Duke Freshman Working Her Way Through College as a Porn Star

[big_dog]

A Duke University freshman who was outed as an adult film star by a fellow classmate has spoken out, defending her choice to star in X-rated videos so she could put her way through school.

The young woman — who calls herself "Lauren" — said that starring in adult films is a way for her to foot the $60,000-a-year tuition at the Top Ten school in Durham, North Carolina.

"I worked as a waitress as a job for a year in high school," she told Duke's student newspaper, The Chronicle. "Not only did it interfere with my school where I was barely sleeping and wasn't doing my work, but I also was making $400 a month after taxes."


The experience, Lauren said, was humiliating. "I felt like I was being degraded and treated like s***," she said, saying that in her mind, a blue-collar job is much more demeaning than staring in a raunchy adult film.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/duke-freshman-paying-tuition-porn-star-article-1.1698497#ixzz2uHyV3TyF
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/02/14/portrait-porn-star http://www.xojane.com/sex/duke-university-freshman-porn-star http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/24/duke-s-freshman-porn-starlet-isn-t-ashamed-and-she-shouldn-t-be.html#url=/articles/2014/02/24/duke-s-freshman-porn-starlet-isn-t-ashamed-and-she-shouldn-t-be.html

[Chuuku Davis]

1. Dupe from last week

I think

[big_dog]

2. looked on search but didnt see it

nothing came up under duke

[bettyellen]

3. googling the word "porn", for something to rub in people's noses. flamebait.

[R B Garr]

5. You know, I was just thinking along these lines. How idiotic is it to just throw up keywords

hoping for flames. Really childish.

[big_dog]

6. easier to post the all of the articles referenced by newsweek/daily beast

n/t

[bettyellen]

11. n/t or eom belongs in the title or subject line, so the person knows not to bother looking for more

you're new at this, I'll presume.

got anything that's not flamebait?

[Nye Bevan]

4. Her body, her choice (nt)

[Journeyman]

7. Hmm. Work in "blue movies" is less demeaning than "blue collar" labor . . .

Not surprising it's more lucrative, but I wonder at the ultimate psychological toll. For some, it's probably not an issue. For others, however, I could see how work in blue movies might be exceptionally degrading. But then, I can see that happening from all kinds of labor. There are, it seems, an infinite number of ways we can be screwed by corporate America (whether the corporation makes sheets or uses them) . . .

[Jenoch]

8. This young woman certainly has

the freedom to choose how she wishes to run her life. What I wonder is what she will be thinking ten or more years from now about her decisions she made as a first year college student.

[Packerowner740]

22. Exactly, when she becomes an attorney and is looking for a job

What reaction is she going to get when prospective employers start checking her references and doing background checks and they find her employment past.

[liberalhistorian]

34. Well, porn studios and

agencies need legal counsel, too!

[Blue_Tires]

9. Duke is SIXTY GRAND per year??

Holy fucking DAMN

[Warren DeMontague]

29. I think at this point, that's fairly cheap as colleges go.

[anneboleyn]

30. Pretty much the same for top twenty private universities (including tuition and board)

Duke is always in the top ten and the others in the top ten -- Penn, Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, etc are all around that much -- tuition plus room and board and various student costs.

[RBStevens]

10. Didn't you just have a similar-ish thread locked?

Good god, please.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. No way.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024521817

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024558768

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024521560

Plus a couple self-deleted OPs on international monetary theory.

[Sheldon Cooper]

13. Dear god, the guy has a bit of a fixation, wouldn't you say?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

15. Yes, he needs to lay off

the international monetary theory.

[Sheldon Cooper]

16. He could get a brain injury posting about that stuff!

[RBStevens]

14. The second link you give HAS been locked thank the Host/s -

two more to go...

[Warren Stupidity]

17. i'm wondering what your intentions are here on DU.

Seriously, what point are you trying to make?

[undeterred]

18. yawn

[bigwillq]

19. Her body, her choice

And none of our business.

Good for her.

[NaturalHigh]

21. My thoughts exactly.

What offends people more, I wonder: that she is willing to be in pornographic movies or that someone might enjoy watching the movies.

[NaturalHigh]

20. That's one way to get through college.

I had to give up six years of my life to the military to get my degree, so I certainly don't blame her for going this route. Why is this such a big deal to some people?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

23. Why did you post this goddamned shit? What the fuck do I care how some college

freshman in N. Carolina is paying her tuition?

Why did you feel the need to post this here?

[TransitJohn]

24. It's Gender Discussion now, so pipe down.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

28. I'm still waiting for the OP to participate in this discussion he/she started! And I

want my freaking question answered, OP!

[liberalhistorian]

32. Well, I think

the OP's screen name and his "swoop and poop" maneuver pretty much says it all!!

[alp227]

25. Let's be real here. "Gender war" my ass. consider this new economy we've got here in the USA.

With limited opportunities (retail? unpaid internship?) as college students, young people will do anything and everything to survive independently and avoid the shame of living at home. Vices like drug dealing and porn out of desperation. Reminds me of Lorde's song "Royals". Just my short & sweet response, no time for an extended rant. Peace.

[LittleBlue]

26. She has a right to do this

And I don't blame or judge her. It's admirable that she's investing the money wisely instead of wasting it on crap.

Good luck to her.

[Lex]

27. Duke sucks.

A true story.

[DJ13]

31. I see a bright future in politics for her

[liberalhistorian]

33. Only if she's a republican!

If she's a Dem, then everyone will be all over it like white on rice.

[liberalhistorian]

35. I love the comments in the NY Daily News

article; most of them are saying meh to her line of work and that the real crime is the horrendous tuition of 60k a year. And they're right. If she's doing it voluntarily and she doesn't have a problem with it, then who else has the right to weigh in with judgment?

[Blue_Tires]

36. Is this even news anymore?

Didn't the "struggling man/woman works in sex industry to pay for college/med school/law school or earn capital to start own business" -story become cliché like 15 years ago??

Hell, almost ten years ago I had a friend of a friend moonlighting as a dominatrix to pay for law school, and she was probably earning ten times as much as these low-rent porn producers pay for amateur talent...

[MO_Moderate]

37. Whew!!!

Thought she was doing something terrible, like posing for Sports Illustrated.

[msanthrope]

38. Sorry--the only screwing I care about regarding this woman is the 60k tuition she's paying.

What the fuck?

[HappyMe]

39. I don't care.

I do think that her 'blue collar job is much more demeaning' statement is a stupid thing to say.