Re: RIP Yurizan Beltran

LOL That is the case with every industry.

For now, according to the various reports, the actual cause of death is unknown.  At the moment it is a "suspected overdose" and that's probably what it will turn out to be but none of the reports are saying anything at all about what drug or drugs were involved.  Until an autopsy is performed and the report released, we won't know for sure.  And we may never know whether it was an accident or intentional.  We also don't know if the drugs she took were prescribed or not.  

That does not take away from what I originally said.  A large number of deaths are due to interactions between drugs and a large number of those are due to interactions between prescribed drugs and recreational drugs.  

Re: Drugs

Drugs pervade every industry.  Mainly because doctors prescribe too many and people in this era are unused to coping with feeling unwell.  

Yes, it is most certainly a huge problem and at epidemic proportions.  As others have commented, in this industry, and sex work as a whole, there is a high percentage of folks who are dealing with difficult issues in their personal life and sadly many people prey on them using drugs and other methods.
There are far too few advocacy and support systems for folks in the sex industry -- and, unfortunately, very few folks outside the industry are going to go on-record for supporting sex workers -- though the vast majority of them consumer the product!
The industry needs to become its own best advocate for support.  While it probably won't save those who are too far down the path of self-destruction, maybe it can stop folks from getting on that path.

I assure you the industry at large won't do anything. And that's the sad thing. If this were the NFL, there was be an uproar for what you're describing. Sure, some personalities in the industry are moved by these tragedies. But this industry is inherently predatory on the talent. For what they do, and for the audience it has, how much are the women really compensated? How many tens (if not hundreds) of millions of times had these girls' videos been viewed on the web? To most consumers of porn, they'll simply look to other girls to fantasize about (for free) now that these three are gone.

I met two of these girls personally... Yuri on three occasions. Most recently just a month ago.

Whether she or Shyla intended to take their own lives is not really relevant. It's as if they didn't care whether they lived or died, which is the same as suicidal ideology in my opinion. What did they both have in common? Early to mid 30s, their peak careers were past them, with not much else to rely on for the future.

I can't turn the blind eye to it. Since it happened I've been really been questioning whether I'm an enabler as a hobbyist. I'll leave it at that. Not taking the moral high ground, just acknowledging that I don't see it as a harmless win win anymore.