TALMUD: WELLSPRING OF JEWISH PORNOGRAPHY
INDUSTRY
By Rev. Ted Pike
24 Oct 06
The Bible says sex in marriage is one of God’s greatest gifts.
It’s so wholesome that Scripture repeatedly characterizes Christ’s
spiritual relationship to His church as that of an earthly bride
and her heavenly husband.
Ancient Israel was first to become the bride of God. Christ rescued
her from oblivion to become His unique spiritual wife. Yet Israel
perverted her relationship to her divine husband. She became a spiritual
harlot, blaspheming His name among the nations (Rom. 2:24)
Today Israel remains a spiritual harlot. She corrupts the whole
world through the media she dominates. (See, "Jews
Confirm Big Media Is Jewish) What few realize, however, is that Jews also dominate
the pornography industry worldwide, both as producers and performers.
Fountain of Wickedness
Why do Jews, only about 2.5 percent of the U.S. population, dominate
porn? It’s because anti-Christian, liberal Jews today are primarily
descended from 19th century European, Orthodox Jewish cultures centering
around the Babylonian Talmud. Unlike most Christian Americans, whose
European ancestors venerated the wholesome teachings of the Bible,
most American Jews come from a Talmudic culture which elevates the
teachings of those who had Christ crucified, the Pharisees.
Jesus called the Pharisees and their followers ‘an adulterous
generation’ (Matt. 12:39). St. Paul accused the Pharisaic leaders
of preaching against adultery and yet also practicing it (Rom. 9:22).
After being exiled to Babylon in 597 B.C., the Jews gradually absorbed
the immorality of Babylonian culture. The Talmud, formulated during
their 1600-year stay in Babylon, included permission for the Pharisees
to engage in many Babylonian sexual perversions, including bestiality:
sex with animals.
Let’s consider the Talmud’s perversion of God’s
gift of sex in marriage.
Permitting Adultery
The Talmud reveals how the Pharisees used legal quibbles to evade
the laws of God given through Moses. They perverted the law to permit
adultery and the grossest forms of sexual misbehavior. With the audacity
to quote Moses, the Talmud reverses the commandment against adultery,
saying:
GEMARA. Our Rabbis taught (And the man that
committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery .
. . Shall surely be put to death.) ‘The man’ excludes
a minor; ‘that committeth adultery with another man’s
wife’ excludes the wife of a minor; ‘even he that committeth
adultery with his neighbor’s wife’ excludes the wife
of a heathen;. . . 1
By the time this dictum was written, in the several centuries after
Christ, capital punishment for adultery was no longer enforced by
the Jews. Rather, the Pharisees in this passage, are introducing
moral exceptions to God's condemnation of sexual sin. The Talmud
teaches that sex with a minor, i.e., a boy under 9 years and a girl
of 3 years, doesn’t count as adultery since the minor is too
young to “throw blame.” (See, "Pedophilia:
The Talmud's Dirty Secret") Similarly, the wife of a heathen is exempt; God's
law for adultery was directed against those who are "man," i.e.,
Jews. Gentiles are "barbarians." 2
The Talmud allows adultery between adult Jews if the male’s
sexual organ remains relaxed: “. . . connection with a married
woman excludes intercourse with a relaxed membrum.” (Yebamoth
55b) The Pharisaic rationale was that since this isn’t a “real” connection,
it would not constitute adultery, or incest either. “. . .if
one cohabited with forbidden relatives with relaxed membrum he is
exonerated. . .” (Yebamoth 55b)
Yet the Pharisees did, in fact, allow penetration, just as long
as withdrawal occurred before completion of orgasm. Yebamoth 56a
and 56b contain a spirited dispute between some of the Talmud’s
most respected sages on the structure of male genitalia and to what
extent it might be used before actual adultery had taken place. The
majority opinion stands: “The first stage is constituted by
the insertion of the corona; and the final stage, by actual consummation.
Beyond this [insertion], the act is no more than superficial contact
and one is exonerated in regard to it.”
