Shelley Lubben and Pink Cross Foundation Tidbits

1. Courtesy of Anthony at The SmackDog Chronicles, it seems Shelley Lubben and/or someone in her clan has redirected Pink Cross Foundation’s financial records to actually materialize in a Pink Cross Foundation url, as opposed to Shelley Lubben’s personal website, where they were showing up. Here are the screen grabs of where they were located.

You can clearly see Shelley Lubben’s website url. The only thing doctored here are blurred bookmarks and site names related to people completely unaffiliated with this site, but then again, it doesn’t matter. There are witnesses to this, so there’s no need for me to go too far out of my way to prove it’s true. Fortunately, “www.thepinkcross.net” (so far), still redirects to Shelley’s personal website. You can see it right at this second (July 5, 2010 10:52pm), but if you missed it, here’s the screen grab of that, too.

My sophisticated Safari search engine provides info about the url to help me determine if that’s what I’m looking for before I hit the “return” button.

2. If you follow The SmackDog Chronicles link above, Anthony wrote more about Shelley Lubben and Pink Cross Foundation, and links to a very good post by Violet Blue about the various organizations against porn entitled, Anti-Porn Profiteering: What They’re Selling. She outlines, very comprehensively, what each organization offers for money. Violet writes:

“Each of the high-profile anti-pornography organizations and pundits are profiteering quite conveniently off of “pornography’s victims.” It’s a never ending revenue source for shame merchants: curing masturbation has been lucrative for centuries as patients can never actually be “cured,” and porn’s so-called victims will exist as long as humans have the capacity for sexual fantasy. So when these victims are viewers that are shamed and exploited by the anti-porn message and shock tactics, it’s worth it for everyone to take a closer look at how anti-porn organizations are profiting from fear.”

Then Violet outlines each organization by the name of the organization, the products they sell, their FUD tactics (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt), the cost of their products, and then additional information. I notice that Violet’s link to Pink Cross Foundation’s 2009 tax return seems to be broken. Must have happened after Violet’s post, when someone read the post here and realized the implications of posting a non-profit’s financial records on Shelley Lubben’s personal website. The possibility of misappropriated funds and all…

3. I also noticed that Shelley and her vulture foundation posted the most inappropriate picture of the recently deceased Shawn Ricks, courtesy of www.LukeIsBack.com? I’m guessing, because they have the same horrible picture of him on their site. The post touts, in scary capital letters, that “PORN KILLS”, even though Shawn hadn’t been in the industry for at least three years, and according to his wife, suffered chronic pain due to a non-porn-related injury. Again, the unfeeling Shelley Lubben – without any consideration for this man and his family – took the little information available, without a coroner’s report, and is flouncing a deceased man’s picture on her and Pink Cross Foundation’s site, stating that, “This is the 11th suicide that we know of since 2005 in the porn industry. No other industry holds this kind of record for suicides. Not even the music industry which is at least ten times bigger than the porn industry.” I know better than to trust old Shelley Lubben’s “facts”, and in fact, when I Google “Industries With High Suicide Rates”, the first link is the American Psychological Association that states:

“Various occupational groups have called the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), each to confirm that their occupation has the highest rates of suicide, says Jim Weed, NCHS analyst.

But experts on suicide say that statistics on its relation to occupation are not clear. There is no national data set on occupation and suicide. Local studies indicate elevated rates in different occupations, but the data usually “turn out to be frail,” says prominent suicide researcher David Clark, PhD.”

And, in fact, nothing concrete pops up in the search engine after that. Four links down, posted in May of this year, is a report about Nintendo investigating high suicide rates at one of its outsourcing companies, Foxconn, but the company is located in China. The very next link is about Foxconn, as well. I would like to know where Shelley Lubben gets her statistics. In fact, if you go to Pink Cross Foundation’s page and follow the link across the top “PinkResources”, all you will find is a picture that lists out averages on how many people view porn per day, how much money is spent on pornographic websites, how many emails per day are pornographic (8%, which doesn’t seem like much at all), and all the information is courtesy via “Online MBA”, except that when you follow the link it’s just a list of “Top MBA Schools”, and below, on the link for “The Stats on Internet Porn”, there is no resource reference for how the data is compiled. And regardless, other than a reference to how many people search for “child pornography” (which hopefully get thwarted and they find nothing!), there is nothing to say that pornography damages these people, just that they’re interested in sex… obviously. I especially enjoyed the link under “References” at the bottom of the page that leads to a New York Times article (page 7 of 10??), that contains this quote by adult movie director, Michael Raven,

“I’ve leaned toward the right in my politics,” he says, “but I’m bothered by the Republicans’ association with the religious right. I know from my experience of religious people that those who protest and scream the loudest usually have the biggest collection of adult under their bed.” He wishes they’d protest violent entertainment instead: “In video games, you’re supposed to destroy, maim and dismember an opponent. But if one person is giving pleasure to another in adult, that’s evil. Sex on TV is more destructive than hard core. You can depict a rape on TV — we don’t touch that subject.”

It’s pretty easy to speak for a dead person, which is what Shelley Lubben and Pink Cross Foundation proposes to do when they post pictures of the deceased and claim that porn killed them. Considering that Shelley also posted Ami Jordan’s obituary of what appears to be an accidental death, without waiting for the coroner’s report, some of the “eleven suicides” she counts could be accidental or not even a suicide at all. But then again, it seems she doesn’t care how they die as long as they die so she can throw a picture on her site and preach her anti-porn lobbying points and get another six figures this year in donations, or more. What better people to prey on than people who can’t argue with you? At least she didn’t steal the entire AVN article completely by copying and pasting it as her own investigative reporting, like she did in the case of Ami Jordan, the post just below the post on Shawn Ricks. I wonder how many families will be okay with her abusing the memories of their loved ones before someone sues her for slander? Preying on the deceased  is definitely a vulture tactic.

For the full AVN article, click here. At least Mark Kernes and the people at AVN had the decency to offer a picture of a rose with Shawn Ricks name and lifespan information in place of a screen grab of him sweaty and red-faced during a sex scene. Some people have no respect.

4. And kudos to Lexi Love and others for posting pro porn videos! Again, Violet Blue writes quite a bit about these organizations and even held a contest where “women and men put themselves front and center to state outright that extremist groups like “Coalition for War” “Porn Harms” and “Stop Porn Culture” do not speak for them…” I haven’t seen all the videos, yet, but I’m going to go back and check them out. It’s exciting to know that other people out there are writing and compiling information about these organizations and stating boldly that all voices on adult industry issues need to be heard. These organizations make a lot of money, but how much of it is going toward actually helping anyone? How much is going towards helping the organization’s political and financial agenda? We can’t just take the organization’s information without looking at it closely. We need to know what is really going on here.