Paradise Valley, AZ — We’ve all heard at least one story: a surgical tech, a teacher, a volunteer EMT, all former porn performers, get recognized in their new workplace setting. Then, rather than being allowed to continue on with their career evolutions like any other person, viral news and some kind of law nonsense inevitably result.
The examples of former porn performers getting discriminated against due to sex work stigma are endless, but “porn stigma” never seemed to apply to inanimate objects.
Until now.
Per AZCentral, house-hunter Linda Fein was in the process of negotiating a deal on a contemporary-style home in Paradise Valley (an affluent, north Scottsdale-area Phoenix, AZ suburb) when she and her husband made an untenable discovery. The home had been used as the set of Wifey’s World, a reality site run by married couple Kevin and Sandra Otterson. The couple, according to property records, owns the house.
Fein told AZCentral that she discovered the house’s porno past after the agent mentioned that the sellers were in the entertainment industry. Fein, who was in the process of making a $1.8 million offer on the home, said she was shocked that the use of the home was not disclosed to her and her husband.
“At that price point, I figured there might be some courtesy to the buyer,” Fein said, likely while knotting and unknotting her proverbial pearl necklace. “I just can’t make Thanksgiving dinner on counters where a porn star has been lounging around.”
The Feins withdrew their offer.
No need to disclose
The Ottersons, known as “Hubby” and “Wifey” online, have run their site since 1998. The couple has over 368,000 followers on Twitter. Photos on their website show rooms in the defiled house as a backdrop.
According to the Arizona Department of Real Estate, as reported by AZCentral, there is no statute that specifically lists the filming of pornographic material (or filming of anything for that matter) as a mandatory disclosure item in a home sale. Other items that are not required to be disclosed in Arizona when selling a home include: the home being the site of a natural death, suicide or homicide or any other crime classified as a felony; the home being owned or occupied by a person exposed to HIV or AIDS; and the home being located in the vicinity of a sex offender.
According to its $2.2 million Redfin listing, the 4,172-square-foot updated midcentury modern house has four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, a custom bar and views of scenic mountains. Sadly, this house will likely not be allowed to move on to another career. Young people will not be permitted to occupy the home, nor will charity organizations be permitted to hold their galas in its great room.
Such is the nature of porn stigma.
View images of the home via AZCentral here.
Image via alison hinch.
