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Task & Purpose spoke with Mercedes Carrera about growing up as the daughter of a Vietnam veteran, why she’s devoted to helping service members, and the challenges of being a charitable porn actress.
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Published Feb 8, 2016 9:33 PM
When Mercedes Carrera took a uniformed Army sergeant to the 2016 Adult Video News Awards, it wasn’t a publicity stunt. After all, Carrera’s success as an actress hardly hinges on her reputation as a humanitarian. So when the 33-year-old porn star — whose portfolio includes roles in such films as “Nutz About Butts” and “All About Ass 2” — appeared alongside Sgt. Anthony Berg, a happily married Army reservist and Iraq War veteran, on the red carpet for the AVN Awards in Las Vegas, some were quick to call her motives into question. But Carrera’s support for the military is sincere. The daughter of a Vietnam veteran, she’s well aware of the difficulties service members face when they return home from war. She also knows that many of her fans wear or have worn the uniform.
“Veterans are very supportive of our industry,” she told Task & Purpose. “I get emails from guys all of the time saying, ‘Hey, your work helped me get through deployment. Thank you.’”
Task & Purpose spoke with Carrera about growing up as the daughter of a Vietnam veteran, why she’s devoted to helping service members, and the challenges of being a charitable porn actress.
What sparked your interest in veterans issues?
My dad was in Vietnam, and he was really active in the VFW. I think Vietnam was probably the first time the tide really turned against veterans. My dad got spit on when he got back.
Literally spit on at the airport when he returned. Right now there’s kind of a similar trend in the mainstream media, and I don’t like that, and I think it’s important for us not to do that. Being an adult actress, you have a platform to talk about things, so I figured that I might as well talk about things that I think are important.
In what way do you see veterans being metaphorically spit on in the media today?
The mainstream media takes its classicism to the point that they malign veterans, which is a really interesting incoherence, because they don’t seem to realize that nobody hates war more than the soldier. But there’s a pervasive anti-nationalist, anti-veteran, anti-military tendency in the mainstream media. When I took Sgt. Berg to the AVN Awards, people said, “Ah, Lady Gaga did that, too!” But Lady Gaga didn’t take a career veteran, she took service members who had been discharged because of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. So hers was an advocacy for gay rights. I don’t care if vets are gay, straight, trans, or whatever — that’s not important to me. So I do think that in the mainstream media there is kind of an agenda. When they do decide to support veterans, there’s usually another reason for it.
Did you ever consider joining the military growing up?
I did. I worked as an engineer, so I guess I could’ve joined in that capacity, but I don’t think I was necessarily cut out for that environment.
Are there many veterans who work in porn?
There’s a few. I know a couple of male performers who are veterans; most notably, Brad Knight, who won Best Male Newcomer at this year’s AVN Awards. I think he was Navy. It’s more common with the men, and I know several of the female performers’ husbands are veterans as well. There’s one trans-woman performer I know who’s a vet. I think it really speaks to the fact that there’s all types of people in the military and they go on to do a lot of other things in life.
What relationship do you perceive between the military and the porn industry?
Well, the porn industry — what makes us different from the mainstream industry is that we’re mostly people who come from working-class or poor backgrounds. So we have more of a direct link to the real world, and as a result we have veterans in our ranks. We might not have a draft, but it’s socioeconomic at this point. Even when my dad went, it wasn’t the rich kids getting drafted, it was the poor ones. In the porn industry, we tend to be more libertarian, more pro-military — we’re just more real-world people than the mainstream industry. If you really look at a lot of these mainstream movie stars, you’ll find that they have link to wealth or a link to Hollywood, so they don’t live in the real world like we do. I’ve kind of tasked myself with being as vocal as possible to generate support for veterans, because veterans are very supportive of our industry, and there’s not as much moral grandstanding regarding what we do.
Was this the first time you ever met one of your military fans?
I’ve met a few, because sometimes we’ll do signings and they’ll come. With Sgt. Berg, I ran a contest, and he won that. He’s a real fan of the industry. To clarify, the contest wasn’t a paid thing — meaning, he didn’t have to become a member of the site, which is something girls will do sometimes. It was open to all vets, but he’s an actual fan of the industry. He follows it the way people follow movie stars. That’s part of the reason he was chosen, and the other part of it was that he’s just a great guy and I liked his story. To me, he just represented the everyday vet. He’s not the Rambo or the guy with the Purple Heart, but the guy who gets the stuff done behind the scene. I brought him and his wife out and paid for that.
What do you say to the people who are giving Sgt. Berg flak for this?
