US politician Jessi Melton is at the head of the anti-porn movement and is trying to make her candidacy for a seat in the Florida parliament a platform for the issue. Another sign of a head-on attack on the porn industry by the US Republicans around Donald J. Trump.
The Boca Rota-born state politician Jessi Melton embarks on a campaign against pornography. Her entire political career seems to be geared towards the eradication of pornography. In her opinion, the industry is part of the largest criminal network in the world.
To back up her war against pornography with arguments, she digs deep into hostile prejudices and discriminatory views on sex workers. She believes that a large proportion of porn actresses have experienced some form of sexual abuse or trafficking as children. Melton thinks all porn actresses are victims. But she doesn’t stop there; in her opinion, the consumers of porn are all victims, too.
Her approach to attack porn is directed against the very existence of the performers. In order to achieve her goal, she wants to criminalize the payment of porn actors, since it is a form of prostitution that is prohibited nationwide in the USA.
On Instagram, Melton communicates as extreme and undifferentiated as her President. In her short bio, she cites as interests the Republican classics »God, America and 2A«. Religion, nationalism and the right to own weapons – a narrower world view doesn’t seem possible.
In her own words, it all sounds like this:
The overwhelming majority of adult film stars are victims of some form of sexual abuse, child molestation or human trafficking as a minor. No one wakes up suddenly one day and decides they want to be in a pornographic film. They are victims, as are the consumers of the content itself.
We need to go after those who are profiting off of broken families, broken women and abused children, not the performers and consumers. It is destroying our women and our families.
Whether we target this industry at the state or federal level is yet to be determined, and it is important that we consider and respect our constitution throughout the process.
Speaking of the constitution, it would be good advice to respect the right to self-determination and freedom of expression and to leave room for the traditional US values of the free pursuit of happiness, instead of using repressive ideas from the moralizing repressive 1950s of the 20th century, which brought nothing but suffering to people.