Free Speech Archives - Mike South

Help SCREW return to PRINT

Sidney Falco — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 02:59:39 +0000

SCREW IS COMING BACK — NEW YORK NEEDS IT MORE THAN EVER! SCREW launched a GoFundMe to get the new print version off the ground after a 22 year hiatus. And they have someone who will match dollar-for-dollar every donation. If you lived in New York City during SCREW’s heyday, you already know. If you didn’t… […]

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There is no porn industry

Hamilton Steele — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:58:56 +0000

There is no porn industry today, so stop pretending. There is no porn industry anymore. Not in the way those of us, who actually shot on location, edited by hand, bribed officials, rewired theaters, and smuggled videos into firewalled nations, would recognize. What we’ve got now is a digital meat grinder run by people who […]

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Fucking Asked for it

Hamilton Steele — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:52:09 +0000

Fucking Asked for it : How compliance, theft, big tech and ignorance led to the demise of the modern porn industry. Fucking Asked For it – In the 1970s, the porn scene was like a middle finger to both the Hollywood elite and the moral watchdogs of American society. It was raw, sleazy, and offensive, […]

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Porn Age Verification

Hamilton Steele — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:09:13 +0000

Porn Age verification used to be the norm Porn Age verification, in the legacy porn industry, was non-debatable. Albeit, many of the performers, pornographers and distributors only agreed with age verification because no one wanted the public backlash, rather than due to a moral duty to protect minors. However, the legacy jizz biz did not […]

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Fuck Project 25

Hamilton Steele — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:15:34 +0000

Fuck Project 25, start using your brains Fuck Project 25, because you might want to consider becoming a pornographer instead of a content creator. A young cam model once posed a question to a porn industry veteran from the 1980s, “Aren’t content creators and pornographers the same thing?” The old school pornographer responded, “When someone […]

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Comparing porn and mainstream media

Hamilton Steele — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:19:09 +0000

Comparing porn and mainstream media, which does more harm ? By Hamiton Steele © 2024 Comparing porn and mainstream media is a controversial topic, because most people only see porn as detrimental to society. Only, a closer examination of the evidence suggests that pornography is probably less harmful than the mainstream media. Particularly when, while […]

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Gandhi porn and censorship

Hamilton Steele — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:50:13 +0000

Gandhi porn and censorship in the modern age Gandhi porn and censorship seem like 3 very unlikely topics to be linked together. However, Mahatma Gandhi once said, « There are unjust laws, just as there are unjust men ». When it comes to censorship, the number of unjust men grows exponentially and they create unjust laws to […]

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Fearless Pioneers to Spineless Content Creators

Hamilton Steele — Sat, 11 May 2024 16:59:55 +0000

How the old school pornographers kept you free The pornography industry has metamorphosed from sleazy underground tabloids and movie theaters to socially accepted digital streaming into everyone’s home. While a mostly positive evolution, the adult industry changes have had unintended consequences, leading to a stark contrast between the old-school pornographers of the 1970s and 1980s […]

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Defining Freedom

Hamilton Steele — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 18:22:09 +0000

Defining freedom is often complicated Defining freedom was discussed by Milton Friedman, a prominent economist. Freedom is often associated with advocating for free-market capitalism and individual freedom. His quote, “The academic wants freedom for himself but no one else. The businessman wants freedom for everyone else but not for himself,” encapsulates how these play out […]

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Modern Slavery

Hamilton Steele — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:32:39 +0000

We’re all in the grips of modern slavery Modern slavery is being perpetrated on a historically unimaginable scale and you’re probably a victim of it. Mark Twain once said that “Truth is stranger than fiction”. The reason is that fiction is obligated to stick to possibilities; while truth is unfettered from the limitations of imagination. […]

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