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When Duke University freshman Miriam Weeks shot her first porn scene last November to pay her $60,000 a year tuition, little did she know her porn alter ego, Belle Knox, would soon make international headlines. But after a fellow student outed her to the entire student body, the outspoken women's studies major turned a potential worst case scenario into a newfound career: She's appeared on The View , secured a summer internship at Pornhub (which is exactly what it sounds like), and is working on both a book deal and a line of "molded body part" sex toys—all while on track to graduate with the class of 2017. We Skyped with Weeks about porn stereotypes, Duke's conservative culture, and how she's "shattering stereotypes" one X-rated film at a time:
I was looking for ways to pay for college. I saw you could make a couple thousand dollars each time with porn. I applied to a bunch of agencies, and within days I was getting callbacks
Totally. I didn't know how girls got into porn. I thought maybe they were at the mall and some agent guy scouted them. It was as easy as sending in my pictures, but girls, don't get any ideas! I am not trying to be anybody's role model.
Super awkward. The photographer was this older guy. I felt really weird about him watching me have sex, but I got into it and I ended up feeling super exhilarated. I left the scene feeling like I had done a good honest day's work.
That people would find out. I probably would have told my family and friends. I would have been more careful about my identity. But I didn't want my family to feel guilty that they couldn't pay. It was my burden.
We're in the Bible Belt. Add in the stereotype that girls who do porn are stupid blonde bimbos, then me coming out and being so articulate. I shatter those stereotypes. But also Tasha Reign goes to UCLA and nobody cares because UCLA is so tolerant towards her. It's the college culture of Duke mixed in with preconceived notions of what porn stars are like.
First I'd like to see the decriminalization of prostitution. Sex workers should be given equal protection under the law. I want our jobs to be treated as legitimate. Right now, if I were to go to a policeman and report something that happened to me, he would say, "You're a prostitute, I don't care."
Don't keep it a secret from the people closest to you. Don't try to live a double life because it ends up being incredibly isolating and very mentally draining.
It's bittersweet because the entire world knows what I do, but it's freeing to not have to lie to my parents anymore.
In eighth grade a sex educator told us sex was a sin. If you had sex you'd get pregnant or die of HIV. Nobody ever told me, "This is how you use a condom, this is how you use birth control." I was always told, "Don't have sex." That made me want to rebel a little bit.
I'm usually doing an appearance or working. I don't go out like I used to. I know if I go out I'm going to be bombarded with glares and hostility.
I am. I've been single forever. You know what sucks about this whole thing? There's all these guys watch my porn who probably lust after me, but I can't get a guy to ask me on a date.
Maybe 70% of students support me and like me, then there's 30% of people who hate me and want me to die.
Sasha Grey is my porn idol; she's so intelligent and articulate yet so naughty. I really like Annie Sprinkle. She was the first porn girl to get a Ph.D. and she's a really well respected feminist activist.
That porn was a desperate exchange. Any type of labor exchange is a desperate exchange at its core. I researched heavily before I entered it. Porn was never a last resort. I was not naïve, I was not exploited into it. I chose of my own free will to do it. It's as simple as that.
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Co-ed reveals she feels more comfortable at the Exxxotica porn expo than on campus
In January, 18-year-old Miriam Weeks — a college freshman studying woman’s studies and sociology at Duke — sent students and faculty at the North Carolina university into pandemonium when she was outed as porn star Belle Knox. Since then, Weeks has done her best to remain a “normal” college student . . . while also selling her panties and shooting scenes on the side. Rolling Stone is the first and, so far, only publication to catch up with her on campus and get the full story of how she transformed from a cash-strapped pre-frosh into a topic of discussion for everyone from Howard Stern to the women on The View .
Here are five revelations from the feature – “The Blue Devil in Miss Knox,” by Alex Morris – which appears in the issue of Rolling Stone that hits newsstands Friday.
Miriam Weeks’ parents thought she was a virgin before they learned she was doing porn. Weeks was 12 when she first started watching porn and lost her virginity four years later — but her family didn’t know it. Despite the fact that she was a high-school student, she was partying with college kids on the weekend. Her mother grounded her for “like, a year” after naked pictures of Weeks began circulating around her hometown, however her folks had no clue she was starring in porn when she started out. She told her mother she was making money to pay for college by selling weed.
She was sexually assaulted in high school. Until now, Weeks has not disclosed the fact that she was sexually assaulted at a house party while still in high school. One reason she wanted to keep it quiet is because she is aware of misconceptions about why porn actresses go into the business. Furthermore, her friends at the time blamed her for being careless after the incident (she was drunk), which in turn attracted Weeks to women’s rights.
Her grandfather has supported her, even as her siblings turned their backs. Weeks’ older brother and sister no longer speak to her, and she describes her relationship with her parents as “forever changed.” “My grandpa has been really supportive, though,” she says. “He was just like, ‘I don’t think it’s anybody’s damn business what you do.”
Her vagina recently served as the mold for a sex toy. Among her many extracurricular endeavors in the adult industry, Weeks recently allowed the Doc Johnson company to take molds of her vagina, butthole and mouth, to be made into a toy line.
