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6/29/01 Miss Muffin from MissMuffin.com is a porn star and prostitute in Chicago. She writes on RAME: Sure, perhaps entering the sex industry in almost any capacity is seen by some as a bad career choice. But the reality is that our choices are limited by what's possible for us, and we all must make the best choice we can. When I was sixteen, I had quit school and was working full time making minimum wage, often working alone by myself at night as a cashieer, and trying to support myself. I knew some girls in the sex industry, and decided I'd rather try that. So I became a hooker. Later I did other areas of the industry too. Now sure, a Harvard education and a career as a brain surgeon might have been a better choice, but for me it just wasn't on the menu. So I made the best choice I could, and I don't really regret it. True, it limits me in some way, I'm never likely to be eleceted to office with my past, but then, I wouldn't have been anyway. And what if somewhere down the road I'm a skanky worn-out drugg addled street hooker? Well, I've had my party. Better that than ending up a waitress in some small town with six kids and no husband and a trailer I can't pay for, which would have probably happened had I not made the choice I did. Mr. Owsley comments on RAME: Excellent point. Way too often it seems the people on the higher end of the socio-economic ladder seem to pity the folks on the lower rungs, wringing their hands over why the disadvantaged make the choices they do. Well, like you said for some people it's just not an option to get a job that pays $100,000 a year. It might be that they aren't smart enough, they just don't want the responsibilities that come with that kind of job, they can't afford or commit to higher education, etc. But just because the folks stuck on the lower rungs don't make as much money doesn't mean that they don't want the same material possesions. That's why so many people turn to somewhat shady if not illegal lines of work that can bring in a lot of money. Since all of you feel so sorry for the porn stars, why don't you all take a donation and give to them so they can live on that? I think many of the people that have posted saying "pity the pornstar" are just feeding into their own misplaced guilt for watching porn in the first place.... (sarcasm on) after all, porn is bad so the people in porn must be bad as well? Right?
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