Sasha Grey's Advice in Equal Pay PSA: 'Become a Porn Actress' (NSFW)

Sensationalistic ad is a garbled mess

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Equal Pay Day, an organization dedicated to closing Belgium's 22 percent gender pay gap, just released this ad in which former porn star Sasha Grey makes sad faces against a backdrop of people nailing each other, and talks about porn being the only industry in which women consistently out-earn men. Equal Pay Day is also urging activist women to get temporary tramp stamps that say, "Close the wage gap, become a porn actress." Not sure how I feel about that, but this campaign has bigger problems—its slut-shaming tactics are regressive as hell, for one thing, plus it misrepresents Grey's actual feelings about her adult film career.

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