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Topics: Adult Industry, Lana Rhoades
Joe Harker
Lana Rhoades once explained why she left the adult industry.
Since her departure, the former porn star has been working to shine a light on what it's actually like in the industry after her eight months in it.
Back in 2020, she told the Impaulsive podcast why she wanted to leave the adult industry and the impact it was having on her.
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Rhoades had been asked about developing an aversion to bodily fluids, saying that she had seen some of the 'most disgusting' things and didn't want to carry on working in adult entertainment.
"I just don't really want to have sex with a random bunch of people. I don't think I actually would have been able to do it, honestly," she told the podcast.
In the past, she's said that she wished that all of her past videos could be deleted, saying in 2021 that she would 'give up everything to have my dignity and respect back, and for people not to be able to see me in that way' and has spoken out about the severe toll being in the adult industry took on her.
She said: "I had to or it probably would have led to that point of killing myself. Because towards the end of it, I started having panic attacks before scenes because I really didn’t want to do them and I didn’t know how to say ‘no I don’t want to do this'.
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"So there really was no choice for me; it really was either ‘probably going to kill myself’ or just do anything to make something else work."
Rhoades also said she 'did not get paid s**t' in the adult industry, saying she had about $100,000 when she left the adult industry and had since gone on to become a multi-millionaire.
She said she'd been paid just $1,200 for each of her scenes, and described having to speak to a therapist over some of the things she was made to do and 'didn't know how to say no' to.
She explained that when she joined the adult industry at the age of 19 she didn't know what she was getting in for, and had only had sex with one person at that point.
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It wasn't long before she realised it really wasn't something she wanted to be doing and described herself as 'pretty much asexual' later on.
Rhoades has also said in the past that she'd like to see the industry she left behind come crashing down, saying she wanted it to be 'illegal' and doesn't think it's 'good for anybody'.
Her perception of the adult industry was very different after she'd been through it herself and left compared to going in.