By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League
February 27, 2014
A Duke University freshman who is earning her way through school as a porn star has garnered loads of media attention as she’s granted an interview under an assumed name and blogged about how her work brings her “unimaginable joy.” Meanwhile, she’s enraged that someone would have the audacity to reveal her identity on campus and that anyone would question her intelligence or work ethic.
“The fact that Duke University would even publish a story about this matter in the campus newspaper, the fact that the student is not being brought up on discipline charges, the fact that somehow academic freedom or even a student’s individual freedom trumps a righteous standard — all these demonstrate how far this institution has fallen,” said the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League. “I can assure you that Methodists of the past — those responsible for the founding of Duke — would have been appalled. Men like Francis Asbury, George Whitfield and John Wesley would have likely argued parents should keep their children out of such a school.”
The student, who says she is bisexual and finds the experience of porn to be “supportive, exciting, thrilling and empowering,” got into the business when she realized her family couldn’t afford $60,000 in tuition. In an anonymous blog, she boasts that she is “completely in control” of her sexuality.
“She says she wants to convey the empowerment of a woman in control of her own body, making her own sexual choices. Nevertheless, she is part of an industry that treats women as a commodity to meet the sexual demands of men, removing to a large degree her own personhood,” Dr. Creech said. “The industry she touts, no matter how kindly she says it treats her, does not treat women, marriage, or children kindly. In fact, it treats women as something to be used and marriage and children as obstacles to sexual fulfillment. She has decided to participate in, as well as glorify an enterprise that leads to sexual deviance, aggression, and even rape by men.”
He said the porn star’s underlying message for young people is that it doesn’t matter if your means is sinful or corrupt as long as it gets you to where you want to go in life, it’s just dandy. Creech said that kind of philosophy and approach to life is damning.
“Sex given by our Creator was meant to be an act of supreme love between two persons who have made the deepest commitment to each other in marriage,” Dr. Creech added. “It is a picture of supreme selflessness and giving.”
By contrast, he said porn is “all about me, my own lusts and the fulfillment of those lusts.”
The porn star realized her double life was about to be revealed when a classmate began to follow her alter ego on Twitter. A male friend whom she begged to keep her secret admits he revealed her identity at a fraternity party, which led to hundreds of new Facebook friend requests within about 24 hours. When similar connections began to crank up on a Twitter account under her stage name, she knew her secret was out.
Far from being ashamed of her behavior, she said she is proud of it and has no plans to quit. What upsets her is her loss of privacy.
“I did not expect that every private detail about my life would be dissected,” she blogged. “I certainly did not expect that extremely personal information concerning my identity and whereabouts would be so carelessly transmitted through college gossip boards.”
Dr. Creech said we all wind up in trouble when we believe that we can maintain a secret alter ego or life and not have our actions in one area reflect on another.
“My heart is broken for this young woman. She is apt to lose her soul, and so are others who find her remarks acceptable,” Dr. Creech said.