Rudy Giuliani is Trump’s lawyer.
More specifically, he’s the lawyer who was helping Trump out with the whole Stormy Daniels scandal.
Mushroom peen, anyone?
Giuliani was also the mayor of New York between 1994 and 2001 when he was instrumental in ridding Times Square of ‘adult content’.
Both then and in more recent times, Giuliani has made many a public statement about how he supposedly feels about the porn industry and the people who work in it, which is why the latest billboards to grace Times Square make anyone who dislikes Trump and his cohort very happy.
Over to The Daily Beast:
Adult film company Evil Angel quietly snagged billboard space in New York City’s Times Square to advertise their latest adult feature, I Am Riley. One of the most-viewed porn stars on the internet, Riley Reid is now prominently displayed on multiple billboards throughout the historic Midtown Manhattan area, paying homage to seedier times and bringing porn culture front and center once more.
If you’ve been watching The Deuce you’ll have a fairly good idea of just how seedy those times were.
Unlike the family-friendly NYC Times Square of today, in the 1970s (below) it was a gritty, open-air concrete palace of debauchery. Summers in Midtown had that post-coital odor, like stale sweat and exhaled nicotine. Pornography played on the big screen, theaters promoted live sex shows on the marquees, corner newsstands prominently featured an array of glossy porno mags—it served as the hub for illicit adult entertainment.
Advertisements for adult content couldn’t be avoided, practically synonymous with Times Square. It was a far cry from the tourist trap it is today, largely due to then-Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, who mercilessly drove the effort to clean up Times Square from the 90s to the early 2000s by imposing ordinance and zoning regulations to drive out adult-oriented business.
Since then, Times Square has remained largely sex-related-content free until massive billboards of Reid (below) appeared everywhere.
Here’s what she had to say about it:
“I can say I understand his effort and desires trying to make the city seem more family-friendly. I one hundred percent understand those perspectives and everything like that, but sex is how we were all created.
Sex is the root of technology and everything that happens in our world. Vogue and everybody else, they all use nude female bodies.
They use sex constantly to sell products,” says Riley Reid. “So I want to say [to Giuliani]: I’m sorry that you felt the desire to somewhat banish us from the city life but we have only begun to fight back. We will be back in that city. I don’t see why we shouldn’t be glamorized in that same light. We all watch it, we’re all part of it, we all need sex to create life, so why not just glorify it?”
Reid also believes that this is just the beginning:
I think it’s going to be huge for the general public. I hope we have more opportunities like this. I hope other companies will take the time to glamorize themselves in the mainstream media, because if it can be done it should be done.”
Sure. You do you.
The billboards aren’t hurting anyone, so why not?
[source:dailybeast]
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