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March 13, 2007

Sunny Lane's Parents Say She's 'the Girl Next Door, Turned Hard Core'

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Sunny's dad says she could've turned out worse. "She could've gone gay on us."

Here's the audio of the first seven-minute segment on Sophia Lynn. Part two.

Sunny Lane. Conclusion.

Some choice quotes from the show:

"The fantasy that Sunny is selling is that she's underage."

"I have an empire. I have a massive team backing me," says Sunny.

"When she comes back home [from a porn set], I just ask her how her date was," says Sunny's dad Mike.

"Her parents made a cameo appearance in one of her films [Dark Angels 2]."

"Most parents would be horrified," says therapist Fred Kahane. "It doesn't sound like mom has a lot of protective genes."

Sophia Lynn says her Christian family found out within a week that she was doing porn.

"I have very low self-esteem," Sophia says.

ABC: "She lives on energy drinks, stomach medicine and sugar food. And she's always rushing from one appearance to the next."

Sophia keeps saying how tired she is.

ABC: "Sophia often doesn't know where she's going and what she has to do."

"At the club, I'm getting paid to go," says Sophia. "They want me to drink and talk to people, whatever."

ABC: "It's like she's just going through the motions."

Heather Veitch shines. "You can't have the life of a porn star without getting wounded."

Sophia Lynn: "Either they want to get under you, on top of you or run you over."

"Do you understand how lonely it gets?"

ABC: "She's now suspicious of every man she meets."

ABC: "Sunny makes her stay at the [Bunny] Ranch sound like a teaching gig."

Sunny: "I taught them confidence. I taught them how to love themselves."

On the HBO show Cathouse, Sunny says: "Yes, I sell my body. Why not enjoy it?"

ABC: "Sunny says she did it just to help the ranch get publicity."

Sunny: "I gave it a try to see what it was like and I realized it was not for me."

ABC: "Not for her? According to Dennis Hof, Sunny turned tricks for almost a year and gave him half of her earnings."

ABC: "You were a prostitute at the Bunny Ranch?"

Sunny nods. "For a moment."

ABC: "Mom and dad say that the Bunny Ranch experience was a positive one."

Mike: "She was able to see how safe the environment was. They were fed regularly."

Shelby: "They had a chef, maid."

Mike: "They were tested. I know exactly where she's at."

Sunny about the porn industry: "They're always pushing it to the envelope and beyond."

ABC on Sophia Lynn: "She's been told she's not performing well in her scenes."

ABC: "One day on Sophia's set, another girl is injured when her partner is too rough."

Injured Girl: "I think he saw an opportunity to take advantage of that I wasn't going to say much. I wasn't going to stop the scene altogether. I don't want to be blacklisted."

Who is this girl? Who was the guy who injured her?

Fred Kahane: "Most of them do compartmentalization. They don't feel much. But you can't just turn the heart on and off."

ABC: "Fred Kahane says many performance split off or numb themselves with drugs."

ABC about Sophia: "She calls home, struggling to hold on to the person she used to be."

Sophia: "Hey mom, it's your baby girl. I love you. I'm still your baby girl, k? You've got to say a prayer for me."

Sophia's sister in Tampa: "I felt like she wasn't my sister. Somebody else was taking over."

ABC: "Sophia turns back to her Christian roots."

Sophia is shown walking happily with Heather Veitch.

But Sophia keeps making porn.

Heather: "She has to be tough right now to continue doing it."

Heather: "At 14, I was raped. It just changed me. I became promiscuous. I thought sex is what makes me good."

Mike, looking at his daughter Sunny: "She looks great. I picked that outfit out. Those legs. Those are skater legs."

ABC: "While at the conference, [Sunny's parents] looked at getting anatomically correct sex dolls molded of their daughter."

Lukeisback.com and XPT are shown speculating about Sophia's disappearance from porn.

Sophia talks about her drug abuse and spiral downward: "When you surround yourself with the wrong people because they are the only people who are really around, you tend to just go with whatever."

ABC: Sophia was arrested a few years ago on drug charges and just after she started making adult movies, Sophia lost custody of her daughter.

"It takes your meaning away," says Sophia. "When you lose everything, what do you do? You do other things to make you forget."

Sophia moved back to Florida with her sister and claims to be done with porn. She wants to become a speaker at churches.

Sophia's main goal is to regain custody of her daughter.

She's trying to make it in the spa business.

ABC blanks out a lot of faces in the show. Is this because they have to or are they just being nice?

Tod Hunter, Mark Kernes and many pornographers say a porner should never talk to the mainstream media because whenever it profiles porn, the odds are high that porn will be make to look bad.

Porn looks horrible in this Primetime piece. So was Primetime distorted or is porn that bad?

In most in-depth reports, porn looks bad.

Primetime reveals that Sunny worked for almost a year at the Bunny Ranch.

A1R3K writes on GFY: "WOW! This Primetime show is really trying hard to make adult look bad. Sunny Lane is rocking it though. Glad to see that there are girls that can take the heat from the slanted journalists with ulterior motives and turn it around on them."

StickyGreen posts: "They're basically playing the "poor girls are abused and on drugs" card. Most sluts these days are on drugs regardless of being involved with porn."

A1R3K writes:

sophia lynn sold us all under the bus as the "wrong people" to hang out with. i want to meet the person that went to her house with a gun and made her go into the adult business. that sucks that she was hunted and dragged from her cozy little bed into the business. i bet she didn't do anything voluntarily. go figure we kidnap people from their homes. cry me a river. this is a business, the few models that have treated it as such are millionaires. the ones that drug out and stay fucked up end up a trainwreck. go figure, she ended up a trainwreck.

RawAlex writes: "This only goes to support my point of view when it comes to the media and porn: they will only pick up the weirdest and nuttiest things and run with them. Which means any time anyone in the industry does something stupid, that is what the media is likely to use to broad brush us."

Anthropophobiac writes on XPT: "Parents are not supposed to support their daughter's porn "career". It's wrong! In every possible way. Period. I don't care if they are trying to "protect" her or whatever, Sunny Lane's parents are her pimps. They are pandering her. They are making a living off of her daughter's orifices. Now, that is something to be proud of, isn't it?"