The question remains how many performers must become infected with HIV and other serous STDs before the industry will clean up its act and government will do the right thing? [Emphasis added.]
–Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, referring to the pornography industry
August 30, 2011 at 8:49 pm
You just can’t make those up! It is a self-parody.
August 31, 2011 at 3:45 pm
thepinkcross.org is a Christian advocacy organization of ex-porn stars fighting the multibillion dollar industry. They’ve been raising the alarm about diseases among “performers” and working conditions for years. To my knowledge, they have never received even a word of support, let alone one dollar or an invitation to address a general conference, from any mainline church.
August 31, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Jim, thank you for bringing thepinkcross.org to our attention. The truth is that the mainline churches in general have been very reticent to tackle the pornography industry with anything like the kind of tenacity and ferocity that they’ve taken on, say, tobacco business. Given the indisputable harms, both to people working in porn and to consumers, I find that reticence inexplicable.
September 1, 2011 at 11:23 am
Well given the Mainline’s (and broad evangelicalism) reticence to deal with any heterosexual sin(adultery, divorce, sex outside wedlock, etc…) it is not surprising they have not dealt with pornography.
September 1, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Too true.
September 1, 2011 at 3:28 pm
The issue is not entirely one of the sin of user of porn. As thepinkcross.org points out, the porn industry is about slavery, sex trafficking, violence against women (and men), disease, and the loss of life through suicides as well as HIV-AIDS. That puts a different light on the issue and places it squarely in the filed of the other social justice issues mainline churches tackle.