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Should a recent career in porn disqualify you from teaching middle school?



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I'm not sure I'd want my kid (had I one) being taught by some woman who just two years ago starred in and directed porn, and owned her own porn company.  I'm not entirely sure why I should be more sympathetic because in this case the "victim" is gay.

Thirty-six-year-old Shawn Loftis spent six years in the gay porn industry as an actor, director and owner of his own company, World of Men, but decided he was done in 2010.

He thought he had left it in the past, until he got his first substitute teaching job at Nautilus Middle School in Miami Beach.

The school’s principal went on a “moral crusade” against him, Loftis said, and he was fired for violating the Miami-Dade School Board's code of ethics and for gross immorality. That led to the Florida Department of Education’s decision in November to deny Loftis from getting a teaching certificate for five years.

“Porn is not moral turpitude,” he said.
I'm not sure where I stand on him being denied a teaching certificate - if some school wants to hire him, with knowledge of his background, that's their call. I do know that I wouldn't be comfortable with a porn star, just two years out of the business, teaching my 10, 11 and 12 year old (again, had I kids).  Having said that, I don't think we should make porn illegal, and I've watched it from time to time.  So I guess that's hypocritical of me.  But I also wouldn't likde my kid marrying a porn star, or my friends dating one.  And I suspect a lot of otherwise fair-minded people would agree with me.  Is that hypocritical too?

Is porn really just like any other job?

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