![]() ![]() "A thing that's supposed to be private and intimate, and not only that, there's someone telling you what to do and how to do it and when to start and stop, it's so different than what God made us to do. "The mental and emotional trauma that is being in that industry is because, essentially, you're doing this stuff in front of three or four cameras and 15 to 20 people on a set," he said. Using drugs as a coping mechanism, he said, is more prevalent among women. "All the guys are taking erectile dysfunction medication. ![]() "That's the standard, across the board," he said. "You can never really obtain it and you become insatiable for the thing you can't really grab, and it ends up in so many cases, leading to your demise."īroome said substance abuse in the industry is common, noting that during his first movie, he was given a drug to help him perform. "When you have this 'achiever' mentality combined with a level of brokenness and insecurity, there's this forever-moving mark of what it means to be successful," he said. ![]() And if joy and happiness and purpose is tied to that thing that you believe that you need to obtain, you see many people making compromises in their life doing things they never would have done because they think 'Well, if I can't have exactly that, maybe if I compromise and I can get as close to it as I could,' and that's what I believed."īroome said that at one point, he was the Top Adult Male Performer of the Year, earning $1 million, adding that the industry still is making money from his films. "The unfortunate thing is as you're going out there pursuing your dream, you only have about a 5% chance of succeeding. "It's full of people looking to obtain something they don't have," he said. The guys are interchangeable because the focus us on the girls so the directors would just hire the same guys, over and over again."īroome said most of the people in the industry were people like himself, looking for a toehold into show business. "Because of the way it's shot, it's more about quantity than quality. "I ended up doing between 250 to 300 movies a year," he said. He said he didn't make much money, initially, about $300 to $500 a movie, then $1,000 per film. He said he could make my name famous, which is ironic because you don't actually go by your real name."īroome's movie name was "Rocco Reed," created by his agent. He offered me money, fame, notoriety, all these things. "I wanted to create content in some capacity where I was impacting people whether it be through modeling or acting, but I really wanted to act. "It was just a counterfeit version of what I really wanted to do," he said. The agent, Broome said, "offered me everything." They invited me to meet with their agent." "I'd seen some magazines before, and I'd seen a video one time at a cousin's house, but it wasn't really something that I dabbled in very much. "They were pretty flirty and they started asking me some questions," Broome recalled. While working at a restaurant, he met some women who urged him to consider adult films as way to get into acting. Encouraged by his success, Broome set out for Los Angeles when he was 21 with aims of becoming an actor. ![]() I think Josh has an amazing testimony that, no matter where somebody is in life, when Jesus enters their life, it can be changed dramatically." Who is Joshua Broome?Ī native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Broome and his younger brother were raised by a divorced mother and church-going grandparents. "That's the hope that he gives to us through his death on the cross on our behalf. "Jesus Christ is our hope he can transform lives. Tom Edwards, co-pastor at the Chapel in Marlboro, said Broome's life story is a compelling testimony to God's power to change lives. It's going to make me believe that violent acts where these girls are saying 'no' until they say 'yes', is how things work."Ĭraig Gross visits Malone University: Addiction expert says Tiger's problem is common It's going to impact my level of integrity to be a friend. If I train myself neurologically, like that, I'm consuming content, and this is what sex is and this is what human interaction is, it's going to have a very curious carryover in my life, not only in my intimate life. "So, if I view a person as a product, I don't owe them human dignity. "It's something that someone is owed it's transactional," he said. ![]()
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