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"JEWS IN THE AMERICAN PORN INDUSTRY"

The article, written by Nathan Abrams, ran in "Jewish Quarterly" Winter 2004. Its complete title is "Triple-exthnics: Nathan Abrams on Jews in the American porn industry", and the article is online here.

Abrams is a Lecturer in Modern American History at the University of Aberdeen. He cites E. Michael Jones' articles in "Culture Wars".

Here are some quotes from the Abrams article:

** Though Jews make up only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography.

** America's most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman, the 'Walt Disney of Porn'. ...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 Stephen Hirsch, who has been described as 'the Donald Trump of porno'....Today Hirsch runs the Vivid Entertainment Group, which has been called the Microsoft of the porn world.

** Jews accounted for most of the leading male performers as well as a sizeable number of female stars in porn movies in the 1970s and '80s.

** 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...

** There is surely an element of rebellion in Jewish X-rated involvement.

** 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.

** Some porn stars viewed themselves as frontline fighters in the spiritual battle between Christian America and secular humanism. ...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.

** [quoting Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw] 'The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks'....Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture...

** It is a case of the traditional revolutionary/radical drive of immigrant Jews in America being channeled 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.

** 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.

Not what you'd expect to find in a Jewish magazine, is it?