Adult film star Penny Flame has quit her porn career to reclaim herself, Jennie Ketchum, and she's documenting the journey on her new blog. After realizing she had a problem with intimacy, she realized she also had a problem with alcohol and drugs. She's now sworn off sex for a year and is in AA. Some of this is documented on the upcoming VH1 reality series Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, but it will all be documented on the blog, Becoming Jennie. It's not a platform to hate on her former career:
Just because I am making changes, does not make me ashamed of the life I’ve led. Just because I no longer wish to perform does not mean I want the entire industry to die, or kick rocks. This has been an amazing career for me, and I would recommend being a pornstar to anyone that can momentarily put aside the need to be intimate, and then pick it back up and go on with life. You can make yourself a little nest egg and live pretty (well you used to be able to but the economic state of the biz is so so). But I’d also recommend they quit the moment they can’t pick that emotion back up, the moment intimate becomes a foreign word. And that is what I am doing now. Putting my career down to figure out what intimate actually means. As it turns out, I never knew.
Sounds like a healthy idea. The blog does contain some of the usual self-help/ L.A. mumbo jumbo, but it also a fascinating window into the mind of a porn star reentering the pedestrian world. How do you meet people now without flirting? Here's her take on this new challenge.
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