Led by Brittni De La Mora, who has often shared publicly about her conversion to Christianity and embrace of sexual purity, the former porn stars insisted that the industry's leaders must "stop recruiting impressionable teens into porn."

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Aaron Crowley: What porn could possibly ever portray. Cuz whenever someone’s given money for sex, that’s not intimacy like that’s coercion, you know, if they need money to do it, they don’t really wanna have sex.Read the open letter and sign the petition in support! No teenager should be prey for an industry bent on exploiting vulnerability.

I Was Raped In My Most Popular Scene as a Porn Performer

Aaron Crowley: Yeah. And so I, um, immediately right off the bat, whenever I realized what that meant and I realized what it was, I realized that it was something I did not want to be. Aaron Crowley: And so, you know, I would grab that stuff and I would, you know, watch it, look at it. Um, and then whenever I got older and we got internet, we, we were a little bit poorer, on the poor end, so we didn’t get internet till later compared to like my peers. But as soon as we got it, I, whenever I had a moment went online and searched for porn and, you know, was looking up porn and doing all that online as well. So yeah, definitely porn played a big role in my childhood. They stated that in 2017 and 2018, four porn stars who entered the industry under 21 all died within months of each other. After five years in the industry, and winning several awards, Joshua left the porn industry. Now, Joshua is now a passionate anti-porn advocate, husband, and father to three children.Aaron Crowley: Yeah, the fillings mutual. I’m very excited to be with Fight the New Drug. I love your guy, your guys’ organization, and then your vision and just everything so much. I’m totally a fan boy over here. [laughter] Garrett Jonsson: Yeah. Well looking at yourself today and your relationship with your husband and comparing that to your sexuality early on, like part of the mainstream narrative that porn tries to push is that porn can improve your sexuality. And I think this is maybe a stupid question cause I might know the answer to it, but I’m gonna ask it anyway. Like, do you feel like your sexuality today is healthier without porn in your life? That’s sexual assault. But because it’s porn and because sex is the nature of the industry, sexual assault is the nature of the industry. It’s normal. This is exactly what goes on. He was right there, saying sexual assault is a part of this industry.”

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Um, and so my mind went to, “This is normal.” We are often portrayed, LGBTQ+ people are often portrayed as oversexualized and hypersexual. And that we’re just about hooking up. Right? We’re just about sex. And that’s not, I’m not saying that I’m saying that’s how we’re portrayed. And I, and I know many of us often own that portrayal as part of our identity. That’s how it was painted to me. That’s what was going through my mind when all this was happening and it became normal to the point that I didn’t even really actually understand at that time that it was rape. Uh, like that word didn’t cross my mind, but I knew in my gut, I was very uncomfortable. I was not okay with what happened. You know, I asked the guy to like take the pictures down. I was like, don’t share that. Like, you know, please delete all those pictures. Aaron Crowley: Another individual who comes to my mind, it was one of my last scenes. It wasn’t my last, but it was one of my last scenes while I was grappling with, if I’m gonna stop. It was after I had done a shoot, my scene was over or wrapping. And I’m about to, I see this individual coming down the hallway, stumbling, drunk, like having to lean up against the wall to hold himself up. And I’m just like, “Hey man, are you okay?” And he’s, you know, drunk. And he is like, “I’m fine.” Right? Like he, he was barely coherent. Couldn’t understand him, my co performer. Nearly two dozen former porn stars have signed a letter urging the pornography industry to stop exploiting vulnerable teens by requiring adults to be at least 21 years old before appearing in sexually explicit content. Aaron Crowley: Oh, yeah. So, um, after that first encounter with pornography with my brother and because of how positively it was presented, you know, like I said, my brother and his friends made it seem like, you know, if you watch porn that makes you more of a man. Um, you know, I definitely, whenever they were together watching porn again, I would watch it with them. And then whenever my brother wasn’t home, I knew where he hid the video tapes and knew where, um, he, uh, hid magazines. There was a period of time where my uncle was staying with us. I knew where he hid his stuff. Aaron Crowley: Yeah. Not. Yeah. Um, yeah. You know, I, I’ve seen all that used in the porn industry and it normalizes it and they somehow get a pass for all of that. Um, and they’re still called, you know, allies of our community. And often at, at gay pride events, you’ll see booths and whole sections where it’s like, this is the adult entertainment section and this is the porn section and it’s so celebrated. And, and I think the celebration again comes from because we don’t have many outlets to learn about our sexuality healthily.

This is kind of like in a abrupt transition, but it kind of has to be because you’re a person who has experienced drug-facilitated sexual assault or rape. And that’s a big part of your experience. I’m just wondering if your porn consumption early on normalized that sexual objectification of how you saw sex and how you saw yourself. So, is porn always a harmless personal fantasy? Or is it an edited, abusive nightmare? The trouble is, if you’re on the other side of the screen, there’s no way to tell. This is why we are exposing the industry for what it is: a facilitator of abuse and the epicenter of exploitation. Aaron Crowley: I’m not allowing myself to be bought and used, um, for sex anymore. Sex is something I see as a special part of my relationship with my husband. All of these factors pushed Aaron further into the industry until the end of his porn career. After he was raped during what would be his last scene as a porn performer, Aaron attempted to take his life.