This column was written by James kilchick, which is not what Patrick Cordoba expected.
Stanford's junior, a member of the student government, wanted to host a lecture on sexual health.
He believes that a provocative and interesting way to solve this problem is to have a famous pornographic writer speak on campus.
So there were some invitations from Cordoba.
The first news he received was Michael Lucas. -
Long term porn actors and film directors such as Hunter and plunge, the bigger the better, the more the island cruise (
One to eight editions).
Lucas is a regular visitor to New York's nightlife and head of his own production company, one of the most well-known figures in gay porn.
Lucas says his budget for 2006 epic film, Sweet Life, is $250, the most expensive porn in history.
The film got the best
Photo honors at the annual GAYVN Awards, gay porn Oscar awards ceremony. (
It also triggered a lawsuit against the company, which controls the rights of the original Fellini film. )
New York magazine called him "the last porn movie in New York ". "Lucas--
A staunch advocate of safe sex, unlike some porn directors, who use condoms in movies ---
It sounds like the kind of guest speaker Córdoba is considering.
"We want people to accept his thoughts about sexual identity and sexual health," Cordova told me . ".
But the controversy broke out after Stanford booked him.
Some students don't think Lucas should be invited to give lectures.
On the day of the speech, the storm around Lucas had entered the Stanford Daily Page, and organizers found themselves defending an invitation to protest against angry peers.
What caused such a heated debate?
Not Lucas's porn.
It's his politics.
It turns out that Lucas is an avid supporter of Israel and a harsh, often offensive criticism of the Muslim world.
He referred to the Quran as "Mein kampuf today" and often attacked Muslims for homophobia and anti-homosexuality.
Is less of Jewishthan-charming terms.
"I have no idea at all how gay people are on the side of burqa --wearing, jihad-
Quran scream
"Crazy Muslims," he thought last year.
In his speech on the past Valentine's Day, Lucas insisted on his gun, attracting about 50 viewers.
"When they have a strong contempt for my culture, what is the point of respecting their culture or what is called it? " Lucas asked.
He was not content to leave it there.
On the second day of his speech, he published a work
Ed of Stanford Daily responded to allegations that he was a racist.
"I have never said or written bad things about Arabs in my life ---
"Go and read any of my articles," he explained . ".
"My criticism is always directed at the religion and ideology of Islam.
So I would like to ask students at Stanford not to use the word "racism" at a convenient time.
"The controversy at Stanford is not an isolated incident.
Over the past few years, Lucas has developed a part-time job in political commentary to match his more lucrative day-to-day work.
He often updates his blog with ideas about world affairs and writes a regular column
New York Blade ed column (Gay Newspapers)
Clash with the popular free gay blog Queerty.
"My economy would be better if I didn't speak," he told me . ".
Lucas, however, seems to be unable to help.
Lucas, a graduate of Moscow State Law School, interrupted an interview with a secular Jewish family in Russia by harrisburn Andre Bregman.
But he has been eager to become a celebrity. in 1995, the temptation of fame attracted him to become a model and a prostitute in Berlin.
In 1997, he came to the United States and founded Lucas Entertainment in the second year, eventually earning enough to transfer his parents and grandparents from Russia. -
"Corrupt country where I was born "--to New York.
As a resourceful entrepreneur, he asked his father to serve as a fixed builder in his film.
I read about Lucas in gay magazines, like advocates and Out, and when he was talking about porn at Yale, I met him when I was a student at Yale.
But until last spring,-
When Lucas started writing a column for blade-
I realized how fascinated he was with international affairs.
Lucas, of course, wrote other topics.
On his blog, on hard-
Core photo of his boxing career (
"I wouldn't be surprised if most boxers were depressed gay or bisexual men ")to the dumbing-
The bottom of society (
"Half of people think that Pol Pot is something you bought at Home Depot ").
But what fascinates him most is Middle East politics.
