Posted on 03/08/2013 5:18:42 AM PST by Kaslin
Sometimes it's hard to measure the distance between the supposedly established, respectable press and the seediest corners of hardcore pornography. On March 1, ABC's "Nightline" celebrated a porn star named "James Deen" (real name: Bryan Sevilla). The apparent "news" hook is his role in a forthcoming movie with the ever-more pathetic Lindsay Lohan.
ABC reporter Cecilia Vega sold Deen as a 27-year-old hazard to teenaged girls. They're boasting that he's found a new frontier of porn consumers, "some of them so young we couldn't even interview them on camera. Their parents had no idea that secretly they have a crush on a porn star. It is a phenomenon that not even the man at the center of it fully understands, but it's one that he fully defends." Insert ooooh-ahhhh track here.
Nothing sells like sensationalistic sex. Just call it "news" -- and hide the smirk.
Deen took the usual porn star's usual "sex-positive" stance: "You know, there's a 15-year-old girl, an underage girl, an underage guy, an underage person that is viewing a scene that I'm in or any sort of porn, chances are they're doing that because either they're curious, they're horny, whatever it is, they're sexual enough that it is something that they desire, that they crave, that they want. And it's not necessarily a bad thing."
This is not Ted Koppel's "Nightline," watching him yammer with an expert about Iranian mullahs. This isn't professional journalism. It's crotch-centered tabloid fare for the MTV crowd.
Vega turned to Deen's vaunted girl fans for more praise, like Christina Ahlsen, now 21: "He looks like somebody that I could see at, you know, a coffee shop or something and actually approach." She also likes porn: "My first legitimate encounter with porn was when I was in fourth grade and I searched Playboy. It was early adolescence, yeah, and that's, you know, a very curious stage." Vega then added: "There are literally thousands of women out there who share Christina's enthusiasm for all things James Deen."
It quickly becomes apparent that this ABC story is not a warning against Deen. It is a commercial for Deen. Anchor Juju Chang began the segment by insisting "James Deen, of course, is not his real name. It's his porn name, and it could soon be a household name." ABC shows you and talks about Deen's blog, lingers over Deen's Twitter page with 111,000 followers, as Vega cooed, "And if the visitors to his site are underage, well, Deen says that's not something he can control."
By story's end, Deen says he's found himself in trouble in "direct messaging" mode on Twitter with teenaged girls. You can't "DM" girls without "following" them on Twitter first. Nowhere in this story does ABC note this kind of Internet fraternizing is exactly where everything went wrong for ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner.
Vega reported Deen's appeal is not just his looks, as "porn's guy next door," but that "The young fans tell us they're drawn to Deen because he's different, a porn star who holds hands with his leading ladies, who gazes into their eyes, even shows a little romance."
Anyone spending five minutes on Deen's blog could see ABC's spin was ridiculous. Click on an ad and you're quickly led to Deen's catalog of work on Kink.com, where Deen is not "showing a little romance." He's slapping the spit out of his leading ladies while he dominates them sexually.
There's even a film for sale titled "Christian Speed Dating -- Innocent Girl Gangbanged on Film." That's in case you love the idea of four men gang-raping a virginal Christian girl. The actress -- who we're assured is over 18 but doesn't look like it -- is being strangled in the promotional picture. So much for holding hands.
Here's the longer sales blurb: "Donna Dolore develops a diabolical plan to get unsuspecting Christian girls who are saving themselves for marriage to lose their virginity on camera for all to see. After luring them in with promises of finding a soul mate she offers them money to do an interview about their experience for promotional material. Trusting and naive Jodi enters a hotel room to film the video, only to be ambushed and f---ed in every hole possible."
ABC News never located an actual parent who might disapprove of Deen and this kind of filth. They never found an anti-pornography expert or a social-conservative think-tanker for a single discouraging word. Put simply, ABC was a porn star's pimp.
Most of what is on television is like digging around in sludge in the hopes of finding a few bright pennies.
Does the article make you want to watch the program? It sure doesn’t me.
Of course I went over to Kink.com to check it out, since it was mentioned in the story/
It’s a BDSM site, Seems a litle strange that young girls would be interested in a site like that but whatever floats your boat I guess. Young girls getting pierced in strange places and with tattoos all over them must be into pain is my guess.
I doubt this guy is much of an actor since his greatest asset appears to be being built on the proportions of John Holmes.
Hard to believe Lindsey Lohan has sunk far enough to actually appear in a movie with this guy,but maybe the bucks are slow in coming in for her.
This is just an exteme example of what happens every day on television. More and more, networks are showing sex and nudity. More and more, networks are allowing swearing. They even allow the “F” word but they just bleep it out. The 60s have turned what is “offensive” on its head. Anything related to sex — including this porn star — is OK because its somehow “liberating.” Anything related to traditional morals — like showing Christianity in a good light — is “offensive” because it imposes rules for how to live and doesn’t permit people to run around jumping in the sack with anyone and anything.
as the talking head on National Palisimian Radio sez, “Let’s do teh math.”
Female interviewee said she had her first “legitimate experience” with porn when she looked through a Playboy magazine when she was in the fourth grade.
Math time, folks. Assume she was not an Urban Feral from a Big Sh*ty Pooklik Skrewl Kollective and was not a teenager still in the fourth grade. Fourth grade students are nine to ten years old.
The implication is that porn viewing by the fourth grade population is OK.
It is not.
Rationalizations, and the endless stream of Hollyweird movies and videos, will not change the essential social and individual damage done by allowing such behavior.
TOWNHALL HACK ALERT
Bozwell complaining about something on the media? Looks like he didn’t get his cut from said company. The old hypocrite sure keeps quiet when he gets his “consultant” fee.
for later
Apparently one of several last stops pulling her train out of town.
Action, meet consequence. Every generation needs real life examples of what to do and what not to do.
Do you know something you’d like to share about Brent Bozell?
Mrs. AV
The “realistic sex” meme always cracks me up, too. “Realistically,” even the very same actors would look both stupid and boring, just like anyone.
She's especially popular with middle eastern sheiks.
There's even a film for sale titled "Christian Speed Dating -- Innocent Girl Gangbanged on Film." That's in case you love the idea of four men gang-raping a virginal Christian girl. The actress -- who we're assured is over 18 but doesn't look like it -- is being strangled in the promotional picture. So much for holding hands.
And these people want us to not have guns for personal protection? The mind boggles.
I'm listening to this week's Squirrel Report. That's just an hour online when some gunbloggers chitchatting about whatever. (Warning: occasional unsanctified language.)
This week the conversation has gotten into how the gun banners are talking a lot about rape. And, how they're the ones that seem to have problems with that: "you'd better put some ice on that" (Clinton). Al the sex poodle Gore. Et Cetera.
Fourth grade = 9-years-old
The Democrats are one with their Islamic brethren.
About the only question is who is more grotesque, him or Lindsay Lohan? Between the two of them, they probably have more, and more diverse, bacteria than the swampland in Florida.
Sure. He’s as much a whore as the porn star he’s lambasting. Pay him off and he’ll lay off the criticism.
Do you have any facts to back up your assertions?
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