A preschool teacher has been fired from her job at a Christian school because of her second career as a porn actress.
Even though every feminist synapse in my body wants to be outraged … I’m not.
21-year-old Nina Skye was confronted by her shocked bosses at an unnamed preschool after they learned she’d starred in a number of adult films with titles like Amateur Allure and Swallow Salon.
They told the teacher, who says she loves both her jobs, that she could either exit the porn industry and remain as a teacher, or stay in porn and lose her job in the classroom. “I love teaching. I love sex. If I can get away with doing both, then I will,” she told Fox News.
She couldn’t get away with it. And she chose the porn.
Reflexively, I want to jump to her defence. I have no problem with porn generally, and in a world where the gap between rich and poor grows larger every day – a truism that hits women particularly hard – any job where top female employees can earn up to $500,000 a year is a legitimate career. Particularly when no one can be bothered paying a preschool teacher more than about one-tenth of that sum.
But just as the pearl clutchers have no right to tell Nina what to do with her body, Nina Skye doesn’t have the right to impose her body onto their children.
Christian school. Christian values. Deal with it.
The parents at the school where Nina Skye taught almost certainly sent their children to a Christian school to instil them with Christian values. They may want to shield them from the irrefutable over-pornofication of everything beyond its walls. It’s a valid world view, whether you agree with it or not, and one that those parents have every right to adhere to if they choose – particularly if they’re paying for the privilege.
You could argue that the children at the school are unlikely to come across their teacher’s extra-curricular work, so it’s a moot point. Anyone who thinks this has never met a child. They find stuff out. Their big brother finds stuff out. Yes, they really are listening when their dad and their best friend’s dad are having a quiet leer together in the school playground before assembly – and they will repeat what they heard to their other friend at lunch. Kids are crafty. They snoop. They’re basically the CIA with nits.
In theory I have no problem with a women taking a second job in porn, as long as porn doesn’t clash with the reasonable values of the first job, which is a basic understanding in any job (trust us, there was a clause in your current contract that says you can’t bring your employer into disrepute outside of business hours). Pilot? Fine. Cop? Huge opportunities for costume recycling. Doctor? Sure, the anatomy knowledge might come in handy in both directions.
But just as you can’t in all conscience be a lobbyist and a politician, or a vet and an abattoir worker or a dietitian and the CEO of KFC, Nina Skye needs to apply a little common sense to her life choices, and a little less mulish entitlement. And if she won’t, it’s fair that her bosses do.
I wish Nina Skye luck in her porn career. Happily she should be able to pull of a fairly convincing “teacher” – one of the most searched-for keywords on the world’s largest porn site, PornHub.
