Why You Can’t Take a Porn Star to Prom

Because people are babies.

Seriously. This high school bro, Mike Stone, invited a porn star, Megan Piper, to prom over Twitter. He paid for her airfare and she went as a favor and because she didn’t get to go to her own prom. The school’s principal stepped in and said she is not allowed at prom.

So Megan Piper has a particularly salacious occupation. It’s legal and it’s a job. What other kinds of jobs would cause a school to ban someone from attending a dance? What about violent criminals? Do they do a background check on everyone’s dates and ban anyone who seems like they might be predatory (verses, you know, someone who has consensual sex for a job)?

This is dehumanizing. How is this teaching the kids in this community to think about people? If you have sex, you’re a bad person?

More importantly, how is this teaching the kids in this community to think about critical thinking? This decision dictates that when you are faced with a situation in which there could be potential negative backlash, you sweep the issues under the rug and avoid it.

If the issue here was really about sexually active people, bad influences, or predators at a school function there needs to be some criteria to determine who those people might be and exclude them across the board. The fact that this ONLY happened in this case teaches us that this is not about doing what’s right, it’s about making an easy decision and avoiding a teachable moment.