a Miriam Weeks

Posted on | March 7, 2014 | 82 Comments

Regular readers need no introduction:

On the one hand, Duke University freshman Miriam Weeks wants us to believe that she is not ashamed of hiring out her vagina to porn producers. On the other hand, she expects us to protect her mythical anonymity when, in point of fact, anybody with access to Google can learn that the infamous vagina-for-hire known by the professional pseudonym “Belle Knox” is actually Miriam Weeks.

Not to put too fine a point on it, Miriam Weeks is a whore.

She is not merely a slut (a word signifying promiscuity), but is a prostitute, a whore, a woman whose vagina is for rent by hourly rates.

Blunt honest English language is not hate, and it is the hypocrisy of euphemism that insults our intelligence:

The Duke University student and porn star known as Belle Knox opened up in a candid interview with Piers Morgan Thursday night, saying she has no regrets about getting to porn and telling him proudly, “I’m not being exploited, I love what I’m doing, and I’m safe. . . .
Knox told Morgan if she had been “another college girl who does porn,” it wouldn’t be a big news story, except for the fact that she took a stand, defended herself, and talked about how it “empowered” her. She said that everyone is “so repressed” and “told that sex is bad” that being in the porn industry and having “sexual autonomy is an “incredibly freeing experience” for her.
Knox said Duke University has been “really supportive,” but she had to get away from campus because it was a “really upsetting experience” for her, whereas when she’s working on pornos, she’s “surrounded by support” and “people I can talk to the stigma I face every day.”

“Well, that comes from thousands of years of patriarchy
and thousands of years of religion that leads us
to the point where we so deeply fear sexuality.”

What. Ever.

It is the hypocrisy, as I say, that is insulting. If Miriam Weeks, the daughter of an oncologist in Spokane, Washington, and a graduate of Gonzaga Prep, wants to be a shameless whore — getting paid to be boned on camera for the perverse entertainment of creepy freaks worldwide — that’s her business. But for her to pretend that this is anything other than what it is, to suggest that what she does is “empowering” and that anyone who disapproves is “repressed” — for her to expect us to accept her as our moral superior — is so insulting that I’m surprised that her fellow Women’s Studies majors at Duke are not publicly calling her out for it.

This deception requires us to ignore the reality of what it is that Miriam Weeks is paid to do. But let any Women’s Studies major explain how it is “empowering” for a teenage college girl to do this, this, this, this and this (all NSFW, of course). That’s feminism?

Category: Education, Sex

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82 Responses to “Now @PiersMorgan Interviews Duke Porn Star @Belle_Knox a/k/a Miriam Weeks”

ariyadesai01
March 7th, 2014 @ 9:51 am

RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Now @PiersMorgan Interviews Duke Porn Star @Belle_Knox a/k/a Miriam Weeks http://t.co/QjpezncVkF #TCOT
Frankly Bored
March 7th, 2014 @ 9:11 am

The only “empowered” prostitutes that I can think of are in congress. Maybe that’s her ambition…
Frankly Bored
March 7th, 2014 @ 9:12 am

Also, who is Piers Morgan?
RS
March 7th, 2014 @ 9:13 am

This whole thing is a publicity stunt, designed to increase her visibility (metaphorically, obviously. She’s obviously quite visible to those with an internet connection, a modicum google-foo, and prurient tastes).

The problem is that this deluded, extraordinarily immature young lady is attempting to make the case that humans are nothing more than their most primitive of instincts. Even if we remove God/religion from the equation, we nonetheless exist as the sole species on this planet which is self-aware; which has the ability to reason; which has the ability to even entertain questions of morality. In spite of that, Ms. Weeks, her enablers, and the architects of the “philosophy” she promotes, seek to reduce the essence of humanity to the secretions of a few glands. It is spiritual devolution of the first order.

BTW, on the topic of feminism and dovetailing with one of your posts from the last couple of weeks, see this Caitlan Flanagan article in the Atlantic via Reynolds.
M. Thompson
March 7th, 2014 @ 9:22 am

Talk about two trainwrecks meeting.

Also, at least she isn’t out at Lewis-McChord hooking up with some Private or Airman and draining his accounts.
Dana
March 7th, 2014 @ 9:28 am

At this point, it’s all about damage control. Her future outside-of-porn career prospects are poor, which leaves her current profession as the only one really left to her. Trouble is, since she stars in these barely-legal films because she looks so young, what happens when she gets older; what, exactly, is the career life-span for pornographic actresses?
Colorado Aled
March 7th, 2014 @ 9:45 am

She makes money giving speeches to campus women’s groups around the country, likely followed by some low-level position at a feminist group before she tries her hand at “performance art” as a thinly veiled excuse to masturbate on stage.
M. Thompson
March 7th, 2014 @ 9:47 am

You mean Piers Moron, right?
Chris Smith
March 7th, 2014 @ 10:25 am

It can be quiet a while, if she stays away from drugs and alcohol. Then there’s cross-over work, work regular movies or tv shows (e.g. Sasha Grey). There is the lecture circuit, but those sort of women are usually oddballs in other ways. (e.g. Annie Sprinkle). The big problem for her will be walking away from the easy money (a few thousand dollars for a few hours of work each week).

