How Jared Fogle’s Porn Empire Started And Ended His Career
Various researchers have touted for years that people, men in particular, who watch large amounts of porn experience desensitization to certain genres and start to view increasingly more extreme content.
If you didn’t already know that Jared Fogle, former popular Subway spokesperson, was Indiana University’s porn king in his youth, you’re probably just understanding how this research connects to him.
From Porn King to Subway Spokesperson
According to Best Week Ever, the base of our knowledge of Fogle is built on a half-truth. When Fogle ran his lucrative porn business out of his off-campus apartment, a Subway restaurant opened on the first floor. Out of laziness and the undeniable convenience, Jared started eating all of his meals there which ultimately contributed to his weight loss.
Though Subway is fairly inexpensive fast food, you might have wondered in the past how a college student could afford all those sandwiches. With a video rental rate of $1 per day and what BWE called a “vast and extensive collection”, Fogle easily became a mini mogul to students and locals alike.
Naturally, his weight loss would go on to be attributed to a personal choice by his old dormmate, a student journalist, and ultimately by the Subway marketing team. TMZ reached out to Subway in 2007 regarding this story and they denied any knowledge of it, dismissing it as a rumor.
“Middle school girls are hot”
Fast forward nearly a decade to Fogle sitting in hot water. The combination of his alleged disturbing comments to a Florida reporter and the arrest of his personal friend and Jared Fogle Foundation executive, Russell Taylor, resulted in the FBI raiding his Indiana home for child pornography.
While it’s possible he’s always been battling this mental illness, I prefer to believe the Jared that sold me footlongs as a child didn’t want to give me footlongs as a child. There’s a huge gap between regular pornography and child pornography, but at 37 years old, Fogle has had a lot of time to bridge it.
May this be a lesson that:
- Subway’s marketing team doesn’t always do their homework. (Are we really eating fresh?)
- Weight loss happens in surprisingly different ways for different people.
- You should watch less porn.
But keep watching our food porn. That’s only hurting the people eating it and they consented to the destruction of their arteries.
