According To Ginger Lynn, on the subject of appearing in porn movies “It's exciting in the beginning. A crew, a director, a camera, a script. They're paying you all this money and everyone's nice to you. If you want M&Ms, they go buy you M&Ms. Before you go on camera, your heat beats fast. I'm an exhibitionist."
During Ginger Lynn's first nine months in porn, she made 45 sex videos.
Ginger Lynn says she's not a prostitute. "A prostitute takes money from the man she's having sex with. She's there to turn him on. I don't care if I turn on the person I work with. I'm turning on my audience. I'm selling the same thing as any actress - a performance. I am not a porno star. Porn is animals and children. I'm an erotic film actress. I'm there for a good purpose, not for sick people."
Ginger Lynn fools herself. Pornography is not defined by the use of animals and children. According to the Oxford American Dictionary, pornography is writings, pictures or films etc. that are intended to stimulate erotic feelings by description or portrayal of sexual activity.
Are performers prostitutes? According to the above dictionary, a prostitute is a person who engages in sex for payment. So yes, porn performers are prostitutes, though legally they are not prostitutes but rather actors. But in reality, few performers if any could make it in mainstream acting. Overwhelmingly they have no sense of the acting craft.
As far as being a porno star, the word "star" is used cheaply in Porn Valley. A female who takes her clothes off and has sex in front of the camera a couple of dozen times, and lands on several box covers becomes a "star."
Was Ginger Lynn Allen's work for a good purpose? By the tone of her comments, she has her doubts.
And finally, the matter of sickness. Ginger Lynn seems to regard bestiality and pederasty as sick. Many persons regard Ginger Lynn as sick for having performed sex on camera. Many homosexuals regard incest as sick while many persons regard homosexuals as sick. In America today, the word "sick" is frequently used for what someone doesn't like, notes Dennis Prager. Many persons I know dislike pornography, and therefore call it "sick."
There's no inherent reason that murderers, rapists, pederasts, necrophiliacs, homosexuals, porn performers or any other unpopular group are psychologically sick. Rather, certain of the above activities such as murder and rape are evil. Other activities, from a religious perspective, are unholy to varying degrees. Holy means Godlike, and according to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, we should not act like animals but rather like God. Animal-like behavior such as promiscuous sex is unholy. Performing or viewing pornography, writes Dennis Prager, taints the image of the divine in the model, the photographer and the consumer.
Ginger Lynn claims that women who enter porn rarely come from stable homes. "My parents divorced when I was 13. I had a lousy childhood. Every girl in the business I know has been beaten or sexually abused. The reason they get into this is they want to be needed, to be loved."
Were most porn stars abused as children? In nterviews with over 100 porn movie performers, at least half said that they had normal upbringings without sexual or physical abuse.
As for the theory that females do porn for love - try hiring one with a promise of love but no money. Men may do porn out of love - love for sex. Women do porn primarily for the money. The love Ginger and other women believe they receive from performing is more lust than love. And it's accompanied by large amounts of hate and disgust from both those within and without the industry. Some women enjoy performing sex but many don't. Porn focuses on male orgasms, not female ones because they're more difficult to see.