August Ames

[Ben in LA]

It was mentioned that the gay side of porn has different testing protocols; she and another performer implied that working with “crossover” perfor,era would put them more at risk for disease and such. Folks on that side of porn felt attacked.

“Straight” performers such as Jessica Drake disagreed. One of her tweets:

performers, by all means, fuck who you want to fuck...
but if you're eliminating folks based on the fact they they may have done gay or crossover work, your logic is seriously flawed.
reality is, WE DON'T KNOW who does what with whom when there are no cameras.
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One tweet that many are calling out is this one by Jaxton Wheeler. He has since locked his profile because he’s REALLY being hammered. Dude just might get blacked-balled over this.


It’s a mess. Obviously I’ll stand with trans performers, but of course I saw where August was coming from. Her body; her rules. Many felt that her original tweet was worded wrong.

[pimpgreen8989]

I think she should have kept her mouth shut,
Just said she doesn't want to work with this guy,

The gay scene is a very highly sensitive entity now.
Taking shit about can get you in a world of hurt.

[JerkingDude]

She was beautiful and only 23 years old. So damn sad.

[SanDiegoPervySage]

It was mentioned that the gay side of porn has different testing protocols; she and another performer implied that working with “crossover” perfor,era would put them more at risk for disease and such. Folks on that side of porn felt attacked.

“Straight” performers such as Jessica Drake disagreed. One of her tweets:



One tweet that many are calling out is this one by Jaxton Wheeler. He has since locked his profile because he’s REALLY being hammered. Dude just might get blacked-balled over this.


It’s a mess. Obviously I’ll stand with trans performers, but of course I saw where August was coming from. Her body; her rules. Many felt that her original tweet was worded wrong.

The odd thing is some of the female performers that came at August have been in the industry for years refuse to do interracial, yet they want to talk about discrimination. Wheeler deserves his dragging. I looked up his twitter and he said he would never encourage someone to harm themselves, yet....

[lerfdunner]

Was reading the post and assumed it was faked, but holy shit. She's actually dead, allegedly due to homophobic comments.

RIP August, so young too.

[GroobySteven]

She made a controversial tweet a couple of days ago. She got bullied and chastised because of it. Apparently the pressure got to her and she committed suicide.

Discuss?

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Ben - with respect, you're making assumptions here. You don't know 'the pressure got to her' at this point, or if she was previously suicidal or had other things going on in her life. It's a very sad circumstances but I think we need to have more information. The tweets got pretty bad, but she also tweeted out some pretty horrible stuff.

[GroobySteven]

I was following this as it was happening. I don't think a 'discussion' on this is really in anyone's interest other than those who are trying to create a platform to stand on, on what is a tragedy.

The discussion that needs to be had, and I'm guilty of this also, is why social media becomes such a battleground. I've had online fights with people - and I did make a statement about August. Without a moderator, and with people who don't have any input into the industry other than being fans, then the situation builds. There were some pretty crude and nasty things said about the gay performers, and there were some pretty nasty responses to that. When people get attacked they attack back and it gets out of hand. Did anybody really mean that someone should commit suicide, I don't know? But having been on the end of death threats from some of the SJW's, and being told to kill myself, it's not a nice feeling. Some people may not be equipped to handle that - and what we should remember, is that these are YOUNG people we're dealing with.

I don't think Jessica Drake said anything on-toward or particularly nasty, but she seems to have been picked out. Aspen Brooks also has been targeted by simply being the last person August responded to.

I've actually muted some people who are using this as a platform for other issues.

What's needed is for people to have more respect for others - but also, to shut the fuck up sometimes. If you don't want to work with a performer because of their sexuality, their race, their look, what-the-fuck-ever, then address that to the producer and refuse the shoot. Someone else will do it, who is more comfortable. You don't need to make a statement or try and rally people to you, on social media. Just go about your business and work towards the next shoot. Are you going to get less work offered? Possibly, but that's the choice you made by being more selective - and it may work for, or against you.

We also need a forum where people talk face-to-face, instead of screaming over a few words typed out. That's maybe something that can be looked at.

Those working in the industry, models, industry, photographers, whomever - there is a new private forum at TSChatter.com specifically for this sort of thing.

[SanDiegoPervySage]

Ben - with respect, you're making assumptions here. You don't know 'the pressure got to her' at this point, or if she was previously suicidal or had other things going on in her life. It's a very sad circumstances but I think we need to have more information. The tweets got pretty bad, but she also tweeted out some pretty horrible stuff.

At the least, it is noted that she suffered from depression even before porn. From twitter posts made earlier in the year, people had feared she was suicidal for other reasons(although this does not exactly prove it). So it does appear she had a history of indicators of calling for help.

[bassman2546]

I think she should have kept her mouth shut,
Just said she doesn't want to work with this guy,

The gay scene is a very highly sensitive entity now.
Taking shit about can get you in a world of hurt.

Maybe all the assholes that bullied her should have kept THEIR mouths shut! You ever think of that? I bet some that bullied her could give a flying fuck about the gay community. They just want to take out their angry pathetic lives on someone else. No one has a clue today when it comes to dishing out hateful bullshit to an individual. Everyone looks for any reason to lash out or to find a 'hidden meaning' to accuse. And now they find out she had a history with depression. Yeah, they fucking found that out the hard way didn't they?

[GroobySteven]

Maybe all the assholes that bullied her should have kept THEIR mouths shut! You ever think of that? I bet some that bullied her could give a flying fuck about the gay community. They just want to take out their angry pathetic lives on someone else. No one has a clue today when it comes to dishing out hateful bullshit to an individual. Everyone looks for any reason to lash out or to find a 'hidden meaning' to accuse. And now they find out she had a history with depression. Yeah, they fucking found that out the hard way didn't they?

Well she said some pretty horrible things also, so it wasn't all one-way or bullying from what I was watching. That doesn't make it right or wrong, but when people are attacked with vitriol then often they would respond the same way and I think everyone here as probably been guilty of that. There was no need for her to make her statement which didn't read well.