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Jews Are Proud of Their Pornography

by Nathan Abrams

["I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan" (Revelation 2:9).]

A STORY LITTLE TOLD OF is that of Jews in Hollywood’s seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps we’d prefer to pretend that the "triple-exthnics" didn’t exist, but there’s no getting away from the fact that secular Jews have played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult film industry in America. Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have helped to transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary constituent of Americana. These are the "true blue Jews."

Smut Peddlers

Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes overlapping) groups: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography. Many erotica dealers in the book trade between 1890 and 1940 were immigrant Jews of German origin. According to Jay A. Gertzman, author of Bookleggers and Smuthounds:The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), "Jews were prominent in the distribution of gallantiana [fiction on erotic themes and books of dirty jokes and ballads], avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and flagitious materials."

In the postwar era, America’s most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman, the "Walt Disney of Porn." According to the US Department of Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the pornography circulating in the country. Born in 1924, Sturman grew up in Cleveland’s East Side. Initially, he sold comics and magazines, but when he realized sex magazines produced twenty times the revenue of comic books, he moved exclusively into porn, eventually producing his own titles and setting up retail stores.

By the end of the 1960s, Sturman ranked at the top of adult magazine distributors and by the mid-70s he owned over 200 adult bookstores. Sturman also introduced updated versions of the traditional peepshow booth (typically a dark room with a small colour TV on which the viewer can view X-rated videos). It was said that 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 Steven Hirsch, who has been described as "the Donald Trump of porno." The link between the two is Steve’s father, Fred, who was a stockbroker-cum-lieutenant to Sturman. Today Hirsch runs the Vivid Entertainment Group, which has been called the Microsoft of the porn world, the top producer of "adult" films in the US. His specialty was to import mainstream marketing techniques into the porn business. Indeed, Vivid parallels the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in its exclusive contracts to porn stars who are hired and molded by Hirsch. Vivid was the subject of a behind-the-scenes reality TV show recently broadcast on Channel 4.

Nice Jewish Girls and Boys

Jews accounted for most of the leading male performers as well as a sizeable number of female stars in porn movies of the 1970s and ‘80s. The doyen of the Hebrew studs is Ron Jeremy. Known in the trade as "the Hedgehog," Jeremy is one of America’s biggest porn stars. The 51-year-old Jeremy was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish family in Flushing, Queens, and has since appeared in more than 1,600 adult movies, as well as directing over 100. Jeremy has achieved iconic status in America, a hero to males of all ages, Jewish and gentile alike -- he’s the nebbischy, fat, hairy, ugly guy who gets to bed dozens of beautiful women.

He presents an image of a modern-day King David, a Jewish super-stud who supersedes the traditional heroes of Jewish lore. No sallow Talmud scholar he. His stature was recently cemented with the release of a pornomentary about his life, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy. As probably the most famous Jewish male porn star, Jeremy has done wonders for the psyche of Jewish men in America. Jeremy has also just released a compilation CD, Bang-A-Long-With Ron Jeremy. For UK£7.99 (including delivery), the lucky listener gets to enjoy Jeremy’s hand-picked favorite porno grooves along with narration by "the legend" himself. As the publicity blurb gushes, "Out of the brown paper wrappings and into the mainstream."

In Search of a Buck

Jews became involved in the porn industry for much the same reasons that their co-religionists became involved in Hollywood. They were attracted to an industry primarily because it admitted them. Its newness meant that restrictive barriers had not yet been erected, as they had in so many other areas of American life. In porn, there was no discrimination against Jews. During the early part of the twentieth century, an entrepreneur did not require large sums of money to make a start in the film business; cinema was considered a passing fad. In the porn business, it was similarly straightforward to get going. To show "stag" movies or loops, as they were known, all one needed was a projector, screen and a few chairs. Not tied up with the status quo and with nothing to lose by innovation, Jews were open to new ways of doing business. Gertzman explains that

“Jews, when they found themselves excluded from a field of endeavor, turned to a profession in which they sensed they could eventually thrive by cooperating with colleagues in a community of effort...Jews have for a very long time cultivated the temperament and talents of middlemen, and they are proud of these abilities.”

