Adult Company Responsibility

With Democrats and Republicans alike passing laws and going after adult companies with a wide variety of laws and attacks it seems that the industry needs to collaborate in order to unify our voices. If we can do this we can take a proactive stance rather than a reactive and most often defensive one. Clearly, we are interested in protecting ourselves, we read the news, we seek legal advice, we may even spend a lot of time jumping through one hoop after another to remain compliant with not only current laws but looming ones.

Lisa S. Lawless, Ph.D., CEO Founder of Holistic Wisdom, Inc. N.A.S.A.E.

Yet, we lack a common thread, a community in which we come together to approach politicians before they approach us via law enforcement. Why are we not coming up with our own self regulations in which we create a type of internal certification that allows us to show that we are a law abiding, conscientious company that is part of the solution to societal problems; not contributors.

It is high time that we demonstrate to the community that it is the adult industry that more often than not caters to the healthy adult sexual nature. From education to entertainment we are meeting the needs that society demands, yet shoved into the closet like an adulterous lover. As we hide we hope we won't be destroyed by the very "collective majority" that put us into business in the first place.

Why do we settle as being the hypothetical Cinderella... working our little hearts out to bring couples together, enhance the sex lives of our fellow man and educating the extremely, sexually ignorant society while the government makes us the target of all the wrongs of society. Why should we hand over 25% of our income while oil tycoons pay for war, taking lives and billions and laugh all the way to the bank.

Are we really willing to settle much longer to walk around with the scarlet letter pinned to our chest and take the abuse, or can we begin to wake up and see the need that we need to take control of our destinies through empowering communication, lobbying and unification.

While the big corporations like Hustler, Vivid, and others have a legal team that the government would think twice about taking on, it is the smaller companies that have the most to worry about.

Yet, we stay silent, huddled in our corners hoping that we won't be targeted for a witch hunt? And remember, the kind of witch hunt I speak of is a Monty Python sketch where the police are slapping on a false nose and the crowd of sexually repressed Christian Right (which is usually neither) scream for us to burn so that they can sleep at night hoping that they don't have to one day face their inherent sexual natures.

It is time to come together. For as the great Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

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