In an editorial earlier this week, AVN.com condemned the practices of Florida-based Sexy Outdoor Sports, which produces videos of females, including adult performer Daisy Duxxx, hunting and killing animals, then having hardcore sex near or on top of the carcasses.
Sexy Outdoor Sports’ Lars took a few days to fashion a statement, which he e-mailed us today. We run it in its entirety below:
This is my response to the AVN editorial of May 16, 2005, denouncing Sexy Outdoor Sports for a recent shoot involving Daisy Duxxx:
You begin your editorial with the phrase “Questions about the morality of the legalized hunting of animals aside …” This is sidestepping the issue because it is all about the legalized hunting of animals. You are clearly against hunting. Obviously you are not against the sex as AVN features articles in every issue promoting sexual acts much more “depraved” than the basic boy/girl scene that was performed in my video. The fact is that you hate hunting and you do not like to see the porn industry — which you think you control — associated with it.
I have been told that AVN and/or the individuals in its top jobs are supporters of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Do you confirm or deny this? (AVN President Paul Fishbein is an animal rights advocate, but not a supporter of the militant PETA. — Ed.)
If you are aligned with this organization, or if your views are the same, then clearly we are on opposite sides of the issue of hunting, and any attempt to discuss hunting with you is a waste of time. Likewise, the many compelling arguments as to why sport hunting is necessary in modern ecosystems will probably fall on deaf ears. Animal rights is a cause based on emotion not logic, and the two sides of this issue will never be reconciled.
Without taking up a lot of space explaining the legal arguments, we did not break any laws regarding cruelty to animals or the obscenity laws regarding sex with animals. Also, the meat and other usable parts of the animals we kill are not wasted.
Our videos were produced in response to demand from individuals interested in the concept of primitive and powerful women who celebrated the ancient art of hunting. After checking the laws, we saw no reason to avoid this subject. The hunting was a good fit with the fishing erotica we already had been producing for a few years.
I would just like to recount a short, true story. I discussed the subject of hunting erotica with the owner of a hunting publication. This is a George Bush-loving, NRA member and Rush Limbaugh fan, who said these types of videos were disgusting — just like you did. Except his viewpoint was, “How could I put images of genital close ups in the scene with good kill footage?” The fact is both AVN and this guy are examples of the establishment — one liberal and one conservative. You want to ban hunting, and he wants to ban porn.
I say to both of you, “Open your minds.” Do not become so self-important that you feel it is your duty to self-police your own industry. The government is not the only one who can infringe on the First Amendment. A powerful private company can do the same through economic coercion.
Incidentally, we have advertised our Website www.sexyoutdoorsports.com before in AVN magazine, and our first video Nude & Erotic Fishing, Vol. 1 was reviewed by AVN and given a rating of “three and one-half stars.”
This video contained some fairly graphic footage of fish being killed (which were later eaten). Either AVN did not watch the video in its entirety, or they are willing to overlook some blood when there are advertising dollars at stake. Ironically, it was Mike Ramone at AVN that we submitted this video to for review, the same person who wrote these articles attacking us. (Ramone did not watch or review the video — another AVN reviewer did. — Ed.)
AVN is close to setting a precedent it may later regret in attacking my videos. Apparently AVN is of the belief that there should be a limit on porn regardless of the First Amendment, and that AVN is the arbiter of what those limits will be. In my case, those limits seem to be what the top executives of AVN find distasteful. If AVN pursues this type of policy, what is to stop right wing fundamentalist groups from doing the same thing? They could easily point to the AVN’s action in this matter as the porn industry’s admission that there should be limits placed on porn. As they say, be careful what you wish for or you just might get it.”
To read AVN’s review of Nude and Erotic Fishing, click here.
To read AVN.com’s editorial on Sexy Outdoor Sports, click here.
