A woman from Australia has shared her ordeal of being detained at Los Angeles International Airport after the Transportation Security Administration
(TSA) agents discovered some s3x toys in her luggage.
Luna Lovekiss, 28, says she was travelling to Los Angeles from Amsterdam with a friend when she was pulled aside by security.
‘They asked me what I did for work, as I was travelling with a lot of cash. I told them I didn’t have a job… he didn’t like that answer so I was moved into a separate line,’ she explained to the DailyMail.
‘Then they asked me if I had anything in my luggage that could be suspicious and I said no… Then they opened up my bags and started going through everything and suddenly I remembered that I had a bag full of sex toys!’
‘When they opened up my luggage and saw it I was like, “I know what this looks like!” I started to panic,’ she said.
Luna explained that she went shopping for sex toys in Amsterdam’s red light district because she was ‘bored,’ but the security agents were convinced that she was an escort who was travelling abroad to do sex work.
Luna said her case wasn’t helped when her friend who she was traveling with and is a former stripper, told TSA agents that she was a sex worker.
As she pleaded with the agents and tried to convince them that she wasn’t a sex worker, Luna noticed that her friend was also being questioned.
‘They said my friend had told them that we were escorts. I was so confused because we weren’t… When I said no they accused me of lying,’ she said.
‘I was so intimidated and overwhelmed by them that after plenty of interrogation, I agreed with what my friend had apparently told them.’
Once she agreed that she was a sex worker under duress, Luna says she was taken to a detainment area.
‘I was taken to a holding cell filled with people trying to illegally enter the country.
‘I was shaking and crying – the whole place was f***ed up,’ she said.
‘You know when you’re so nervous you feel like you’re gonna s**t yourself? I had that feeling and they had to take me to the toilet,’ she continued.
Once she was taken back to the holding cell, Luna realized that she’d been locked up with not just illegal migrants, but also people who were detained on suspicion of serious terrorism.
‘I walked into that room and I went into a panic attack, and as someone with anxiety I don’t like talking about that,’ she said.
‘I was freaking out. I’m not a f***ing terrorist!’
Luna said that she and her friend ended up spending 12 hours in the cell before being let out.
‘I was so young and had never been in trouble with the law, the conditions were horrible… we were only given one cup of instant noodles in 12 hours and the room stunk as no one could shower.’
Luna was sent back to Australia and hasn’t tried to return to America since due to the trauma of her experience.
‘Three months after the ordeal happened I was at my mom’s house talking about it over dinner and I started crying. It was traumatic,’ she said.
‘The way I interact with the world now is different. I still don’t want to risk being subjected to that treatment again.’
Luna who claims she never participated in ‘full-service sex work’ is now an erotic model with OnlyFans.
