Los Angeles, CA – Thursday the newest issue of the University of Florida Entertainment Law Review was published, and the lead article is titled “Free Expression, Pornography & the Mainstreaming of Adult Entertainment: Mark Kulkis and the New Voice of the Adult Video Industry.”
The prestigious U.S. News & World Report guide on law schools consistently ranks the University of Florida as a top tier law school. The article was written by two Penn State Law School professors, Clay Calvert and Robert Richards.
Near the outset of the 66-page article, the authors note: “Some might contend that providing space in a law journal to the views of a pornographer on legal issues somehow is not scholarly. But to the extent that much space has been devoted in law journals to the viewpoints of scholars like Catharine MacKinnon who attack and criticize sexually explicit content, it would be the height of viewpoint-based censorship to not allow the views of a man like Mark Kulkis who actually works and practices in the business and who confronts firsthand, on a daily basis, issues of free speech and censorship.”
The exhaustively researched and annotated article summarizes the career highlights of “the politically astute and strategically savvy” Kulkis. It recaps his running Mary Carey for governor, his later attendance at a Republican fundraiser with Carey, and other successful PR campaigns. “Kulkis, who launched [Larry] Flynt’s video division, now is the face of a new generation of adult film entrepreneurs in the age of Web porn. Just as Flynt has a genius for self-promotion, so too does Kulkis.”
The body of the article is an interview with Kulkis touching on a litany of first amendment issues that affect the adult entertainment industry. It ends with this summary: “[Kulkis’s] public relations acumen and entrepreneurial spirit has helped him launch a successful business. He is the face and voice of a new generation of adult producers, learning how to use the media to advance his business and, in the process, helping to mainstream adult entertainment. Without question, future directions in law, politics and culture will flow from the mainstreaming of pornography, and Kulkis promises to be a catalyst for bringing many of those changes to fruition.”
The article can be read in its entirety at: http://www.entlaw.org/articles.shtml