The adult entertainment business required something that Jews possessed in abundance: chutzpah. Early Jewish pornographers were marketing geniuses and ambitious entrepreneurs whose toughness, intelligence and boundless self-confidence were responsible for their successes.

Of course, the large number of Jews in porn were mainly motivated by the desire to make profits. Just as their counterparts in Hollywood provided a dream factory for Americans, a blank screen upon which the Jewish moguls’ visions of America could be created and projected, so the porn-moguls displayed a talent for understanding public tastes. What better way to provide the stuff of dreams and fantasies than through the adult-entertainment industry? Performers did porn for the money. As ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman commented, "Those Jews who enter the pornography industry have done so as individuals pursuing the American dream."

Secular Sex

Like their mainstream counterparts, Jews who enter porn do not usually do so as representatives of their religious group. 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 -- he was a generous donator to Jewish charities -- and performer Richard Pacheco once interviewed to be a rabbinical student.

Very few, if any, porn films have overtly Jewish themes, although Jeremy once tried to get several Jewish porn stars together to make a kosher porn film. The exception is Debbie Duz Dishes, in which Nina Hartley plays a sexually insatiable Jewish housewife who enjoys sex with anyone who rings the doorbell. It has sold very well, spawned a couple of sequels and is currently very hard to buy -- perhaps indicating a new niche to exploit. Indeed, according to an editorial on the World Union of Jewish Students website,

“there are thousands of people searching for Jewish porn. After things like Jewish calendar, Jewish singles, Jewish dating, and Jewish festivals comes ‘Jewish porn’ in the list of top search keywords that GoTo.com provide.”

Sexual Rebels

Is there a deeper reason, beyond the mere financial, as to why Jews in particular have become involved in porn? There is surely an element of rebellion in Jewish X-rated involvement. Its very taboo and forbidden nature serves to make it attractive. As I’ve written in these pages before, treyf signifies "the whole world of forbidden sexuality, the sexuality of the goyim, and there all the delights are imagined to lie..." (Reel Kashrut: Jewish food in film, JQ 189 [Spring 2003]).

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.

Furthermore, as Orthodox Jew and porn gossipmonger Luke Ford explains on his website (lukeford.net): "Porn is just one expression of [the] rebellion against standards, against the disciplined life of obedience to Torah that marks a Jew living Judaism." It is also a revolt against (often middle-class) parents who wish their children to be lawyers, doctors and accountants. As performer Bobby Astyr put it on the same website, "It’s an 'up yours' to the uncles with the pinky rings who got down on me as a kid for wanting to be [a] musician."

As religious influences waned and were replaced by secular ones, free-thinking Jews, especially those from California’s Bay Area, viewed sex as a means of personal and political liberation. America provided the freest society Jews have ever known, as manifested by the growth of the adult industry. Those Jewish women who have sex onscreen certainly stand in sharp contradiction to the stereotype of the "Jewish American Princess."

They (and I’m speculating here) may have seen themselves as fulfilling the promise of liberation, emancipating themselves from what feminist Betty Friedan in 1963 called the "comfortable concentration camp" of the household as they set out into the Promised Land of the porno sets of Southern California. It signified their economic and social freedom: they were free to choose to enter, rather than coerced into it by economic and other circumstances. Once they had lain down, they could stand on their own two feet, particularly as female performers typically earn twice as much as their male counterparts.

Sexual Revolutionaries

Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP establishment in America. Some porn stars viewed themselves as frontline fighters in the spiritual battle between Christian America and secular humanism. According to Ford, Jewish X-rated actors often brag about their "joy in being anarchic, sexual gadflies to the puritanical beast." 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. Astyr remembers having "to run or fight for it in grammar school because I was a Jew. It could very well be that part of my porn career is an 'up yours' to these people."

Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw, said (on lukeford.net), "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don’t believe in authoritarianism." Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged. Porn is no longer of the "what the Butler saw" voyeuristic type; instead, it is driven to new extremes of portrayal that stretch the boundaries of the porn aesthetic. As new sexual positions are portrayed, the desire to shock (as well as entertain) seems clear.

