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February 15, 2018

Exit Belle Knox Porn Star, Enter Belle Knox Law Student

NEW YORK CITY—Belle Knox was earning top grades when she was taking courses in sociology and women's studies at Duke University, but such highly ranked schools are pretty expensive, so the Midwest native decided to supplement her income by becoming a porn star—and the mainstream press is intent on never letting her (or the American public) forget it.Knox had sex in just 30 features and web scenes over her two-plus year career in adult (2014-2016), but in that time, she thoroughly embraced the sex worker profession, featuring at strip clubs around the country, having her pussy cast by Doc Johnson for its celeb stroker line, writing articles for publications as diverse as XOJane, Rolling Stone and Time magazine, invited as the Keynote Speaker at Lafayette College's Sex Week event in 2015, and even becoming the subject of a Lifetime movie, From Straight A's To XXX, a five-part documentary online at Conde Nast Entertainment—and an episode of Law & Order: SVU.And thanks to all that, Knox earned enough money not only to allow her to complete her studies and graduate from Duke, but to at least bankroll her first year at New York Law School in lower Manhattan, currently ranked #112 among all 205 ABA-approved law schools in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report.Frankly, that's quite an accomplishment for anyone, and while Knox won't be the first porn star to become an attorney—others of recent memory include Careena Collins, Anita Cannibal and Jessica Jewel—in any sane society, she'd be lauded for what she's achieved so far.Right...What say you, New York Post? Seems your "objective" Page Six columnist Richard Johnson felt it necessary to describe Knox's work history as her "sordid past," and out of a five-paragraph story, devoted one of them to, "A man who met her at a dinner at the San Remo Cafe in the Village said, 'She was really loud and wouldn’t stop talking about herself.'"And, of course, as seems par for the course at mainstream "news"papers these days, Johnson felt it necessary to include Knox's real name, even though, "A spokeswoman for the school cited the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and told me she will 'neither confirm nor deny whether the person about whom you inquired is enrolled or has been enrolled as a student.'" So she either is or isn't going there, and if she is, it's under a pseudonym different from "Belle Knox"—but just for the hell of it, why not reveal her real name anyway, right? (No doubt Archibald Leach, Ilyena Lydia Vasilevna Mironov, Caryn Johnson, Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra and Alphonso d'Abruzzo would approve!)And then there's the story on the law blog Above The Law, whose entry on Knox by ATL editor Staci Zaretsky not only leads with Knox's real name, but contains the interesting turn of phrase that she "claims to have retired from the porn industry." "Claims"? Must be similar to Zaretsky "claiming" to know something about journalism, since a real journalist could easily have found that Knox hasn't made a new movie in more than two years.And the Knox-bashing just doesn't quit!"New York Law is theoretically at the top of what was once known as the third tier, so that’s something," Zaretsky italicly faux-compliments. "We suppose NYLS could be considered a 'top law school' … but only if you think that NYU Law has two campuses, or if your brain has been 'banged off its axis'." Of course, Knox herself never called NYLS a "top law school"; that was something thrown into a not-quite-so-bashy Daily Mirror article on Knox—and the first of Zaretsky's two links refers to a "dumb blonde" Zaretsky overheard on a train, while the second is to a Saturday Night Live skit featuring faux "former porn performers" hawking jewelry. Talk about your non sequiturs!But perhaps the worst offender is the UK's Daily Mail, a tabloid so devoid of credibility that Wikipedia won't even let people use its articles as source material for postings. For instance, one of its six subheds to the article on Knox reads, "The former suicidal teen has also acknowledged being a cutter in the past," while another recounts the "man who met her for dinner" slap.Another section that makes any Daily Mail claims to journalism laughable reads, "The teen at the time told DailyMail.com she was 'aroused' by pain—as seen in troubling modeling photos taken prior to her career in the porn."A worrisome carving of the word 'FAT' was pictured in photos on her left thigh."'Oh yeah, she is a major league cutter,' one blogger said in an online post. "'From the thighs down to the toes ... apparently, her ex-boyfriend that cheated on her told her she was fat so she carved the word into her thigh,' the user suggested."Great source for a "news"paper: an anonymous blogger!And rest assured, Knox can't catch a break at the tabloid:"Knox, who has caused nationwide uproar and family heartache, was raised a devout Roman Catholic in a loving home in Spokane, Washington. [Her parents] were reportedly 'floored' at first by their daughter's decision to turn to porn to fund her $60,000-a-year education at the elite university ... but ultimately became 'absolutely supportive' of her choice."Anyway, we're guessing that at this point, Knox would just like to be let alone to continue her studies and "use my experience in the porn industry to help advocate for women's rights," she told the Daily Mirror's Anna Verdon. "I think I could do a lot of good."We do too!

 
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