Extra intercourse staff are supporting Kamala Harris within the upcoming U.S. presidential election, new knowledge reveals.
Practically three out of 4 (74 p.c) mentioned they may vote for Harris in a ballot of over 200 intercourse staff carried out by analysis agency SWR Knowledge within the final week. Simply above 9 p.c will vote for Trump, and the identical quantity are undecided. Greater than 7 p.c will vote for somebody apart from Harris or Trump. One particular person mentioned they undoubtedly will not vote.
Whereas the pattern dimension is small, it is a subgroup inside the estimated two million grownup creators within the U.S., in response to a press launch shared with Mashable.
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Porn performers engaged on studio units are the strongest Harris supporters, with 81 p.c voting for the candidate. Contemplating that Venture 2025 — the right-wing coverage wishlist for Trump if he wins — consists of outlawing porn, it is smart that performers need his opponent to win. Harris help can also be sturdy amongst strippers, with 78 p.c of these polled voting for her.
Trump, in the meantime, has the strongest help amongst webcam fashions (11 p.c) and cellphone intercourse operators (11 p.c). However all Trump supporters polled mentioned they’re extraordinarily sure of their alternative of candidate, whereas solely 80 p.c of Harris voters are extraordinarily sure. Final month, Mashable reported that some intercourse staff are unsure about voting for Harris contemplating her previous actions. These included co-sponsoring the invoice SESTA whereas a senator (a legislation that, together with FOSTA, have been anti-sex-trafficking in principle, however in apply, researchers say damage intercourse staff) and serving to shut down Backpage.com, which intercourse staff say made them much less secure.
Regardless of the hesitation to vote for her, Harris supporters discuss politics with their followers extra usually than Trump voters do: 20 p.c of Harris voters accomplish that “very often,” contrasted with six p.c of Trump voters. Thirty-seven p.c of Harris voters discuss politics “occasionally,” whereas solely 19 p.c of Trump supporters do. Half of Trump-voting creators by no means discuss politics with followers, and solely 18 p.c of Harris voters by no means do.
“With censorship and bodily autonomy on the ballot, the stakes could not be higher,” MelRose Michaels, grownup performer and co-founder of SWR Knowledge, commented on the press launch. “We’re seeing a highly political, highly engaged sex worker population embrace its voice and flex its muscle. While there’s certainly still significant concern in the community over Harris’ role in passing FOSTA, there’s clearly much much greater concern about the possibility of a second Trump administration and the potential repercussions of Project 2025-like theocracy.”
