Will Trump be a threat to the porn industry?

[Guy]

http://m.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=214205

 

[Albert_1]

Depends on if he lets other people call the shots. He doesn't strike me as someone who's against porn (hell he was in a softcore playboy one) just a conman who'll say anything to get what he wants.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Depends on if he lets other people call the shots. He doesn't strike me as someone who's against porn (hell he was in a softcore playboy one) just a conman who'll say anything to get what he wants.

And his wife has done a nude photo shoot for a French men's magazine.

 

[yummybrownfox]

Nah. He loves him some pussy, and I could totally see him fapping to interracial clips of Jazmine Cashmere, Havana Ginger, etc.

Depends on if he lets other people call the shots. He doesn't strike me as someone who's against porn (hell he was in a softcore playboy one) just a conman who'll say anything to get what he wants.

^THIS. Trump just doesn't strike me as a person who gets butthurt over porn (See what I did there?). Mitt Romney, on the other hand...I could totally see that guy talking about how disgraceful and disgusting it is.

 

[Sevrin]

Mitt Romney, on the other hand...I could totally see that guy talking about how disgraceful and disgusting it is.

Guys who talk to themselves about how disgraceful and disgusting porn is while fapping are a major market segment!

 

[JickyJuly]

Mike Pence could be a danger to pretty much anything that Catholics rally against, and looking at his history, he doesn't seem to care much if his sentiments are popular or constitutionally supported. Still, I think the Republicans know they're going to have to pick and choose which of their causes they really go for. Porn is on their list, but not far up. I'm sure they see how attacking the adult industry has turned out for California. Attacking porn is just part of attacking sexual deviance and overt female sexuality. They'll do that by gunning for Roe v. Wade and the gays first I suspect... things that are less likely to alienate or enrage the average dude.

 

[ThePrincessLuxy]

Mike Pence could be a danger to pretty much anything that Catholics rally against, and looking at his history, he doesn't seem to care much if his sentiments are popular or constitutionally supported. Still, I think the Republicans know they're going to have to pick and choose which of their causes they really go for. Porn is on their list, but not far up. I'm sure they see how attacking the adult industry has turned out for California. Attacking porn is just part of attacking sexual deviance and overt female sexuality. They'll do that by gunning for Roe v. Wade and the gays first I suspect... things that are less likely to alienate or enrage the average dude.

This so much. I really do think porn is okay because it would effect the avg guy. Our rights on the other hand... Idk.

 

[Ambers Troll]

Statistically, like most old perverts, Trump would be a customer.
...but considering his party base, me does think from time to time the gentleman will protest too much when it comes to porn.

 

[Deleted member 31926]

YNOT posted a similar article yesterday. Their thoughts generally echo what's been posted here:

• Trump himself is probably not much of a threat, despite the pledge he signed earlier this year (which by my reading seems to relate more to restricting children's access to pornography than to restricting its distribution generally).
• Of greater concern are Trump's prospective Republican appointees, some of whom are known to be opposed to the porn industry.
• One specific threat is the possibility of Rudy Giuliani being selected for Attorney General, as Giuliani was hostile to adult businesses in New York City during his tenure as mayor.
• On the bright side, the ever-increasing popularity and acceptance of Internet porn suggests present-day legal assaults on the grounds of "obscenity" would be unlikely to succeed.

 

[Guy]

YNOT posted a similar article yesterday. Their thoughts generally echo what's been posted here:

• Trump himself is probably not much of a threat, despite the pledge he signed earlier this year (which by my reading seems to relate more to restricting children's access to pornography than to restricting its distribution generally).
• Of greater concern are Trump's prospective Republican appointees, some of whom are known to be opposed to the porn industry.
• One specific threat is the possibility of Rudy Giuliani being selected for Attorney General, as Giuliani was hostile to adult businesses in New York City during his tenure as mayor.
• On the bright side, the ever-increasing popularity and acceptance of Internet porn suggests present-day legal assaults on the grounds of "obscenity" would be unlikely to succeed.

Under the Bush administration there were obscenity prosecutions of porn companies like Extreme Associates.

 

[Deleted member 31926]

Under the Bush administration there were obscenity prosecutions of porn companies...

Interesting. Thanks for posting that, Guy.

The point of YNOT's article was not that a prosecution for obscenity couldn't succeed, just that in the present-day environment of hookups and tube sites it would be hard for an anti-porn crusader to use "obscenity" as grounds for restricting the kind or quantity of content already being produced. From the article:

“He [Trump] does not look or sound like the kind of moralist who would try to impose ‘Christian family values’ on anyone else by the use of state power against pornography through obscenity prosecutions,” [Joe] Obenberger continued...

Obenberger... pointed out that “obscenity” is not as easily prosecuted as it once was, thanks to the ubiquity of online porn. Finding a venue where jurors might determine anything but the most extreme content “patently offensive” and devoid of “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value” could be next to impossible.​

In short, it's hard to argue porn isn't aligned with "contemporary community values" when most of the community already spends an hour a week on PornHub.

 

[Guy]

https://avn.com/business/articles/l...p-transition-teams-views-on-adult-702275.html

 

[ExcellaExe]

I think that, despite Trump being... for lack of a better term... malleable on most issues, he won't go after porn as hardcore as he will say Roe V Wade or Marriage Equality. Most Republicans recognize that porn and adult entertainment is something that they can talk a big game to and against, but that the second they go after it, there will be backlash. States with the most vehemence against the adult industry often tend to be the highest consumers. My own governor has said he would go after porn, and he's been in office two years... yet to put forth ANYTHING that would do anything about porn. They all talk a big game until their in the actual office, and then they realize how stupid their promises were.

 

[Guy]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-will-a-trump-administration-do-to-porn

 

[DrWangFei]

There's too much money in porn, nothing will happen. The amount of money that would be lost in taxes to the country would be problematic. Everyone freaks out when a new President comes in thinking that things are going to change drastically... and nothing rarely ever happens.

 

[A214]

I think you are giving the US President too much credit/power. In all essence he is just a figure head. Only thing he can do is an executive order, which I believe can be overturned by the Supreme Court or at least the next President. Everything else needs to be run through Congress and ok'd by the Supreme Court. To use the Roe v Wade argument. Reagan and both Bush's were supposed to overturn it, but did not have the authority or Congressional support to do it. Obama was supposed to close down Gitmo, but couldn't. The only lasting affect he'll have on the US is by who he appoints to the Supreme Court(which again has to be approved by Congress) and I think he appointees will be more open minded than Hillary's would've been.

 

[HiGirlsRHot]

After some careful consideration I decided that yes Trump is a threat to porn industry. The good news is that internet is designed to withstand a nuclear attack. Sadly most camgirls and their customers are not.
So if Trump gets butt hurt over something Putin says or mean tweet who knows what he will do.

 

[Vivi_Amante]

I agree with previous posters, It's Mike Pence that will be detrimental to we camladies. We are talking about a guy that tried to take all of the money used for HIV treatment and research away, and use it to convert gay people. *Sigh*