OP/ED by Michael Whiteacre
George Orwell once advised that saints should always be presumed guilty until they are proven innocent. It is up to us – the masses who are commanded to kneel — to ask questions, to apply logic, and use our discernment.
In her latest cash grab email blast, Shelley Lubben has found yet another shark to jump: stating that if you don’t donate to Pink Cross, porn performers will die because Pink Cross won’t be able to save them. That’s right, it’s not just souls that Shelley the self-styled “Rebel Prophet” saves, it’s lives as well! But she just needs some more folding cash to do it.
Lubben writes:
Ask us why porn stars keep leaving porn and are coming to Pink Cross for help? OUTREACH! OUTREACH! OUTREACH!
Pink Cross Foundation has reached out to and rescued more women out of porn than any other organization since 2007. In fact, due to our constant outreaches, we are experiencing a MASS EXODUS of women who desperately want out of porn.
WE WILL EMPTY THE PORN INDUSTRY IF WE KEEP GOING!!
Constant outreaches? Pink Cross showed up at one adult convention in 2012 (in San Francisco), and the upcoming AdultCon show in Los Angeles is its first of 2013 (and its first in Los Angeles in two years). Pink Cross also skipped the last two AEE shows in Las Vegas, which feature the greatest number of adult industry members who would supposedly benefit from her “outreach.” Mailing a gift box filled with donated brochures, a couple of pieces of candy, pink lip gloss and a cheap pink plastic bracelet is not outreach. Outreach is done face to face. Sending someone Pink Cross materials is called ADVERTISING, the same as when a bank gives you a free calendar or mouse pad; it’s meant to instill in the recipient a sense of goodwill about the bestower of the gift every time he or she sees it.
Mass Exodus?!? Who are these performers? Where did they go? Why hasn’t anyone missed them? Why isn’t there a plethora of recent (2012-2013) performers on Lubben’s websites?
Then, Lubben gets down to the nitty gritty:
We have a HUGE OUTREACH in two weeks at Adultcon in LA and we still need $2,000.00 to cover expenses. We give the BEST free gifts to make these girls feel loved, the BEST education on STDs, sex trafficking, risks of porn and more, the BEST outreach team made up of mostly ex porn stars who porn stars can ONLY relate to and we give the BEST love, prayer and ministry right there in the porn convention!
WE JUST NEED YOU TO DONATE ONE MORE TIME
According to Lubben, porn stars need to feel loved, and “can ONLY relate to” ex porn stars. This is because they are such a deficient subclass of human beings that reality and good sense cannot register in their feeble minds unless it is presented by another “recovered” member of their group wearing a pink uniform and handing them shiny pink objects.
Dear Lord, there are Colombian drug mules who don’t pull this much out of their ass.
Next, to back up her credentials, Lubben quotes four “testimonials” of ex-performers for whom, she asserts, “YOUR DONATIONS have directly been used to save their lives out of porn.”
First up is Jesse Jewels, a veteran of six scenes in 2005-2006 (a year or more before Lubben began her “outreach”), who implies she was without hope, but then…
The day I found the Pink Cross, I found hope. . . . They are so consistent in staying in touch. They remind me how much they care and how proud of me they are. Nobody does that for girls who were in porn.
If it weren’t the pink cross I honestly don’t know if I would have had the self-esteem and courage to stay away from the sick industry of porn. But with the acceptance, the love and understanding I received from the Pink Cross I have to tell you I found the strength and courage within myself to never go back to that hell again.
Jewels left porn without having to be rescued by Lubben. There’s also no mention of any financial assistance, or other life resources from Pink Cross – they sent Jesse some Hallmark card-like greetings and maybe some pink lip gloss as part of Lubben’s plan “to make these girls feel loved.”
Next up is former BBW performer Jan Meza (aka Elizabeth Rollings), a Pink Cross stalwart who performed in a little over a dozen shoots (in 2007). As Jan exclaims in florid style:
Without Shelley Lubben I would not be here today! God sent her to rescue me from the destruction that the porn industry inflicted upon me. She is a refreshing serum of truth behind the scenes of the seedy and sinister shadows that exist in the porn industry, shadows that wait endlessly to consume women like me. Thank you Shelley, the world needs you and the Pink Cross Foundation.
The reader is left to wonder in what airplane hangars these ravenous shadows dwell, waiting endlessly to consume the stars of the Hot Sexy Plumpers video series.
As Meza indicates, she too left porn without having to be rescued by Lubben, and emails from 2009 between Lubben and ex-performer Sierra Sinn indicate that Pink Cross provided Meza nothing in terms of tangible assistance: “It’s real hard for Jan and her family right now,” Lubben wrote. “She has three kids and they live on military pay which is nothing, and they are donating plasma just to make it.”
