Donna Dolore is a porn empresario who turned her childhood struggles with intense shame into her own liberation. Jon Ronson visited one of Donna’s shoots—the theme of which was a public shaming—to explore how oftentimes, porn actors are able to avoid feeling any shame because they take care of one another, protect one another, and take refuge in the idea of lessening other people’s shame by making private fantasies public.
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Donna Dolore Character Timeline in So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
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Chapter 7: Journey to a Shame-Free Paradise
...he should take Habib up on his offer to put Ronson in touch with Princess Donna Dolore of Kink.com studios, a famous porn impresario who’d turned an intense struggle with shame...
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At the shoot, Ronson mingled with adult performers and listened to Donna describe the rules for the shoot, during which porn actor Jodi Taylor would be spanked,...
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Chapter 9: A Town Abuzz over Prostitution and a Client List
Looking back wistfully on his experiences at the shame-free porn shoot, Ronson recalled something Donna had said that night: she’d felt sad and humiliated after a post on TMZ, a...
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