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Sex: A Jewish Industry
A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywoods seedier cousin, the
adult film industry. Perhaps wed prefer that the triple exthnics
didnt exist, but theres no getting away from the fact that secular
Jews played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role
throughout the adult film industry in America. Jewish involvement in
pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have
helped transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary
constituent of Americana. These are the true blue Jews.
Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes
overlapping) groups: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up
only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent
in pornography.
In the postwar era, Americas most notorious pornographer was Reuben
Sturman, the Walt Disney of Porn. According to the US Department of
Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the
pornography circulating in the country.
It was said that Sturman did
not simply control the adult-entertainment industry; he was the
industry.
Many are entirely secular, Jews in name only. Sturman, however,
identified as a Jew - he was a generous donator to Jewish charities.
Abrams shows how the corruption and debasement of Gentiles and
Christian morality is a primary part of their motivation for
intentionally infecting the Gentile community with pornography.
Is there a deeper reason, beyond the mere financial, as to why Jews in
particular have become involved in porn?
Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw, said The only reason that Jews
are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism
sucks. We dont believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes
a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very
heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those
very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged.
Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated
industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP
establishment in America.
Opposition to Jewish extremist subversion of Gentile, Christian or
Muslim morality is frequently defined as anti-Semitic hatred in the
Jewish dominated media. Abrams writing in a Jewish journal for a
presumably Jewish audience writes matter-of-factly about the
atavistic hatred against us by Jewish pornographers and their
motivation to weaken the dominant culture in America by moral
subversion.
Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is the result of an
atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to weaken the
dominant culture in America by moral subversion. Astyr remembers
having to run or fight for it in grammar school because I was a Jew.
It could very well be that part of my porn career is an up yours to
these people.
Obviously, there are no articles in the mainstream media exposing
Jewish atavistic hatred against Gentiles by the promoters of
pornographic depravity. Abrams even goes on to talk about the roots of
this revolutionary Jewish attack on European values.
Jews were also at the vanguard of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Paul Goodman replaced Marx, Trotsky
and Lenin as required revolutionary reading.
Pacheco was one Jewish porn star who read Reichs intellectual
marriage of Freud and Marx.
In light of the relatively tolerant Jewish view of sex, why are we
ashamed of the Jewish role in the porn industry? We might not like it,
but the Jewish role in this field has been significant and it is about
time it was written about seriously.
Notice that all those mentioned: Reich, Marcuse, Goodman, Marx,
Trotsky, Lenin and Freud are Jews. From Freud to Goodman, all
represent a Jewish revolution against traditional European values and
morality.
When sick Jewish pornographers are part of the brutality of Jewish
organized crime, the results can obviously be horrifically tragic for
our people. In 2000, a Jewish Russian organized crime ring was
uncovered that specialized in kidnapping Russian children, some as
young as two years old, from parks and orphanages and then subjecting
them to rape, torture and murder, all on video tape. These tapes were
sold to thousands of Jewish and Gentile perverts all over the world.
When police in Italy were frustrated by lack of action by the
authorities they released some of the video footage to an Italian
network which then showed some of the graphic images hoping to cause
public outrage. Instead of outrage against the Jewish murderers the TV
producers suffered outrage for showing the disturbing images.
In spite of the horror and obvious newsworthiness of this
international Jewish child porn/murder operation, it received little
coverage in the media in the United States. When Seth Bekenstein, the
rings American distributor was arrested, there was little publicity,
and in spite of being a part of one of the most horrific criminal
activities imaginable, he was sentenced to only 18 months on guilty
plea.
Porn is no longer 1950s pictures of voluptuous nude women on a
deserted beach. It has become permeated with sadism, masochism,
scatology, even sexual molestation, rape and murder of young children.
I am no prude. I love the beauty of the human body. But, I do think
that this kind of sick criminal activity, in which there is so much
exploitation, so much degradation, so much catering to the depths of
human depravity, should be fought with constitutional law.