The third “testimonial” is my favorite – not because of the quote atttributed to him, but due to its contributor’s self-description: “Ex Male Porn Star Latin King of Erotica Sal McKvey”
I thank God for the Pink Cross Foundation and to Shelley for all of their love, support and prayers. Thank you Shelley and I love your friendship. I am proud to say that I am an ex porn star thanks to the Pink Cross Foundation and especially to God and His Son Jesus Christ.
Sal, a former gay performer, is an interesting character.
When Lubben first announced Sal’s endorsement of Pink Cross last fall, he admitted to a friend that he’d been out of porn for two years, and his only job was “helping out” at the office of a Los Angeles area church. At that time, however, Sal’s twitter account still retained mentions of “private shows,” and his Twitter and Facebook both featured pics of him in lascivious poses. Sal was often featured in full make-up and dressed (unconvincingly) as a woman — and in fact some of the close-up pics on his Facebook profile were actually stolen shots of female porn star Mercedes Ashley! After Lubben was ribbed about all this online, Sal’s social media accounts were suddenly scrubbed.
Sal also left porn without having to be rescued by Lubben. So, what does Sal say he received from Lubben? Love, support and prayers – no mention of Lubben “rescuing” him out of porn or of having provided any financial assistance or valuable resources. She cheered him on in the recovery he undertook on his own.
The final testimonial in Lubben’s fundraising email comes from a woman identified as “Maxielle aka Genevieve.” She writes:
The only hope I ever got from this devastating time was through the Pink Cross. Honestly, if it weren’t for Pink Cross, I would be dead.
Shelley Lubben has truly been my inspiration and I hope that I become like her one day. She is very personalized with the sex workers rather than passive or aloof like many people who have organizations. She not only gave me advice, but also helped me get closer to God. She gave me a gift bag filled with lipstick, a book about God, and a signature letter telling me how special I am and how she was happy about how courageous I had been.
Before the Pink Cross, I felt like there was really no hope.
Genevieve describes her career in porn as “this devastating time” which left her feeling hopeless, and which, she assures us, would have led to her death if not for St. Shelley – so how extensive and death-defying was Genevieve’s porn career? A search of IAFD turned up nothing about her, but more info could be found in her “testimony” as published on Lubben’s eponymous website.
Informed readers can feel Lubben’s velvet touch right off the bat:
I started in porn in 2009 when I was only twenty years old. I loved and craved attention. I always believed that I was porn material because of how much attention I would get and how much love I would feel from it. My mother and father divorced five years ago and because of the emptiness I had felt for so long, I was desperate for love.
I remember browsing through ads on Craigslist when I approached one that attracted me. . . It said that they needed pretty, slender, curvy girls to make fast and easy money. I was astonished because I needed the money to pay for school and clothes and I was going to get the attention I always loved and wanted.
Genevieve describes only one porn shoot:
At the shoot, I was nervous and scared. I never did anything on camera before and I was thinking was how it would feel to actually do something that the whole world was going to see . . . . I waited desperately to start my video, make the money, and leave. But not only did starting the video take time, making it was also very painful and time consuming. At the time, I thought that porn was fast and easy. But they wanted to take so many pictures. So not only did the pictures take time, but the lighting and sex positions needed to be perfect.
My experience was very bad and I didn’t enjoy it at all when they started filming. I was so surprised because when I watched porn, it didn’t seem like it would be so hard to have sex on camera.
I didn’t do the sexual positions right . . . and I was irritable the whole day. The director didn’t really care how I felt; he only wanted to finish the video.
Genevieve also quit shooting porn without having to be rescued by Lubben. Years after Genevieve’s ‘ordeal,’ what did Lubben do for her? She gave her advice, talked about God, and mailed her a gift bag filled with lipstick, a book about God, and a signed letter of encouragement.
And we are supposed to accept that this literally saved her life — a life that had been endangered by porn?
In the penultimate line of Lubben’s latest pitch for easy cash, the woman who has made a career of insulting, belittling, demonizing, and perpetuating stigma against sex workers, writes:
Thank you for caring about what most people consider as "outcasts".
I wonder why they’re considered oucasts, Shelley? Could it be because of people like you who describe people in porn as a bunch of mentally ill, drug-infested, disease-ridden, sick, jaded, demonized, slaves of Satan? Could it be because you’ve recommended treating performers who need help like “wild animals” – not setting down food/treats too close to them because they might “bite you”?
