11-27-2012, 03:52 PM
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Female Pornstars Are Healthy, Happy
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By Erika Icon
YNOT ? A new study confirms something female adult performers have known all along: Psychologically, porn stars are as healthy as or healthier than other women. Despite what outsiders believe about rampant abuse and exploitation of women in the adult entertainment industry, the study indicated starlets possess higher self-esteem, a better quality of life and a better opinion of their body image. In addition, on the whole they?re more positive, more sexually satisfied and ? get this ? more spiritual.
Not surprisingly, they also have had more sexual partners than their civilian counterparts.
Published in the Journal of Sex Research, the study was conducted by researchers at Shippensburg University, Texas Woman's University and the now-defunct Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation. Researchers found no evidence to support common myths: that female performers are damaged goods, come from desperate backgrounds or are less mentally balanced than typical women.
?Some descriptions of actresses in pornography have included attributes such as drug addiction, homelessness, poverty, desperation and being victims of sexual abuse,? the journal article noted. ?Some [outside the adult entertainment industry] have made extreme assertions, such as claiming that all women in pornography were sexually abused as children.
Stereotypes of those involved in adult entertainment have been used to support or condemn the industry and to justify political views on pornography, although the actual characteristics of actresses are unknown because no study on this group of women has been conducted.?
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