Raping Slave Girls
Special permission is given by the Pharisees in Kerithoth 11a and
11b to rape “designated bondmaids,” Gentile proselytes
who are slaves in the Pharisee’s household. 3 This is an option
which doubtless caused many a Pharisee to lift his eyes from study
of the Torah. Although the Mishnah (original oral law) flatly states
that any person who forces a sexual connection on someone outside
of marriage is liable to punishment, the Gemara (later commentary)
emphatically disagrees. It teaches that when a slave girl is sleeping,
she is morally innocent. This is the prevailing view of the Talmud,
saying that if the Pharisee violates her in her sleep, her innocence
becomes his also.
The above passage continues: “…in our instance even
the one awake is exempted, because they depend upon one another.” If
the handmaid is awake, and a Pharisee rapes her, he is guilty under
the law. But if he penetrates her without completing his orgasm within
her body, the Talmud describes his act as “mere sexual contact” without
moral consequence. The Pharisee could also escape guilt by raping
a bondmaid through oral or anal sex. In this case, he is as “guiltless
as if she had been sleeping…for with the designated bondmaid
one is guilty only in the case of natural connection, but not in
the case of perverse connection, because it is written 'carnally.'"
Yet "going all the way" with their slave girls was what
most Pharisees really wanted. The Talmud gave it to them: "Just
wait," it advises, "until she has fallen into the 'innocence'
of sleep. You'll be innocent too!"
Promoting Adultery Among the Gentiles
On the other hand, the Pharisees did not want fellow Jews sleeping
with their wives who, unlike Gentile bondmaids, were "Jewish
queens." Consequently, the Talmud does not sanction adultery
between Jews.
However, because Gentile “barbarians” are akin to animals
and racially and spiritually inferior to Jews, the Pharisees said
Gentiles committing adultery in an unnatural manner are free from
punishment.
Sanhedrin 58b says: “A heathen who violates his neighbor’s
wife unnaturally is free from punishment.”
In light of the Talmud’s permission for Pharisees to rape
their female slaves, it isn’t difficult to imagine how Hollywood
media moguls, reared in Talmudic ethics, might require sex with aspiring
starlets before a contract is signed. After all, such goyim “shiksas” are
virtual slaves to the studio heads for hope of stardom. Also, while
not sanctioning adultery with fellow Jews, the Jews of Hollywood
might, according to the Talmud, have a clear conscience about promoting
adultery among the “goyim.”
Allowing Sex with Animals
In ancient times dogs were trained by the eunuchs in pagan temples
for sexual purposes. The “wages of a dog” which Moses
referred to in Deuteronomy 23:18 concerned the rental fees obtained
through bestiality. At the time of the Pharisees such practices were
still widespread throughout the pagan world, especially in Babylon
(where most of the greatest Talmudic rabbis flourished); sex with
animals was at least covertly approved of by them.
Although the Talmud condemns bestiality in general terms, there
are exceptions. The Pharisees rationalized that when the Bible condemns
those who lie “carnally” with a beast, it is referring
to those who do so in a “normal” or “carnal” manner,
not in a perverted manner, which is exempt. A woman’s intercourse
with a dog, the Pharisees held, was sufficiently normal to make it
perverted and thus subject to punishment. In contrast, the sex act
of a man upon an animal was sufficiently perverted to make it free
from punishment.