And if that wasn’t vile enough, Lubben’s sign-off is enough to make a maggot gag:
Your donation will save a life today.
Not “may save a life today” — “will save a life today.” This despite the fact that there’s only ever –- EVER — been one death on an adult set – Taylor Summers’ death at a private bondage photo shoot far from the LA “porn industry.” Not a single performer who can be shown to have contracted any illness on an adult set has died, Shelley. Who’s killing porn stars, Shelley? Why are they in such great mortal danger? When I attend an industry event, I don’t see terror in their eyes, Shelley. Eric Edwards began performing in 1969, and performed in five decades – he’s still kicking, Shelley.
Shelley Lubben is quite simply the worst person I have ever encountered. A con artist and fraud. A vilifier and defamer. A charlatan and exploiter. A hypocrite, liar and perverter of truth.
And her spectacular crack-up is a wonder to behold.
Her spiel does not sound all that different then Charlie Mansons or Jim Jones did.
“I am the way! Come to know ME and my many wonders! Only by following me and doing as I say can you be redeemed.” It’s all about Shelley — her buddies Jesus Christ and Yahweh (whom she claims provide direct revelation to her) are mere footnotes.
Lubben will literally say anything to get what she wants. No lie is too big, no boast is too broad, no claim is too outrageous. This is not only classic con artist behavior, it’s classic addict behavior — and also an example of her lifelong practice of extreme attention seeking behavior.
Read up on Histrionic Personality Disorder — the people who have known her longest are unanimous in their belief that it fits Shelley Lubben to a T.
Former Pink Cross member April Garris, who was with Lubben the longest, just left the following comment on the Facebook “Truth About Pink Cross Foundation” page, regarding this post:
Ya, I personally met with Jessie Jewels shortly after she reached out to Pink Cross. If I recall correctly, Shelley never actually met her — she asked me if I could reach out to her, which I did, as she was living pretty close to me at the time. I met with her once, and lost touch. This was back in ’07, I believe. From that time, up until I left Pink Cross back in 2011, Jessie had absolutely no contact with Pink Cross, so I find it odd how Jessie is going on about how much Pink Cross did for her. I dont recall us sending her any care packages, and I certainly dont recall Pink Cross corresponding with her in all those years. My suspicion is that Shelley contacted her to get a good write-up out of her about Pink Cross, but I would love to speak with Jessie to see if Shelley contacted her to get a recommendation. Back when I was with PC, Shelley would often ask us to give her that kind of a recommendation. I know she told us all to go on Amazon and give a great review of her book.
Of course Jan never received any financial assistance from Shelley. All Shelley did when I was working with her, was complain about how Jan was always asking for money. Very sad
She reminds me of Loretta Sanchez, the Republican who crossed over and joined the bleeding hearts simply because it paid more and she was able to draw more sympathy from those equally clueless, neanderthal talking heads that she refers to as her friends.
“Roxy” had problems long before deciding to spread her legs on camera, porn was just the easiest thing to blame for all her hardships, nevermind the drug and alcohol addiction she’s apparently still facing..The woman makes a dozen movies and calls herself a victim of an exploitative industry? Yeah right.
In the words of an old South Park song: “You only fight these causes because caring sells. All of you activists can go fuck yourselves.”
Out of curiosity I looked up some of Shelley’s old scenes and see she worked with Tim Lake, Rodney Moore and Dave Hardman. And she did anal, too. Doh!
Before those who aren’t familiar with Michael Whiteacre aka Ari take what he claims to heart, I suggest you read his twitter feed from a recent weekend of which he allegedly assaulted a sexworker, stole her rental car, stole content from her cellphone (which essentially outed a university professional) and then publicly posted the address of where she was planning on residing while out of town (this is a woman who I personally believe he has VERY psychologically intimidated).
Here is the link:
http://pornnewstoday.com/pnt/?p=4156
I am very concerned that Whiteacre’s quest to consistently “expose”, harass and terrorize individuals of which he’s either jealous of or is attracted to but can’t have will not end well…afterall, look at what happened with his participation in the failed “No on Measure B” campaign.
In my view the real question is WHAT DOES WHITEACRE / ARI want? What is his real goal? What does he even do for a living aside from taking bit roles from Nica Noelle so he can compete for a non-sex award with James Bartholet in the next few years?
Regardless of what Ari does, Shelley continues to help sex-workers to the best of her ability. She does get some of the truth out there. She appeals to a demographic with a healthy moral mindset and I think superficially she looks better than ever.
