Porn star Megan Piper banned from Mike Stone’s prom – 62 teachers gutted
HARD cheese for Megan Piper, the 19-year-old porn actress, banned from accompanying Mike Stone, 18, to the school prom in Oakdale, Minnesota.
Stone, 18, tweeted loads of porn stars to see if one would consent to be his date. Megan Piper agreed. So long as Stone could stump up her travel costs from Los Angeles, she’d be there.
But school district superintendent Patty Phillips said Piper’s appearance would be “inconsistent” with the standards the school expect from its visitors.
A hive of controversy should follow. What if you mum or dad is a porn star, would they be not allowed to visit the school? What if your teacher is a porn star? What if the the teachers recognise Megan Piper? Are the porn star’s customers guilty of moral delinquency?
Says Mike Stone’s mum Diven:
“I was a little upset at first and I feel like I’m on my kids and know what they’re up to. But I support him and I don’t understand what her profession has to do with anything.”
Indeed. Porn is legal in the US. The country has throbbing porn industry, albeit one being undone by user-generated content (see Tulisa) on sites like Red Tube and YouPorn. Porn stars are revered, and aped in “leaked” sex tapes from the likes of such wealthy knobs as Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian. Anorak’s just just interviewed Seymour Butts, aka porn star Adam Glasser, star of reality on Showtime’s Family Business. Sasha Grey, a young porn star, was invited to read at primary school.
So. What harm a porn star being a porn consumer’s date?
Pharyngula spotted a study by Benjamin Edelman for the Harvard Business School who found out that Minnesota ranks in the bottom 10 for subscriptions to porn per 1,000 internet users: 1.18 porn subscriptions for every 1,000 Internet users in the state. (Utah with 2.49 subscriptions per 1,000 internet users was on top.)
So. one in every thousand people on the web in Minnesotta actually subscribes to a porn site. Not looks for free porn on the web. But pays for it regularly. This site says there are 53,083 public school teachers in Minnesota. At least 62 of them are wrong ‘uns.
March 23rd, 2012 at 4:24 pm
It all ties in to violence against women.
March 23rd, 2012 at 4:13 pm
What is this the 1800′s? Pornography is a legitimate career nowadays,Kim Kardashian has made millions out the infamy gained by ‘starring’ in a porno when she was a nobody. Mad Mike should sue his school.
March 23rd, 2012 at 3:11 pm
It all ties in to violence against women.
March 23rd, 2012 at 2:13 pm
I’m no prude, but I’m on the side of the school on this.
I think the issue is a confluence of factors. Starting with, proms are for people who are going with people who are actual dates, and/or people they know.
I was thinking about that, but that’s not enough. After all, it was only a year or two ago that a boy did pretty much the same thing, but that time, it was a supermodel, not a porn actress. Everyone thought that was cute, admired the kid’s balls for even asking, etc.
So, I would say, if it was a porn actress he nevertheless somehow knew personally, I’d say that’s okay. Or if it were a supermodel he didn’t know, I guess that’s okay too, though, still strictly speaking not really what the prom is about. But a porn actress he doesn’t know, who merely was the first one to say “yes” to his fishing effort…. too much. It’s like wearing jeans to a nice restaurant. No laws are being broken.. but, still.