Ambush Interview #79 Joan (asacp)
 

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Ambush Interview #79

Joan

Often refered to as "MOM" by many people in our industry, Joan has lead the charge against stopping child porn and has helped many adult sites shut down people dealing with them that arn't legal. The ASACP, which she is in charge of, does good work in helping law enforcement track down and arrest people involved in illegial underage activities. I personally believe the industry is a better place with them here. I'm not going to say there hasn't been contraversy, but weighing the good against the bad, the ASACP shows up in my mind a lot more positive than negative. I have asked a wide range of questions from Joan here, and she agreed to answer them all. That takes guts cause I haven't pulled any punches. Enjoy the read, She has an amazing background and is a dynamic person that I beleive more companies in this game should get behind and support.


1. What THE FUCK were you thinking initially backing .xxx?

2. Does the asacp have a hardon for lightspeed? Why wouldn't you allow a legal company like lightspeed join yet allow other similar ones with similar and more sever content to join? Discuss in detail.

3. Talk about how AIDS has directly effected you and your family.

4. How come no one outside of the LA porn sceen seems to be involved in the asacp board?

5. How many busts and/or convictions can the ASACP directly credit to themselves.

6. Talk about quitting smoking.

7. What exactly do you have a PHD in? discuss in detail.

8. Steve wants to know if you are you really a man wearing an ugly wig and if you think he's cute.

9. Who voted the acacp to speak for the industry?

10. Talk about the books you have written? How much money did you make from them?

11. Discuss the public access cable show you did? Are you still doing it?

12. What do you say to the charges that you're just Helmy's puppet?

13. Why does the asacp seem to take companies against it's own rules?

14. who are the people/companies you respect in the industry? disrespect?

15. Discuss and talk about your background with hypnotherpy.

16. With your extensive background, why did you decide to work for the asacp? Did they pay more than your last job?

17. What online adult conventions do you attend a year? Which are your faorites? Least Favorites?

18. How many people does the ASACP employ? What do they all do?

19. Are you married? Discuss your private life.

20. What kind of things turn you on? What's your favorite sexual position? Do you like anal?

21. Where have you lived thoughout your life? Where do you live now? Discuss in detail and why you lived in each place.

22. What do you do for fun and recreation other than group sex?

23. Talk about the first three jobs you ever had in your life.

24. Why did you get your PhD?

25. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years?

26. What kind of car do you drive? pics

27. Talk about your home/apartment/condo. post pics

28. Discuss "The View" where you were interviewed by Barbara Walters, NBC's "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" and Dick Clark's "The Other Half".

29. How many infomercials have you been involved in? Discuss

30. How many magazines/newspapers have you been quoted in? What for?

31. How old were you when you first had sex? Did you use a condom?


Thank you Joan for agreeing to do this interview. Have fun with the questions!

Smooch

This will be a great read... :thumbsup

OH ..... yeah :thumbsup

nice interview!

6. i can talk about quiting smoking too! im a happy case

i want to know more about the books

Whoa, some interesting questions there.

It should be interesting to hear Joan speak a little less formally than I'm used to hearing her.

Question is... Will she make it t'ill the end

Steve where you at????

Very much looking foward to this thread! One of my favorite people in the business.

Hi Joan! :)

Chris - ATKCash

That's gonna be fucking great ;) different from anything else we have seen

interesting questions :) 1,2

Wow. no holds barred questions. :Oh crap

Good interview, I have always enjoyed the times I have spent with Joan.

just like every other ambush. I hold back nothing and ask anything and everything :thumbsup

Wow... talk about some questions aimed straight at getting to the point.

This should be interesting in fact you asked a lot of questions I am anxious to hear answers for :)

Joan has always been very charming with me and it is so nice to see her at all the shows. I look forward to the rest of this interview!

Oh, good stuff! Here we go...!

This should do a good job of showing the human-being behind the persona. :thumbsup

Bump for a great cause

Joan is an awesome person to know! xoxo

I love Joan...she is like the bond lady of the industry...

