Joshua Broome is a former adult film star turned pastor, speaker, and advocate for redemption. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, he entered the porn industry in his early 20s, earning accolades like “Porn Star of the Year” and appearing in over 1,000 films before walking away in 2013. After hitting rock bottom—struggling with identity, shame, and a life unraveling—he found faith, left the industry, and rebuilt from scratch. Now married with four children, Broome shares his raw journey of transformation, warning about the destructive ripple effects of porn on marriages, mental health, and society. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://www.roka.com - USE CODE SRS https://www.americanfinancing.net/SRS NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org https://www.expressvpn.com/SRS https://www.shawnlikesgold.com https://www.hillsdale.edu/SRS https://www.shopify.com/SRS https://trueclassic.com/SRS https://www.ziprecruiter.com/SRS Joshua Broome Links: X - https://x.com/iamJoshuaBroome Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamjoshuabroome Book - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/154600565X Book me to speak - https://www.joshuabroome.me/speaking-requests Resources for unwanted sexual behavior - https://ignitemen.net/the-p51-project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Joshua Broome and what is his background?
Chapter 2: What is the reality of the adult film industry?
I went there and got drugged. I thought it was my fault. I was filming in Atlanta. It was a disgusting shoot. People were urinating on each other, spitting on my face, in my mouth, stuff like that. I was just like, what have I become? I was like, I want to die. I didn't realize that that scene was for the most popular website in America at that time. When I heard
The pain in her voice when she said, why did you do that? Satan said to me, see, you're exactly who you thought you were.
Joshua Broom, welcome to the show, man. Man, so glad to be here. What an honor. I'm pumped to have you. So we got a mutual friend, Victor Marks, huh?
What a guy.
Victor shot me a text this morning, and I love hearing from Victor. You never know what you're going to hear.
You never know. It could be a four-minute voice memo of just chaos.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm pumped that you know him, and that just reinforces your good people to be around if Victor's hanging out with you. So once again, thank you for coming, man. And so we're going to talk about a little bit of your life story. an insight into the adult film industry, what got you out of it and being a pastor now.
So, so, and I'm sure we'll go down a handful of rabbit holes, you know, throughout the interview, but I'm really curious, you know, it's, I mean, the adult film industry is huge. What's that girl's name? This is the girl that she's like... She slept with 1,000 guys in 24 hours or something like that? And now it seems like all these other girls are trying to top it.
You just keep hearing this stuff. There was some other girl, I think it was in Miami, she was shooting a film set or some kind of a gangbang or something on a balcony and fell off the balcony to her death.
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Chapter 3: How does the adult film industry use social media and OnlyFans?
So now they can be talking to 30 people at once, but they're talking to no one at all. And then, you know, they're getting, you know, 75, 80% of that revenue. Damn. So you're not even... So to the person that is, you know, addicted to OnlyFans, if you're talking to a popular creator, I can almost guarantee you you're not talking to that person.
No kidding. Why do you think that... I mean, we're going to get way more in-depth on this stuff later on, but, I mean, why... Where does this shit end? I mean, it's like anything else you see, right? But it's just they're constantly one-upping each other. Like, oh, how disgusting can I make it? A thousand dudes in 24 hours? Yeah, I mean. What does that even look like?
I mean, how do you even recruit that?
Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, it's pretty easy. Because I was in the porn industry for almost seven years. And when girls would do gang bangs, because guys that were professionally in the industry, for the most part, didn't do gang bangs. Because a director's not paying top professionals. Because you have a day rate. You have an individual rate that you make per day.
So you're not paying that per guy. So you're finding anyone off the street that's willing to go get an SED and AIDS test. So you might not be paying them at all. So, you know, and these girls, again, they got all these fans. All you gotta do is post a story in the comments saying, hey, anyone in this vicinity that follows me, do you want to be part of this?
Go get a test, bring the test here and you get to have sex with me. And it works. And it's like where like social media is working like a funnel now where, The girls, they're supposed to be provocative on TikTok. And in the TikTok, it says, go to my IG. And on IG, there's a little link in their page. And here's my link tree. And on my link tree is my OnlyFans.
And it's just a big funnel to sell porn.
Jeez. Geez, isn't Kanye West getting back into the, not back into, is he getting into it? He just had his girlfriend pretty much naked at whatever award show that was. I don't follow any of this. Yeah, it's wild being because like. And kids were around.
Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What are the impacts of pornography on children and society?
Because he's just kind of been up, down, up, down, up, down. But I saw he got kicked off of Twitter because he just went on this rampage. He posted porn for two or three hours nonstop, just posting hardcore pornography right after that happened, right after he showed up to the award show with the girl. Is it his wife?
I don't know. I don't follow any of this stuff.
It's like he was married to a Kardashian and they got – I mean, I don't know exactly what happened, but it's sad. It's sad. I know, man.
