Pink Cross Foundation
In this issue...
Porn Star Christmas Outreach
Events
Pink Cross Foundation reaches out to porn stars and porn fans at Las Vegas Adult Expo Outreach January 8 - 11.

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Christmas Comes Early to Pink Cross Foundation!
Another porn star leaves porn and we are celebrating early!    Dec 2008

Greetings!



Tamra Toryn Out of Porn!

I am VERY excited to announce that another porn star has left porn! Tamra contacted me through Myspace and we immediately connected. She wanted to come out with her story to help educate young girls before they get into porn and suffer major consequences. She also wants those viewing porn to know the truth so they will stop buying into the lie and contributing to women being abused in the industry. She is very outspoken and tells it like it is in an interview with her and I. Talk about two outspoken ex porn stars! Click here to listen to an audio of us talking boldly about the truth behind the porn industry and more!

She boldly writes on her myspace blog:

"Unlike most girls that start their porn careers doing just masturbation, oral or girl/ girl, I went straight for hardcore because I was quote unquote "hardcore" . Attitude check anyone?  My scene was shot Gonzo (reality/amateur style) boy/girl, anal, ATM (ass to mouth)- pay $1000. Expenses and flight all paid. Sounded like a dream come true.

I arrive and a man with a sign awaits me in the baggage claim area with an Escalade limo to pick me up. We stop at Denny's to eat and meet with the director. After we meet, he takes me outside to give me a once over look of approval, we finish eating, and drive to the studio.

Nothing prepared me other than a boot camp workout, my xanax prescription for my anxiety disorder since I was nervous as heck, and a low carb diet for a month to dig up the courage to take my clothes off to do things I never thought I would share on film for the world to see. Tons of people walking around, food provided, etc etc. No STD tests were given or shown since the director assured me that since they were using condoms, I wouldn't have to worry. (Yeah right)

2 hours later, naked, medicated, sore, and wet from jumping off a boat to end the scene like they pushed me off the boat like a useless stupid whore, I received $1000 for my "hard work", praised of a "great job" I did and driven to my friend's house (since I didn't want to stay at the production's beach house with weird people on drugs I didn't know) and extended my stay to celebrate my new life as a "porn star".

This is where real life ended and the delusion of temporary existence began."

You can read the rest of her amazing story at www.myspace.com/miss_Tammie_B Her profile is set to private but if you request to be her friend and mention Pink Cross she will approve you. Please be sure to leave her encouraging comments. She says many myspace friends already reached out to her and it REALLY touched her.

Tamra entered the porn industry at age 26 in 2005 and was involved in making very hardcore movies. After being tired of the abuse and catching HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, she left the porn industry in February, 2008 and now works at a tanning salon in Hollywood. Her dream is to go to Cosmetology school so we are going to do our best to help her make that dream come true. Right now she has a need for new clothes so we want to help her with immediate needs first.

If you have a heart to help Tamra rebuild her life, please donate below. We appreciate everyone who cares about these precious women who are trying to rebuild their lives. It's NOT an easy time for Tamra so we thank you for caring. She struggles with many consequences of porn and Pink Cross Foundation wants to be there for her.

 Check back for an updated blog about our meeting on Monday. I am driving down to Hollywood to take her out to lunch and shopping for new clothes. I can't wait to spend time with her!

Thank you sincerely for caring about precious women like Tamra. We couldn't do it with your help!

Love, Shelley Lubben
President, Pink Cross Foundation

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Porn Star Christmas 2008 Outreach

The holiday season is a very depressing time for many porn stars and sex workers. For them it's a season full of loneliness, drug and alcohol abuse and even suicide.

Many people in the porn industry don't have any family they can go home to or have broken relationships with family members due to their involvement in porn. Many will do more drugs and alcohol during this season than any other time of the year.

In fact, below are porn stars who died during the Holiday season so you can see how serious it is that Pink Cross reaches out to them. All of these who died below during the holiday season are from drug overdoses, substance abuse and suicides:

Bodil Joensen 1/07
Danny Dukes 12/07
Kirby Scott 11/06
Juliette Jett 11/05
Karen Lancaume 1/05
Rebecca Steele 1/04
Johnny Rahm 11/04
Jay Anthony 11/04
Naughtia Childs 1/02
Sophia Roche 1/02
Nancee Kellee 11/91
Chance Ryder 11/99
Cal Jammer 1/95
Daniel Holt 11/93
Chanel Price 11/92
Alan Lamber 12/92
Pierce Buisson 11/87
Linda Wong 12/87
and more!

PLEASE help us reach out to them this Christmas to let them know they are NOT alone and that many people care about their precious lives. My husband Garrett and I and our family are going to make up over 60 Christmas boxes and will personally deliver the boxes or mail them depending on what the recipient prefers.

So far we have received WONDERFUL donations such as knitted hats and purses by a sweet lady named Andrea, Christmas cards, bath soaps, candles and Bibles.

We still need Christmas CDs, ornaments, beauty supplies, small Bibles, home made crafts, sexual abuse and other healing books, target cards and jewelry as well as finances for shipping costs which are about $400.
Please mail all supplies before Dec. 10 to:

Pink Cross Foundation
6077 Coffee Rd. 4
PMB 33
Bakersfield, CA. 93308

or donate securely online via paypal:

  

Please join us in this very special and important outreach. You may save a life this Christmas.

Last year we mailed over 40 boxes and several women left the adult industry. Erin Moore, one of the recipients of a box, shared that the bracelet we gave her she never took off because it gave her strength to leave the porn industry. Others such as Becca Bratt, Sierra Sinn, Victoria Vonn, Ryan Millay, Veronica Lain and others said our Christmas box really touched them and gave them strength to get out of porn and continue strong in their recovery.

Thank you for caring about porn stars. Keep in mind, we will see many of them who we sent boxes to at the Las Vegas Porn Convention Outreach in January so it will be a GREAT way to talk to them to see if they enjoyed their gift!

I am extremely grateful and thank you,

Shelley Lubben, President

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About Shelley Lubben and Pink Cross Foundation

Shelley Lubben is a wife and mother, a missionary to the sex industry, fighter for truth and advocate for sex workers and porn performers who are abused by the adult industry. Shelley is also a former porn actress fighting tirelessly against the pornography industry which affects most of the world in a destructive way. Unrelenting in the cause of human rights, Shelley is passionate to educate people all around the world about the abusive and illegally operating porn industry as well as inspire the world to stop viewing pornography and stop contributing to the destruction of men and women who are being abused daily in the pornography industry.

Because of the huge epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, drugs and abuse towards adult industry workers and lack of help available, Shelley and her husband Garrett founded the Pink Cross Foundation, a non-profit organization created to reach out to adult industry workers offering emotional, financial and transitional support for those who want out of porn and the sex industry.

To learn more about the mission of Pink Cross Foundation please click here.