Porn Enthusiasts Beware: Project 25 Will Put An End to Your 'Love Life'

The industry, however, is not taking this lying down and beginning to fight back!

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It might go back to the “good old days.” You know what I’m talking about. On the way to work, men exiting the Port Authority in mid-town Manhattan would pop by their favorite peep shows for some “relaxation.” Plop down a few dollars and feel good about your masculinity steps away from Broadway and the “shows.” Today, though, in the comfort of their homes, men all over America between the ages of 18 and 49 merely press enter, and a whole world of sexual exploration unveils itself before their hungry eyes. 

Many of these men, one might even say a majority of them, plan on voting for Donald Trump. Despite his lies, Donald Trump intends to fill his administration with the authors of Project 25. Page “whatever” in that fascist screed calls for the outlawing of pornography and especially internet porn. Millions of men may soon be hit with buyer’s remorse and find they have suddenly become “hands-free.”

Seventeen pornographic film actors on Monday announced that they had launched a $100,000 ad campaign on porn sites warning that Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation blueprint for a Republican administration that has been a centerpiece of some Democratic campaigns — wants to ban pornography and imprison people who produce it. The online ads will run in the states that will decide the presidency: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.

The architects of the “hands off my porn” campaign are nothing if not aware of the polling. Vice President Kamala Harris is losing to former President Donald J. Trump among men, but younger men might be winnable — and pornographic websites are among the most heavily trafficked on the internet (Porn Industry Jumps into the Presidential Race).

Courtesy of the New York Times

“Hands off my porn” is such an apt name for their campaign, and even though the $100,000 ad buy is just a tiny drop in an ocean-sized bucket, the ads will be hitting the target audience at a moment when they are psychologically engrossed in what they are viewing on the screen. Given the level of physical and emotional agitation, the above ad could require only a few views to sink into the target’s subconscious. In all of my PR and communications experience, I would call this a remarkable campaign.

“I have been in this industry for over 25 years and have witnessed many attacks on our industry, but Project 2025’s ban on pornography is the most extreme proposal I have ever seen, and voters have to take that threat seriously,” Holly Randall, a pornographic film actor, said in the group’s announcement. “We cannot simply rely on precedent that consuming pornography is legal and has been legal for a long time (Porn Industry Jumps into the Presidential Race).”

There is a lot to be lost if porn is outlawed, and I am pretty surprised that more representatives of this industry aren’t out there shaking the trees and kicking up noise about the intentions of Project 25. Porn, though, is a very important part of the lives of many young men, and if Trump’s administration comes in and shuts it down, there will be a lot of frustrated fellows out there.

We can only hope that when millions of men of whatever age decide to “relax” in the coming days and weeks on a leisurely night with their favorite porn star, this ad will pop up before they pop off.