Monday, December 21, 2015

Joel Hilliker Insinuates Porn Used to Come from the "Ghetto"

Back in the September 2009 issue of PCG's recruitment magazine, The Philadelphia Trumpet, Joel Hilliker wrote an article condemning pornography. It is entitled "Keep the Ghetto Out of Your Bedroom".

Why would Hilliker bring up a ghetto in an article condemning pornography?
Pornography used to be more difficult to get to—confined to the other side of the tracks, hiding in the hardscrabble, no-go zones of the city. The shame used to be prohibitive. (Joel Hilliker, Keep the Ghetto Out of Your Bedroom, September 2009.)
It seems strange that Hilliker should describe pornography as coming from a ghetto and from some scary place in the city. What about our hormones? Surely they have something to do with why pornography is commercially viable.

Alas, that is all Hilliker has to say about pornography supposedly coming from the ghetto, "the other side of the tracks" and "the hardscrabble, no-go zones of the city." One can only wonder what kind of hardscrabble, no-go zone he is talking about.

I will admit one possibility that comes to mind reading the use of the word "ghetto" but it must be emphasized that is little evidence in the article to support it one way or the other so I will not share it here.

But it seems bizarre that Hilliker should present pornography as originating from some scary place in "the hardscrabble, no-go zones of the city" instead of admitting that our sexual hormones make such things appealing to many people.

2 comments:

  1. It is in the so called ghetto where families, (black and Mexican) due to financial difficulties, embraced family ethics and shunned moral depravity.

    The rich "middle class" kids are the ones who had the porno films and most of that material was the parents. Both parents worked and the kids left to their own devices.

    So no, this idiot minister doesn't understand shit about the people of the ghetto.

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  2. Hilliker needs to do a little more research. Hugh Hefner would be surprised at his premise. Playboy was around for years or even decades before Players came out. Black people from the ghetto didn't have the disposable capital to invest in making pornographic films at the time that the industry was born, and even if they had, black pornography would have needed to "cross over" like pop music occasionally did, to make it profitable and self-sustaining.

    I take it that Joel and his wife don't relax in their tithe-funded hot tub listening to some Jimi Hendrix or Ike and Tina Turner, preparing for and getting into the right mood for the sabbath.

    Back in the '50s and '60s, there used to be what was called "red light districts" where law enforcement turned a blind eye to certain criminal activities. This quarantined the crimes from so-called "nice" neighborhoods. But red light was never a synonym for ghetto.

    BB

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