The reference is to bestiality. If a woman
allows herself to be made the subject thereof, whether naturally
or not, she is guilty. But if a man commits bestiality, he is liable
only for a connection in a natural manner, but not otherwise. 4
Perverting the Priesthood
Although Moses commanded that the priests “shall not take
a wife that is a whore, or profane” (Leviticus 21:7), the rabbis
agreed “a woman who had intercourse with a beast is eligible
to marry a priest.” (Yeb. 59b) The Talmud footnote for this
passage says: “Even a high priest, the result of such intercourse
being regarded as a mere wound…” The Talmud gives an
example of this in the same passage:
It once happened at Haitalu that while a young
woman was sweeping the floor a village dog covered her from the
rear (a case of unnatural intercourse) and Rabbi [Judah Hanasi]
permitted her to marry a priest. (Yeb. 59b)
On the same subject, concerning a woman and her son:
Our rabbis taught: ‘If a woman sported lewdly with her
young son [a minor], and he committed the first stage of cohabitation
with her, Beth Shammai says he therefore renders her unfit for
the priesthood. Beth Hillel declares her fit.’ (Sanh. 69b) 5
In Sota 26b, the question is asked:
What is the statement which the rabbis made that there is no
adultery in connection with an animal-- because it is written ‘Thou
shalt not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog, etc.,’ (Deuteronomy
XXIII, 19) and it has been taught the hire of a dog and the wages
of a harlot are permissible…
Yeb. 59b confirms that:
Harlotry is not applicable to bestial intercourse…we
learned that the hire of a dog and the price of a harlot are permitted…
(The footnote to this passage says that the payment a harlot receives
for having intercourse with a dog, perhaps an act which spectators
paid to see, may legally be “consecrated to the altar.”)
As long as fees from immorality kept clinking into the temple coffers,
the Pharisees didn’t mind how they were earned. But to avoid
possible quibbles, the Talmud clarifies one fact concerning tithes
from the proceeds of adultery: “If he
gave her it and subsequently had intercourse with her, or had intercourse
with her and subsequently gave it to her, the hire is permitted.” (Abodah Zarah 62b)
Either way, wages from prostitution were accepted, swelling the Sanhedrin's
coffers.
Bringing Babylon to America
With this religious and cultural heritage, largely acquired from
1600 years in the moral cesspool of the ancient world, Babylon, it’s
not surprising that the descendants of Orthodox Jews from Germany
and Eastern Europe became pornographers.
The Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2000, says, "A great many of
the publishers and peddlers of what was variously called flagitious,
pornographic, or erotic literature were Jews, and most of those were
German Jews who had learned the printing trades in the old country."
It is not possible here to document the vast involvement of Jews
in pornography, not only in the U.S. but Europe, South America, and
Israel.
I will instead quote at length from Nathan Abrams, lecturer in
Modern American History at the University of Aberdeen. His article,
Triple-Exthnics, Nathan Abrams on Jews in the
American Porn Industry,
published by The Jewish Quarterly (UK) [print edition, 2005, p. 27-30],
gives an overview of the history and motivation of Jewish pornographers.
No one can regard his perspective as anti-Semitic.
"… There's no getting away from the fact that secular
Jews played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role
throughout the adult film industry in America.
Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes
overlapping) genres: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make
up only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent
in pornography. Many erotica dealers in the book trade between 1890
and 1940 were immigrant Jews of German origin…
In the postwar era, America's most notorious pornographer was
Reuben Sturman, the 'Walt Disney of Porn.' According to the US
Department of Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled
most of the pornography circulating in the country … by the mid-70s he owned over
200 adult bookstores… It was said that Sturman did not simply
control the adult-entertainment industry, he was the industry. Eventually,
he was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes and died, disgraced,
in prison in 1997. His son, David, continued running the family business.
The contemporary incarnation of Sturman is 43-year-old Jewish
Clevelander Steven Hirsch who has been described as 'the Donald
Trump of porno.' The link between the two is Steve's father, Fred,
who was a stockholder-cum-lieutenant to Sturman. Today Hirsch runs
the Vivid Entertainment Group, which has been called the Microsoft
of the porn world, the top producer of 'adult' films in the US.
His specialty was to import mainstream marketing techniques into
the porn business, indeed, Vivid parallels the Hollywood studio
system of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in its exclusive contracts
to porn stars who are hired and moulded by Hirsch…
Jews accounted for most of the leading male performers as well
as a sizable number of female stars in porn movies of the 1970s
and '80s…
The adult entertainment business required something that Jews
possessed in abundance: chutzpah…
Sturman…identified as a Jew -- was a generous donator
to Jewish charities -- and performer Richard Pacheco once interviewed
to be a rabbinical student…
Is there a deeper reason behind the mere financial, as to why Jews
in particular have become involved in porn?...
