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Adult Industry Looks Ahead to “New War on Porn”

Posted On 03 Feb 2020
By : LynseyG

War on PornWith a presidential election looming amidst scandal after scandal, and conservative anti-porn sentiment running high, a week after AVN 2020, Elizabeth Nolan Brown at Reason.com took a long look at how adult entertainers were viewing “the New War on Porn.” 

First, with anti-porn Bill Barr as the current attorney general and a bunch of conservative lawmakers recently calling on him to go after “obscenity” in porn, the industry is wary of a new wave of obscenity prosecutions coming down from conservative forces in power. 

Brown harkened back to 2010, when Bush-era anti-porn anti-porn efforts had just sent Max Hardcore to jail and John Stagliano was fighting federal obscenity prosecution. Will these cases become a problem again?

“Any time a conservative politician starts thinking they’re going to lose,” or “needs to rile up the base, they start thinking, ‘Well, where can we go that isn’t going to hurt our interests? And pornography is usually pretty high on that list,’” said attorney D. Gill Sperlein during a panel on legal issues, according to Brown. 

But that’s all in the future—the present is difficult enough for people in porn, with law after law already targeting their livelihood. “Beyond the anti-porn culture war,” wrote Brown, “adult entertainers and those advising them also have more immediate, practical concerns, like the effects of FOSTA, a 2018 law that’s had a chilling effect on online content related to sex, and new labor laws like California’s AB 5, which could upend porn economics.”

Performer Maitland Ward, one of the industry’s most loquacious “it girls” at AVN this year, told Brown, “FOSTA most definitely is designed to target, among other things, adult entertainment…It’s censorship legislation.” 

“Even though I am not a full-service sex worker…I have had to deal with the censorship that came along with FOSTA,” said Allie Eve Knox. The 2018 law that makes it a federal crime to host online content that “promotes or facilitates prostitution”—but which recognizes no difference between consensual work and sex trafficking.  

Knox cited email list management and photo storage as areas made problematic because many popular sites won’t accept accounts related to sex under FOSTA. “Even though I was just accepting tips or tributes through [a payment] system, or selling panties or content, whatever, the platforms have taken a much tighter stance and will shut you down merrily for existing.”

And now, with A.B. 5 on the horizon in California, pamphlets handed out by FSC and APAC at AVN warned that A.B. 5 “could reclassify any performer working for a studio as that studio’s employee, no matter how many different studios you shoot for.” 

It’s an uncertain time for porn. But director and performer Steve Holmes told Brown: “Change is constant, and the laws are going backwards and forwards…You have to adapt. You have to adjust.”

Performer Dee Siren held her head high when she told Brown that stigma, prosecutions, legislation, or not, porn isn’t going anywhere.

“The far right—just like in the ’80s—wants a war on everything, including a war on porn,” Siren said. “But we will not go away and will fight for our freedoms.”

 

Helmet and armor stock photo by Pixabay from Pexels

About the Author
Lynsey G. is an adult industry hanger-on who's been writing about her obsession with porn for over a decade.
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