Ironically, with Jewish influence over media, societal mores, and
government today, it is legal, even chic to make and sell the sickest
pornography showing the sick defilement of women. But, if you have
unacceptable political opinions about Jewish supremacism, you may find
yourself a political and social pariah, or at worst in prison. We live
in a Jewish supremacist world where often the sickest porn is legal
while political incorrect opinions will land you in prison
Some of the jews responsible for the sex industry:
The first ever porno mag - Playboy
(Hugh Heffner) Jewish
Famous pornographer who was honored by the ADL with its ridiculous
"Torch of Freedom" award.
The second ever porno mag Hustler
Larry Flint (Jew)
Page 3
The 'Page Three' girl was introduced to British news in 1970 in half-
Jew Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper, the idea of Murdoch's Jewish
editor Larry Lamb. The first page 3 girl was Jewish "German" model
Stephenie Rahn.
Ann Summers
Owned by the jewish Gold brothers, Ralph and David. They also own 50%
of Jew David Sullivan's Sunday/Daily Sport Newspapers. The managing
director of Ann Summers is David Gold's daughter, Jacqueline. She is
"the astute businesswoman who created the Ann Summers parties based on
the Tupperware parties."
The Joy of Sex
written by jewish author Alex Comfort
http://www.jewishachievement.com/domains/word.html
Telephone Sex Lines
These are those late night adverts where women are paraded like sex
slaves, like meat, and bekon you to talk to them via a premium rate
phone number. The inventor of telephone sex lines is Gloria Leonard.
Miss Leonard often refers to herself as "A nice Jewish girl from the
Bronx."
Lap dancing
Peter Stringfellow (Jew) Introduced lap dancing to Britain.
Spearmint Rhino
The Starbucks of brothels, where dancers were referred to by male
colleagues as "mingers" and "wildebeest" and managers allegedly used
weekly planning meetings to discuss whom they would like to sleep
with. Owned by convicted jewish frauster john gray. The chain's
flagship London club was the first in the UK to offer fully nude
dancing, prompting a "dirty war" with its main rival Stringfellow's,
which at the time was topless-only.
Aurther Miller
Author of depraved novels
date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:53:45 -0700 (PDT)
author: LOVE Europe HATE the EU
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Re: A Jewish Industry
Very interesting. And it was about that time period that European women
stopped having a lot of babies and started to hate the sex that their "men"
wanted to have with them, usually behind the men's backs. European men
seemed to forget how to FUCK.
Too bad.
"LOVE Europe HATE the EU" wrote in
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A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywoods seedier cousin, the
adult film industry. Perhaps wed prefer that the triple exthnics
didnt exist, but theres no getting away from the fact that secular
Jews played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role
throughout the adult film industry in America. Jewish involvement in
pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have
helped transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary
constituent of Americana. These are the true blue Jews.
Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes
overlapping) groups: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up
only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent
in pornography.
In the postwar era, Americas most notorious pornographer was Reuben
Sturman, the Walt Disney of Porn. According to the US Department of
Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the
pornography circulating in the country.
It was said that Sturman did
not simply control the adult-entertainment industry; he was the
industry.
Many are entirely secular, Jews in name only. Sturman, however,
identified as a Jew - he was a generous donator to Jewish charities.
Abrams shows how the corruption and debasement of Gentiles and
Christian morality is a primary part of their motivation for
intentionally infecting the Gentile community with pornography.
Is there a deeper reason, beyond the mere financial, as to why Jews in
particular have become involved in porn?
Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw, said The only reason that Jews
are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism
sucks. We dont believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes
a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very
heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those
very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged.
Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated
industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP
establishment in America.
Opposition to Jewish extremist subversion of Gentile, Christian or
Muslim morality is frequently defined as anti-Semitic hatred in the
Jewish dominated media. Abrams writing in a Jewish journal for a
presumably Jewish audience writes matter-of-factly about the
atavistic hatred against us by Jewish pornographers and their
motivation to weaken the dominant culture in America by moral
subversion.
Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is the result of an
atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to weaken the
dominant culture in America by moral subversion. Astyr remembers
having to run or fight for it in grammar school because I was a Jew.
It could very well be that part of my porn career is an up yours to
these people.
Obviously, there are no articles in the mainstream media exposing
Jewish atavistic hatred against Gentiles by the promoters of
pornographic depravity. Abrams even goes on to talk about the roots of
this revolutionary Jewish attack on European values.
Jews were also at the vanguard of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Paul Goodman replaced Marx, Trotsky
and Lenin as required revolutionary reading.
Pacheco was one Jewish porn star who read Reichs intellectual
marriage of Freud and Marx.
In light of the relatively tolerant Jewish view of sex, why are we
ashamed of the Jewish role in the porn industry? We might not like it,
but the Jewish role in this field has been significant and it is about
time it was written about seriously.
Notice that all those mentioned: Reich, Marcuse, Goodman, Marx,
Trotsky, Lenin and Freud are Jews. From Freud to Goodman, all
represent a Jewish revolution against traditional European values and
morality.
When sick Jewish pornographers are part of the brutality of Jewish
organized crime, the results can obviously be horrifically tragic for
our people. In 2000, a Jewish Russian organized crime ring was
uncovered that specialized in kidnapping Russian children, some as
young as two years old, from parks and orphanages and then subjecting
them to rape, torture and murder, all on video tape. These tapes were
sold to thousands of Jewish and Gentile perverts all over the world.
When police in Italy were frustrated by lack of action by the
authorities they released some of the video footage to an Italian
network which then showed some of the graphic images hoping to cause
public outrage. Instead of outrage against the Jewish murderers the TV
producers suffered outrage for showing the disturbing images.
In spite of the horror and obvious newsworthiness of this
international Jewish child porn/murder operation, it received little
coverage in the media in the United States. When Seth Bekenstein, the
rings American distributor was arrested, there was little publicity,
and in spite of being a part of one of the most horrific criminal
activities imaginable, he was sentenced to only 18 months on guilty
plea.
Porn is no longer 1950s pictures of voluptuous nude women on a
deserted beach. It has become permeated with sadism, masochism,
scatology, even sexual molestation, rape and murder of young children.
I am no prude. I love the beauty of the human body. But, I do think
that this kind of sick criminal activity, in which there is so much
exploitation, so much degradation, so much catering to the depths of
human depravity, should be fought with constitutional law.
Ironically, with Jewish influence over media, societal mores, and
government today, it is legal, even chic to make and sell the sickest
pornography showing the sick defilement of women. But, if you have
unacceptable political opinions about Jewish supremacism, you may find
yourself a political and social pariah, or at worst in prison. We live
in a Jewish supremacist world where often the sickest porn is legal
while political incorrect opinions will land you in prison
Some of the jews responsible for the sex industry:
The first ever porno mag - Playboy
(Hugh Heffner) Jewish
Famous pornographer who was honored by the ADL with its ridiculous
"Torch of Freedom" award.
The second ever porno mag Hustler
Larry Flint (Jew)
Page 3
The 'Page Three' girl was introduced to British news in 1970 in half-
Jew Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper, the idea of Murdoch's Jewish
editor Larry Lamb. The first page 3 girl was Jewish "German" model
Stephenie Rahn.
Ann Summers
Owned by the jewish Gold brothers, Ralph and David. They also own 50%
of Jew David Sullivan's Sunday/Daily Sport Newspapers. The managing
director of Ann Summers is David Gold's daughter, Jacqueline. She is
"the astute businesswoman who created the Ann Summers parties based on
the Tupperware parties."
The Joy of Sex
written by jewish author Alex Comfort
http://www.jewishachievement.com/domains/word.html
Telephone Sex Lines
These are those late night adverts where women are paraded like sex
slaves, like meat, and bekon you to talk to them via a premium rate
phone number. The inventor of telephone sex lines is Gloria Leonard.
