Jennie Ketchum is one classy lady.  Until recently, Ketchum was known by all as Penny Flame, a feisty porn performer/director with an infectious grin and a whole lot of sassy sex appeal.  While it’s pretty old news that’s she’s left the business to explore her non-porn identity (as well as go through Dr. Drew’s Sex Rehab on VH-1), it’s really now just coming to light how unique her departure actually is and how it defies long held stereotypes about porn and porn performers.

Lucky for us, Violet Blue caught up with Jennie and chatted her up about quitting on her own terms.

I hate the common exit strategy, hate that girls join the ‘god squad’ or feel ashamed of the choices they made but I understand it. I can see that it’s much easier to say ‘porn did this to me, or that’ but at the end of the day, we are all responsible for the choices we make. I chose to be a porn star. Now I’m choosing not to be. It’s the beautifully terrible thing about free will: we can do whatever we like but we must be held accountable for whatever we do. Just because I don’t want to be a porn star today doesn’t mean that I should feel ashamed to have been one seven months ago. It’s something I did and I’m not afraid to say I did it, loved doing it, and just don’t feel like it’s what I need to do anymore. Shame and guilt are useless emotions. The only way I would feel ashamed is if I’d decided being a porn star isn’t what’s best for me and then continued doing it anyway.

Check out the rest of her answers in Violet Blue’s SFGate article.
Gotta love a gal with such awesome self respect.

xoxo
-J.D. Bauchery

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