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The Republican Party’s decision to add stringent language to its platform calling for the end to nearly all distribution of pornography did not unnoticed by the adult entertainment industry.
In a statement today, one of the porn industry’s biggest producers said the GOP goes too far in calling pornography distributed over the Internet, in hotel rooms, on cable television and in retail shops illegal. That reading of laws governing the distribution of pornographic materials is flawed, said Steven Hirsch, the chief executive of Vivid Entertainment.
Hirsch approved of Republicans’ pledge to increase enforcement of anti-child pornography laws, but when it comes to material depicting adults, the GOP platform is too much. If anything, Hirsch suggested people prepare themselves for more pornography the public appetite for salacious entertainment expands.
“Everyone is against child pornography, so Republicans aren’t saying anything new when they call for strict laws to ensure safety for children on the Internet,” Hirsch said.
“Republicans, however, need to catch up with what’s happening in America and the world today. Books like 50 Shades of Grey, dozens of popular cable TV shows and the Web have made the public more comfortable with portrayals of sex than they ever have been before. Sex is everywhere in the adult world and this isn’t going to change. If anything, it will become more pervasive.”
That didn’t sit well with Morality in Media, a conservative organization that backed the GOP’s emphasis on pornography earlier this week. The group’s president, Patrick Trueman, responded to Hirsch in a statement of his own.
“Neither Republicans nor Democrats should be taking advice from a man whose business is sexually exploiting young girls for profit,” Trueman said. “Hirsch, producer of such hardcore porn films as, Adventures in Babysitting and Savanna’s Anal Gang Bang, advised Republicans ‘to catch up with what’s happening in America and the world today.’ Perhaps that’s just what is concerning Republicans.”
Maybe, but if Hirsch was able to get Trueman to even utter the titles of a few pornographic films, especially the latter of those two, perhaps the Vivid CEO is right and the world is, in fact, getting more comfortable with porn.
