"I do wish I would have made better choices and thought things through before selling my soul and body for a couple of hundred dollars to a business that ends up exploiting women and only cares about making money off of them." -Madison Montag
Madison Montag is a 19 year-old
transsexual porn star, recently nominated at the Adult Video News Awards (AVN)
as “Transsexual Performer of the Year”. She grew up in a conservative small
town in Texas, where she was discriminated against as a transsexual woman. Madison
started in the adult entertainment industry at 18 years old to quickly gain
resources for the hormones and surgeries she wanted. Montag describes the adult entertainment
industry as “quite an
experience”. She claims she learned a lot about her life, about herself and
what she wanted but wishes she made better choices and thought her choices through.
In this interview with Jincey Lumpkin, Madison says that she decided she wanted
out of the business to escape the exploitation of her own body and the bodies
of others around her. Madison describes the trans niche of pornography as a
very small community and unfair one at that. While working in the pornography
industry, Madison and other girls felt like “pieces of meat” because of the
judgments their bodies received. As a transsexual performer and someone who identifies as a straight transwoman, Madison got
breast implants to feel more comfortable in her own skin for her own benefit
and for the industry. As a transsexual woman and a performer, her body was under constant
scrutiny. In addition to the abuse that is inflicted upon these transsexual women through performing, the level of respect they gain in
the industry is also lower because they are in a smaller sector of the industry.
Madison discusses the unfair treatments that her and other girls receive in
contrast with girls who are contracted through big corporations like Digital
Playground. Madison says she was completely disgusted with producers, many of
them using her and other girls as a “hole to fill”.
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