winner, "Best performer"; More of a Man from All Worlds Video; 1994 AVN Award winner, "Performer of the year". During this conversation we talk about his experience in the porn industry, how it negatively impacted him, and what he’s up to today. Aaron Crowley: And, and that’s kind of, you know, in going in and processing the years later and processing all that trauma, that’s, you know, how I’ve realized, you know, what, I’m gonna speak out on this, um, because I need this mentality to be destroyed.a b The 8th Annual (1998) Grabby Award Winners; Award Show, May 29, 1999 (Chicago, Illinois), From Gay Chicago Magazine's "Behind Closed Doors" Archived January 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine web archive. Aaron Crowley: Like all of it was being processed in my mind, you know, being warped with, you know, what I knew from porn and um, what I had seen or how I had seen, um, gay men portrayed, you know, in the media and from, you know, family members and you know, just general homophobia. Those who grew up learning about sex from porn, we’re being taught that sex is violent and aggressive.

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It’s not, you’re not really getting to know them, even if they’re they’re, you know, celebrity porn stars, right? Aaron Crowley: Um, and so it, um, I had no idea what I was watching, but I, I realize now looking back like why my brother was very adamant of “No, no, no. So I first heard the word gay from my cousins who were using it and talking about it in a very homophobic way. The implications of appearing in a pornographic film are significant, with potential lifelong consequences," they wrote.And he took a moment and he confessed, you know, if I had other options, I guess I would take them because he, he was an example of, you know, someone who was kicked out of their home and they were doing this as survival sex, you know, to take care of themselves. Jamie Gillis – actor in over 470 pornographic films, mostly straight; has been inducted into AVN Hall of Fame, [47] and XRCO Hall of Fame. It was about just like, if there were any outliers who had just like a, who did have other options who weren’t doing it for survival sex, who weren’t, who didn’t have an unhealthy, you know, like hyper sexuality uh, triggered by trauma.