I’ve walked down some mean streets in my life and met a lot of bad guys who frequently have keener insights into life than the good guys.<\/p>\n
People become good by having consideration for others. Take David Suissa<\/a> for example. He’s a good guy. He takes other people’s feelings into accounts. He doesn’t just lambast people in his Jewish Journal column.<\/p>\n Then take me. I’m not as connected as David. Except when it comes to my closest friends and community, I write what I think. If the writing is good (if I want to read it), then other people’s feelings are secondary (particularly if they are public figures).<\/p>\n I remember when I was writing about the XXX industry<\/a>, many porners said to me, “You just want glory (big scoops) and you don’t care who you hurt.”<\/p>\n These pornographers tended to have keener insights into human relations than many esteemed professors of psychology, sociology, women’s studies, etc. No pornographer is so stupid as to believe that men and women are identical except for the plumbing.<\/p>\n I remember the wisdom I found on Feb. 29, 2000:<\/p>\n James DiGiorgio, the technical director, says, \u201cAja [born in 1964, she entered porn in 1987] plays a hapless waif named Honeysuckle who In season three<\/a> of the TV show 24, Jack Bauer is revealed to have a heroin addiction. He claims he used heroin only to get in with the Salazar brothers in Mexico so he could penetrate their drug ring. Most of the good guys buy this explanation, but drug lord Ramon Salazar knows better. “You didn’t need to take heroin to establish credibility with us,” he tells Jack. “You did heroin because you were running away from pain.”\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve walked down some mean streets in my life and met a lot of bad guys who frequently have keener insights into life than the good guys. People become good by having consideration for others. Take David Suissa for example. … Continue reading
\ndelivers pizza…\u201d
\nAja smiles and shows off rune tattoos on her lower legs. \u201cThat\u2019s my
\nshield knot. This symbolizes a spiritual journey.\u201d
\nHer religion is Asatru, pre-Christian Northern European ancestor
\nworship.
\n\u201cI was very disappointed by the movie The 13th Warrior,\u201d says Jim.
\n\u201cThe ending was lame.\u201d
\n\u201cI was looking to see if it was historically accurate,\u201d says Aja. \u201cAnd it was. I liked that the guy from Morocco was just accepting that the Vikings had their own gods and he wasn\u2019t trying to push his god on them.\u201d
\n\u201cYet he did not forsake his god,\u201d says Jim.
\n\u201cRight, there was respect for both cultures. That\u2019s what I liked about it.
\nAnd he was willing to learn and have an open mind.\u201d
\nAfter the first scene, we eat pizza and talk about religion.
\nAja brings out a book (The Germanization of Early Medieval
\nChristianity: A Socio-Historical Approach to Religious Transformation by James C. Russell) to try to settle an argument with performer Kyle Stone.
\nHe\u2019s not impressed. \u201cLook, even [porn actor] Nick East wrote a book,
\nso what does that prove?\u201d
\nVarious porners say how stupid the Bible is and how wonderful
\npaganism is. Kenji, the 350-pound still photographer, calls for a return to child sacrifice.
\nNone of the porners around the table believe in God, except perhaps
\nKyle Stone.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve never thought of it as a person,\u201d he says. \u201cMore as an energy.\u201d
\n\u201cDoes God monitor what you do and reward and punish you for your
\nbehavior?\u201d I ask.
\n\u201cNo. It\u2019s more of a collective conscience. You should monitor what
\nyou do.\u201d
\n\u201cHe\u2019s a spiritual accountant,\u201d says Kenji.
\nAja expounds on her book. \u201cIt\u2019s just talking about missionary work and how dangerous it is to go into other societies and try to change their behavior.\u201d
\nA few minutes later, the porners grouse about the lack of ethics in their business.
\n\u201cPeople don\u2019t give a shit if society passes laws that say \u2018Thou Shalt
\nNot Steal,\u2019\u201d lectures Jim. \u201cThey\u2019ll steal anyway. They\u2019ll just assume they won\u2019t get caught. But if it is God who says \u2018Thou Shalt Not Steal,\u2019 how do you get away with it? Because God is omniscient. He sees all and knows all and you cannot hide that you stole from God.\u201d<\/p>\n