A former porn star reckons X-rated hit TV drama Adult Material will help break down taboos about blue movies.
Lianne Young – now a sexual violence adviser for Britain’s biggest police force – hopes it will help win more protection for sex film actors.
And she claims more people are trying a porn career after Covid-19 job losses.
She said: “I applaud Channel 4 for opening this conversation.
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"As a single mum who went into the industry to make money, parts of Adult Material felt like watching my own life.
"Sometimes it was degrading but I didn’t feel used.”
Adult Material features Call the Midwife star Hayley Squires and focuses on a woman’s life in the porn industry.
Lianne, 46, answered an ad in 1999, aged 24, and ended up making up to £10,000 a week in blue movies – going from a Bristol council house to the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles.
Her big break came on US show Sex Survivor in 2001.
She said: “It was like X-rated Big Brother and gave me a luxury life, parties.”
But Lianne retired “exhausted” at 27 and is now a counsellor for the Met’s Sexual Violence Unit.
She says “many are turning to a porn career after losing jobs in lockdown”.
“Porn isn’t going anywhere. But we can make it safer," she added.
