Holly Randall on Porn, Censorship and Bitcoin

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“These are real people and this is a real job. We’re not sex-crazed lunatics, we’re not dangerous, we’re not criminals.”
— Holly Randall

SHOW DESCRIPTION

Location: Los Angeles
Date: Monday, 25th Nov
Project: hollyrandall.com
Role: Pornographer

Holly Randall is a second-generation pornographer and the daughter of Suze Randall, the first female staff photographer for both Playboy and Hustler. In 1998, at the age of 20, Holly became a photographer for the family-run website suze.net.

Having worked in the industry for 20 years, Holly has experienced the porn industry pre and post-internet and witnessed how the industry has adapted to the growth in free online content.

Despite porn being legal, like others in the adult industry, Holly faces a constant battle with financial censorship. Banks regularly close accounts, credit cards are often rejected, payment operators freeze accounts and standard business services such as employee insurance can be hard to get. 

With its censorship resistance, trustless and decentralised nature, Bitcoin is a natural fit to help the adult industry solve problems of financial censorship; however, as of now, it is a niche solution for the tech-savvy.

In this interview, I talk to pornographer Holly Randall about censorship. We discuss how the industry has changed, financial censorship, whether Bitcoin can be a solution and the misconceptions and misrepresentations of adult performers.

TIMESTAMPS

00:04:45: Introductions
00:08:04: Holly’s background
00:13:28: How the industry has changed
00:15:45: The “Tube” porn sites
00:19:37: How porn has changed
00:25:47: How technology has changed porn
00:28:46: Male and female directors
00:32:48: Industry stigmas
00:38:22: Worker’s compensation insurance cancellation
00:43:42: How industry workers avoid being unbanked
00:48:26: Consent
00:54:39: Financial pressures of the industry
01:00:28: Final comments

 

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