But wait, you’re probably saying to yourself right now, how can Trump be bad for porn? This is, after all, a man who was featured in a softcore porn video and appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine; a man who happens to be married to a former nude model. Surely those aren’t the actions of someone hellbent on cracking down on the adult industry, right?
Throughout Trump’s campaign, as he was signing anti-porn pledges and representing a party with a national platform declaring porn to be a “public health crisis,” commentators suggested he was probably just pandering to his base rather than expressing a deeply-held belief. Even in the wake of the election, an experienced adult industry attorney assured me there was no way a Trump administration would come after America’s pornographers. [...]
And Pence is just the tip of the iceberg. Other transition team members include Edwin Meese of the infamous Meese Report, the Family Research Council’s Ken Blackwell, and, of course, Rudy Giuliani, who spent his tenure as mayor cleaning up Times Square (i.e. driving out all the porn theaters). “Take anybody who’s been named to the transition team or has been floated as a [cabinet member] and [search for] their name with pornography," said Michael Stabile, the Communications Director for adult industry advocacy group the Free Speech Coalition. The results aren’t pretty.
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