Mr. Romance

Why is it when I have reported sites / galleries of girls who are clearly underage, prepubescent teens, cookie hanging out, butt naked not in an artistic way... the reply is:

"We could not determine whether the models are`clearly` under the age of 18; therefore, we are nable to report the website to the authorities"

What kind of a cop out reply is that? When a girl looks like she is 12 years old with her cookie hanging out... it does not take a rocket scientist to determine her age.

I have reported many sites / galleries with girls who were clearly underage, all with the same BS reply. I have since stopped reporting and wasting my time. My guess is that the little girls need to be banging donkeys, bareback, holding ids in hand in the school yard, to be reported to the authorities.

What kind of CP really does get reported to the authorities?

I'm getting sexually excited just thinking about joan and anal.
Joan: please say "yes" to the end of question #20.

Why would an organization that has a singular mission of fighting CP be 'copping-out'? That's illogical.. so I recommend you dig a little deeper for an answer.

I went to the FAQ's at ASACP.org to find the answer. They clearly state:

"Child nudity does not always equal child pornography. The determining factor with child pornography is not whether the child is nude, partially nude, or fully clothed. The determining factor is what the child is doing and/or having done to him/her."

I don't condone what is obvious exploitation to people like you and me, but this is not clear-cut child abuse in the eyes of US law. There have been legitimate artusts, such as Mapplethorpe, who have fought for that to be the case.

Hope that helps. :thumbsup

Scott, as I mentioned I would not be available until after 3 PM PT today. Sorry, my meeting went a little longer than expected.

Also, as we discussed, I would address what questions I can. There are so many misconceptions about ASACP and myself that it was important for people to know more about my background and ASACP's goals and direction.

There is a long list. So, let me look at the list again. Scott, did I start with the first one and proceed

I will not address the first two questions as these questions have been addressed so many times and in so much detail. All one has to do is do a search on GFY

I now lost all interest in this one.

Question # 3.

My younger brother died over nine years ago from HIV-related complications. He had been positive for over eight years. He had lost the love of his life and partner of 10 years to AIDS. He had also lost over 600 friends and acquaintances.

hey - you agreed to answer everything - post with a link to the answer then

"Why" is irrelevant. People and organizations make poor decisions all the time. There are a lot of illogical things that happen in life. Insert: Catholic priests molesting young boys. That doesn't make sense at all, yet it happens.


I know that just nudity is not CP. I have sent them links to images of YOUNG girls spreading their vagina wide open. Images of close ups of their vagina and asshole. And the girl was 12-14 at best.

I don't know why they would cop out, that's what I'm asking. Anytime I would ask visa e-mail it would never get a response.

If a totally nude prepubescent girl spreading her vagina open with both hands is not CP, please show me what is. That's all I'm asking here.

All to HIV/AIDS?

Joan is a sweetheart and always has a smile on her face. Looking forward to reading this ambush!

I know that just nudity is not CP. I have sent them links to images of YOUNG girls spreading their vagina wide open. Images of close ups of their vagina and asshole. And the girl was 12-14 at best.

I don't know why they would cop out, that's what I'm asking. Anytime I would ask visa e-mail it would never get a response.

If a totally nude prepubescent girl spreading her vagina open with both hands is not CP, please show me what is. That's all I'm asking here.


Aly, thank you for jumping in for me due to my being a little late.

If the ASACP CP hotline person receives a report with what you described, it should have been reported to law enforcement. However, if by the time ASACP reviewed this report (which is usually within a few hours), pictures could have been changed. We have seen that these 'child modeling' sites (and I use this term vert loosely) have been continuing to push the envelope.

If you still have the URL, please send it to directly to [email protected] and we will check it out again.

As it relates to my brother's death, I think that it was stress as he was teaching in inner city school FT, going to graduate school FT, gutted and redid his house, but most of all, he was heartbroken and missed his partner.

4. How come no one outside of the LA porn sceen seems to be involved in the asacp board?

Recently, this topic has been discussed at Advisory Council meetings. We were waiting until ASACP was a nonprofit which was approved in 2005. ASACP has a 501 c 4 status which is a Social Welfare Organization. This year ASACP will apply for 501 c 3 - Charity. Most non-adult companies require this second status to participate.

