Triple-Exthnics 2007-02-26 Nathan Abrams on Jews in the American porn industry A story little told 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'. 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 _title_s 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 moulded by Hirsch. Vivid was the subject of a behind-the- scenes reality TV show recently broadcast on Channel 4. More at http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=38

Another sneakemail Jew hater. Go back to Iran Dax Dax < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message Here's a list of mostly Jews in the Entertainment Industry Allen, Woody - Comedian, Actor, Director, Producer (real name: Allan Konigsberg) Army of Lovers (Crucified, Isrealism) Avital, Mili - Israeli actress (extremely beautiful), U.S. debut: Stargate Bacall, Lauren - Actress Barkin, Ellen - Actress Barr, Roseanne - Comedian Beckham, David - Soccer Star, Movie Star, Jewish Grandfather, Lured to Los Angeles Soccer Team in 2007, Highest Sports Salary in History Beck, Jeff - Guitarist Becker, Sandy - late children's TV show host Benatar, Pat - Famous Singer Benezra, Sonia - Quebecer Talk Show host Benny, Jack - Benjamin Kubelsky Berlin, Irving - Composer of White Christmas Berri, Claude - French film director Biafra, Jello (Singer of American HC punk band Dead Kennedys) Bialik, Mayim - Actress (Blossom) Bikel, Theodore - actor / Fiddler on the Roof Bleeth, Yasmine - Actress -Father Jewish Bochner, Hart - Actor Bochner, Lloyd - Canadian Shakespearean Actor, Radio Actor, Film Actor, Cecil Colby on Dynasty, Naked Gun ,  Father of Hart Bochner Bonet, Lisa - Ex-Wife of Lenny Kravitz Borgnine, Ernst (Effron Borgnine) - Actor Boxleitner, Bruce - Actor Brooks, Albert - Actor, Director (real name: Albert Einstein) Brooks, Mel - Actor, Director, Comedian, Writer Bruce, Lenny - Comic Walter, Bruno - German conductor and student of Gustav Mahler. Had to change his name. Bullock, Sandra - actress [Jewish?] Cantor, Eddie - Vaudeville Singer, Dancer Cass, Mama (Liz Cohen) - an actress Chandler, Jeff - Actor Chaplin, Charlie - Silent Film Actor, Comedian, Producer, Raconteur Cherry, Ruben (A man who raised Elvis in public) Chessler, Deborah (Shirley Reingold) Chomsky, Naom - an American philosopher Cohen, Leonard

Another sneakemail Jew hater. Go back to Iran Dax Yup, probably another suspected Saudi-sponsored loon of the type that seems to be becoming so prevalent here.

Frank Arthur < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message Another sneakemail Jew hater. Go back to Iran Dax Yup, probably another suspected Saudi-sponsored loon of the type that seems to be becoming so prevalent here. Of course, comrade, we have an article by a Jewish author on a Jewish website and the best you two cretins can do is belch that Iranians or Saudis had something to do with it.  As a degenerate who's a big consumer of porn you should be pleased that Jews supply your appetites. Here, have another look at the article http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=38

Of course, comrade, we have an article by a Jewish author on a Jewish website and the best you two cretins can do is belch that Iranians or Saudis had something to do with it. So Dax was the author of the article, was he?

As a degenerate who's a big consumer of porn you should be pleased that Jews supply your appetites. Your evidence for this astonishing assertion?