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Former adult film actress Lindsay Brooke has opened up about her 17 years in the porn industry, seeking to challenge popular assumptions about what really happens on the other side of the screen.

Brooke left the industry in 2024, and recently invited her followers on Threads to ask her anything. Her answers turned out to be remarkably candid.

“I was sitting on the couch, scrolling through my Instagram DMs and thinking about all the questions and comments people seem to think are perfectly normal to send me,” she wrote. “I guess I have a sign on my forehead that says: because I did porn, you can talk to me about sex, your relationships, your body, my body, and everything else.”

Asked about the best and worst parts of working in the industry, Brooke was blunt: “The best? When it’s over. The worst? Having sex with a complete stranger.”

She said she earned around $1,500 per shoot on average, although she considered that amount inadequate. During the first 10 years of her career, Brooke could work virtually every day, while later on she only did shoots when she needed to.

Speaking about the industry itself, she acknowledged that it could not simply be described as either good or bad.

“Every job has good and bad. There were great companies I loved working with, and there were sets I simply walked away from.”

Brooke also spoke about how she coped with the psychological strain. Asked what she felt immediately before a shoot, she said she did not experience arousal, as some viewers might assume.

“No. I dissociated. I did drugs. I left myself somewhere behind and stepped into a certain role,” she admitted.

According to Brooke, drugs helped her cope with the reality of the job.

“I did them so I wouldn’t feel anything on set, and I did them so I could feel something at home.”

Brooke is a mother of three. After the birth of each child, she tried to leave the industry for good, but financial difficulties and the stigma associated with her past work repeatedly pushed her back.

In 2024, as Brooke was preparing to sign another contract, she took a potentially fatal dose of pills but survived.

“I was supposed to die. That’s not dramatization. That’s pharmacology,” she later said.

After that, Brooke quit drugs completely.

Asked when she realized she truly needed to leave the industry, she replied: “I wanted to leave from the very beginning. I just didn’t know how. I was able to leave because I could no longer take enough drugs to sign another contract. I was lying on the floor of a hotel room, begging God: ‘Take me or help me get out.’”

After leaving the industry, Brooke devoted herself to talking about its reality. She published an extended version of her conversation with her followers and addressed men in particular.

“The entire industry is built on illusions. Women don’t actually want men to do all the things we pretend to do in movies. Women don’t want to have sex with the repairman who came to fix the sink. And they certainly don’t want to have orgies with their stepmother or their friends.”

Brooke believes pornography deliberately creates an illusory reality that can distance viewers from themselves.

She also spoke about the future of the industry in the age of artificial intelligence. In her view, AI could eventually take over a significant part of it.

At the same time, she opposes using a person’s likeness without their consent.

“I’m against anyone using someone else’s likeness without permission. Taking a woman’s face without her consent is the same old problem, just with new technology.”

Asked whether size really matters, Brooke replied: “Yes and no. That’s the honest answer.”

And when asked about working during her period, she gave an even shorter response: “They use a sponge.”

Brooke also said she does not consider her current psychological state to be problematic: “I’m good. Thank God.”

Today, the former actress continues to speak about her experiences, seeking to challenge the perception of the porn industry as a carefree world of pleasure.

“The more you lose your inner balance, the tighter the machine holds you,” she warns.

She ends her account with a question: “I got out. Why are you still inside?”

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