Extra intercourse staff are supporting Kamala Harris within the upcoming U.S. presidential election, new knowledge reveals.
Almost three out of 4 (74 %) mentioned they are going to vote for Harris in a ballot of over 200 intercourse staff carried out by analysis agency SWR Knowledge within the final week. Simply above 9 % will vote for Trump, and the identical quantity are undecided. Greater than 7 % will vote for somebody apart from Harris or Trump. One individual mentioned they undoubtedly will not vote.
Porn performers launch marketing campaign in opposition to Undertaking 2025
Whereas the pattern dimension is small, it is a subgroup inside the estimated two million grownup creators within the U.S., based on a press launch shared with Mashable.
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Porn performers engaged on studio units are the strongest Harris supporters, with 81 % voting for the candidate. Contemplating that Undertaking 2025 — the right-wing coverage wishlist for Trump if he wins — contains outlawing porn, it is sensible that performers need his opponent to win. Harris assist can also be sturdy amongst strippers, with 78 % of these polled voting for her.
Trump, in the meantime, has the strongest assist amongst webcam fashions (11 %) and telephone intercourse operators (11 %). However all Trump supporters polled mentioned they’re extraordinarily sure of their selection of candidate, whereas solely 80 % of Harris voters are extraordinarily sure. Final month, Mashable reported that some intercourse staff are unsure about voting for Harris contemplating her previous actions. These included co-sponsoring the invoice SESTA whereas a senator (a legislation that, together with FOSTA, have been anti-sex-trafficking in principle, however in observe, researchers say harm intercourse staff) and serving to shut down Backpage.com, which intercourse staff say made them much less secure.
Regardless of the hesitation to vote for her, Harris supporters talk about politics with their followers extra typically than Trump voters do: 20 % of Harris voters achieve this “fairly often,” contrasted with six % of Trump voters. Thirty-seven % of Harris voters talk about politics “sometimes,” whereas solely 19 % of Trump supporters do. Half of Trump-voting creators by no means talk about politics with followers, and solely 18 % of Harris voters by no means do.
“With censorship and bodily autonomy on the poll, the stakes couldn’t be increased,” MelRose Michaels, grownup performer and co-founder of SWR Knowledge, commented on the press launch. “We’re seeing a extremely political, extremely engaged intercourse employee inhabitants embrace its voice and flex its muscle. Whereas there’s actually nonetheless important concern in the neighborhood over Harris’ function in passing FOSTA, there’s clearly a lot a lot larger concern about the opportunity of a second Trump administration and the potential repercussions of Undertaking 2025-like theocracy.”
