Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Devil and Shelley Lubben

Shelley Lubben: The sketchiness around her, her work, and her "charity" is really intense. In short, she's an ex-porn performer turned anti-porn activist who runs a non-profit called the Pink Cross Foundation. In their own words:

Pink Cross Foundation is a faith-based IRS approved 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to reaching out to adult industry workers offering emotional, financial and transitional support. We largely focus on reaching out to the adult film industry offering support to women and men. Pink Cross Foundation also reaches out to those struggling with pornography offering education and resources to recover.

Pink Cross Foundation also works to combat community deterioration due to pornography and prostitution through attempts to educate legislation in order to enforce health and safety laws within the pornography industry, to protect adult industry workers from sexually transmitted diseases and other job-related abuses, to ameliorate the secondary negative effects of pornography on the general public and to toughen laws to protect children from accessing online pornography.

However, I hope we all know that what someone CLAIMS to do and what someone ACTUALLY does can often be two very, very different things. As a 501(c)(3), the Pink Cross Tax Returns are public record. Check out toward what the money has gone! You can turn to one of the comments on this blog post that succinctly highlights it. Also, check out these LENGTHY exposĂ©s: Part 1-2 and Part 3. Want more? Check out this and this.

When you look at the numbers, it really seems like she's only marketing and helping HERSELF.

Personally, I have ZERO respect for this woman. Profiting from her fake desire to "help those stuck in the porn industry," placing the blame for her mistakes and situations on the porn industry and taking ZERO responsibility herself, spreading lies and misrepresentations to further her own agenda instead of providing clear facts in context, overacting to elicit "compassion" and show "how intense" her "struggle" was? Horrible, horrible stuff. As someone in academia and the sexuality field, I think what she's doing is damaging, irresponsible, WRONG, and utterly reprehensible.

Anyway, what this post was actually about--I wanted to let you know there's a documentary in the works about her! Parts 1 and 2 are HERE and HERE.  P.S. RACISM ALERT. There's a lovely bit in Part 1 of the documentary where she discusses a client who was "a crazy Chinaman" whose penis was "too small" for a condom. She goes on to say he accidentally impregnated her and how horrible it was because she didn't want to "give birth to an ugly Asian baby." WHAT. She also does a marvelously insulting faux Chinese accent. Check it out. Way to go, interlocking systems of oppression.

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