

That's why you will see me doing a whole range of different genres of pornography – I do some things that are quite mainstream and are sold easily to the 'normal', red-blooded male. I like to push the boundaries of what the consumer (men) feel safe with. "Assuming victimhood is an easy thought progression," she says, "I feel I am sexually liberated. He's not going to see the error of his ways in a jail cell," says Allens. "My father is just as abusive as he ever was, he's just moved onto other victims. We just can't throw these people away," says Allens. "In my eyes it's hugely important to provide perpetrator programs aimed at reducing the risk of known abusers committing further offences. It's a feeling his namesake understands well. In an essay titled The First Ten Years, Allin wrote "we were more like prisoners than a family".

So we kept our mouths shut for the most part, with occasional calls for help to the neighbours or police when things got really bad," says Allens.Īllens takes her stage name from the late, self-mutilating punk rock singer GG Allin, himself a survivor of domestic abuse at the hands of his father Merle, a recluse and religious fanatic who constantly threatened his family with death, even digging graves in the cellar of their isolated log cabin. As a child, the thought of leaving what you know, no matter how horrible the situation, is a frightening and daunting thought. "My sister and I were largely isolated in Australia – the only family we had here were my mother, father and grandmother, who lived with our father. "I cannot hide that and, to a certain extent, I don't want to," she says but speculates her experiences are mirrored in thousands of other Australian homes. She freely admits her career in porn is "most likely" a reaction to the trauma of her childhood.