What I feel the FSC, Ari and many of you hate is that she doesn’t appear to be controlled opposition like what I suspect the xxx church is being primed to be…
In my opinion Ari is a tool being utilized by a specific group to show the public exactly what will happen to ANY Christian (and believer in Jesus Christ) who attempts to help adult entertainers. Ari is a very good representative of the EXACT same people who KILLED Jesus Christ (which they’ve yet to apologize for).
Remember people – those who take their freedom most from granted are those who are EASIEST to enslave – take a look at the women who Ari favors (and you’ll see exactly what I mean).
Good night, all. Big day tomorrow: brunch meeting with Matt Holder, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, Craig Gross of XXX Church, visiting agents of Mossad, Bill Cosby, Axel Braun and his vampire clan, Sharon Mitchell, Sean from TRPWL, James Deen, OTO leaders, Diane Duke, the ghost of Joseph Smith, Nick East, Steven Hirsch, one of our reptilian overlords (whose name I cannot pronounce), Misty Stone, Will Ryder, Michael Fattorosi, and of course Fabian Thylmann will be joining us via Skype. NL- Sad to see I am not invited to this gathering of dignitaries!
If there’s anyone out there who even has a shred of love for Ari (probably only his mother does), it’s time to go ahead and get him some professional help.
He’s 40 something years old and thinks he’s really doing something special with these little projects of his. If he’d actually BEEN damaged and victimized by the Los Angeles porn industry like myself, or Lubben, or a multitude of other women and men who have chosen to speak out I could understand his behavior and even have sympathy…but that’s not the case (at least I don’t think it is).
Again, what is Whiteacre / Ari’s objective? What does he do for a LIVING and what is his ultimate goal?
How long will he ride on Lubben’s coat tails (and how many twitter accounts will he make tomorrow)?
LOL so now Coco Loco is linking Michael with the death of Christ? Wine box venders must of had a two for one sale this past weekend.
“Ari is a very good representative of the EXACT same people who KILLED Jesus Christ.”
Wait, so Michael Whiteacre is an ancient Roman centurion? He carries the millennia well!
Ceth86 & Karmafan — The secret to my longetivity is my strict diet of bagels, lox, and the blood of Christian babies, natvrally. The Illvminati gave me the recipe in the 1st Centvry when I was the praefectvs Ivdaeae.
Gotta rvn… I’m giving Rebecca Linares and the prodvcers of the Chabad telethon a lift to the Porn Covncil brvnch meeting.
That explains so much! I just KNEW something was afoot when I saw Whiteacre slicing his latkes with the Spear of Destiny.
Ironically a few years ago it was someone utilizing the alias CENTURIAN who illegally spammed forums and a multitude of individuals to “pump” the stock of Pop3 Media Corp (a company Ari served as head of) – I believe a false press release even was written at some point in effort to pump that stock up…
Doesn’t mean Ari necessarily had anything to do with it…but rumor has it the false press writer and spammer was somehow paid by Pop3 Media Corp.
The whole situation reminds me a LOT of the relationship between Ari and TRPWL today. Writing false press releases to pump a stock = federal crime … hacking emails and databases that don’t belong to you = federal crime…
Lots and lots and crime – and patterns. The Pop3 incident could (and is) easily viewed as fraud and Ari appears to be attached – yet today he’s calling everyone under the sun a fraud (and crazy). But why worry about anything I write? I’m just drinking boxes of wine…
And good going dodging my questions as to what you do for a living Ari – I already know the answer, and you’re probably best off at this stage not providing one.
Cheers.
There goes Retardica again n again with “You’re 40 something” OMG… How Shameful! How Humiliating. To be 40 something! But wait, aren’t all James Bond characters in their 40s n up? Isn’t that Dos Equi guy in his 60s? And why the fuck is she friends with The Donkey now?… the one who made her want to committ suicide he was harrassing her so much? How does one explain to an idiot that they’re an idiot? No genius in the history of planet Earth could succeed in such an endeavor.
Come on Sweetnins, who you think you are kidding? The kinda damage you got was planted in yer dome long before you turned 30 and started in with porn.
All the pretty ones are broken. I’m sure the ugly ones are broken too, but have no one to pay attention long enough to find out.
I am not broken.
Signed,
Monica’s Pristine Nubian Rectum
You’re gonna have to try harder than that to get me…
XO
Monica’s Pristine Nubian Rectum
@jeremy
I think her obsession with that age is due to the fact that she’s clearly pushing 40 herself and has nothing to show for it. Her ship has long since sailed and she’s well past her prime, and her only recourse is to try and aim that self-loathing outward. (And given how wonky her eyes are, she’s obviously no marksman.)
Seriously, she’s projecting so much that she’s practically an IMAX.
