District Attorney Confesses to 70s Porn Career

[Ace]

Suben said, in part: "Recently materials have been circulated alleging that I was involved in the adult film industry 40 years ago in New York. Those allegations are true I was an actor in adult films for a short period in the early 70s. I was also an actor in other venues including off Broadway, soap operas and commercial advertisements. A few weeks ago, when asked, I denied this to members of the press. I regret that and apologize for it. I was shocked and embarrassed to be confronted with this so many years later. I was embarrassed for my family and friends who stood by me. I also denied my actions to my family, my friends and my staff," said Suben.

After Suben... gets up to leave, the cameras continue to run and you can hear a man say, "You lied to me, Marc" and another echoing, "You lied to me too, Marc."

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dai...d-to-be-a-porn

http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfi...Guy-Thomas.htm

You can see the DA doing some nasty things with Helen Madigan here:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...ghlight=lecher

[Mad Koala Bear]

So what, I ask. Struggling actor does a few porn movies years ago. As long as he hasn't spent the years since persecuting those still in the porn biz. I can think of far worse things he could have done in his past that wouldn't cause the moral police to get their hackles up.

[JillyNylonz]

Leave the man be. He was young and ambitious, and trying to break into acting, that is a tough career to make it in. Everyone deserves another chance in life. How he lives his life now is what counts. The best wishes for him!

[billybunter]

Was there not a Ryan Air girl who does/did porn? I think she's on here. She keeps her job. And does porn in her spare time.

[charliels531]

I wonder what kind of negtive ads the Republicans would make about him.

[Ace]

Originally Posted by damp-patch

So what, I ask. Struggling actor does a few porn movies years ago. As long as he hasn't spent the years since persecuting those still in the porn biz. I can think of far worse things he could have done in his past that wouldn't cause the moral police to get their hackles up.

Sure, but he lied to the voters to get elected.
Lying District Attorneys make me nervous!
It's funny how we've lowered the standards for the people who run our governments but not, say, football coaches at New Orleans!
Anywho, I sure like the scene where he's naked on all fours with Helen Madigan's face buried in his ass. I wonder if his wife does that favor for him?
From Man-Whore to DA. Only in America...

[casiosk1]

Lying about sex is expected of politicians.

[charliels531]

Originally Posted by casiosk1

Lying about sex is expected of politicians.

American voters are incredibly easy to manipulate. Accuse an opponent of sexual misconduct, or claim there is some military threat, and the average i.q. drops by 50 points. Otherwise the Republicans would have died with Eisenhower.

[tygrkhat40]

This is what vanzetti posted on the home page of iafd.

Here in the northeast (and maybe elsewhere), a lot has been made of Cortland County (NY) prosecutor Mark Suben coming clean about his porn past. Suben, under the nom de porn, Guy Thomas, made 10 or so movies from 1972 to 1974. According to nj.com, a YouTube video made the rounds during Suben’s re-election, in what I assume was an attempt to smear him. The video is snarky and, at 15 minutes, overly long to make their point.

But, he has since admitted that Mark Suben = Guy Thomas. His spokesperson said:
“This was nearly 40 years ago. It was not illegal. Mark Suben was not yet married. He was not practicing law and he was not a law student . . . it has nothing to do with his law practice or his current position as the district attorney of Cortland County.”

(I’m no lawyer, but I’m pretty sure it technically would have been illegal at the time he was shooting porn in New York. Porn production wasn’t really legalized until Hal Freeman fought his way to the California Supreme Court and even then, it merely legalized shooting porn in California. But I think that hunting down that witch is more akin to protesting that someone took a drink during prohibition…)

Semantics aside, Suben didn’t do anything wrong by modern standards, and his acts a lifetime ago shouldn’t have any bearing on his acts in his current life.

Politically, we understand you can’t embrace your porn past, and your statements make it clear you’re very embarrassed by them:

“I used bad judgment myself in my youth. . . I was an actor in adult films in the early 1970s. I also acted in other venues, off-Broadway, soap operas. . . A few weeks ago, when asked, I denied this to members of the press. I regret that and I apologize. I was shocked to be confronted by this so many years later. . . I was embarrassed for my family and friends who have stood by me. I also denied my actions to my family, my friends and my staff. After that brief period of my life, I found my calling in the law, particularly in prosecution, and have dedicated my life and my career to doing what I’ve been elected to do – protecting my home community. I will continue to do that. I cannot defend my bad judgment, both my involvement years ago and my denial of it recently.”

I agree with half of his last statement. Lying about it recently did no good. But having done it years ago — was it bad judgement at the time, or in hindsight now that you carry an elected position and now that such a thing might not get you elected again?

I say, perhaps the lying is what you should be held accountable for and embarrassed by; not the fact that you fucked some girls on film back in the days when you were footloose and fancy free and not a public servant.

So, Mark, please don’t quit. Don’t cave into pressure. Keep putting away the bad guys. Blaze a trail for so many others who have been ostracized for legal choices they made years ago and are still paying the price… and own the fact that you got to bang Georgina Spelvin and Darby Lloyd Rains and 80′s disco sensation Andrea True!