Why do people do porn?

[Poptart]

I had a childhood friend whose mom was a retired porn star. I never asked why she chose porn, but I can tell you that they lived in a large secluded home near the top of a mountain. Her mom was in her early 40s at the time, which is a young age for a woman to be retired. [Edit: just looked her up and apparently she was also a business woman. In the 1990s she began buying up the rights to pornographic images and reselling them to early internet websites] She was unmarried but had a long-term boyfriend who I remember took us camping once. The parents of some other friends were scandalized by this woman’s past and banned their children from going over to her house.

After high school, this friend went to art school, entered a contest for playboy, and won playmate of the month. She lives in nyc now and is a pretty successful artist.