Miss Leonard often refers to herself as "A nice Jewish girl from the
Bronx."
Lap dancing
Peter Stringfellow (Jew) Introduced lap dancing to Britain.
Spearmint Rhino
The Starbucks of brothels, where dancers were referred to by male
colleagues as "mingers" and "wildebeest" and managers allegedly used
weekly planning meetings to discuss whom they would like to sleep
with. Owned by convicted jewish frauster john gray. The chain's
flagship London club was the first in the UK to offer fully nude
dancing, prompting a "dirty war" with its main rival Stringfellow's,
which at the time was topless-only.
Aurther Miller
Author of depraved novels
date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 22:29:55 -0400
author: Comm
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Re: Sex: A Jewish Industry
Other than pornography which shows the abuse of children or animals
(not all bestiality is true abuse- some animals like that sort of
thing) is porn really that bad?
You say "the Jews" make porn. And yet you supposedly morally superior
"Aryans" buy it? It's like the moneylenders and the shops that open on
Sunday. People happily borrow money when they don't need it to
survive- it's one thing to take out a loan for medical treatment or
education, but most people buy on tick because they want it now rather
than save up for it. Been there, done it, got the T-shirt. Some people
complain about Sunday shopping yet will happily pop into their local
mini-mart for a bar of chocolate or whatever.
It takes two to tango, sorry. If you don't like porn, you don't have
to buy it.
Definition of a Puritan. Someone who claims religion without
possessing spirituality.
date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:41:35 -0700 (PDT)
author: Andy
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Re: Sex: A Jewish Industry
There is a program on channel 4 tonight "The Sex Education Show" with
a jewess presenting who says she has had twenty different men.
Teh fact of the matter is, in European society if you give yourself to
many men you can't give yourself completely to one. It messes you up.
Jewish culture is what you are getting when sex is pushed in your face
on the TV, in unnecessary movie sex scenes and in daily life, but they
NEVER point that out to you.
date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:09:39 -0700 (PDT)
author: $80PC News Network
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Re: Sex: A Jewish Industry
"$80PC News Network" wrote in message
news:97ccd257-aa0d-49e3-933b-b9512011fb61@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> There is a program on channel 4 tonight "The Sex Education Show" with
> a jewess presenting who says she has had twenty different men.
>
> Teh fact of the matter is, in European society if you give yourself to
> many men you can't give yourself completely to one. It messes you up.
>
> Jewish culture is what you are getting when sex is pushed in your face
> on the TV, in unnecessary movie sex scenes and in daily life, but they
> NEVER point that out to you.
So.
Turned down by a Jewish girl were you?
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:12:21 +0100
author: William Black
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Re: Sex: A Jewish Industry
Oh, heh, I guess nobody's gonna take on what I said in above post, LOL. See
in.
"Andy" wrote in message
news:059086db-276e-49a6-af46-a7e0c26ce8bd@25g2000hsk.googlegroups.com...
> Other than pornography which shows the abuse of children or animals
> (not all bestiality is true abuse- some animals like that sort of
> thing) is porn really that bad?
>
> You say "the Jews" make porn. And yet you supposedly morally superior
> "Aryans" buy it?
BINGO BINGO BINGO. Imo, it's the most BORING garbage out there - and the
worst thing - the 10 fucking minutes in the middle of a TENSE detective
story or something, 10 wasted minutes with the characters pretending they
are kissing (because NOBODY kisses that shitty). Waste of time. BORING.
It's like watching someone eat in slow motion, every bite, every chew -
BORING. But touche - WHO BUYS IT?
It's like the moneylenders and the shops that open on
> Sunday. People happily borrow money when they don't need it to
> survive- it's one thing to take out a loan for medical treatment or
> education, but most people buy on tick because they want it now rather
> than save up for it.
Always did that. PAY CASH for it.
