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Steve Driver & Sunny Dae Porn Performers/Murderers?

Too Late Now

OP/ED By The Colonel

 

2010: The beginning of a new decade in a new millennium, and perhaps the beginning of the end, the final chapter of the adult industry as we know it. Little by little, month after month, production companies close shops, producers, directors, performers, videographers, editors, agents and location owners lose their livelihood, and the shadow of impending doom over the porn valley gets thicker and stronger. The porn valley is infected with a plague, the plague of financial stress, distrust and uncertainty; and we begin to see the horrid side effects of this plague:

On June 3rd, porn performer Sunny Dae was arrested for murdering a client during a private session. She stabbed the client in the back and beat his face to a bloody pulp with a sledgehammer. She committed this hideous crime to steal about $6000 cash as well as a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop computer and a Home Depot credit card. Five years ago, Sunny Dae could have made $6000 in a week in this industry. Today, she murders for it.

On the same day, Steve Driver, another porn performer attacked three people with a Samurai sword on a movie set, killed one of them and started his escape which turned into a media circus/frenzy and two days later ended in his suicide which was documented, shot from every angle and broadcasted over and over.

Ever since Sunny Dae was arrested and Steve Driver jumped to his death, I heard several people blaming these incidents on anything and everything from The Elite to global financial meltdown to the adult industry, etc. According to some people, everybody was responsible for Dae and Driver’s heinous acts and murderous rampage except for themselves. In my opinion, such blame games are nonsense.

Let me ask you a question: How many girls are currently working as porn performers? The answer is several hundreds. Regardless of their financial situation, how many girls are capable of murdering and mutilating a client for profit? The answer is not too many. On the other hand, how many people, in every walk of life from manufacturing to human services and the adult industry had lost their job, their home and their family and are under pressure? The answer is millions. How many channel their anger and frustration by pulling a Samurai sword and attacking their co-workers? Again, the answer is not too many. The point I tend to make is that people are different, each person shows a unique reaction to the events and circumstances of their lives: Some come to terms with the crisis and manage to go through it and learn from their experiences and mistakes. Some snap, lose control and do irrational, unexpected and unimaginable things. In the end, to each his own, and every person is and will be responsible for their good, bad and ugly actions. It would have been easier and more convenient and entertaining to imagine a group of shadowy monsters, for instance shape shifting reptilians who control humans and direct them to commit crimes and wage wars and destroy themselves; but unfortunately the truth is less convenient, less entertaining and less glamour than that.

Another argument that I keep hearing about Steve Driver, is that the adult industry is responsible for his meltdown, because he wanted to fit in and (be one of us), and (we) did not accept him. I don’t know what does it mean and/or take to be one of (us), and I don’t know who (we) are. What I do know, is that as an individual, I reserve the right to like, dislike, accept or reject anybody in any social class and profession for any reason. If my acceptance and/or rejection are so vital to somebody that could lead him to destructive behavior, that’s his problem, not mine. It means that individual suffers from a lack of purpose and self esteem. Perhaps he should not put all of his eggs in one basket and limits his perception to such a tunnel vision and becomes convinced that if he’s not accepted within a particular community, for instance the adult industry, therefore there’s no other place for him. He should have moved on and seek somewhere else to find acceptance, friendship, solace or whatever that he did not find in the adult industry. It’s too late now for Steve Driver. May that be a lesson for others like him.

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