MY BIG BREAK IN PORN WAS A NIGHTMARE

Jenny Blighe’s first professional porn film will be her last.

What was supposed to be her “big break” in the adult film industry turned into a nightmare for Blighe, who says she was pressured to perform hardcore sex acts, choked until she was nearly unconscious and groped by a director during a shoot in February — all of which was caught on video.

“I tried to stop the scene but [the director] told me I was ruining the flow and to just put my head back in the frame,” Blighe told The Post. “I felt helpless. All my nightmares about filming a pro boy/girl scene were coming true.”

Blighe, 30, is speaking publicly about her ordeal but like other women in the porn business who have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, she’s struggling to be taken seriously.

While the #MeToo movement has swept through Hollywood, the adult-film industry has mostly shrugged off allegations of sexual misconduct. Blighe’s experience underscores the secretive, black-box nature of the porn business, coupled with the still widely held belief that people who are paid to have sex in front of the camera have no credibility.

The veil of secrecy allows predominantly male executives and producers to stay in positions of power for years even as a never-ending supply of young, inexperienced women enter and exit the industry before anyone even notices.

“We know the size [of Hollywood], we know how much generally people get paid, we know how the contracts work, we know the history,” said Chauntelle Tibbals, a sociologist and author of “Exposure: A Sociologist Explores Sex Society and Adult Entertainment.”

 “We don’t have that for porn.” In addition to fears that their careers could be cratered by coming forward, women in the adult entertainment industry are also battling the perception that their word carries no weight — no matter how well known they are.

 Porn star Nikki Benz, who has been working in the business for 14 years, said authorities doubted her claim that she was sexually assaulted and violently attacked while filming an X-rated scene. More than 10 women accused male performer James Deen of sexual misconduct yet his star continues to rise. 

“We look at women who are sex workers in any capacity and we maybe see less value in their stories,” Tibbals said. “Perhaps we go ‘Hmmm’ and somewhere in our brains we think, ‘This is a person who is naked on a porn set. How much #MeToo is happening there?’”

Blighe spoke to The Post about allegations that she first made public in a series of tweets in July, shortly before the Aug. 1 release of “Cam Girls: The Movie.” She also provided texts and photos to bolster her account.

But, in a sign of how difficult it can be to define consent on a porn set, others who were on the set question whether Blighe’s objections were clear.

Evil Angel, the studio that produced the film, said in a video to Adult video news that “everyone involved with the project conducted themselves properly and were held to our high standards.” And Ginger Banks, Blighe’s female co-star who is not implicated in her allegations, says she did not realize that Blighe was uncomfortable until after the shoot was finished.

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