Today, porn performer Siri Dahl is hosting an old-school telethon aptly called Corn Telethon. The 12-hour livestream — named after the censored word for “porn” among social media users — will be “silly,” safe for work, and feature entertainers both in the adult world and beyond.
The telethon’s announcement compares it to telethons of yore, like the ones hosted by comedian Jerry Lewis. The stream will be a fundraiser, with all profits going to the Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles, Sex Workers Mutual Aid Collective Vegas, and towards funding a grant to support journalism covering sex worker issues. Additionally, Corn Telethon will bring awareness to Project 2025, the right-wing policy wishlist for Trump should he win the presidential election. One of the measures is to ban pornography and imprison those who make it.
The telethon came about because Dahl and podcaster Alex Steed realized that politicians speaking out …