Yeah, well, I got your whole life's outline right here, but I don't really want to go down the outline. I think this is going to be a very fascinating conversation, and so I just want to riff, and I hope you're okay with that. But I really want to talk about...
In a lot of my interviews, we talk about the effects of war and extreme trauma and how to get over it and what that does and the downward spiral that sends you on. I just have this feeling that this is going to be very similar to that. And, and to be honest with you, I've been, I tried to get Jenna Jameson to come on here to talk about this.
I've been trying to get her for years, but I think she's got some health stuff going on, but, but yeah, it's just always been a subject that I'm, I've been really interested to dive into and, And especially, are you familiar with the effects that it has on kids?
Oh, absolutely.
And the addictions and all that kind of... I mean, this stuff is like... really bad.
Yeah, I mean, you look at research, average age of exposure three years ago was 11. It's trending towards eight years old now. Eight? Eight years old. And what's interesting, so 84% of first-time exposure to pornography for kids is secondhand exposure, meaning that they weren't looking for it. They were either on an unprotected device, and it was looking for them,
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Chapter 5: How can parents protect their children from pornography exposure?
So I would say the way that you protect them is you inform them. So talk about sex in an age-appropriate way that is real and that is helpful. There's a book called A Good Book... I think it's Good Book, Bad Pictures. And so I think it's been around for about 20 years. But there's a theme in it that's helpful for even adults. There are bad pictures in the world that you probably will see.
But if you see those pictures, that doesn't make you bad. So if you see them, if you're hungry, run to mom and dad. Scared, run to mom and dad. See something you shouldn't see, come tell mom and dad so that we can process it with you. Because if you don't create a space to have that conversation, what you don't talk about says something.
So I would say that's the biggest problem with porn, sex in the church, where it's not talked about in the way that gives people a comfortability of talking about it. Because anytime that you would say porn or sex and you cringe, you probably have an unhealthy relationship with it. You know, so say, hey, you know, sex is this beautiful thing.
This is how you got here, you know, to your son, to your daughter. And, you know, explain it in a way that makes sense. And then also we need to protect ourself from the world. The world is a dangerous place trying to come at us. So Bark is a really great piece of technology where, you know,
you know bark.org is the website and you get to control everything that your children has access to if they're going to use any kind of smart technology and what i love about it is you get a report of everything that they see and everything that they're sent so if if you're allowing them to use text messages emails things like that you will get a notification if someone's
You know, there's bullying, there's any kind of conversation around self-harm, either by them or someone else, anything pornographic, any keywords. And then you can have a healthy conversation where instead of being accusatory of, hey, I know that I saw this, you know, you know that I saw this, so, you know, you know, fess up.
You can say, hey, is there anything that, you know, was said to you or you saw today that you want to talk about with me? So I would say that's how we have to navigate that conversation, because what we don't say is not helpful, but it also says something. Because Romans 12, 2, either you're being conformed by the world or you're being transformed by the renewing of your mind.
So the world is going to teach you, but the prince of the air, the devil, wants to teach you something that's drastically different than what God wants to teach you. Yeah.
Yeah, you know, I mean, with the phone stuff, we were just talking about Ryan Montgomery, my friend, before the podcast. And he had an interesting quote that made a hell of a lot of sense to me. He said, when you give your kid a phone, you're not giving your kid access to the world. You're giving the world access to your kid. And that's resonated with me ever since. But you had mentioned...
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Chapter 6: What was Joshua Broome's personal journey into the porn industry?
Well, another thing I was sharing with you around the whole incest thing regarding the niche in pornography and all the stuff that's happening with sexual assault. But in addition to that, image-based sexual exploitation, that's a new thing that's on the rise, especially with young men. But the importance of
like kids not watching porn is this, uh, there's a, there's a new scam that's on the rise. And I think, um, like so far this year, this has happened, I think around like 170,000 times it's been documented where, um, a kid was approached by a scammer and it, you know, they have a fictitious profile. It looks like a cute girl and they have an interaction with a guy and they say, um,
You know, they send them a fake naked picture and they said, you send me one back. And once they send one, got you. I want you to send me $500 or I've hacked your account. I'm going to send this photo to everyone at your school, all of your family. You got 24 hours. And I think around 150 of those kids committed suicide. Wow. Because as a teenage boy, you're like, my whole life is ruined.
Yeah. Or a girl.
Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And it's wild because around 90% of those cases are guys. But yeah, I mean, it's everywhere. That's why it's so important to have those conversations because... You don't send a naked photo to someone you don't know online unless you've been watching pornography.
That's not a rational thought unless your mind has been corrupted and perverted in a way that maybe there's exceptions to this, but for the most part, that thinking comes from pornography.