When I called Lucas to arrange an interview, he said that he was a long-term subscriber to The New Republic and arrived at his Manhattan office and I found the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and The London Times opened on his glass table. (
I don't know if these documents are meant to impress, whether they are movie props or real reading materials. )
When Lucas was 6 years old in 3rd day of this month, he did wear clothes and he tended to this form --
He selected a suit tailored for our interview.
He has a strong Russian accent, which is very noticeable in his film.
As we speak, he occasionally stops to yell at his PR staff.
At the same time, in order to find sex toys, the model enters and exits the room and closes the door.
You won't know his movie. -
Politically--
But Lucas has opinions on everything.
He is a fan of David Brooks and the late orrianna Farage (
Although he admits her homophobia)
I think the war in Iraq is a bad idea.
"Wrong goal ")
That the media are weak in describing Islamic terrorism (
"It's very disturbing that they don't allow people to see beheading ")
Nicolas Sarkozy (
"I think Mark Jacobs told me that Sarkozy went to the synagogue ")
Hate Jimmy Carter.
(This fucking peanut farmer).
Although he initially disagreed with Russia's brutal policies towards Chechnya, he now thinks the United States can learn something from Putin.
"Can't the US military win Fallujah?
Lucas asked me incredulously. "Level it!
He criticized Republicans for calling them "homophobic and anti-gay ".
Jews, "put the label of extreme Orthodox Israelis on the body of Israeli society ".
"But the real object of his anger is gay liberals, who think they are too sympathetic to the Arab side --
The Israeli conflict.
Like many Russian Jews forced to suppress their status under Soviet rule, Lucas's Jewish heritage is the backbone of his world view.
He visits Israel every year.
Last month, he wrote a declaration on the website titled "I stand with Israel and I stand with the Jews.
"Shortly after the Lebanese war of 2006, he staged a live sex show at a nightclub in Tel Aviv, where IDF members were admitted free of charge (
In the American tradition of USO
As described in Lucas Press release).
Heather Fink said: "He is so committed and so loving to his roots and his people," a former public relations officer at Lucas is writing a memoir, about her experience working for Lucas.
But, she added, "I think it's hard for him to empathize with Muslims, who sometimes write them off.
"This is a serious understatement.
Last year, Lucas praised the gay artist Charles Merrill in his Blade column for his decision to burn a rare Quran worth $60,000, and in the subsequent Quran is called the book of absolute evil ".
"Sometime after visiting Lucas, I received a package from his company.
I thought it was Lucas's latest film masterpiece, but found Lee Harris's "rational suicide: the threat of radical Islam to the West".
Like students at Stanford, they think they are organizing a lecture on safe behavior, only to find themselves involved in a dispute over Islam, members of the porn community have recently learned a lot about Lucas's views on international affairs ---
Probably more than most of them want to know.
Unlike Stanford, however, the porn world is a place where people say and do outrageous things to make a living.
No wonder, according to most of the porn community insiders I 've spoken to, the industry seems to be greeting Lucas with a collective shrug as an authority.
These insiders tend to think Lucas's comments are just an extension of his arrogant personal style ---
This style leads to a cold relationship with other porn writers.
A few years ago, Lucas told New York's sex store owners that if they continue to stock up on competitors' films, he will stop distributing his films to them, and the former Lucas actor who fell out with him.
"The whole industry is afraid of Michael Lucas," an employee at a competitive studio told me and then politely explained that it was all he could say.
"He's from the East Coast," said Mark Cairns, senior editor of Adult Video News.
"Americans on the West Coast are more laid back.
Lucas's website describes him as "the epitome of the American dream," which is true in some ways.
Americans, especially immigrants, are experts who learn from different cultures to create new things.
Ultimately, this ability to borrow might help explain Michael Lucas: he has combined the shameless taste of porn writers with the arrogant self
Immigrant entrepreneurs are convinced of the racist nationalism of Russian Jews about Bernard Lewis's theme.
If the result is sometimes ridiculous or harmful-
This is the way the United States.
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