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Nathan Abrams writes about
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’.
Smut peddlers
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’.
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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 titles 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.
The rest of this article is at jewishquarterly
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Israel's
sex trade
If you want to talk to Nomi Levenkron, be prepared to endanger her life.
More than likely she’ll be on the road when you call, pressing her cell
phone to her ear as she speeds towards a women’s lock-up in Haifa, or to
a Knesset hearing in Jerusalem, or to the trial of a sex trafficker in
Eilat. She’ll tell you she’s happy to talk but is in a rush. Could you
call again in a few hours?
As legal director for the Migrant Worker’s Hotline—an organization that
battles the scourge of trafficking in women for prostitution—Nomi’s workday
often starts at 5 A.M. She carries two cell phones on her at all times.
And she talks fast. Her fluent English outpaces most native speakers. When
she switches to Hebrew, she seems to forgo drawing breath.
Nomi’s days are spent crisscrossing the country, encouraging victims
to take the stand against their traffickers, lobbying the authorities to
take more action, and suing dangerous men for compensation on behalf of
the women they brutalized. Once, after she filed suit in the case of a
young Moldovan who had passed through the hands of six violent traffickers,
friends came to Nomi’s home to say goodbye, assuming it was the last time
they would see her.
During her first six months on the job, Nomi worked full time without
salary. She admits it’s an addiction. "You don’t really choose this kind
of work," she says. "It’s like heroin." Perhaps only an addict could spend
18 hours a day pursuing brutal criminals through the courts, have government
officials call her a traitor for exposing Israel’s dark side, and still
not be discouraged when thousands more women are sold into sex slavery
in her country every year. When she finally pulls up to the Hotline’s offices
in Downtown Tel Aviv, it’s already ten at night. Nomi releases her seatbelt
buckle and the belt slides up across her bulging belly. She is five months
pregnant.
Tel Aviv’s red light district is only a short walk from Nomi’s office
on Rehov Ha Hashmal. Most of the brothel-lined streets are filthy, the
buildings run-down. Trails of red arrows painted on the walls lead customers
to "health clubs" and "massage parlors," all marked out by twinkling strips
of colored lights that flash their patterns like cuttlefish enticing their
prey.
The rest of this article is at somethingjewish
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Factbook on Global Sexual
Exploitation
Israel
There are no official numbers regarding the extent of prostitution and
the traffic of women in Israel, but there is a general consensus that it
is becoming more prevalent. (CEDAW Report, 8 April 1997)
There has been a steady increase in the numbers of foreign women involved
in prostitution who are arrested for illegal stays in Israel and who are
detained before being deported to their home-countries; in over 95% of
the cases, they were from the former USSR. The average time these women
spend in prison is 50 days. The women themselves are supposed to pay for
their expenses to leave Israel, but when their resources are inadequate,
the Ministry of Interior finances their deportation from a special budget.
