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MY TESTIMONY BEFORE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S COMMISSION ON PORNOGRAPHY (Downtown Los Angeles, 1985) In October 1985, quite nervous, and not knowing what to expect, I went before The Attorney General's (Edwin Meese's) Commission on Pornography. The hearing at which I testified was held in Downtown, Los Angeles. I "volunteered" to be the very last witness of the day. It was around 9:30 in the evening when I began. 45 minutes later, I was thanked for answering a series of questions. I opened my testimony with the following statement (I've updated the number of years that I have been in the Adult Entertainment Industry, because as noted my recent e-mail to Senator Brownback elsewhere on the webpage, "nothing has changed"): I am honored to a part of this historical endeavor, but I feel that I must preface my opening statement with an ominous headline: WELCOME TO SALEM BY THE PACIFIC In a society that is drug-infested, violence wracked. and polluted by chemical greed, might I respectfully remind this commission that no one has ever died from an overdose of pornography. For over 33 years, in capacities including actor, agent, critic, director, publicist, scriptwriter, and spokesperson/activist, I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of the Adult Entertainment Industry. My multi-faceted participation has been tremendously rewarding---creatively, mentally and physically. In reference to the latter form of action, please note that my acts of natural, emotional expression were performed opposite an adult partner who was always consenting to participate in a similiar, or, via scripting and direction, an accommodating manner. The Adult Entertainment Industry is a training ground, and an innovative force that is dedicated to enlightening, arousing and fulfilling its audience. That it garners an audience seeking to be thrilled , and vicariously titillated, places it on no lower a populous-pleasing plateau then a highly competitive sporting event...or a national election. And while detractors will accuse the Adult Entertainment businesses of harboring a criminal element, I suspect that the aforementioned thrills also have their share of detractors...and accusers. In fact, unlike the mainstream, dare I say "legitimate" film industry, the adult film industry, having risen from the eight-milimeter underground to bask in mainstrean videotape and DVD recognition, scrupulously polices itself, refusing to allow the use of children, animals, and in the majority of cases, graphically violent or grossly aberrant recreations, to produce profits that many "legitimate" R-rated motion pictures gleefuly exhibit. To this extent, considering the industriousness and perseverance of the Adult Entertainment Industry, forcing it back underground would only result in encouraging unconscientious factions to spuriously create and unpalatably supply lesser materials of a far more objectionable nature. This would produce a grievious chain reaction, tantamount to the lenghts that a thirsty populous went to get anything even faintly resembling alcohol during Prohibition. The world has seen the light of Adult Entertainment and expression far too long for any Commission to tell it that it must now be blind! William Margold Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, Los Angeles hearings, 10-16-85 |