The University of California, Los Angeles paid porn stars James Deen and Tasha Reign a total of $2,250 for a March 4 on-campus workshop offering “an inside look into the adult film industry from the stars themselves.”
UCLA did not pay the two porn thespians equally for appearing on exactly the same panel, as documents obtained by The College Fix through a California Public Records Act request show.
Deen received an honorarium of $1,500 for the panel, the records show. Reign received an honorarium of $750.
Thus, Reign earned just 50 cents for every $1 Deen made for exactly the same work.
Deen (born Bryan Matthew Sevilla) is a prodigious porn actor who has appeared in hundreds of videos since 2004. His very lengthy filmography includes “Big Wet Asses 20,” “Rock and Roll in My Butthole” and “Asian Bang!” In 2013, he appeared opposite Lindsay Lohan in a widely panned non-porn movie called “The Canyons.”
Reign (born Rachel Swimmer) worked at Hooters and as a stripper before appearing in Playboy’s “Girls of the Pac-10” and as the April 2011 Penthouse Pet of the Month. She has appeared in over 100 adult films including “Big Wet Tits 12,” “Buttsex Nymphos 2” and “Big Tit Cream Pie 12.”
The porn star graduated from UCLA in 2014 with a bachelor of arts degree in gender studies.
A portion of the money for UCLA’s gender-discriminating porn panel came from student fees. Another part came from the school’s taxpayer funding.
UCLA officials defended the $2,250 paid to Deen and Reign.
“We had an open conversation on the adult film industry, sex work, intimacy, and safer sex practices, including communication and consent,” administrators Greg Kalfayan and Savannah Baldich told The College Fix in an email.
The porn panel offered “a candid opportunity for students to inquire about these taboo topics in a safe space planned and implemented by their student government — both the entertainment office and health office,” Kalfayan and Baldich argued.
In addition to Deen and Reign, the panel featured two other guests: Chauntelle Tibbals, a roaming sociology professor, and Colby Keller, a self-described Communist gay porn performer.
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