Finding themselves deprived of a field of work and endeavor, Jews turned to a profession in which they felt they could finally grow and prosper with the cooperation of their fellows and through collective effort… Jews have long cultivated and developed the nature, temperament, inclinations and talents of brokers and intermediaries. They are proud of these abilities.

A less well-told story concerns Jews and their role in the pornographic film industry, the infamous cousin of Hollywood.

We may prefer to pretend that it does not exist; but it is a fact that secular Jews have played and still play an outsized role throughout the pornographic film industry in America.

Jewish involvement in pornography in the United States has a long history; As they have been instrumental in transforming a fringe subculture into a fundamental element of American identity.

Jewish activity in the pornography industry takes the form of two groups: producers and sellers of pornographic products and actors in sex films. Although Jews constitute only 2% of the American population, they have become prominent and well-known in pornography.

Many dealers and dealers in erotic art and literature in the book trade between 1890 and 1940 were Jewish immigrants of German origin.

Sturman also introduced a new form of the traditional sex room (typically a dark room with a small color television in which the viewer could watch pornographic video films). It has been said that Sturman not only controlled the pornographic entertainment industry; he literally controlled the entire industry.

He was eventually convicted of tax evasion and other crimes and died in prison in 1997, in disgrace. His son David continued the family business. The modern-day embodiment of Sturman is a forty-three-year-old Jew from Cleveland, whose name is Steven Hirsch, and who has been described as the Donald Trump of the pornography industry.
The link between the two was Steven’s father, Fred, a stockbroker and Sturman’s successor. Today, Hirsch runs a group called the Microsoft of pornography, which produces the most adult films in America.

His specialty was bringing the marketing techniques of the mainstream to the porn industry. In fact, V. Wade is similar to the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and 1940s; Especially in the case of exclusive contracts with sex stars hired and organized by Hirsch. “We Weed” was the subject of a behind-the-scenes TV show broadcast on Channel 4: Beautiful Jewish Girls and Boys!

Most of the leading male actors, and a significant number of the female stars, in the pornographic films of the 1970s and 1980s were Jewish.

Jews entered the pornographic industry for the same reasons that their co-religionists had entered Hollywood. They were attracted to the industry largely because the restrictive barriers they faced in many other areas of American life had not yet been established.
There was no discrimination against Jews in the pornographic industry. In the early twentieth century, an investor did not need a large sum of money to start a film business; cinema was considered a passing fad and a passing fad. It was also easy to get started in the pornography business.

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To show men’s films or lopes, all one needed was a projector, a cinema and a few chairs. The Jews, unattached to the status quo and with nothing to lose by their innovation, were ready to experiment with new ways of doing business.

Finding themselves deprived of a field of work and endeavor, J. Eggerterman says: “The Jews, having found themselves in a profession where they felt they could finally grow and prosper with the cooperation of their fellows and by collective effort… The Jews have long cultivated and developed the nature, temperament, inclinations and talents of brokers and intermediaries. They are proud of these abilities.”

The entertainment and presentation of pornographic films required something that Jews had in abundance: “chutzpah,” or shamelessness, audacity, and insolence. The early Jewish producers of pornographic products were marketing geniuses and ambitious investors and entrepreneurs whose persistence, tenacity, ingenuity, and unwavering self-confidence led to their remarkable successes.

Of course, many Jews in the porn industry were driven more by the desire to make money than by the desire to make money. Just as their counterparts in Hollywood had provided a dream factory for Americans and a white screen on which the images and fantasies of wealthy and influential American Jews were projected.

The pornographic moguls also showed a knack for understanding public tastes and desires. What better way to provide the substance and substance of dreams and fantasies than through the entertainment industry and the screening of pornographic films? Actors engaged in acts that violated public morality for money.

“Jews who entered the porn industry did what people who were chasing the American dream did,” says Foxman, a director of a pornographic film production company.

Some pornographic film stars see themselves as front-line warriors in the holy, spiritual battle between Christian America and secular humanism. According to Ford, Jewish pornographic actors often show their joy in portraying Christian believers as holy, anarchic, slanderous, and scoundrels, and they boast about them.

By this argument, Jewish involvement in the porn industry is the result of their hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to undermine the dominant culture in America by using moral destruction. Pornography, for some Jewish activists in the industry, is a way to contaminate and corrupt Christian culture.

Here, the point is that the traditional, revolutionary, neo-radical struggle of immigrant Jews in America has been directed toward sexual politics rather than leftist politics. Just as Jews have long participated in radical and fundamentalist movements, they have also participated disproportionately in the pornography industry.

American Jews have been sexual revolutionaries. Much of the literature on sexual freedom has been written by Jews. Those at the forefront of the movement that forced America to adopt a more liberal view of sex were Jews. Jews were also the standard-bearers of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Wilhelm Reich (Jew), Herbert Marcuse (Jew), Paul Codman (Jew), the successors of Marx (Jew), Trotsky (Jew), and Lenin (half-Jew) became what revolutionary inference demanded.

Reich’s main preoccupation and concern was with work, love, and sex; while Marcuse predicted that a socialist utopia would make it possible for individuals to achieve sexual gratification and satisfaction. Codman wrote about the heartwarming and sublime consequences of a culture that would follow the legalization of pornography, saying: “It would honor our entire art and humanize sexuality.”

This overview and analysis of the role and motivations behind the scenes of pornographic actors and producers aims to shed light on a topic that has been neglected in American Jewish popular culture. Little has been written on the subject. Given the relatively permissive Jewish view of sex, why are we so embarrassed and ashamed of the role of Jews in the pornography industry? We may not like it, but the role of Jews in this area has been significant and significant, and it is time to think and write about it seriously.

Source:
Sayat Gharb Monthly, Issue 33, April 2006.