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Written by mike
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 12:53 |
 Watch out, Jessie Helms -- someone younger and hungrier is about to push you down the stairs! SF Weekly writer Matt Smith has he's gotten porn site Kink.com banned from a California-subsidized program that trains Bay Area video professionals because the site is "medieval" and grosses him out.
Smith submitted an inquiry about Kink.com to the California Entertainment Training Program (ETP), which then removed Kink from the list of subsidized applicants. The Bay Area Video Coalition is geared toward making the Bay Area a viable video production hub, but none of that matters to Smith because it's porn. After gleefully reporting his deed, Smith then paused ... for a second.
The stripping of Kink.com's funding raises an intriguing question: Does the state's refusal to train porn-makers violate constitutional free-speech guarantees? I'm not joking. Some serious and credible people says it's worth considering whether it's legal to deny training to porn workers merely because they film naked, shackled women with live electrodes clipped to their genitals.
While we're at it, we should probably also take away Kink employees' rights to unemployment benefits and healthcare protection. Because it's not like they are a legally recognized entity in California, and it's not like they pay payroll taxes or anything. Oh, wait -- they are and they do. But it doesn't matter when you're a second-rate city paper trying to sell pitchforks and torches.
UPDATE: Ever eager to call out his rival alternative weekly for not being alternative enough, SF Bay Guardian editor Tim Redmond is calling Matt Smith's story "remarkable for its prudishness."
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