There are always going to be people who are unhappy. I get so much flak on a day-to-day basis for my profession that, honestly, the blowback on this one was way less than I thought it be. I’ve mostly seen positive feedback. A lot of the people who are saying that this is inappropriate are conservative, moral grandstanders — and, by the way, just from a statistics standpoint, they tend to be the greatest consumers of pornography. Sgt. Berg got permission from his CO to wear his dress uniform, and I wasn’t attached to whether he wore it or not, but he wanted to and his CO encouraged him to. He’s a reservist so it’s a little bit more lax. People will give him a hard time for it but he got to go and sit near the front row and have an experience that was worth it to him. That’s why I brought him, too — because I knew that the experience of the event would be worth any blowback he got, just as long as he got permission and it doesn’t affect his career.
The military is composed of people from so many backgrounds and ethnicities, and I’d like to see a more unified front. I think the veterans issues should be addressed in a more hip way. Less old school and conservative and more just like, let’s talk about this. I knew a lot of these guys and I know a lot now who come back looking for work, and there needs to be a community to talk about these things and make it cool. Like, vets are cool guys — they go drinking and watch porn.
Why do you advocate for veterans’ rights?
The biggest reason I advocate for veterans rights is that there’s just not enough conversation about it. What’s unfortunate, though: a lot of the veteran organizations, even if they want to work with me, because of the perception of the industry, they can’t. And so I’ve talked to several, but so much of their base is perceived to be this old, moralistic, conservative group that they don’t want any association with adult performers, which is unfortunate because it’s really easy for someone like me to fundraise. I actually started the first scholarship fund for youth with pornography. I did that last year, and I did it because I was in partnership with an organization and they decided that they did not want to have any link to me so I just decided to start my own. We raised like $14,000 in an hour and a half, but they don’t want my money, so we did that and I just sent a young woman to school for computer science for a year. This is the problem with the adult industry — they give you a platform, but nobody wants to take your money. Somehow my money is filthier than the money that comes out of Microsoft or what have you.
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Because now we know what North Americans get up to on their national holidays.
Pornhub has studied the viewing habits of Americans and Canadians during their July national holidays days to see if their patriotism extended to their choice of porn and found some interesting (and slightly weird) statistics.
The start of July is a time for national pride in North America with Canada Day on July 1 and Independence Day in the U.S. on July 4, so Pornhub set out to answer the age-old question: which nation is more patriotic when it comes to porn ?
In response to a query from Bustle, the porn site studied the searches of its users in North America to find out which nation was more loyal to homegrown adult content on its special day as part of its Porhub Insights blog.
Interestingly, the search terms ‘Canada’ and ‘United States’ both experienced a surge of popularity on Pornhub on their national days, but with a staggering 98% increase on July 4 the USA was slightly more patriotic than Canada, which experienced a 95% boom on July 1.
The major searches in Canada, aside from ‘Canada Day’, ‘Happy Canada Day’ and simply ‘Canada’, were ‘Canadian babe’, ‘Canadian girl’, ‘Canadian teen’, ‘Canadian milf’ and ‘Canadian mom’ - celebrating the rich tapestry of Canadian society.
On Independence Day in the U.S. users mostly searched for variants of ‘July 4th’ or ‘Independence Day’ but also for ‘patriotic’, ‘fireworks’, ‘stars and stripes’ and even ‘bbq’. We can only imagine the delightful scenes that awaited them.
In terms of total traffic, Pornhub revealed that American visitor numbers dropped by 13% on July 4 while only 6% of Canadian regulars opted to celebrate their nation’s glory by raising a flag with their wrist instead of something else. It would appear that in the US, not even sex tops the prospect of hotdogs and cold cans of America on the Fourth of July.
The least patriotic states in the U.S. were Virginia and Delaware with a minor 2% loss of traffic while 26% in Vermont abstained for the day in honor of their forefathers. In Canada, Manitoba led the way with a 16% reduction in Pornhub visitors while just 2% of Quebec-based adult entertainment connoisseurs ventured into the outside world to mark Canada Day.
So it would appear that Americans are more patriotic in their porn searches and more willing to take a day off from their ‘online research’ for their national day, while Canadians were happily standing on guard for Pornhub , even on July 1.
Are you patriotic when it comes to porn?
It seems that Americans and Canadians are both great patriots when it comes to porn, I’m sure their forefathers would be proud.
On Father’s Day in 2015 Pornhub reported an increase of 1361% in searches for ‘dad’ or ‘daddy’ while Valentine’s Day saw a greater drop in female traffic than male traffic.
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