Italian pornstar grabs politics by the balls

Former erotic actress Milly D'Abbraccio is making waves in the world of Italian politics.

Her campaing is using her most familiar asset to attract voters…


Image: Actual campaign poster, identical to those hanging around Rome.

The intersting thing is that she’s actually being taken seriously. Here is the U.S., pornstar Mary Carey had made a run for governor of California. She was not at all taken seriously. Rather the republicans used her as a show piece to raise money and get free advertising through sensational media. The Italian enigma is a little confusing. On the one hand you have a culture rooted in religious tradition and values. On the other hand, you have open support for a politician who wants to create a new red-light district near the Vatican.

To me this represents the ultimate clash between the old and new worlds; progress in the face of tradition. Italy previously had a former erotic actress actually elected to their parliament. Some 20 years earlier “Cicciolina” had mingled among the suit-and-tie crowd in skimpy outfits and punctuated her talking points with strip dances.

I can’t wait until the U.S. adopts this open mentality. One aspect of your experience does not necessarily have a bearing on other aspects. Like the saying “What’s that got to do with the price of rice in China?” In the U.S. we have the supposed “values voters” who look at image first and political aptness second. Politicians should represent the people they govern. A former pornstar is a lot more in touch with the everyday person than the clean cut, straight talking career poltician.

Restricting our choices with something so irrelevant as image only hurts us. Genuine personalities are weeded out. Fakers, liars and poker-faced bastards remain. Thus, our elections become a “lesser of two evils” scenario, where it should be “let the best (wo)man win.”