WHEN Emily joined Tinder, she was hoping to go on a few dates and possibly find love.
Instead, the student was recruited as a hardcore porn actress earning £750 an hour - much to the horror of her family.
The 21-year-old brunette - who now goes by the name of Gianna Dior - is just one of hundreds of women who have been targeted by scouts looking for future porn stars on Tinder.
She features in the new Channel 4 documentary, Generation Porn, which explores how modern "free and easy to access" internet porn is affecting the attitudes and relationships of adults and children.
In the UK, 62 per cent of 18 to 25-year-olds watch porn every month and online sites have more traffic than Netflix and Twitter combined.
Gianna's recruiter posed as someone looking for love and was "matched" with her before making an indecent proposal.
"I was going to school in Alabama, majoring in psychology and working two jobs - a receptionist at an eye doctor and a waiter at a sushi restaurant," she says.
"I was on Tinder looking to go on dates, nothing crazy, and then an agent from Miami found me on it and asked if I had ever considered doing porn. I told him no."
But while many women would have swiped left, Gianna was intrigued.
So when he asked if she would join him in Miami to do a trial scene, she felt she had nothing to lose and said yes.
'I don't care what people think'
Gianna drove from her quiet hometown to buzzing Miami in May 2018, and never looked back.
"I loved it so much," she recalls.
She had always had a relaxed attitude to sex, admitting she was promiscuous at school which led to her being bullied.
“I felt guilty for enjoying sex," Gianna, who reveals she lost her virginity at 16, says. "That’s why I love porn because I can be myself.
"Porn looks pretty bad to the outside world, but that's OK. I don't care what anyone thinks. My happiness is all that matters."
While the number of porn recruiters on Tinder is not known, there are thought to be hundreds of porn stars hoping to increase their fan base or make a name for themselves on the app.
In a little over a year, college dropout Gianna has amassed a combined 563,000 followers on social media and made close to 100 films.
She now earns an estimated £1,500 for just two hours work - the equivalent of two-months' salary in her previous jobs - but her career has come at a price.
Gianna's job has alienated her from her family, with her Christian father particularly unhappy.
He pleads with her to rethink what she's doing when she sends him a photo of herself on the cover of porn magazine Penthouse, which she calls her "most prized possession" during the show.
‘‘I pray you take the money you make and please go back to school," he texts her. "I love you very much, I want you to be happy but I’m afraid of what you’re doing with your life.
The Penthouse cover is Gianna's most prized possession
'It's impossible to stop 11-year-olds watching porn'
Director Mike Quasar, who has filmed Gianna and shoots over 500 scenes a year, ironically empathises with her dad.
"If my daughter told me she wanted to do porn in any aspect, I'd jump in front of a train," Mike, who has been working in porn since the 90s, says in the documentary.
"I know that makes me a massive hypocrite because I'm certainly willing to film other people's daughters doing terrible things.
"Because of free porn [which hit the internet in 2006] it's easy for a girl just turning 18 to get into the industry in a way they couldn't before.
"My fear is that girls and boys not old enough to know who they are and what they are, are identifying with this prematurely."
That's in part because so many adult stars have accounts on sites like Twitter.
Joe, 24, works as a producer and social media manager for his family's hit porn video series, Fake Taxi, - which sees a passenger asking if they can pay for their journey but not with cash - and claims Twitter is "one of the biggest porn sites in the world".
His father JT brought free porn to the masses when he co-founded YouPorn in 2006, and Joe says it's impossible to stop children as young as 11 from accessing explicit content online.
"If you’re letting your 13-year-old have free rein on their iPhone, even if you’re strict, there’s no way of stopping it," he says.
This is all news to middle-aged British mum Becki, also featured on the programme, who is stunned at how easy it is to access porn when handed a laptop and told by producers to type anything sexual into google.
Her son Travis, 17, winces uncomfortably beside her.
After she realises just how much of an epidemic it is, she says despairingly: "It's quite sad the amount that's easily accessible. Even if children don't try to see it, it's still there just being advertised. This is extreme."
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She's even more shocked when Travis tells her what she's viewing is par for the course.
"This is what I expect to see, it's standard," he says.
"For you, it's shocking because you're not used to it, but this isn't extreme nowadays - there's worse."
Although it is illegal for under 18s to access online porn sites like Pornhub, which gets 92 million visitors a day, there are no effective checks on users. Plans to put blocks in place come into effect on July 15.
Generation Porn airs on Channel 4 tonight at 10pm
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