
There's something both amusing and rather tragic about this story of Tiffany Shepherd and the Leah Lust video.
Tiffany Shepherd was, at one time, simply a teacher in Florida and the married mother of three children. Then comes a divorce and as so often happens, it is the wife and children that find themselves in financial troubles after such a split.
Shepherd is an attractive woman: perhaps a polite way of describing her figure would be that she fills a bikini nicely (my colleague as a photo of Tiffany here). So, in order to help make ends meet she took a job with a fishing charter company. Their come on, their unique selling point, was that while you fished your were attended by ladies who, umm, filled a bikini nicely. That is it though, they were there as eye candy, not to fulfill any other possibly illegal or immoral function. Purely to be there in what they would wear to the beach, a service for which some men are entirely happy to pay.
It appears that the school board got wind of this, most likely from having seen publicity photos on the fishing charter company's website. Thus they fired Tiffany Shepherd: their claimed reason was her absences from her duties, although the firing came only four days after the photos surfaced...convenient really.
Having been fired Shepherd says that she sent some 2,500 resumes around Florida looking for a job as a teacher and was unable to find a single one. She also lost custody of two of her children to her ex-husband. So she made the slightly unusual decision to become a hard core porn star, making videos under the name Leah Lust. As you can imagine, this hasn't helped her career prospects as a teacher, at least not in a normal school system.
The tragedy here is that the reaction to Tiffany Shepherd doing something almost entirely innocent, fishing in a bikini, has led to her being forced (by her account) into hard core porn and Leah Lust videos. The school board, by acting in shock to something not very shocking, has created something shocking.
The amusement, and it has to be said that it's a rather dry, wry, type, is that one of the first Leah Lust videos was entitled "My First Sex Teacher".