She feels more respected at the Exxxotica porn expo than at Duke. Weeks sold her panties for upwards of $50 a pair at the Atlantic City porn convention, where she appeared in a “schoolgirl” outfit of a plaid skirt, fishnets and a tank bra that read “BJU.” When one fan told her the shockingly lewd acts he’d like to perform on her, she said, “Thank you.” After she received the award for New Girl on the Block, she told Rolling Stone , “I don’t feel respected at Duke. I feel respected here.”
Find out who Weeks’ porn-star idol is and where she sees her career going next in the full story – online now .
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In what may be one of the splashiest media sagas of this year, a Duke University freshman has revealed her secret porn performer persona after being "outed" to her classmates by an insensitive male friend earlier in February. The student, known now by her stage name "Belle Knox," has vociferously defended herself through editorials submitted to the feminist website xoJane , and has enjoyed a great deal of support from sex positive quarters, though not without a good amount of admonition from sources both within Duke and on the web at large.
Of course, a good chunk of the criticism Knox has received has been of the reprehensible and personal sort, including threats and harassing messages sent through social media. These attacks are of course odious and inexcusable, and no amount of disagreement with Knox's message can justify them. This kind of behavior is not only harmful, but disproportionately aimed at women in the public sphere.
That having been said, Knox's agenda is misguided. Knox, a self-described libertarian with reluctant GOP affiliations, believes that performing in porn is a direct affront to the patriarchy, the term she uses for general systematized and institutionalized oppression of women. According to Knox:
We deem to keep women in a place where they are subjected to male sexuality. We seek to rob them of their choice and of their autonomy. We want to oppress them and keep them dependent on the patriarchy. A woman who transgresses the norm and takes ownership of her body — because that's exactly what porn is, no matter how rough the sex is — ostensibly poses a threat to the deeply ingrained gender norms that polarize our society. [ xoJane ]
Knox's mission, in other words, is to attack the oppression of women by intentionally flouting sexual norms, such as the expectation of some level of modesty or exclusivity in partners. But does that actually undermine patriarchy? I doubt it.
It's notable, for instance, that the major media venues who are now airing Knox's feminist editorial are only doing so because she's a curious sexual tabloid spread. That women's bodies are easily marketed is no strike against the patriarchy, and that a woman can get attention for her political views only after appealing to male sexual desire certainly doesn't seem to indicate any serious move in the direction of equality.
But let's leave aside whether this theoretically breaks the barriers of sexuality and focus on a side of porn that has gotten far less attention in this debate. What material good do women gain from the porn industry?
At the performer-level, porn is a notoriously treacherous place to make a career. While female performers might make more than their male counterparts, most of them just don't get paid that well, thanks in part to the rise of piracy, cam sites, and the glut of material online. And dwindling profits mean not only pay cuts for performers, but an increased willingness to jockey to meet the demands of a mostly male audience. This competition has two major negative outcomes for Knox's anti-patriarchal project.
First, it means that male consumers dictate the terms of what's depicted. As a result, male desire impacts the work and health of performers. For example, a 2012 study found that porn performers in LA had higher rates of STIs than prostitutes working in Nevada; the study authors chalked the prevalence of infections up to the reluctance of studios to enforce condom use because visible condoms aren't arousing. In other words, the industry drive to respond to male sexual desire could well be the reason performers like Knox are in danger of contracting life-threatening illnesses like HIV. Is this what bucking the patriarchy looks like?
Two, porn doesn't feature the kind of workplace a woman — or for that matter, a man — should want to join. While one could imagine building protections within the industry against unsafe sex practices, that's a difficult task in the absence of any labor union, as porn performer Jenna Jameson has noted . It is unclear to me how working without any collective bargaining power in an unsafe industry is a helpful move for women. Now, I don't mean to imply that Knox is secretly unhappy in her niche, but many women are surely suffering in a low-paying industry with little control over working conditions that pose significant threats to their long-term health.
The obvious retort is that while the material conditions of porn performers might leave something to be desired, the work of porn performers helps non-performing women at large by challenging gender roles. (This is heavily disputed, of course, with many women expressing concern that readily available porn imbues young men with disastrously misguided expectations of women's bodies and committed sexuality.) But it is difficult to imagine, even in that case, how porn really challenges gender roles.
Her assertion is that by making a choice — any choice — she's bucked the patriarchy because she's asserted her decision-making capabilities. But this is only a net increase in one particular woman's freedom, which means both that it isn't any improvement for the status of women as a whole, and also that it only signals an increase in liberties, but not necessarily any gain in measurable well being. This is perhaps satisfactory in a libertarian frame, wherein freedom is the ultimate value, but for women who are interested in measurable material gains, it leaves almost everything to be desired.
One hopes young women paying attention to Knox will choose not to campaign for ambiguous increases in freedom, but rather in targeted betterments in the arenas of life you can take to the bank: good and fair wages, health, and safety in the workplace. In the world of porn, none of those goods are on offer.
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