The Hypocrisy of Trump’s Anti-Porn Pledge
Tasha Reign is a porn star — a sex worker who wears that title proudly. In her weekly column, she’s here to educate Galore readers on the topics that most people are too shy to broach. This week: the hypocrisy of Donald Trump.
Attention, all voters & Trump fans: please reevaluate your votes, political opinions and possibly your life choices.
I have discovered a frightening detail of Trump’s agenda and it’s time to focus on it. Trump has signed a petition to ban ALL pornography, anything he and his minions deem obscene, which historically in adult entertainment could literally be anything at all.
(Not to claim I’m a full blown wizard or anything but check out my article regarding Utah just a few months back, in which I predicted this would happen.)
The anti-porn group Enough Is Enough released a press statement Monday announcing that Trump has signed their pledge to “give serious consideration to appointing a Presidential Commission to examine the harmful public health impact of Internet pornography on youth, families and the American culture.” This sounds innocuous enough, and who wouldn’t want to protect youth and children from being exploited by porn?
But the thing about laws passing and petitions getting funded is that they lead to more of that same ideology, especially when it comes to what we consider obscene. The word “obscene” in recent past has been problematic when it comes to the law. Many sexual acts I do or have done in videos could be considered obscene, and are even still illegal in some states. Getting or giving head is still illegal in conservative states like Louisiana, to give you a reference.
What I find so fascinating is that Trump himself perpetuates pornography in his own way. Not only has he posed for the cover of “Playboy” and produced tons of pageants that focus on women’s beauty and parallel the adult industry in many ways, but his very own wife has been featured in a XXX layout with another woman. It’s just all too much for me to handle.
For the potential future president of the United States of America, a land founded on freedom and the protection of speech, to get behind this agenda feels dirty. What this does is actually label me (your favorite Galore contributor) as a fucking criminal as well as shame you for jerking off. How can immoral child porn be painted with the same broad brush as consensual adult porn? That’s like me saying that Pablo Escobar was doing the same thing as your regular family physician. Or that my divorce attorney sister is just the same as the Ponzi scheme lawyers.
We have to critically analyze everything we hear and see and we need to become more media literate as a nation or I’m going to throw in the rag on this whole porn thing — and I know you don’t want me to do that! It just doesn’t seem right for me to continue to perform and give my fans my all when what I do for a living is becoming criminalized.
On the other hand, this political move makes sense because of how controversial and hypocritical Trump has come across in his election thus far. Although I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries and will do so again, when anyone brought up Trump in the past, the only good thing I had to say was that maybe he would support sex workers or at least defend women in sexualized positions since his wife is a former model and he’s a former head of Miss Universe. Oh boy was I wrong. I won’t use names but I HAD a very close friend that was a Trump supporter. I now wonder what her stance on the presidential election will be.
Most likely what every person who is voting for him says: “Wealth creates more wealth.” I truly hope everyone educates themselves on his delusional politics and beliefs, whether he says what he’s going to do or is just getting behind this law to gain votes, it will effect the way America is viewed, represented, and ultimately run.
In a world where we’re finally talking about the ways in which society overlooks minorities of all stripes, I have to wonder: what about the sex workers? You probably don’t concern yourself with our rights, but you should. It’s such a taboo territory and it’s so incredibly small in comparison to every other one, that the struggle to have our voices heard can feel overpowering.
The type of behavior Trump is exhibiting and his condoning of this campaign that perpetuates the message that ALL porn is evil and wrong, truly effects everyone in our society in a negative way. Although the language in the “Enough Is Enough” pledge is vague enough for people to overlook it, it threatens my very occupation and your daily freedoms. Let us stand together as a nation and realize that this is just the beginning of what the future with Trump as prez will look like. What are your thoughts? I honestly want to hear them.
Xoxo,
Love Tasha Reign
P.S. I stand with her!
