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    PETA to launch its own porn site: Does exploiting women promote animal rights?

    Porn star Sasha Grey in a PETA advertisement. (Photo: PETA.com)Porn star Sasha Grey in a PETA advertisement. (Photo: PETA.com)People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal-rights group known for its controversial ads featuring nearly naked starlets, is taking their "I'd rather be naked than wear fur" idea to a new level by launching their own XXX porn site.

    That's right: The same organization that fights to protect animals plans to do so via a medium that often exploits and denigrates women.

    "We're hoping to reach a whole new audience of people, some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn't anticipate seeing when they went to the PETA triple-X site," Lindsay Rajt, PETA's associate director of campaigns, told Reuters

    The X-rated site will show pornographic content and images from PETA's more risque ads, Rajt said. Those images will be interspersed with pictures and videos showing animals being mistreated-and (we're not making this up) links to vegan and vegetarian "starter kits" and recipes.

    "When people first visit the site, it will be very enticing and once they go just a little bit deeper, that's when they'll be confronted with images that we hope will make them stop and think and get them talking and hopefully encourage them to make a lifestyle change to a plant-based diet," Rajt said.

    Yes, they expect it to be "enticing." But to whom? People who like crush films, porn that shows women killing small animals by stomping them to death?

    It seems unlikely that people who are drawn to both pornography and violent video about abused animals would be looking for a way to convert to vegetarianism. But that's PETA's plan.

    Other animal rights activists are skeptical about the idea.

    "It's like promoting robberies as an alternative to assaults," said Brian M. Messenheimer, an Army veteran who does animal rescue work in the Boston area.

    Adult film stars Sahsa Grey, Ron Jeremy, and Jenna Jamison have all appeared in PETA's ads and have had very successful careers in porn, and PETA insists that the women they'll feature on their port site are willing participants as well, so exploitation doesn't enter into the equation.

    "Our demonstrators, the models, all chose to participate in our campaigns," Rajt pointed out, before invoking the "F" word: "It's not a very feminist thing to do to turn to women and tell them whether or not they can use their voices, their bodies to express their voice."

    But for countless other women who were forced into the porn industry or are stuck in sexually violent relationships, being a "willing participant" doesn't mean they aren't also victims of abuse. Messenheimer looks at it in terms of animals. "Does it lessen the fact that dogs trained to fight are willing participants?" he asks.

    Pornography and feminism aside, PETA has also been criticized for its treatment of the animals it claims to have rescued. According to their own data, filed with the Department of Agriculture in Virginia, in 2010 PETA took in 2,345 homeless dogs and cats-and euthanized 2,301 of them.

    What do you think? Is pornography a valid way to promote animal rights?




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    • Eric  •  6 months ago
      OK? So when will PETA open a cat-house in Reno or Vegas to educate mating techniques of animals for the adult world. Is doggy style same as panther style? Bad joke. Life is full of paradoxes just don't be a hypacrite and tell everyone else how immoral they are. ok? Oh too late! Love you bye!
    • MeghanW  •  7 months ago
      That is the creepiest worst idea ever. This is going to be a porn site for future serial killers not vegetarians. Oh look I can see women degraded and then watch animals be tortured. Worst idea ever, how that made it out of the think tank is beyond me. What's next bestiality? Gross PETA if animals should be treated ethically shouldn't men and women be treated that way as well? What a half cocked idea.
    • Johnny Cee  •  7 months ago
      I agree that mankind has been really ugly when it comes to animal treatment. But PETA is no someone that I want to give credence to.
    • Shelley  •  7 months ago
      Are you freakin' kidding me? PETA is going to use porn to lure people in to their website and learn how to be vegans? Unfathomably stupid, not to mention hypocritical beyond belief. What happened to the word ETHICAL in their name? Jeez. Really?
    • John  •  7 months ago
      PETA is, quite frankly, nothing more than a group of ineffective morons. Fifteen years, while I was volunteering at a local park, our district was faced with a massive over-population of deer. There were well over 150 deer in an area that should only have been supporting about 30. The deer were starving, having stripped the park of anything green below six feet off the ground. All 150ish were mal-nourished or actually starving to death as summer ended. The average deer in the park was pathetically small and scrawny, their growth stunted by lack of food.
      Finally, the county and state authorized the park to begin culling the deer population within our park, with the end goal of reducing the population to about 40...
      Then PETA stepped in, picketing and suing the park system, obtaining an injunction that forced us to attempt a relocation program.
      And so, several months later, after finding a number of deer that had starved to death in the cold, we lined up about a hundred people across a section of the park to attempt to flush the deer into a plastic funnel that led to several pens... when the snow settled, we didn't catch a single deer, though one did have to be put down when it broke it's leg attempting to jump over the plastic sheeting we were using to funnel them into the cages. Also, we had two sprained ankles and a concussion among the volunteers...
      We lost 37 deer to starvation that winter before we could again obtain authorization begin culling. Deer that died lingering, horrifying deaths over months, rather than the quick death of a rifle bullet through the heart.
      Now, with only 35 deer in the park where I used to volunteer, the undergrowth is lush, plant diversity has returned, with species that had been completely eradicated within the park making strong returns. And the deer are healthy and strong. There are three huge bucks right now that would drive any hunter insane with buck-fever, were they to move out of the boundaries of the park.
      PETA would have forced us to maintain the status quo of counting starved carcasses. They held up signs outside the park entrance with "BAMBI KILLERS" scrawled across them, while deer starved to death because of their legal actions...
    • Brian  •  7 months ago
      Something about Peta just doesn't gel with me. Maybe it's the Rambo-like, militant-lesbian style they use in trying to get their message across? If they promote pornography in any fashion for any reason, then for me that completely wipes out any ounce of credibilty they otherwise might have had.
    • Chrissy  •  7 months ago
      I really love to eat animals. I am against people who hurt living creatures for fun, but I'll definitely join that crowd if I am ever forced to be a vegitarian or vegan.

