Should Producing Pornography be Illegal?

A good friend of mine approaches me and he tells me “Hey I’ve got this great idea for a porno. Would you help me write it.”

You’re probably thinking the same thing I was thinking, “There’s writing in porn? How hard can it be to script man mounts woman, woman moans?”

His goal was to make a flick that had solid writing and acting so that you almost forget you’re watching porn until people start getting naked and the sex starts. An admirable goal I thought so of course I agreed to get on board. Why shouldn’t I? If it works I make some money and I don’t even have to use my real name. Sounds easy right?

Turns out hiring people to have sex with each other on camera is still considered prostitution in every state but California. Now if you’re like me you’re thinking, “No way all the porno made in America came out of California.” and you’re right it doesn’t. Over the course of the last decade or so people got the notion that it was legal so they’ve gone ahead and started up their own careers in porn, be they actors, directors, producers, whatever. Honestly how many of you didn’t think the same thing?

So my friend, who had a pretty brilliant idea, has turned into a down trodden and thoroughly depressed wreck because his dream of breaking into the porn industry has been shattered. Why? Because some tattered shred of decency instilled into laws decades ago has a stranglehold on a huge portion of the entertainment industry. The names of porn stars have become household names and yet they must still work in fear of the law coming along and taking away everything they’ve worked for. Is it really so wrong for these people to do what they do? I don’t think so. They do the same things the rest of the world is doing in their bedrooms, they just do it on camera and make some money for it.

Why should people with aspirations to break into the adult film industry have to hide what they are doing or face years of imprisonment? Why doesn’t a supreme court ruling in California protecting pornography under the first amendment apply to the rest of the country?

It’s legal to pay a girl to dance in strip clubs. It’s legal to buy pornography. The Supreme Court of California says it’s legal to make pornography in their state, so why not mine? Or yours? Why keep down an industry that’s going to flourish with our without the law on it’s side?

Contact your state representative. Make your voice heard. Porn for all and all for porn!