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Originally Posted by Trixie
What I think those of us need to do who are not straight and/or whose porn represents the kind of gender identities and sexual preferences that have made us targets for hate crimes is to focus on WHY we would list a PO Box instead of a place where stalkers and hatemongers could find us. This is a government that refuses to give queer people, transgendered people, etc. equal rights and thinks it's asking for "special" rights to treat hate crimes with the severity they deserve; forcing us to mapquest our homes/places of business leaves us incredibly vulnerable to violent crimes that are far more problematic than adult pornography. Instead of protecting people, the feds are making us more vulnerable.
Less than half of the reported rapes in our country lead to an ARREST, let alone a conviction. That alone horrifies me as a woman, but the notion that I should invite strangers to my home or wherever I do my villified and stigmatized work is doubly horrifying.
Anyway, awesome point from a perspective that few people in this industry seem to grasp.
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I can easily grasp what your fears are. The thing is the no pobox requirement has been in effect since nearly all of us started anyways. We happened to choose porn as an occupation, we were not forced into it or whatnot. The rules were there and we were supposed to follow them all along. Many just never did, and or they were off the hook because they were just secondary producers (just advertisers).
The issues do not stop at gay, transgendered, etc. We get hate email and actual letters to our offices all of the fucking time. Mostly aimed at our interracial stuff. Everything from run of the mill hate mail to straight out death threats. These people of course know our office address and could just as easily visit as they sent those letters. We just deal with it and put them all in their own little area. Again we choose porn.
I just can not get bent out of shape because they want ma and pa porn companies that sprung up all over the US out of their homes to have to list their custodial address which can not be a post office. That was never one of the 2257 issues I had.