      I really can't stand people who like PETA but who aren't vegans though. I also dislike narrow, close-minded, and overley judgemental and angry people like those who are in PETA.
    • The Law  •  7 months ago
      I take one look at that.....I'm going to eat some Chicken.
    • Twilight_Ghost  •  7 months ago
      If they cant afford cloths, i'll be more then happy to stretch some deer hide.
    • Sam N  •  7 months ago
      naked women stomping animals to death?... is peta staging this? if so i think their message is a little skewed... i cant tell you how offensive i find everything about this stunt.
    • Nunya  •  7 months ago
      Ethical treatment, to PITA (yes, spelled wrong on purpose), doesn't seem to mean treating the animals like you care about or respect them, just how much money it can turn so people can pocket it. PITA . . . er . . . PETA needs to be disbanded, it's the biggest joke around REAL animal care facilities.

      As far as too much sex being a bad thing, it generally isn't; however, it depends on if you are healthy, consenting, and into it (I'm none of the 3).
    • sholto  •  7 months ago
      i dont hink porn expliots women so thats not my issue. the issue i have is putting animals being abused next to sex. it just does not seem like a good idea to me. soon those people will get turned on by a chicken being killed. i just think this is a bad idea all around.
    • Levi  •  7 months ago
      i love porn and chicken wings, thanks for the boobies peta but im still going to eat meat.
    • Brian  •  7 months ago
      PETA's about as devoted to actually helping animals as David Koresh was devoted to Christianity... which is to say not devoted at all. Instead, much like Koresh, the wackos at PETA are devoted only to themselves and their self important campaigns which seem devoted only to reminding people that PETA still exists through shocking, tabloid style garbage.

      When is the last time you saw a thoughtful, smart advertising campaign from PETA instead of something that was just overly sexual nonsense? Seeing a bunch of hot, stupid women flinging vegetables around doesn't stay in your mind as a message of "animal rights" or "go vegan"... People remember that as "Remember that commercial during (insert show here) with that big breasted chick suggestively licking a cucumber? what the heck was that advertising?".

      Now those Sarah McLachlan commercials where sad eyed dogs stare at your while her "I'm so sad I want to jump in front of a bus" music plays stays in peoples minds - for a long time. That is a commercial designed to educate people about animal abuse and make them feel upset or sad about the problem to spur them to help. PETA's nonsensical ads spur people to do nothing but associate the word PETA with a bunch of half naked women rolling around in poorly thought out commercials, or running around throwing paint at people with fur.

      "But... PETA does ads with celebrity spokespeople! Surely that will draw people to their cause!" Nope. Because the celebrities PETA has in their ads aren't top tier celebs - no one is going to make a serious decision in their life based on ads featuring people like Pamela "my own life is a trainwreck" Anderson-Kid Rock-Lee. And having celebs joining something stupid doesn't make people want to follow the celebs, it makes the celebs look even MORE stupid. Just because a bunch of idiot celebs joined scientology didn't make anybody else sign up.

      If PETA really wanted to help the cause of animal rights, the best thing they could do is DISBAND.
    • Margaret  •  7 months ago
      PETA needs to get a life!
    • Sax 5th Avenue  •  7 months ago
      The jury is still out. Let's try exploiting sex for awhile and then check and see if it makes for a better life for animals. You never know! We should be as open-minded about it as the PETA people are about anything.
    • cowgirl  •  7 months ago
      Personally this is just creepy x-rated sites are perfectly acceptable, but PETA is just incorect in so many ways. First things first, I am all for the humane treatment of animals and the highest punishment for those who are cruel. I have lived on a farm my whole life I konw there is a proper way and an inpropper way to treat and handle animals. I have also worked for a petting zoo for 6 years that did a lot of county fairs and festivals. I have meet these PETA people they don't understand that demestication has allowed farm animals to also be comapion animals, that just because an animal is tied up does not mean it is being aboused. They would also risk having pales of water standing in the pens with the animals( a drowning hazzard for children) rather then the animals being offered water at regular intervals. They also think newborn dairy calves, lambs, and kids are neglected because you can see their ribs for a month or so after they are born they don't understant that their four part stomach is not developed enouth to support solid feed. PETA also belives casturation without anistethic is cruel accually it is quite humane and I urge you to watch the video at the end of this. It is concidered torture not to shear sheep. They are sheared because they have been bred and domesticated to have large amounts of wool and to not shear them would be cruel, depending on the climate and breed. I am not a fan of PETA and personally think they need to really work with the people that raise the animals and crops that keep food in their stomachs and food on their backs. what they are really against is livestock agriculture. Ask your self where you would be without agriculture? NAKED & HUNGRY
      It is very intersesting but you may want to watch where it starts at because that is what I refered to.
      http://www.schooltube.com/video/b6ac53d39282407594df/Mike-Rowe-from-Dirty-Jobs-speaks-at-the-National-FFA-Convention
    • A D  •  7 months ago
      Duh. It's NOT just women in their "provacative" ads. There are men too. I think using sex is STUPID...especially to promote anti-cruelty. What one has to do w/ the other is a real stretch. I am a PETA supporter, not a porno supporter. Dumb.
    • Eric  •  7 months ago
      PETA is just another one of them bassackward organizations that cant figure out where they are reall y at on this meat eating, leather shoe wearing planet...lmao, just a bunch of weirdos thats all
    • Ronald  •  7 months ago
      Well, lts see the porn. Then we can judge the content on its on merit.
      Or is this may just be a big tease, to get you to the PETA website.

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