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Marry a Porn Star: You're Fired

Thu, 07/23/2009 - 13:44
Submitted by Carlin Ross

A South Florida town manager who married a porn star last year was fired at an emergency meeting after the mayor and council members learned about it.  Fort Myers Beach town council voted 5-0 to fire Scott Janke "without cause" after Mayor Larry Kiker called the Tuesday night meeting.

Kiker said he learned that afternoon that Janke's wife is an adult film star, and the elected officials took the action a few hours later.  "At no time did we make a judgment call on the activities of Mr. Janke or his wife," Kiker told The Associated Press. "It's a matter of how effective he becomes after this situation. How much disruption there is."

This is so fucking interesting.  Pornography is NOT illegal.  Americans consume more porn than any other country yet we believe that marrying a porn star is grounds for dismissal?  How is this Constitutional?  I would sue like there's no tomorrow.

I think that you can judge a culture by how they treat their sex workers.  America is one big ball of hypocrisy. 

I just know that the same council members that fired this man went home and checked the share price of their GE stock which includes pornographic businesses, watched some sex clips on their lap tops, and hit the Spice channel with the wife before going to bed.  His wife being a porn star is only disruptive to sexually repressed individuals.

 

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Gross Injustice

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 02:29
BryanK

Don't you love how our society has an insatiable appetite for porn, a $13 billion (that's billion with a B) industry, but feels the need to punish the people who appear in it. Of course here that hypocrisy goes one step further, in punishing someone for daring to love a porn star.

My own wife, Sue, although never a "porn star" by any stretch, appeared in a couple of adult features while she was working for a major "men's" magazine. She did it for the experience and the adventure and has no regrets. The thought that I or our son might be punished for this moral "crime" of hers is a sobering one. Thank goodness we don't live in the South!

An illegal act diguised as political prudence

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Fri, 07/24/2009 - 00:22
NickN

Dear Carlin,

many thanks for posting this story. While I have many, many reservations about the porn industsry, how it operates and its consequences in relation to feminism and equality, the legal activities of a person's partner, husband or wife, can never be grounds for dismissal if one has even a modicum of common sense and/or respect for legal probity. 

I agree, sue, sue, sue. Sadly, most people can't afford to bank-roll their own justice and (in the UK) legal aid cases are not always chosen for support due to the principles at stake but in respect of the amount of valuable publicity for the lawyers concerned. But let's hope there are enough rational, freedom-loving lawyers out there to take up the cause.

Best wishes,

Chu