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CV NEWS FEED // A coalition of 17 porn actors has initiated a $100,000 advertising campaign aimed at opposing Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint advocating for policies, including a ban on pornography and the imprisonment of its producers.
The campaign, titled “Hands Off My Porn,” targets online visitors to porn websites in seven critical swing states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, according to an October 7 report from Newser.
The actors behind the Hands Off My Porn campaign noted that young men are the most common visitors to porn sites and that this is the demographic they are “targeting” with their ads, according to the report.
Notably, polls indicate that former President Donald Trump currently holds a lead among male voters against Vice President Kamala Harris.
However, Trump stated during the recent presidential debate that he has “nothing to do with Project 2025” and that he has never read it nor intends to, according to a report from PBS News.
Holly Randall, who has been a porn actress for 25 years, called Project 2025’s ban “the most extreme proposal” she has ever seen and urged voters to “take that threat seriously,” according to the Newser report.
CatholicVote reported that an overwhelming 83% of American voters favor a national age verification law to protect children from pornography and that PornHub has fled multiple states, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, Mississippi, Utah, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia, to avoid complying with similar laws.
The Hands Off My Porn campaign website cites Project 2025’s fifth page, which states that “pornography’s ‘purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.’”
“Women in the adult industry are not victims,” the campaign stated, adding, “They are business women who enjoy their jobs, enjoy full autonomy over their bodies, and have built powerful brands.”
Additionally, the campaign warned visitors to their site that the entire Republican Party is “crusading against your rights,” referencing Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance.
The campaign highlighted a quote from Vance, who reportedly stated in a 2021 interview with Crisis Magazine that “the combination of porn [and] abortion [has] basically created a lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other.”