According to one anonymous industry insider quoted by E. Michael
Jones in the magazine Culture Wars (May 2003), 'The leading male
performers through the 1980s came from secular Jewish upbringings
and the females from Roman Catholic day schools.' The standard porn
scenario became as a result a Jewish fantasy of schtupping the Catholic
shiksa [sex with Catholic girls]…
Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated
industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP
establishment in America. Some porn stars viewed themselves as frontline
fighters in the spiritual battle between Christian America and secular
humanism. According to [Luke] Ford, Jewish X-rated actors often brag
about their 'joy in being anarchic, sexual gadflies to the puritanical
beast.' Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is the result
of an atavistic hatred of Christian authority: They are trying to
weaken the dominant culture in America by moral subversion… Al
Goldstein, the publisher of Screw magazine, said (on lukeford.com),
'The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that
Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism.'
Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and,
as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and
is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character
becomes more charged…
It is a case of the traditional revolutionary/radical drive
of immigrant Jews in America being channeled into sexual rather
than leftist politics. Just as Jews have been disproportionately
represented in radical movements over the years, so they are disproportionately
represented in the porn industry. Jews in America have been sexual
revolutionaries. A large amount of the material on sexual liberation
was written by Jews. Those at the forefront of the movement that
forced America to adopt a more liberal view of sex were Jewish…"
Corrupting the Nations
God chose the ancient Hebrews to become a purifying light unto
the nations. But after rejecting her spiritual husband, Jesus, Israel
became the opposite: arch purveyor of sexual defilement and darkness
in the world today.
In response to such degeneracy, many turn to a racist explanation:
Jews are genetically subversive and degenerate. Anti-Semites have
even suggested such social parasites and destroyers should themselves
be destroyed.
But the evil in the Talmud, as well as the Jewish people, does
not exist because of heredity. It exists because of moral decisions
against truth, the same moral decisions that each of us face. Thousands
of years ago the Pharisees and the Jewish people rejected the true
Light from God, Jesus Christ. Their reward? Abysmal darkness.
Yes, unbelieving Jews labor under a unique curse of spiritual blindness
and desolation (Deut. 27, Matt. 23:38). But a Jew is as free to cry
out for, and receive, Christ's mercy as is a Gentile.
Without Christ, all of us, from Jewish pornographers to “born-again” hypocrites,
will languish side by side in hell forever. Only Christ can give
the Jewish pornographer and the anti-Semite what they desperately
need: a pure heart, full of love.
Endnotes:
1 Sanhedrin 52b.
2 The Jewish Encyclopedia in its article on "Gentiles," p.619,
says of the Talmudic rabbis, "…They held that only Israelites
are men, quoting the prophet, 'Ye are my flock, the flock of my pasture,
are men' (Ezekiel XXXIV.31). Gentiles they classed not as men but
as barbarians."
3 Kerithoth 11a specifies that types of immoral conduct are permitted
toward a “designated handmaid,” i.e., a slave-girl for
whom the master has picked a future husband. Such immoral conduct,
however, is not permitted if the girl has not been so betrothed.
The motive for making such a distinction may lie in the powers of
coercion that a Pharisee held over his personal handmaid, who was
indebted to her master for prospects of a husband and had little
recourse to law against him if he sexually abused her. The Pharisee
would have been in jeopardy had he abused a girl who was not obligated
to him and might report his actions to others.
4 Footnote 1 to Sanh. 55a.
5 Shammai and Hillel were leaders of rivaling schools of Pharisaic
opinion in Palestine in the late, pre-Christian era. The
Jewish Encyclopedia says the school of Hillel usually had the upper hand. The modern
Hillel Theological Seminary is named after one of Judaism’s
most respected sages.
Talmud teaches that a woman who has "natural" or "unnatural" sex
with a beast is guilty; a man who has such sex "unntaurally" is
not. (Sanhedrin 55a; p372)
"Unnatural" adultery is permitted to Gentiles. (Sanhedrin
58b; p398)
A woman who commits bestiality may marry the high priest. (Yebamoth
59a; p397)
Talmud permits rape of bondmaids under two conditions: first, if
the woman is sleeping; second, if the girl is awake, yet raped through
oral or anal intercouse. (Kerithoth 11a,b; p86,87)