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. Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Paul Goodman replaced Marx, Trotsky and Lenin as required revolutionary reading. Reich’s central preoccupations were work, love and sex, while Marcuse prophesied that a socialist utopia would free individuals to achieve sexual satisfaction. Goodman wrote of the "beautiful cultural consequences" that would follow from legalizing pornography: it would "ennoble all our art" and "humanize sexuality." Pacheco was one Jewish porn star who read Reich’s intellectual marriage of Freud and Marx (lukeford.net):

“Before I got my first part in an adult film, I went down to an audition for an X-rated film with my hair down to my ass, a copy of Wilhelm Reich’s Sexual Revolution under my arm and yelling about work, ‘love and sex’.”

As Rabbi Samuel H. Dresner put it (E. Michael Jones, Rabbi Dresner’s Dilemma: Torah v. Ethnos’ Culture Wars, May 2003), "Jewish rebellion has broken out on several levels, one being ‘the prominent role of Jews as advocates to sexual experimentation." Overall, then, porn performers are a group of people who praise rebellion, self-fulfillment and promiscuity.

What Are We Ashamed Of?

This brief overview and analysis of the role and motivations behind pornographers and performers is intended to shed light on a neglected topic in American Jewish popular culture. Little has been written about it. Books such as Howard M. Sachar’s A History of the Jews in America (New York: Knopf, 1992) simply ignore the topic. And you can bet that the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Jews in the United States did not include any celebrations of Jewish innovation in this field. Even the usually tolerant Time Out New York has been too prim to deal with it, although the more iconoclastic Heeb plans an issue on it. In light of the relatively tolerant Jewish view of sex, why are we ashamed of the Jewish role in the porn industry? 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.

[Nathan Abrams is a Lecturer in Modern American History at the University of Aberdeen.]

PEDOPHILIA IS perhaps the single biggest methodology by which the Jews corrupt Gentile politicians. Although fiduciary corruption is also a very common cause for Jewish blackmail leverage against American and European holders of public office, the Jews prefer to use pedophilia, when they can, because it is an unforgivable sin in the minds of the voting public.

Children have been enslaved for the purpose of prostitution since ancient times. And throughout recorded history, the Jews have been the tribe most willing to use the dirty business to gain the political conveniences that it offers.

Few novice seekers of public office understand what awaits them, if they succeed in a big way. Someone will approach a new Member of Congress, say, and invite him to a party. He’ll go. At the party, he’ll meet some faces newly familiar to him from the Capitol Building. These will be men already suborned by the Jews, and most of them will leave the party early. They were there, to begin with, merely to put the new Congressman at his ease. As the party thins out, the person who invited him will suggest that he remain for "the party after the party."

That’s when the underage sex-slaves appear. If the rookie Congressman bows to pressure, or to temptation, then he’ll be caught in a snare from which there is no escape. The Jews will be making a video record of his molestation of a child, which they will use to keep that political figure under their thumb, forever.

Former president Bill Clinton and self-proclaimed homosexual Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey were both guests at Jeffrey Epstein’s "parties."

Such things have been going on within America’s top political circles for perhaps a century, if not longer. It happens among top politicians in Great Britain, too, where the Jews are playing the same game.

One of the biggest Jewish corrupters was Jeffrey Epstein. Former President Bill Clinton is believed to have been one of the patrons of his "business," largely based on Little Saint James Island, one of the US Virgin Islands, which Epstein owned.

Offering children to gratify the perverted desires of important politicians and others, as witnesses have stated, isn’t the only thing that Jeffrey Epstein did on his island. He has hosted medical research and scientific conferences there also. And Epstein was far from the only Jew whose service to International Jewry runs along these same lines.

There Are Many Others

In 2000, in Brazil, an official Israeli diplomat named Arie Scher was discovered to have been running a child prostitution business out of his Ipanema apartment -- Ipanema is a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro -- for the benefit of wealthy Jewish tourists from Israel.

