Joe Gow is out as a chancellor of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse after its board of regents learned he had a displeasing side hustle: producing and appearing in "porn", including a YouTube cooking channel called "Sexy Healthy Cooking."
Gow said he's considering a lawsuit over the firing, saying it infringes upon his free speech rights. He also said he was never told what policies he was violating, nor was he given a chance to defend himself. He told the Associated Press Thursday morning he never mentioned UW-La Crosse or his role at the university in any of the videos."My wife and I live in a country where we have a First Amendment," he said. "We're dealing with consensual adult sexuality. The regents are overreacting. They're certainly not adhering to their own commitment to free speech or the First Amendment."
The funny part is he's tenured, so they can't really get rid of him, and all they've succeeded in doing is turn his offer to quietly quit into a spectacular national Streisanding.
Gow and his wife star in a YouTube channel called "Sexy Healthy Cooking" in which the couple cooks meals with porn actors. They also have written two e-books, "Monogamy with Benefits: How Porn Enriches Our Relationship" and "Married with Benefits — Our Real-Life Adult Industry Adventures" under pseudonyms. Their biographies on Amazon contain links to their videos on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and a pornographic website.
