PATTAYA, Thailand – On this week’s edition of the Adult Site Broker Talk podcast, it’s part two of the interview with Mike Stabile, the founder of Polari Media and Director of Public Affairs for the Free Speech Coalition.
In the first part of the interview last week, Stabile traced some of the current spate of anti-porn legislative efforts and rhetoric to the increased visibility of adult entertainment during the lockdown phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We both had COVID and we also had the rise of the fan sites and the rise of public health departments saying, hey, watch pornography, it’s safe,” Stabile said. “I think there was a sort of a larger discussion around it. What we saw was a rise of an anti-porn movement. And that culminated at least, you know, later that year in the “Children of Pornhub” article by Nick Kristoff, I shouldn’t even call it an article, it’s an opinion piece, but that sort of really launched it.”
Noting that anti-porn groups were sidelined for many years prior to the election of Donald Trump – or “really in the wilderness for a long time,” as Stabile put it – those groups had to find a different way to approach their campaign against adult entertainment.
“They were seen for what they were, which was morality police, sort of faith-based groups that wanted to ban porn and turn back the clock,” Stabile said. “And what they realized was, oh, you know, what banking is the way that we can do this? That we can put pressure on banks to stop working with with adult businesses. That’s going to be a pressure point. It’s going to be the new way that we’re going to go about this.”
Show host and Adult Site Broker CEO Bruce said that in part two of the interview “we got more in depth about the legal battles going on between our industry and different states, especially over age verification.”
You can listen to part two of Stabile’s interview starting today on AdultSiteBrokerTalk.com. For the latest updates from FSC, follow the organization and Stabile on X (Twitter) @fscarmy and @mikestabile respectively, and visit the FSC website.
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