A friend of his, a fellow Jew named George Schteinberg, assisted Scher by recruiting poor children from the streets of Rio and prepping them for their roles as prostitutes. Schteinberg also ran a sideline business by making photographs of the sexual encounters and then selling the uploaded images from his nine websites, all of which contained text written in the Hebrew language. Schteinberg’s day job was teaching Hebrew and social studies at a Jewish college in Rio de Janeiro.

A girl who had been victimized by Scher and Schteinberg tipped off the police. The Brazilian federal police arrested Professor Schteinberg, but diplomat Scher evaded capture by fleeing from the Israeli Embassy, one step ahead of the cops, hopping aboard an airplane bound for Buenos Aires, Argentina, then switching planes and flying to Israel. Safe!

Later that same year, in Italy, three White journalists sacrificed their jobs in order to bring attention to a Jewish-run pedophilia ring that was doing business in Italy, in Sweden, and (it later turned out) in the United States. They arranged for the broadcast of a very nearly uncensored documentary about child pornography in Europe, which gave enough clues so that it was fairly easy for viewers to guess that Jews were behind it all. When their Jewish boss, Gad Lerner, fired them, he accused the three White journalists of "blood libel," a phrase used by the Jews to describe any serious accusation against them, whether it is true or not.

The child porn syndicate was based in Murmansk, Russia, where its top Jewish leaders raked in their ill-gotten gains. Their pedophilia-selling agents were arrested in Milan, Italy, and some of the pedo-porn buyers were arrested in Stockholm, Sweden, in September 2000.

The US connection consisted, at least in part, of a Jewish resident of Walnut Creek, California, named Seth Bekenstein. Bekenstein was a well-respected member of his community and a member of the city’s tennis club. The FBI, cooperating with Interpol, arrested him at his home in December 2000, on charges of possession of child pornography with intent to distribute.

A ripple of displeasure swept the world, briefly. The Jewish crime syndicate bosses in Russia were arrested, and they were briefly held in jail -- but they cut a deal with the authorities there and were allowed amnesty. They were let go.

Likewise, Seth Bekenstein and George Schteinberg got merely slaps on the wrist.

And, remember, Arie Scher escaped to Israel, where the Israeli government refused a request from the Brazilian government for his extradition to stand trial in Brazil.

Some of the child pornography was extreme, even for child pornography. Its highest-priced wares were videos in which children were tortured to death on camera, after they were raped. There were scenes of little boys or girls, sick with fear, begging for their lives, before their bodies were cut open and their organs were removed, one by one.

And throughout the world, most of this kind of thing is perpetrated by Jews. Oh, no, not exclusively by Jews. But Jews run most of it. They are far and away over-represented among the criminals who do it. If God took a broom and swept all the Jews off the Earth, most of these pedophile crimes would cease.

In addition to the article in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, there have been other articles published in the Italian newspaper La Republica, which, however, I can no longer find online. (I just now searched that newspaper’s archives for September 2000, and I did not find even one article pertaining to the Jewish-run, international pedophilia business that made such a scandal at that time.) There were news articles in the Vatican newspaper La Osservatore Romano, also in September 2000, which I haven’t yet looked for.

A disproportionate part of the law enforcement focus on pedophile crime is on the downstream (or consumer) side of it. Much less is being done about the criminals who produce it, inevitably harming children thereby.

In 2011, Canadian police arrested a man for selling child pornography on the Internet. Police seized 45 terabytes of illegal content when they arrested the man -- and have since worked on mapping the people who bought the content.

That’s all very well, of course. But why aren’t the police also pursuing the criminals from whom the reseller acquired his child porn images and videos? That particular man certainly did not create 45 terabytes of disgusting child pornography all by himself.

The Jews often corrupt the political systems of their hosts so thoroughly that they can operate above the law, with immunity and impunity: No one will arrest them; no one will prosecute them; the mainstream media usually won’t even tell you who they are. And that’s why there is a lopsidedness in law-enforcement attention, in which the consumers are netted in "stings," while the producers get a pass.

 

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