4. How come no one outside of the LA porn sceen seems to be involved in the asacp board?

Also, ASACP trys to inform mainstream companies of the industry's efforts. I attend the Digital Coast Roundtable (http://www.digitalcoast.org) and ITV Alliance events (http://itvalliance.org/) in order to interact with people who may be interested in suopprting ASACP. I have spoken with a representative of the Writer's Guild as their members are the ones who write the movies and TV scripts about the industry (and many times incorrectly)

That is a good answer. You know, I have never went back to look at it after I reported it. I already have this fear of getting raided and the police finding that stuff cached in my computer. The last thing I want to do is show some sort of history for looking at such a thing.

Thank you for responding.

5. How many busts and/or convictions can the ASACP directly credit to themselves.

ASACP only sends validated suspect CP site reports to law enforcement. We are not involved beyond is point unless we are contacted by law enforcement which has occurred a few times. However, at times we can determine when our informaton has been used. For example, in its January 17th article "Dangerous Mix: Internet Transforms Child Porn Into Lucrative Criminal Trade,hahaha8221; The Wall Street Journal reported on an international investigation into a company called Regpay, based in the former Soviet republic of Belarus. According to the article:

hahaha8220;The company is at the center of what U.S. law-enforcement officials call the largest Internet child-pornography investigation to date and the first to follow the international financial trail of child-porn sales. The probe has discovered the names of some 40,000 Americans who downloaded child porn and led to more than 1,400 arrests world-wide including about 330 in the U.S.hahaha8221;

Please note...

a story in AVNOnline on 1-16-04

EWARK, N.J. - A Belorus-based payment processor whose child porn site Adult Sites Against Child Pornography began reporting to authorities almost a year ago is the root of a case in which the FBI has arrested at least 44, with four of its own plus a Florida executive with a partnering company pleading guilty.

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CNN reported January 15 that federal officials made arrests in the U.S., France, Spain, and Belarus, in a case that stemmed from Minsk-based Regpay Co., Ltd, collecting fees for child porn sites that federal officials believe ran to the millions.

""When we followed the money, we ended up getting both the operators of this outfit... and meanwhile back here at home we were doing search warrants on people's computers who had subscribed via credit card to these child pornographic Websites," U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Michael Drewniak told CNN.

The case began with a Website known as pedoworld, which ASACP began reporting to the FBI in 2000, catching on to Regpay, which owned pedoworld and was once known as Trustbill.com, and sending the FBI reports on regpay.com since February 2003, according to ASACP executive director Joan Irvine.

"In fact," she told AVN.com, "we alerted the FBI (in Los Angeles) to how pedoworld was using a Hotmail address to obtain customers and direct them to payment methods." ASACP's Tim Henning sent the FBI in Los Angeles a report late last May on regpay.com which included their American telephone number for customer service, the URL for its contact page, and the precise billing link, Irvine said.

"It feels good knowing that ASACP and the adult site industry have contributed to these arrests," she said.

Two-dozen people in New Jersey and about 20 more around the U.S. were arrested for downloading child porn in this case, CNN reported, including a doctor, a teacher, and a minister, while Regpay and a Fort Lauderdale-based company, Connections USA, were indicted in a money-laundering scheme that involved paid memberships to at least 50 child porn Websites.

Four Regpay leaders have been indicted, with three others having been arrested last summer, authorities said, while one executive with Connections USA has reportedly pleaded guilty over his involvement in the case.

Regpay ran at least four child porn sites from Minsk, including pedoworld, while carrying ads for other adult sites, Attorney General John Ashcroft told CNN, processing an estimated $3 million from subscription fees for Websites, many of which were child porn sites.

"Today's indictment strikes at the heart of the commercial trade of child pornography by attacking the commercial profits derived from such a deplorable venture," Ashcroft said, adding the Regpay-based ring was hit through combined efforts of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, immigrations and customs enforcement, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and law enforcement in Belarus, France, and Spain.

Irvine said ASACP hahaha8211; which has added staff, technology, and upgraded reviewing processes in the past year hahaha8211; was never apprised of the progress of the investigation. "They never let us know until or unless they make a bust," she said. "This is an FBI, a law enforcement investigation. And, remember, we are not a law enforcement agency. But they now have proof that the adult site industry has been contributing information to the FBI relevant to legitimate child pornography investigations."