(Authorities, Neve Tirza women's prison, CEDAW Report, 8 April 1997)
Traffickers and pimps earned US$50,000 - 100,000 a year from each prostituted
woman, resulting in a US$450 million sex industry. ("A modern form of slavery,"
The Jerusalem Post, 13 January 1998)
1,500 Russian and Ukrainian trafficked women have been deported from
1995-1997. (Michael Specter, "Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women,"
New York Times, 11 January 1998)
Russian women are bought and sold by pimps in Israel for prices ranging
from US$5,000 to $20,000. (Police sources, "'Invisible' Women Shown In
Russia's Demographics," Martina Vandenberg, St. Petersburg Times, 13 October
1997)
A small brothel with ten women can make up to 750,000 shekels a month
(US $215,000). (Michael Specter, "Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic
Women," New York Times, 11 January 1998)
Women trafficked from Eastern Europe, were stripped and sold naked as
slaves to Tel Aviv traders for US$500-1,000. Smuggling, fraudulent documents,
collaboration between police and brothel owners are involved. There are
routine brutal beatings and sexual abuse. (New York Times 11 January 1998)
The non-profit Israel Women's Network estimates that 70% of prostituted
women in Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial center, come from the former
Soviet republics, and that about 1,000 women are brought into Israel illegally
each year. At any one time, as many as 100 women may be awaiting deportation
in Neve Tirza women's prison near Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport, a prison
spokeswoman said. (Elisabeth Eaves, "Israel not the promised land for Russian
sex slaves", Reuters, 23 August 1998)
A poll by the Women's Network showed 44% of Israelis believed all Russian
immigrant women provided sexual services for pay. Illegal immigrants in
Israel, who are mostly Russian, are often stereotyped as having brought
crime and prostitution while exploiting Israeli laws enabling anyone with
a Jewish grandparent to immigrate.(Elisabeth Eaves, "Israel not the promised
land for Russian sex slaves," Reuters, 23 August 1998)
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Jews and "White Slavery"
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the twentieth century, Jews
were deeply involved in what was popularly called "white slavery": international
prostitution rings. "White slavery," notes scholar Albert Lindemann, "was
a concern of Jewish leaders throughout the world, who recognized it as
a special problem." [LINDEMANN, p. 33] [Jews have also dominated the pornography
and commercial sexploitation business, a trend which continues to this
day -- see Mass Media section]
"Between 1880 and 1939," notes scholar
Edward Bristow, "the Jews played a conspicuous role in 'white slavery,'
as the commercial prostitution of that era was dramatically called. Not
only was this Jewish participation conspicuous, it was historically unprecedented,
geographically widespread, and fraught with collective political dangers."
[BRISTOW, p. 1] "Jewish trafficking," says Bristow, "was anchored in brothel
keeping, women freelanced or kept houses while their husbands procured
... Jewish traffickers also supplied Gentile-run houses." [BRISTOW, p.
56-57]
Rooted largely in Eastern and Central Europe
where they "dominated the international traffic out of the area," [BRISTOW,
p. 2] Jews were involved in prostitution rings that networked, wrote Arthur
Mora (of London's Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women)
in 1903, to "almost all parts of North and South Africa, to India, China,
Japan, Philippine Island, North and South America, and also to many of
the countries of Europe." [BRISTOW, p. 1] Jewish criminals trafficked women
under their control virtually anywhere, also including the major cities
of Bulgaria, Bosnia, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Ceylon, Manchuria,
South Africa, Rhodesia, and Mozambique. [BRISTOW, p. 181]
"By 1900," says Bristow, "Jewish commercial
vice was largely incorporated in underworld elements and many of it participants
were predators of the poor." [BRISTOW, p. 89] Jewish pimps, procurers,
and traffickers preyed mostly on non-Jewish women, but even large numbers
of Jewish women were part of their stables.
In 1872, for example, Jewish prostitutes
in Warsaw numbered 17% of the known prostitution population, in Krakow
27%, and in Vilna 47%. [BRISTOW, p. 23] Within the Jewish community itself,
it was not uncommon for recruiters to marry innocent Jewish young women
and "deposit them in foreign brothels." [BRISTOW, p. 25] Many of
the Jewish criminal underworld figures apparently saw no gap between their
day-to-day activities and their religious lives, often maintaining their
religious obligations. A Warsaw thug, Shilem Letzski, organized a small
synagogue for Jewish "prostitutes, madams, pimps, and thieves." This criminal
community even had a rabbinical court "to settle disputes between pimps."
[BRISTOW, p. 60] In Constantinople, prostitutes contributed money
to "have their pimps called to Torah on holidays." [SCHNEIDER, p. 225]
In New York City, "a public school and a large synagogue were situated
right next door to the house of prositution." [RUBINOW, I., 1959, p. 114-115]
The complete article is at jewishtribalreview
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If
you think this is a crazy conspiracy theory, listen to Kay
Griggs as she describes how the Zionist Jews look for mentally
defective people and promote them to top military positions so that
they have control over the US military. I have excerpts of her video interview
at my site; watch the "Desperate Wives" videos:
