‘Porn is the canary in the coal mine’ – Adult film stars join forces to launch anti-Project 2025 campaign
By Jess Sharp, live news reporter
“Porn is the canary in the coal mine” – that’s what adult film director Holly Randall told me when we spoke.
Discussing the election from her home in LA, she said access to porn was always the first thing governments targeted if they were planning to attack civil liberties – and it was what Donald Trump was coming after.
She has been in the industry for 26 years, and is the daughter of Suze Randall – one of the first female erotic directors.
“I have seen attacks on our industry not just for the 26 years that I have been in it, but I have seen my parents go through similar things in the 1980s,” she said.
“But this is the most explicit one I have ever seen.”
Holly is one of many porn industry workers that feel this way, and is part of a campaign warning about the impact of Donald Trump being elected.
The Hands Off My Porn campaign is planning to spend $250,000 on adverts on adult websites in key swing states, warning viewers that prominent allies of Trump want to ban pornography and imprison those who make it.
The ads will show at the front of porn videos, with Holly explaining they’ll warn viewers that those sorts of clips would be banned under Mr Trump.
Holly says it was all set out in Project 2025 – a document considered to be a play book for the next Republican president.
Some of the people involved in Project 2025 are ex-senior Trump administration officials, but the former president has denied having any knowledge of the document.
However, Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, wrote the foreword for the latest book by Kevin Roberts, leader of Project 2025.
In it, Mr Vance endorses his ideas as a “fundamentally Christian view of culture and economics”.
“It actually wants to outlaw porn completely, it wants to criminalise it, it wants to send the people who produce it to jail, it wants to imprison people who distribute it, even librarians,” Holly explains.
Page five of Project 2025 states: “Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.”
“Porn is the canary in the coal mine,” Holly says. “It is the first thing to go down when the government wants to chip away at your civil liberties, it is the easiest thing to attack.
“We live with this on a day-to-day basis, our industry is always under threat, we are always being attacked.
“This is not unusual, but this is the first time that it has been linked to a president who is running for office who has said so explicitly that he wants to outlaw the entire industry and send us all to jail.”
Talking about how the election had been going so far, she said it had been the “most explosive” she had seen.
“It’s quite disheartening. He [Trump] has divided our country,” she added.
“We are not in a time when we can rest on our laurels any more.”
When I asked her what she thought of the idea of another Trump presidency, she replied: “If Trump wins I’m holding on tight to my British passport. I might just come over.”
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