Been there, done it, got the T-shirt. Some people
> complain about Sunday shopping yet will happily pop into their local
> mini-mart for a bar of chocolate or whatever.
>
> It takes two to tango, sorry. If you don't like porn, you don't have
> to buy it.
TOUCHE. and if the bastards don't like horror movies or sci fi - they don't
have to make a fuss to sponsors and get our shows cancelled. They can turn
the fucking TV OFF.
>
> Definition of a Puritan. Someone who claims religion without
> possessing spirituality.
Good one!
date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:29:05 -0400
author: Comm
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Re: Sex: A Jewish Industry
"$80PC News Network" wrote in message
news:97ccd257-aa0d-49e3-933b-b9512011fb61@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> There is a program on channel 4 tonight "The Sex Education Show" with
> a jewess presenting who says she has had twenty different men.
>
> Teh fact of the matter is, in European society if you give yourself to
> many men you can't give yourself completely to one. It messes you up.
Really? Back in the 1800s, take a Catholic country like Austria - 60% of
the babies born were illigitimate. S o then, if a MAN has sex with 20
different girls, can HE give himself to one woman? HA. Double standards.
>
> Jewish culture is what you are getting when sex is pushed in your face
> on the TV, in unnecessary movie sex scenes and in daily life, but they
> NEVER point that out to you.
I'd agree with that - they are unnecessarily obsessed with sexual matters -
BORING.
date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:30:35 -0400
author: Comm
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Re: Sex: A Jewish Industry
Andy wrote:
> Other than pornography which shows the abuse of children or animals
> (not all bestiality is true abuse- some animals like that sort of
> thing) is porn really that bad?
>
> You say "the Jews" make porn. And yet you supposedly morally superior
> "Aryans" buy it? It's like the moneylenders and the shops that open on
> Sunday. People happily borrow money when they don't need it to
> survive- it's one thing to take out a loan for medical treatment or
> education, but most people buy on tick because they want it now rather
> than save up for it. Been there, done it, got the T-shirt. Some people
> complain about Sunday shopping yet will happily pop into their local
> mini-mart for a bar of chocolate or whatever.
>
> It takes two to tango, sorry. If you don't like porn, you don't have
> to buy it.
>
> Definition of a Puritan. Someone who claims religion without
> possessing spirituality.
>
>
Nathan Abrams on Jews in the American porn industry
Nathan Abrams | Winter 2004 - Number 196
A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywood's seedier cousin, the
adult film industry. Perhaps we'd prefer to pretend that the 'triple-
exthnics' didn't exist, but there's no getting away from the fact that
secular Jews have played (and still continue to play) a
disproportionate role throughout the adult film industry in America.
Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in the United
States, as Jews have helped to transform a fringe subculture into what
has become a primary constituent of Americana. These are the 'true
blue Jews'.
Smut peddlers
Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes
overlapping) groups: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up
only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent
in pornography. Many erotica dealers in the book trade between 1890
and 1940 were immigrant Jews of German origin. According to Jay A.
Gertzman, author of Bookleggers and Smuthounds:The Trade in Erotica,
1920-1940 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999),
'Jews were prominent in the distribution of gallantiana [fiction on
erotic themes and books of dirty jokes and ballads], avant-garde
sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and flagitious
materials'.
In the postwar era, America's most notorious pornographer was Reuben
Sturman, the 'Walt Disney of Porn'. According to the US Department of
Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the
pornography circulating in the country. Born in 1924, Sturman grew up
in Cleveland's East Side. Initially, he sold comics and magazines, but
when he realized sex magazines produced twenty times the revenue of
comic books, he moved exclusively into porn, eventually producing his
own titles and setting up retail stores. By the end of the 1960s,
Sturman ranked at the top of adult magazine distributors and by the
mid-70s he owned over 200 adult bookstores. Sturman also introduced
updated versions of the traditional peepshow booth (typically a dark
room with a small colour TV on which the viewer can view X-rated
videos). It was said that Sturman did not simply control the adult-
entertainment industry; he was the industry. Eventually he was
convicted of tax evasion and other crimes and died, disgraced, in
prison in 1997. His son, David, continued running the family business.
The contemporary incarnation of Sturman is 43-year-old Jewish
Clevelander Steven Hirsch, who has been described as 'the Donald Trump
of porno'. The link between the two is Steve's father, Fred, who was a
stockbroker-cum-lieutenant to Sturman. Today Hirsch runs the Vivid
Entertainment Group, which has been called the Microsoft of the porn
world, the top producer of 'adult' films in the US. His specialty was
to import mainstream marketing techniques into the porn business.
Indeed, Vivid parallels the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and
1940s, particularly in its exclusive contracts to porn stars who are
hired and moulded by Hirsch. Vivid was the subject of a behind-the-
scenes reality TV show recently broadcast on Channel 4.
Nice Jewish girls and boys
Jews accounted for most of the leading male performers as well as a
sizeable number of female stars in porn movies of the 1970s and '80s.
The doyen of the Hebrew studs is Ron Jeremy. Known in the trade as
'the Hedgehog', Jeremy is one of America's biggest porn stars. The 51-
year-old Jeremy was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish family in
Flushing, Queens, and has since appeared in more than 1,600 adult
movies, as well as directing over 100. Jeremy has achieved iconic
status in America, a hero to males of all ages, Jewish and gentile
alike - he's the nebbischy, fat, hairy, ugly guy who gets to bed
dozens of beautiful women. He presents an image of a modern-day King
David, a Jewish superstud who supersedes the traditional heroes of
Jewish lore. No sallow Talmud scholar he. His stature was recently
cemented with the release of a pornomentary about his life, Porn Star:
The Legend of Ron Jeremy. As probably the most famous Jewish male porn
star, Jeremy has done wonders for the psyche of Jewish men in America.
Jeremy has also just released a compilation CD, Bang-A-Long-With Ron
Jeremy. For £7.99 (including delivery), the lucky listener gets to
enjoy Jeremy's hand-picked favourite porno grooves along with
narration by 'the legend' himself. As the publicity blurb gushes, 'Out
of the brown paper wrappings and into the mainstream'.
Seymore Butts, aka Adam Glasser, is everything that Jeremy is not:
young, handsome and toned. Glasser, a 39-year-old New York Jew, opened
a gym in 1991 in Los Angeles. When no one joined, he borrowed a video
camera for 24 hours, went to a nearby strip club, recruited a woman,
then headed back to his gym and started shooting. Although the movie
stank, with a bit of chutzpah and a few business cards he wangled a
deal with a manufacturer and started cranking out films. Within a few
years, 'Seymore Butts' - his nom de porn which is simultaneously his
sales pitch - became one of the largest franchises in the adult-film
business. As the king of the gonzo genre (marked by handheld cameras,
the illusion of spontaneity and a low-tech aesthetic meant to suggest
reality), he is today probably the most famous Jewish porn mogul.
Seymore Inc., his production company, releases about 36 films
annually, most of them shot for less than $15,000, each of them
grossing more than 10 times that sum. Glasser employs 12 people,
including his mother and cousin Stevie as respectively genial company
accountant (and matchmaker for her single son) and lovable but roguish
general gopher. Glasser currently even has his own reality TV show
(also broadcast on Channel 4), a ten-episode docu-soap called Family
Business, whose opening credits show Glasser's barmitzvah photo.
In search of a buck
Jews became involved in the porn industry for much the same reasons
that their co-religionists became involved in Hollywood. They were
attracted to an industry primarily because it admitted them. Its
newness meant that restrictive barriers had not yet been erected, as
they had in so many other areas of American life. In porn, there was
no discrimination against Jews. During the early part of the twentieth
century, an entrepreneur did not require large sums of money to make a
start in the film business; cinema was considered a passing fad. In
the porn business, it was similarly straightforward to get going. To
show 'stag' movies or loops, as they were known, all one needed was a
projector, screen and a few chairs. Not tied up with the status quo
and with nothing to lose by innovation, Jews were open to new ways of
doing business. Gertzman explains that
"Jews, when they found themselves excluded from a field of endeavour,
turned to a profession in which they sensed they could eventually
thrive by cooperating with colleagues in a community of effort . . .
Jews have for a very long time cultivated the temperament and talents
of middlemen, and they are proud of these abilities".
The adult entertainment business required something that Jews
possessed in abundance: chutzpah. Early Jewish pornographers were
marketing geniuses and ambitious entrepreneurs whose toughness,
intelligence and boundless self-confidence were responsible for their
successes.
Of course, the large number of Jews in porn were mainly motivated by
the desire to make profits. Just as their counterparts in Hollywood
provided a dream factory for Americans, a blank screen upon which the
Jewish moguls' visions of America could be created and projected, so
the porn-moguls displayed a talent for understanding public tastes.
What better way to provide the stuff of dreams and fantasies than
through the adult-entertainment industry? Performers did porn for the
money. As ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman commented, 'Those
Jews who enter the pornography industry have done so as individuals
pursuing the American dream.'
Secular sex
Like their mainstream counterparts, Jews who enter porn do not usually
do so as representatives of their religious group. Most of the
performers and pornographers are Jewish culturally but not
religiously. Many are entirely secular, Jews in name only. Sturman,
however, identified as a Jew - he was a generous donator to Jewish
charities - and performer Richard Pacheco once interviewed to be a
rabbinical student.
Very few, if any, porn films have overtly Jewish themes, although
Jeremy once tried to get several Jewish porn stars together to make a
kosher porn film. The exception is Debbie Duz Dishes, in which Nina
Hartley plays a sexually insatiable Jewish housewife who enjoys sex
with anyone who rings the doorbell. It has sold very well, spawned a
couple of sequels and is currently very hard to buy - perhaps
indicating a new niche to exploit. Indeed, according to an editorial
on the World Union of Jewish Students website,
"there are thousands of people searching for Jewish porn. After things
like Jewish calendar, Jewish singles, Jewish dating, and Jewish
festivals comes 'Jewish porn' in the list of top search keywords that
GoTo.com provide".
Sexual rebels
Is there a deeper reason, beyond the mere financial, as to why Jews in
particular have become involved in porn? There is surely an element of
rebellion in Jewish X-rated involvement. Its very taboo and forbidden
nature serves to make it attractive. As I written in these pages
before, treyf signifies 'the whole world of forbidden sexuality, the
sexuality of the goyim, and there all the delights are imagined to
lie . . .' ('Reel Kashrut: Jewish food in film', JQ 189 [Spring
2003]).
According to one anonymous industry insider quoted by E. Michael Jones
in the magazine Culture Wars (May 2003), 'the leading male performers
through the 1980s came from secular Jewish upbringings and the females
from Roman Catholic day schools'. The standard porn scenario became as
a result a Jewish fantasy of schtupping the Catholic shiksa.
Furthermore, as Orthodox Jew and porn gossipmonger Luke Ford explains
on his website (lukeford.net): 'Porn is just one expression of [the]
rebellion against standards, against the disciplined life of obedience
to Torah that marks a Jew living Judaism.' It is also a revolt against
(often middle-class) parents who wish their children to be lawyers,
doctors and accountants. As performer Bobby Astyr put it on the same
website, 'It's an "up yours" to the uncles with the pinky rings who
got down on me as a kid for wanting to be musician.'
