Shelley Lubben, The Fundie "Ex-Porn Slut" Ministry, And How To Respond To Its Distortions

I recently discovered a blog entry over at the gossip site Lukeisback.com extolling the virtues of former porn performer turned born-again fundamentalist Christian Shelley Lubben, who was boasting about her latest converts away from porn and to "the light". Her particular ministry, the Pink Cross, specifically targets porn performers who may be more vulnerable due to their financial or personal situations, and feeds them the usual message of shame and humiliation and self-hatred and the usual stories of personal destruction due to the evils of porn, along with the promise of renewal if they would simply renew their faith in "the blood of Jesus" (or something similar thereof).

Similarly, most of you who frequent our hostess Renegade Evolution's regular blog know about Rebecca Mott, the former prostitute/sex worker turned antiporn/antiprostitution activist who makes a similar push, but from a more secular, radical feminist perspective. She is often used by similar antiporn feminist activists as the prototype of the typical sex worker/porn starlet who reflects the ultimate suffering and loathing redemmed through getting "saved" and "rescued" from the evils of "sin" (or, in the case of radical feminist converts, "male depravity").

Their own retelling of their own active experiences of violence and harm within the "sex industry" are personal and powerful enough to warrant respect and legitimacy, and can sometimes make a critique of their professed ideologies much harder, due to the stated and well practiced policy of not attacking female victims of violence. Indeed, antiporn advocates have made it a cottage industry to use people like Lubben and Mott as human shields and projectiles to prove the ultimate menacity of the "sex industry", and as a weapon against those within the industry who may not share their basic abolitionist beliefs.

However, there is now beginning to emerge an effective counter-response from women within the industry which do seek to defend both their own experiences and their chosen profession against the attempts of people like Lubben and Mott to exploit their personal experiences.

Over at my SmackDog Chronicles blog, I have compiled as seperate pages (as a means of seperating them from my regular blog) pieces, articles and essays from two porn performers -- Vicky Vette and Kayden Kross -- who both have been accosted and have aggressively responded to the harassment and propaganda of Lubben and her disciples. All the pieces are excerpted from their respective MySpace pages.

Kayden Kross Lays The Smack Down On Shelley Lubben
(Kayden's original response to Lubben's mythology about her profession.)

The Kayden Kross Smackdown Continues: Shelley Lubben's Stat Rape Exposed
(Rebukes an attempt by Lubben to used biased info to pass a "porn tax" in Callifornia last year.)

One More Whack Of The Lubben Loony Tree From Kayden (via MikeSouthdotcom)
(This essay dissects some Farley-esque statistical book cooking by Lubben regarding the profligacy of STI's within the porn industry.)

The Shelley Lubben Smackdown Continues: Vicky Vette Gets Her Vent On
(Vicky responds to a "witness" email sent to her by a Lubben disciple.)

Vicky Vette Smacks Down "Kyle", A Ludden Groupie
(Vicky encounters the "wrath" of a particularly pesty fundamentalist...and gives back in kind.)

Still More Vicky Vette Tit-Whacking of "Kyle" The Fundie (What Eleventh Commandment??)
(Vicky follows up with a response to a particularly aggressive fundie Lubben supporter.)


These articles say as much about Lubben and her supporters complete lack of respect for the women they allege to want to "save" as they do the strength of the women who vigorously defend their right to their profession and to their love of sex in general.

Besides...I could use the extra traffic....been a bit quiet there of late.