I wouldn’t be suprised if Coca Loca has had dreams where her face is painted white, she is wearing a cop outfit, and hosing down blacks during civil rights struggles in the 60s, along with Donkey Long, both with smiles on their faces, considering her extremely challenged intellect and apparent self-loathing.
To #8 pornnewstoday,
How were you “damaged and victimized” by the adult film industry?
“she’s projecting so much that she’s practically an IMAX.”
Sway.
I need to use that in real life – when the occasion calls for it.
Imagine a porno playing at IMAX… Talk about In Your Face! Or 3D and it’d be really in your face!
Seriously, MoFo should make an IMAX theater movie, call it “Wrath of Tard!”… or the full name version (with bonus cuts), “The Wrath of The Retard”.
Walter she was victimized because when the took a check from Nailz for her escort services it bounced and the porn industry did not stand up for her.
Then again most hookers know ya never take checks.
what do u mean the biz didnt stand up for her? escortings a similar sport but in a completely different league… mostly one ignores the other, and if nails wasnt passing rubber checks to begin with he shouldve bounced it anyway considering she gave him nuthin but talk… n im sure after listening to her insanity even an honest man wouldve thought about voiding that transaction. I wonder how many people she said to him were stalking and trying to kill her?
She mentioned 27 people trying to silence or kill her. I know this because she talks through me.
Monica’ s pristine rectum must be insanely jealous of her mouth with all the shit that comes out of it!
I would enjoy coitus with Coco
she would kill you when its over.
Funny how Hannakuh Saucester forgets to bring up the entire twitter conversation where Whitacre’s alleged victim says that nothing really happened outside of a heated argument and that she wants nothing to do with Hannakuh or that dyke blogger chick who’s too lazy to get a job, so she just sues everyone she can and hopes to get a case out of it. It’s pretty funny, actually. Hannakuh and sue-happy dyke are all, “please say that Whitacre beat you? Pretty please?” and this chick’s all like, “shut up you hate-mongering doofusses”. They’re so desperate to dig dirt up on Whitacre, that they’re actually using twitter to beg people to accuse him. Hannakuh, you fail so goddamn hard at everyting, that’s it’s crossed over from funny to sad.
Yes, then after she told off Mo-Fo and Cox, and said that they would be “the LAST” people she’d ever want help from, they accused her of participating in the vast conspiracy, and of betraying them! Lol
The whole thing is so pathetic — the attacks by these idiots. But, indeed, she replied to Cox and Mo-Fo with a very clear “Ari didn’t ‘beat me'”, followed up by calling Mo-Fo “blatantly racist and anti sex work,” and “an anti #sexwork racist piece of shit.”
She then demanded, “show me where I used the word ‘beaten’ or ‘beat.’ Don’t put words in my mouth just to serve your own twisted hateful agenda. You won’t get any support from me. Dumb and dumber…. You’re an idiot. Period. Enough of this. Blocked.”
This is an example of why you need to INTERVIEW people before you run with a story like this. For every assertion of fact I’ve ever made about the Lubbens and Pink Cross I have an ‘on the record’ source who will stand by their claims. That’s why, unlike Mo-Fo’s partner Cox, I don’t have millions of dollars in judgments against me.
Just breathe in, breathe out, michael… dealing with nuts all the time can make u nutty, believe me, i know…
You’re giving team-idiot too much credit here, Steele. I’m gonna’ go out on a limb here and say that Whitacre hasn’t lost one second of sleep over these two clowns. I imagine him, sitting back, enjoying his life of fine spirits and porn poon, and laughing at the entire circus. That’s what’s really funny about the whole thing. Miss saucester thinks that her “accusers” are bore obssessed stalkers, when in reality, the boredom only goes as far as the laugh they get out of each and every last tweet, blog-entry, and comment from the goof troop.
It’s not merely laughs we’re getting out of it: the drama concocted or fanned by these idiots has unintentionally (as far as they’re concerned) produced a bonanza of information, in the form of DMs and/or emails, from scumbags like Darrah Ford (she’s never been far away), Mike South, Richard Abowitz and others (including a couple of former friends). I know who’s talking to whom, who their real sources are, what they’ve said, whose names they drop, and what their angle is. And when I’m bored, y’all will too.
People who are desperate for ‘dirt’ on people, and who will always believe the worst about them, are the simplest to manipulate — especially when they possess unjustifiably large egos. They give themselves away. We’ve been after much bigger fish than these jokers, Cox and Mo-Fo.
So, have I lost sleep? LOL if these tards didn’t exist I would’ve had to invent them.