As religious influences waned and were replaced by secular ones, free-
thinking Jews, especially those from California's Bay Area, viewed sex
as a means of personal and political liberation. America provided the
freest society Jews have ever known, as manifested by the growth of
the adult industry. Those Jewish women who have sex onscreen certainly
stand in sharp contradiction to the stereotype of the 'Jewish American
Princess'. They (and I'm speculating here) may have seen themselves as
fulfilling the promise of liberation, emancipating themselves from
what feminist Betty Friedan in 1963 called the 'comfortable
concentration camp' of the household as they set out into the Promised
Land of the porno sets of Southern California. It signified their
economic and social freedom: they were free to choose to enter, rather
than coerced into it by economic and other circumstances. Once they
had lain down, they could stand on their own two feet, particularly as
female performers typically earn twice as much as their male
counterparts.
Sexual revolutionaries
Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated
industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP
establishment in America. Some porn stars viewed themselves as
frontline fighters in the spiritual battle between Christian America
and secular humanism. According to Ford, Jewish X-rated actors often
brag about their 'joy in being anarchic, sexual gadflies to the
puritanical beast'. Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is
the result of an atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are
trying to weaken the dominant culture in America by moral subversion.
Astyr remembers having 'to run or fight for it in grammar school
because I was a Jew. It could very well be that part of my porn career
is an "up yours" to these people'. Al Goldstein, the publisher of
Screw, said (on lukeford.net), 'The only reason that Jews are in
pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We
don't believe in authoritarianism.' Pornography thus becomes a way of
defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of
the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same
WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged. Porn is no
longer of the 'what the Butler saw' voyeuristic type; instead, it is
driven to new extremes of portrayal that stretch the boundaries of the
porn aesthetic. As new sexual positions are portrayed, the desire to
shock (as well as entertain) seems clear.
It is a case of the traditional revolutionary/radical drive of
immigrant Jews in America being channelled into sexual rather than
leftist politics. Just as Jews have been disproportionately
represented in radical movements over the years, so they are also
disproportionately represented in the porn industry. Jews in America
have been sexual revolutionaries. A large amount of the material on
sexual liberation was written by Jews. Those at the forefront of the
movement which forced America to adopt a more liberal view of sex were
Jewish. Jews were also at the vanguard of the sexual revolution of the
1960s. Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Paul Goodman replaced Marx,
Trotsky and Lenin as required revolutionary reading. Reich's central
preoccupations were work, love and sex, while Marcuse prophesied that
a socialist utopia would free individuals to achieve sexual
satisfaction. Goodman wrote of the 'beautiful cultural consequences'
that would follow from legalizing pornography: it would 'ennoble all
our art' and 'humanize sexuality'. Pacheco was one Jewish porn star
who read Reich's intellectual marriage of Freud and Marx
(lukeford.net):
"Before I got my first part in an adult film, I went down to an
audition for an X-rated film with my hair down to my ass, a copy of
Wilhelm Reich's Sexual Revolution under my arm and yelling about work,
'love and sex'."
As Rabbi Samuel H. Dresner put it (E. Michael Jones, 'Rabbi Dresner's
Dilemma: Torah v. Ethnos' Culture Wars, May 2003), 'Jewish rebellion
has broken out on several levels', one being 'the prominent role of
Jews as advocates to sexual experimentation'. Overall, then, porn
performers are a group of people who praise rebellion, self-fulfilment
and promiscuity.
What are we ashamed of?
This brief overview and analysis of the role and motivations behind
pornographers and performers is intended to shed light on a neglected
topic in American Jewish popular culture. Little has been written
about it. Books such as Howard M. Sachar's A History of the Jews in
America (New York: Knopf, 1992) simply ignore the topic. And you can
bet that the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Jews in the
United States did not include any celebrations of Jewish innovation in
this field. Even the usually tolerant Time Out New York has been too
prim to deal with it, although the more iconoclastic Heeb plans an
issue on it. In light of the relatively tolerant Jewish view of sex,
why are we ashamed of the Jewish role in the porn industry? We might
not like it, but the Jewish role in this field has been significant
and it is about time it was written about seriously.
Nathan Abrams is a Lecturer in Modern American History at the
University of Aberdeen. He has just completed a book on neo-
conservatism in the United States.
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