{"id":135475,"date":"2020-11-23T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=135475"},"modified":"2020-11-23T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:23:00","slug":"purchased-leaving-the-sex-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=135475","title":{"rendered":"Purchased: Leaving the Sex Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Purchased-Leaving-Trade-Deanna-Lynn\/dp\/169755685X\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#038;keywords=deanna+lynn+purchased&#038;qid=1606162941&#038;sr=8-1\">Deanna Lynn, the ex-porn star turned Christian, writes in her 2019 memoir<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* In Tucson, it was hard to be a white girl. I was often accused of being a racist, even though I was the one picked on for my race. Classmates were looking for any reason to provoke me into fighting&#8230; If they said I was racist, then they could justify bullying me. Everyone knew that I hated violence.<\/p>\n<p>* My cool older sister officially dropped out of school, became a stripper, got a fake ID, and could get us anything we needed to have a good time. Her gang-banger boyfriends&#8230;looked out for us.<\/p>\n<p>* One night, we went to the bars&#8230; After they hung out with my dad, we came back to their house. A man was waiting in Kristen&#8217;s bed. &#8220;I&#8217;m in a lot of pain from cramps,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Would you mind taking care of him? He&#8217;s going to pay me a lot of money. I really need it this month for my kids.&#8221; My codependency kicked into high hear. I took care of business for and officially turned my first trick.<\/p>\n<p>Prostituting was a dizzying mix of demoralizing and empowering. I am now getting paid for doing what I already end up doing when I&#8217;m drunk. <\/p>\n<p>* I was fascinated with how addicts judged other addicts for what drugs they used and how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deanna Lynn, the ex-porn star turned Christian, writes in her 2019 memoir: * In Tucson, it was hard to be a white girl. I was often accused of being a racist, even though I was the one picked on for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=135475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pornography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135476,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135475\/revisions\/135476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}