National Education Association Rejects Donation from Porn Studio

Feb 06, 2012 • Sex Industry •

NEA rejects porn studio donation

In November, Sasha Grey caused a stir after it was discovered that she had volunteered to read to kids at Emerson Elementary in Compton. No matter how poorly our kids are doing academically, how much funding schools have lost, or how much help the National Education Association could use, they refuse to stoop to accepting donations from persons or businesses of ill-repute.

According to adult industry news source XBIZ, the National Education Association (NEA) is refusing to accept any donation from the newly-launched Assence Films, which is slated to release a new title featuring one of Sasha Grey’s last porn scenes before she went mainstream.

The decision to donate the money was made without Grey’s knowledge, XBIZ reports.

The NEA released a statement saying:

Sasha Grey is not affiliated with the National Education Association’s Read Across America program nor has she been invited or endorsed by NEA to read at any of the association’s Read Across America Day events, and NEA will not accept any proceeds from her latest, or any of her films.

Howard Levine of Exile Distribution, which is releasing Anal Artists, the video featuring one Grey’s last scenes, told the Huffington Post that the NEA’s stance was discriminatory.

“Anyone that’s supporting reading and helping kids and donating money to their cause should be accepted,” Levine said. “I don’t understand why they would not accept that — only the fact she was in adult films.”

We agree.

Photo by San Jose Library.

  • Jouky

    It is interesting to note that school board have no problems accepting taxes from corporations which make our children obese, from store front drug dealers, from corporations who destroy our jobs, from tobacco companies which direct their adds to get children hooked on tobacco, from churches who seem to be the leaders in child molestation, but here we have a person working in a legitimate and legal industry (which I suspect has many customers in the education field) and this contribution is seen as being as somehow tainted. This is the image of hypocrisy!!

    When teachers and school coaches no longer molest kids, when schools no longer accept taxes from companies pushing obesity, from drug store fronts, from companies pushing alcohol and tobacco, from religious groups hiding pedophiles, and when they have the funds to properly educate our children, perhaps they can put on their moralistic hats, until then, they are just being total hypocrites.

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