RSM, the ‘Game’ websites would simply say that all her talk is simply her “Rationalization Hamster” spinning its wheel at full tilt.
Dana
March 7th, 2014 @ 10:35 am

A “career” that could doubtlessly take her up to 27, maybe 28. What does she do for the next 50 years?

Well, the answer is obvious: change her name, marry some guy with a decent job, and become an ordinary, unknown housewife. A very honorable calling, though one of which the feminists might not completely approve.
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March 7th, 2014 @ 10:37 am

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RS
March 7th, 2014 @ 10:40 am

It might have been possible to walk away before the Goreacle invented the internet. Further, given her willingness to seek out publicity, it seems unlikely that she can merely disappear into the crowd. More likely, in five years she’ll be the subject of some sort of “Where Are They Now?” feature showing her in horrific circumstances.
Finrod Felagund
March 7th, 2014 @ 11:00 am

A lot of Women’s Studies majors end up as strippers because there are no jobs in their chosen field and they can make good money as strippers. It seems she’s just short-circuited that process and jumped ahead.
Groty1
March 7th, 2014 @ 11:04 am

I predict she will drop out of Duke soon. Not because she’s being stigmatized, ostracized or shunned, but for business reasons. A book deal must surely be in the works. Perhaps a true documentary. She’s gorgeous and smart. Has a doctor father suggesting she comes from an upper middle class “decent” family. This is a gold mine. She’ll be a millionaire before she’s 20. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade. I don’t say any of this approvingly, but objectively. I lead my life like a prude by choice: don’t drink, don’t do drugs, don’t visit prostitutes, don’t smoke. But I don’t really blame her. She’s now a celebrity and the society we’ve created obscenely (pun intended) rewards celebrities. We’ve found our new Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton. I bet she’s going to cash in. Hugely.
Freddie Sykes
March 7th, 2014 @ 11:10 am

The fact that she is paying Duke’s prices for a degree in Women’s Studies is prima facie evidence that she is a idiot.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
March 7th, 2014 @ 11:19 am

Meh.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
March 7th, 2014 @ 11:22 am

Her future in porn is poor. Very few people do well at porn. Most makes a few bucks, get used up and move on to other careers. A few are hot for a decade, and then do events for a while and eventually retire. And then there are those who spin out of control and crash and burn.
Rob Crawford
March 7th, 2014 @ 11:40 am

What a horrible decision, how could anyone give this scum the light of day? I mean, a porn star giving Piers Morgan even a minute of time?! What was she thinking?!
Dana
March 7th, 2014 @ 11:45 am

I knew it was Al Gore’s fault!
Dianna Deeley
March 7th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm

Oh, dear.

If that’s feminism, I think I shall remain a non-feminist. Who does not rent by the hour, and most certainly believes in privacy!
RKae
March 7th, 2014 @ 12:19 pm

I just love these “porn hasn’t ruined my life” people (utterly brushing aside all the people whose lives ARE ruined)… and yet I’m not allowed to bring up my happy marriage as evidence that patriarchy and monogamy work quite well. Nope I’M the one that’s deceived.
RS
March 7th, 2014 @ 12:32 pm

After that first heroine fix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman didn’t think it had ruined his life, either.
Jerry Beckett
March 7th, 2014 @ 1:07 pm

““Well, that comes from thousands of years of patriarchyand thousands of years of religion that leads us
to the point where we so deeply fear sexuality.”

Wow. That is some deeply intelligent stuff there. The education she’s receiving in return for becoming a paid cum dumpster sure is has sure been worth it, huh?
robertstacymccain
March 7th, 2014 @ 1:14 pm

As a married father of six, I resent the accusation that I “deeply fear sexuality.”
robertstacymccain
March 7th, 2014 @ 1:17 pm

“A book deal must surely be in the works.”

And the film rights to the book deal should fetch a pretty penny, I expect. The road to Hell is paved with celebrity ambitions.
marew
March 7th, 2014 @ 2:03 pm

As my sweet 89 year old mother (of five) use to say, referring to people who constantly talk about it, “they think they invented sex.”
Bozikek
March 7th, 2014 @ 2:06 pm

Better make it a picture book, they will get better sales.

