Sexual assault and financial desperation were the catalysts that jumpstarted Aaron Crowley’s career in the porn industry. While in porn, he believed lies about his value as a person, false stereotypes about his sexuality as a gay man, and he was closed off to the possibility of experiencing real love for himself. The porn producers would send me to their friends or a location of their choosing so I could sleep with them under the guise of it being a film.”

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I was actually thinking about this actually just the other day. Um, cuz I feel like the medical bills that I had for it that like just the damage is done to my body and you know, what the STI and everything. Um, there were medical bills that I continued paying, you know, even after I left, I, I just feel okay. You know, with all of those, if we accumulate all those together, I feel like, you know, it cost more. Hmm. You know, to be in like, I feel like that’s. It definitely cost a bit more for me. Um, I mean, I, I can’t speak to everyone’s situation, but… Garrett Jonsson: Yeah. That’s, that’s really interesting. Like you were not a safe space. That’s really interesting. I it’s almost like you were, and I’m not blaming you when I say this, but I’m just making an observation. It’s almost like you were participating in victim blaming because you just didn’t understand. It’s not that you were truly like blaming yourself. It’s just that you didn’t understand the context of all these things. 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?Welcome to LPSG.com. If you are here because you are looking for the most amazing open-minded fun-spirited sexy adult community then you have found the right place. We also happen to have some of the sexiest members you'll ever meet. I think one thing to learn from your personal account is that stigmas are unhealthy. Like if you look at a psychologist, one of the requirements for being a psychologist is to hold unconditional positive regard for the people you work with. And it seems like that same standard should be held by caregivers. You know, including parents, we should have unconditional positive regard for the kids we care for, because I just wonder, like what would’ve been different, if you did have a place to go and to open up and engage in genuineness, and acceptance and receive some empathy.

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Garrett Jonsson: My name is Garrett Jonsson, and you’re listening to Consider Before Consuming, a podcast by Fight the New Drug. Aaron Crowley: You know, making it seem like it’s blitz and glamor and it’s like any other part of the entertainment industry. Like, you know, I said earlier, um, the guy who I called my pimp, he was a talent agent or a manager. Talent scout, whatever those were the words we use, but he was my pimp, you know, we hear words like porn star and you know, all that to lets and glamor it up, but really we’re prostitute people. Alia grew up in Ventura, California, with a young mother. From a very young age, Alia experienced sexual abuse at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend. I was given drugs and alcohol before being filmed and then the porn producers would record me saying that I was NOT under the influence of any drugs or alcohol prior to filming.Joshua Broome grew up in a small town in South Carolina where he started his modeling career. He moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a career in acting and modeling. Eventually, he found his way into the porn industry. Aaron Crowley: Yeah. Because you know, I, I didn’t know where to find a safe, safe space to talk about it and to process it. Um, cuz I, even my own self, I, I, wasn’t a safe space to, you know, process and talk about it because of the shame and stigma that’s already been put on me. Garrett Jonsson: It’s just not healthy. Like, yeah. I don’t know, like healthy sex is such an awesome thing, but the porn industry generally speaking, it just distorts it.

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This is kind of a personal question. So if you don’t want to answer, that’s fine. But do you hold any resentment towards your brother for holding that perspective at one point and kind putting you through that, um, that scenario? Trigger Warning: This article refers to graphic sexual content and features written references of real abuse.Garrett Jonsson: Yeah. I believe that as well. Well, Aaron, as the conversation kind of comes to an end here, we wanna leave you with the opportunity to have the last word. If there’s anything that you haven’t mentioned or something on your heart or mind that you wanted to talk to, that we haven’t talked to yet, we’d love to hear those thoughts as well. As far as performers go, few have had longer and more successful careers than Greg, a former porn actor and director who appeared in approximately 1,000 adult feature films over the course of a 23-year career. Appearing in his first porn film in 1988, Greg went on to become one of the porn industry’s most successful male actors of all time. He was a 4-time winner of the Adult Video News Best Actor Award and in 2002 was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Aaron Crowley: Right. It, um, you know, I often I commented on a, uh, post that Gail Dines made a couple months ago and she was really intrigued by this. Um, cuz she pointed out like, you know, a lot of people will point out that in straight porn, the woman is being, being, um, aggressed against like there’s violence towards her. It’s time we stop buying the porn industry’s lies, and refuse to consume the violent content they produce that’s harmful to performers, individuals, relationships, and our world as whole.

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Aaron Crowley: Um, and that kind of goes off into a whole bunch of other points that we’re probably gonna get to. I was coerced into doing unspeakable things that I never agreed to but, if I didn’t, my children would not have been fed, clothed, and sheltered. I almost took my own life.” Aaron Crowley Trigger warning: This video includes explicit discussions of sexual assault that may be triggering to some. Viewer discretion is advised. Aaron Crowley: Um, and rent and all of that. Um, so it seemed like a nice, it seemed like a good option. Yeah. It seemed like. Yeah. So I took him up on that offer. And um, yeah. Even in interviews, these performers maintain that they do porn because they love sex and can’t get enough of it. Because of this, much of society, understandably, believes every porn performer entered the industry in the pursuit of their ideal lifestyle.

Garrett Jonsson: Well, as I think about your experience with not only drug facilitated sexual assault or rape, but also with the image-based abuse that you experienced with him, sharing your photos without your consent. It’s interesting cuz we don’t know this is just speculation, but some of the people who saw those images, it’s very likely that they, they thought you were consenting. Um, you know, like I guess I probably shouldn’t tell you specifics, but, um, it was very violent and, um, aggressive. So that be began to solidify in me what it meant to be gay. Like I learned you asked, you know, did I learn sex education through porn? I learned what it means to be gay and what gay sex is, what gay intimacy is through porn. And so whenever I was in college, whenever I went to college, um, you know, I was freshly new. I just came out and um, because I’m new to college, it was like my first week in college, I got on the internet to look for other gay men who were freshmen at my school to like, see, you know, Hey, is, are there any meetups or is what are people doing? I need to make friends. Right?