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Miriam Weeks' Journey to Belle Knox
She Googled: How to be a porn star? Just like that, Duke student Belle Knox found a way to pay her $60,000 a year tuition. While many have focused on criticizing Belle Knox’s decision or her rise to porn fame, she would prefer they focus on what led her to become a college student porn star. Tuitions are skyrocketing. It was time to get a job or get a loan.
By Filthy Staff10 years ago in Filthy
What is Femen?
“Our mission is protest! Our weapons are bare breasts!” The first thing you’re going to notice about a FEMEN protest is naked bodies, covered in slogans painted on skin and crowns of flowers in their hair. Breasts are the marker of the movement. Women taking off their shirts and showing their breasts is good press for FEMEN, the now-French based international women’s movement intent on improving women’s rights.
By Lindsie Polhemus12 years ago in Filthy