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Column: Porn the bottom of my heart

	Memet Walker

Memet Walker

Y ou know what they say: “Looking at your grades, Memet, have you considered adult film?”

Ugh, advisers can be so judgmental. But one Duke University freshman in particular is revealing just how vicious and cruel we can really get.

Unless you’ve been living under a deleted browser history on my computer for the past two weeks, you’ve probably already heard of “Belle Knox.” She’s the 18-year-old women’s studies and sociology major by day and triple-X porn star by cost of higher education.

Naturally, people have been giving her a hard time since her IMDB credits were leaked. But to paraphrase Hamlet, methinks her detractors doth wack off too much!

Where does one even begin to reason with the critics? The fact that she’s a woman, free to make her own choices with her body? Her right to pay for her schooling the way she sees fit, without saddling herself with crippling debt? Her brilliant performance in “No, REALLY Inside Llewyn Davis.”

One News & Observer story led with the haughty, “When ‘Duke’ and ‘porn star’ appear in the same headline, the university gets a public relations headache .”

Really? Because it makes me regret not going.

I expect the older crowd to discriminate against her. They didn’t grow up around and go to school with porn star kids like we did.

But young people hating on her? Whether or not you want to call her a hero is one thing. To me, the real heroes are the film crew. But is she really doing anything that bad? Sex is something most of us participate in, if not aspire to.

“But not on FILM!” Oh, now you’re just splitting pubic hairs.

The fact is, if you took any of her scenes, threw a crown on one of the dudes and called it “Game of Thrones,” most of the same people lifting their nose at her would be interviewing her about her method.

But some of the nastiest comments I’ve heard have been here on campus!

I think “And she’s not cute!” ranks as my favorite overheard comment by a woman, after she and some friends made snarky comments about how degrading what Knox does is.

Basically, “How dare she participate in an industry that insults women? And she’s not even HOT!”

Talk about being a few fries short of a Happy Meal. To put it another way, the wheel is spinning, but the hamster has E.D. What I’m saying is, the lights are on, but no one’s horny.

Playboy ranked us the best sex school in the country in 2012. So why are we all acting like the bitter guy not getting any? Lately, our fuse has been shorter than a UNC athlete’s essay.

According to ABC News, Knox wants to study to become a lawyer. I guess it’s so she can f— US for a change, am I RIGHT ?

But when it comes to porn, the jury is in: She has nothing to be ashamed of.

And yes, it’s very hung.

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