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Quackerson · May 14th, 2018, 01:25 AM

To be sure, she was born in California. Her formative years, however, were spent in Minnesota.

She had some fairly serious emotional and psychological issues that had developed during her 8-odd years in Minnesota. In retrospect, it seems fairly easy to conclude that becoming involved in the adult film industry wasn't the best thing she could have done. I say it's easy to reach that conclusion because, really, does anyone honestly think becoming a porn actress is a wise choice? Outside of the money, there's not a whole lot of upside (or, put it this way, would anyone here feel a sense of happiness if they found out their little sister decided to make fuck films?).

It would take a woman who was really street smart and a survivor to make it through that environment and emerge fairly unscathed. Sadly, Shauna Grant wasn't too street smart, or self-aware. As well as was to be expected, because her upbringing wasn't such that it lent itself to giving her street smarts, and how many teenagers are self-aware? She made a tremendous amount of money for an unskilled girl in her late teens in a short time period, proceeded to snort virtually all of it away, quit porn and moved in with a coke dealer, and when that relationship ended she really didn't have many options left other than to return to the Minnesota community she came from (who, outside of her parents, wanted nothing to do with her) or go back to porn. I'm certainly not saying she did the right thing by killing herself, and nobody can say what the future would have held for her had she remained in the industry, but she obviously hit rock bottom. Think of all the other young girls doing porn during that same era who remained in the business: not many of them learned how to use the business to their advantage. For every one actress who did, thousands of others didn't. The odds were too long, and Grant couldn't beat them.

She WAS a beauty, though. However, if you watch footage of her at the 1984 adult film awards about a week before her death, she didn't look well.

May 14th, 2018, 01:25 AM	#5
Quackerson Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 587 Thanks: 1,559 Thanked 4,320 Times in 577 Posts	To be sure, she was born in California. Her formative years, however, were spent in Minnesota. She had some fairly serious emotional and psychological issues that had developed during her 8-odd years in Minnesota. In retrospect, it seems fairly easy to conclude that becoming involved in the adult film industry wasn't the best thing she could have done. I say it's easy to reach that conclusion because, really, does anyone honestly think becoming a porn actress is a wise choice? Outside of the money, there's not a whole lot of upside (or, put it this way, would anyone here feel a sense of happiness if they found out their little sister decided to make fuck films?). It would take a woman who was really street smart and a survivor to make it through that environment and emerge fairly unscathed. Sadly, Shauna Grant wasn't too street smart, or self-aware. As well as was to be expected, because her upbringing wasn't such that it lent itself to giving her street smarts, and how many teenagers are self-aware? She made a tremendous amount of money for an unskilled girl in her late teens in a short time period, proceeded to snort virtually all of it away, quit porn and moved in with a coke dealer, and when that relationship ended she really didn't have many options left other than to return to the Minnesota community she came from (who, outside of her parents, wanted nothing to do with her) or go back to porn. I'm certainly not saying she did the right thing by killing herself, and nobody can say what the future would have held for her had she remained in the industry, but she obviously hit rock bottom. Think of all the other young girls doing porn during that same era who remained in the business: not many of them learned how to use the business to their advantage. For every one actress who did, thousands of others didn't. The odds were too long, and Grant couldn't beat them. She WAS a beauty, though. However, if you watch footage of her at the 1984 adult film awards about a week before her death, she didn't look well. Last edited by Quackerson; September 16th, 2018 at 12:17 AM..