You might not know Jack Venice (NSFW), aka Chris Reid, by name or by face. You might not even know him by penis shape or his tattoo of bullets wrapped around his left leg. It doesn’t matter if you know him at all, or how, but here’s what’s going on with Jack these days. Jack Venice, Iraqi war veteran and adult performer, was convicted of second-degree rape and first-degree burglary for breaking into a sorority house somewhere between Sept. 12 and 13th, 2007. He broke into the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house to “look for women” according to the douchey friend who was with him but is now testifying against him. The girl said she was sexually assaulted in her sleep. He turned himself in. He got let out on $200,000 bail.

He pleaded not guilty.

He lost this past weekend. However, for the past year, from the time he was accused til the time he was convicted, he has been working as a performer in the adult industry. To me, that’s like having a guy accused of embezzling money go back to work as an accountant. Or a man accused of stabbing someone with a knife, letting them continue working at a knife shop. I guess it’s one thing if you only work on your taxes and can’t touch anyone else’s money (of course it still could be bad) or if you work alone at the knife shop and leave all the knives there when you’re done, but in the mainstream sex industry, unless you’re doing a masturbation scene, you have to work with another person, another woman, which means your feeding the beast that leads to the type of desire that may have caused “you” to go out of control another time, at another place. In porn, girls always seem willing. In real life, they aren’t. If you can’t decipher when it’s okay to have sex and when it’s now (and not getting some is not an excuse to go get some), who’s to say he’s responsible enough to be in an industry where you must be responsible? It’s part of the job.

I don’t mean to say people can’t reform, can’t see the light, they can. But until they prove that it wasn’t them, or they’ve done some serious repenting, I don’t think it’s all that possible. And then you put them in front of their biggest temptation. The thing they would take from someone without even asking? Do you represent them because you believe they’re innocent? Or do you do it because you feel that if he’s getting it elsewhere he won’t rape again? What can the logic really be? I have so many questions. Shouldn’t Jack be working somewhere else, fixing cars and getting his aggression out with a scissorlift and a screwdriver?

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