Yeah, you know, I mean, I was talking to somebody else and they were talking about, you know, how this, you know, it starts with regular, it starts with, I don't know, Sports Illustrated. Yeah, yeah. And then it's Playboy, and then it's softcore porn, and then it's hardcore porn, and then it's gangbangs, and then it's, you know, it just gets, and then it goes into the incest stuff.
And they were talking about how Young men, boys get addicted to this, and it just keeps getting more perverted and more perverted and more perverted. And at the same time, the kids that are the same age, the girls, are online, and they're getting exploited. And they're only talking to older men online because – or they get trapped, like you were just saying. But it's, hey, do you want this –
louis vuitton bag cool send me this then they're blackmailed or they're not and they're only interested in older men because they'd shoot some pictures or take some videos of themselves for the new iphone a new purse whatever the latest fad is and so that takes the interest away from the boys so then the boys don't even have anybody to go date and it's like this
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Chapter 7: How did Joshua Broome experience and cope with fame and success in porn?
Yeah. I think what you said is so important, that added layer. Because it's one thing to say, I'm proud of you, or you did a good job, or whatever that might be. But when you make it intentional and explain why... I feel like that would be even more meaningful and allow them to understand.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, I mean, kind of all that foundation led me to that moment of being in Hollywood and still acting like an idiot, like living like an absolute fool. Yeah. But kind of with all that factored in, I saw porn for the first time when I was 13. Never saw my mom in a healthy relationship. She was married for a very short period of time to someone who was very abusive, drug addict.
So outside of that, I never saw her in a healthy dynamic. My grandmother and grandfather, they didn't sleep in the same bed. My grandfather was like fishing every day, you know, like bad back or whatever. They didn't share a bed. I just had no like foundation of what is a healthy relationship? What is love? What is intimacy? What is, you know, never had a sex talk, saw porn when I was 13.
And I thought, man, maybe if I, act out what else what i'm seeing in this magazine maybe i'll feel what i don't and you know that was kind of the start of me living a very promiscuous lifestyle in addition to that were you did you ever did you ever did your dad ever come into the picture still to this day
Well, I mean, I have a really great story about forgiveness because at the end of the day, it's like, I'd say I love that I get to share. Thank you for asking that. And I love that I have the platform that I do today with the maturity that I do because when I used to talk about him, when I used to talk about him... I think I did it in a way that I was still a little bit angry with him.
But I forgave him, and it was a big moment for me because, you know, when, like, forgiveness is easy. or easier when you know that reconciliation is on the other side. But when reconciliation doesn't meet your expectations, are you still willing to forgive? Meaning that, why would I forgive my dad if he's not going to become my dad and become a grandfather to my kids? Why would I forgive him?
Why would I forgive the person that's not going to change? Why would I forgive the person that did wrong and is not going to be sorry for it or pay a price for that? I understand that God is a God of justice, and justice will be served in the end, but we often find ourselves saying, I want to play God in some way. I want to control the outcome.
I want to have some kind of autonomy, and I'll forgive if... Not in God's economy, not in God's kingdom. We forgive because we've been forgiven. And when you don't forgive, the person who pays the price is you. And for a long time, I was dealing with, man, it was on the other side of me conquering all these other things, like all these addictions and traumas and lust and all this stuff.
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Chapter 8: What led Joshua Broome to leave the adult film industry and find redemption?
I mean, it was super emotional. I mean, I was so, like, I'd made up my mind what I was going to say before it got too far. So as soon as I got him on the phone, I said it soon, and he apologized. What did he say? He didn't – I don't remember much about it. You know, it was more – it wasn't this, like, he's not an emotional guy. You know, it was like – it wasn't like I conjured up in my head.
I thought it was going to be this groundbreaking moment where, you know, I thought it was going to be like, you know, Rocky and Apollo, like, you know, dapping up on the beach. But, yeah, I mean – What did you say? I said, I'm sorry that I blamed you for every bad thing that I've ever done. And I've been holding a lot of resentment for you not being there. And I missed you a lot. I needed you.
But the frustration that I have in my life and the unforgiveness that I have in my heart, I want to let it go. And he pretty much said, me too. You know, he said he was sorry for not being there. That was kind of it.
And I think, you know, my prayer is that my life and the way that I pursue him is healing for him in some way because I can't imagine what goes on in his head, in his heart internally.
Yeah, that's what I was just going to say too. Another thing that kind of, it helps me is knowing like, I mean, you have to be able to like, I guess you don't have to, but to put yourself in their shoes and to have to carry the guilt of never being around had a massive part in how things turned out or how they didn't turn out.
Yeah.
And I mean, it, They're going to carry that shit for the rest of their life. They think about this stuff, unless they're a total narcissist, which most people aren't. I mean, that's every day of their life that's haunting them. And that impacts everyone they touch. Yep, yep. Ask 10 people to define the word capitalism. This subject comes up all the time, but do you know what it means?
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