Catholic writer Nick Steves, at the Reactivity Place, addresses the unedifying saga of Duke University freshman and A student, Belle Knox, the pseudonym under which the 18 year old daughter of a US army hematologist and devout Catholic, Kevin Weeks, has become notorious.
Belle Knox’s notoriety stems from her work as a star in “barely legal” adult films in California. She filmed porn when she was on break from college. No one knew about the secret life of the freshman sociology and women’s studies major until a fellow student at Duke outed her to their classmates.
The outer himself suffers from a $1000/month porn habit.
Fighting back against a barrage of abuse, threats, and insults from her peers, Knox, a self-styled libertarian Republican and sex-positive feminist, has taken to the national media, with a defense of her career choice and a twitter stream of raw images from it.
No one is exploiting her, she claims, and she finds her “home,” her “art,” and her “joy” in porn.
Just to be clear, the videos in question are both raw and violent, not Playboy shoots.
Her first recorded act is described as a “rape” by her co-star.
This is another story I don’t want to write about, but feel compelled to, especially as “Belle Weeks” is half Indian (her mother is Punjabi).
Both parents are said to be devout Catholics. Her older brother, Paul, and his wife, are engaged in Christian out-reach. She herself worked for Catholic charities, while she was a high school student at Gonzaga Prep.
Nick Steves describes his reaction to the story, as the father of four daughters:
“The Weeks family is devastated, Belle’s Jesuitical protestations notwithstanding. I don’t need a news report to tell me that. The somewhat flexible and fluid boundaries of normal human psychology do not stretch that far. Any father who would not fly into a murderous rage at the pimping of his daughter is profoundly defective. I would. I’d kill the bastard(s) if given the glimmer of a chance and leave not a few permanent stripes on the daughter in question to boot… and I wouldn’t even say I was sorry (‘cept maybe to God). And a sane society would moreover look the other way when these, necessarily rare, acts of vengeance occurred.
Of course we do not live in a sane society— where mere symptoms are treated as pathologies, and genuine pathologies no longer even have names that can be spoken.
What of Miriam Weeks, who claims to “know exactly what” she’s doing? She’s ruined. Oh she’ll enjoy the rush of brain chemicals for a few years more no doubt. Money, attention, big *****. But she’s no idea of the barren, lonely hell she’s cultivated for herself. It is unclear any woman under 30 can truly contemplate it. Certainly not an 18-year old Duke freshman. Biology is the biggest bitch of all, and you think you can just flip her off? Good luck with that.“
Comment:
For the liberal media, and many libertarians, it’s all no big deal.
“Make love, not war,” says Robert Wenzel at Economic Policy Journal, an outlet for many paleo-libertarians. If the paleos feel that way, imagine the lemming libs.
“Prostitutes are noble.”
That’s the new mantra, replacing the old religious ones. It’s still a mantra, though.
Prostitutes qua prostitutes are not noble, though individuals might well be. They might not be much worse than their fellow man, but their chosen life is certainly worse.
Prostitution is not Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman.”
The average age of prostitutes is around 25.
(The statistic of 12-13 years average age of entry into prostitution seems to be hype or propaganda, even though it appears on apparently sober government websites).
The average prostitute has a past of sexual and physical abuse, a present of sexual disease and drugs, and a future of early death. The average age of death for prostitutes is 34.
That is the feminist empowerment that Belle Knox and her enablers are applauding.