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For folks who want to stay in the industry you’re absolutely correct…for a performer who has hit rock bottom and feels isolated, alone and like life has dumped a huge shit on them those trinkets could be the hope and encouragement they need to enable them to pursue education or viable employment down the road.

At this time of year many disillusioned folks as well as performers feel even more alone than usual playing a factor in higher than usual suicide rates even among educated financially secure individuals. For those w/o education or prospects the outlook is even more dim. Our Mental health system on its best day can’t handle the demands placed on it.

The saying…who needs a shrink when they have friends…has some serious truth in it and if Shelly’s trinkets save one life this season then she did more than our overburdened mental health system could do when the soonest appointment is weeks or months away.

Supporting that doesn’t endorse her opinions or the misstatements you take issue with. As you rightly point out some performers have deep seated self-esteem issues.

Removed, I have to agree. Instead of Shelley spending the Pink Cross donations on her and her family (which is obvious from the tax returns) she should pay for community college classes for her clients. She should also help clients with rent, utilities, gas for their car, food, etc. It is OK to limit the help (say to $2500 a year for all categories combined per client) to keep from being taken advantage of but right now Shelley spending the money attending conventions, bidding on a night with Ron Jeremy at a charity auction (WTF does that have to do with charity anyway) and sending a box with a few dollar store trinkets to clients is much less than she should be doing. She should also stay out of politics, period! If she would do that I would write her a check myself. It is pretty reprehensible when I (I do not run a charity) help people financially more than Shelley/Pink Cross who receives $140K yearly in donations to assist people (and I don’t have $130-$140K a year spare income at my disposal to do so, Shelley could run Pink Cross on $10K administrative expenses a year quite easily, she should save $10K to smooth out cash flow issues since donations don’t come predictably and assist former porn chickies with the other $120K). Yes I help people that I know personally and not the general public but my point still stands.

Now if Shelly REALLY wanted to help, she would help them get viable skills so they could get some sort of decent job that pays a LIVABLE WAGE and even perhaps provides a benefits package.

That’s real help. Throwing together a gift back of dime store trinkets and a pocket sized bible isn’t going to help them with shit.

Help those girls learn some viable skills so they can get real jobs. That would be real help. Anything else is just made up crap to get more donations to fill her pocketbook.