Jews dominate the porn industry, much like they dominate Hollywood. They also account for a large number of the anti-porn activists.
Danielle Berrin writes in the Jewish Journal:
“A small group of men in L.A. are determining the sexual templates of almost the entire world of boys — anyone who has a mobile phone. That is sexual colonization,” she said.
Dines wants people to know that the industry also is no longer the sordid domain of small-time cads looking for a break, but a highly sophisticated, “upmarket industry that interfaces with all of global capitalism.”
“This is not a collection of sleazy guys doing this; these are business school graduates in Armani suits,” she said.
After her lecture, I asked Dines privately whether this is a concern for the Jewish community. “Of course,” she said. “There are prostituted women in Israel who specialize in the religious, and I mean the Charedim, so yes, of course. The Jewish community needs to be [concerned] because they’ve got children, and their children live in the world.”
As we spoke further about her feminism and Judaism and family history, Dines revealed how much her identity was shaped by growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust: “I’m a European Jew,” she said. “We were brought up in a post-traumatic time, and it had a profound effect, the post-Holocaust generation, on me.”
