After Porn Ends

After Porn Ends (2012) is an American documentary directed by Bryce Wagoner that you can watch online on iFILM. The film interviews some of the best-known names from decades of adult entertainment — Amber Lynn, Nina Hartley, Asia Carrera, Seka, among others — and asks a simple question: what comes next?

The answers split roughly in two. Some people have moved on cleanly, running businesses or raising families with the past firmly in the past. Others describe a stigma that followed them out of the industry and into job applications, relationships and neighbourhoods. Wagoner lets the subjects speak without editorialising, and what emerges is less a judgement about the industry than an examination of what it costs to be permanently visible in the one area most people keep private. For a subject that invites sensationalism, the film stays unusually sober. Stream After Porn Ends (2012) online on iFILM.