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Feb. 26, 2020 – A quick Google search of “sober porn stars” took me down a rabbit hole of former adult entertainers who are now in recovery and often cite the porn industry as the catalyst for their downward spiral. While these anecdotal stories deserve to be heard, what about the people who get sober and still choose to work in porn? What about the folks that are working in the porn industry and thriving — both personally and professionally — precisely because of their recovery? 

I recently traveled to The Valley, a.k.a. Porn Valley in Los Angeles, to interview sober porn stars. The deeper I dug, the more I learned that some of the top performers in today’s adult industry are sober. Some even credit sobriety for their rising careers. Here’s what some porn stars have to say about daily life in recovery:

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