Already wrote the score to the movie, “Bow-chikka-chikka wow-wow”
Art Deco
March 7th, 2014 @ 2:27 pm

The education she’s receiving in return for becoming a paid cum dumpster has sure been worth it, huh?

Oh, but she does lesbian material too.
RS
March 7th, 2014 @ 2:27 pm

The only thing I “fear” about sexuality is reducing it to nothing more the bodily function, with no more meaning than blowing one’s nose. Pornography is to art involving erotic love as Elvis on velvet is to portraiture.
Art Deco
March 7th, 2014 @ 2:28 pm

I guess her daddy hasn’t cut her off yet (or has no one in their social circle had the information forwarded them???).
On the left coast
March 7th, 2014 @ 3:35 pm

It’s even worse than it looks:

“So why Duke, of all places? Why didn’t you choose a less costly institution?

MW: I was offered scholarships at a lot of places. I was offered full tuition at Vanderbilt, for example, and was accepted into USC, Wellesley, Barnard, Pepperdine, some others. But I visited Duke last year on Blue Devil Days [Duke’s programmed weekend for admitted freshmen], and I remember walking into the Duke Chapel — I’m a very spiritual person — and just feeling an energy that told me, “This is the place you need to be.” And I felt something in the chapel in that moment that told me that I needed to be here and go to Duke and it was something that would be an amazing experience for me.

Would you still do porn if Duke cost less?

MW: No. If Duke had given me sufficient financial aid, if they had given me the proper resources and made college affordable for my family, I would not have done porn.

http://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2014/02/25/blue_devil_the_duke_porn_star_and_college_costs_885.html
richard mcenroe
March 7th, 2014 @ 3:49 pm

Becoming a whore is a bad life choice.

Associating yourself with Piers Morgan is just sad.
RS
March 7th, 2014 @ 3:54 pm

Assuming she is, indeed, a very spiritual person, her comments tell us everything we need to know about the spirits infesting Duke University.
charles w
March 7th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm

He looks like a bleached squeak hole. Don’t ask me how I know about such things. I denounce myself.
Rich Vail
March 7th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm

This will probably be a minority view…who cares what this woman does to go to college. At the bottom of it all, it’s her CHOICE…so stop the pulpit pounding, and just let it alone. The sad fact is that porn is the only industry that women far out earn men.

I just don’t really care what this woman does to earn the $55k per year she needs for her degree…yawn…’nough said.
Rich Vail
March 7th, 2014 @ 5:12 pm

HERE HERE!!!

I almost downvoted you…which should teach me a lesson in actually READING the entire comment.
Rich Vail
March 7th, 2014 @ 5:13 pm

Hoffman is a typical Hollywood asshole…too much money, not enough sense, mixed with a large dose of narcissism…he killed himself…and died the death he deserved. Good riddance to him.
Rich Vail
March 7th, 2014 @ 5:15 pm

Some of those women earn far more than a few thousand dollars per week…often far, far more than the male “stars”…
Norman Invasion
March 7th, 2014 @ 5:47 pm

Maybe she could do like Traci Lords & go into motivational speaking, or something.
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March 7th, 2014 @ 5:56 pm

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Kirby McCain
March 7th, 2014 @ 6:02 pm

Six children later I doubt ‘be fruitful and multiple’ made our host (or his wife) deeply fearful of sexuality.
Kirby McCain
March 7th, 2014 @ 6:23 pm

Most women in porn make their real money as touring strippers. They get a set amount for appearing, they get $$$ for merchandise sales and so forth. This touring is a grind (ikr) and usually leads to drugs. If for whatever reason she stops by for a visit don’t let her sit on the good furniture.
Bob Belvedere
March 7th, 2014 @ 6:37 pm

It seems they rather embraced it.
Mike G.
March 7th, 2014 @ 6:57 pm

http://youtu.be/25-8el1FLzo
Mike G.
March 7th, 2014 @ 7:01 pm

It’s the “or something” that should have her parents worried.
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March 7th, 2014 @ 11:54 pm

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Funeral guy
March 8th, 2014 @ 2:32 am

The phrase, “I’m spiritual, but not religious” basically means I like unicorns, but God is just too judgmental and might require me to stop having sex on camera for money.
Funeral guy
March 8th, 2014 @ 2:37 am

I’m sure the Weeks’s Christmas newsletter is a hoot. “Our Miriam had quite a year empowering herself. At one point amazing even herself that she could take a c**k as big as a baby’s arm all the way up her a$$.”
Funeral guy
March 8th, 2014 @ 2:44 am

I was thinking the same thing. Good luck, Miriam, with the job market when you’re a washed up, wasted porn slag. Or does she not believe the internet (like living in Hell) is forever. Oh well, there’s always MILF and granny porn as a fall back.
Funeral guy
March 8th, 2014 @ 2:45 am

I think you meant heroin.