Choose a Girl

Is the proper position the one that seeks to emancipate women from the clutches of the “porn patriarchy”? Alternatively, would such protection not be a form of benevolent sexism (as it assumes that women need protecting)—and as such, women should be free to choose their vocations as they see fit? So today, three-quarters of teens have watched Internet pornography. Except possibly in rare cases, the available evidence shows it causes no harm. Los Angeles County requires porn performers to be tested monthly for STIs, and requires producers to employ only those whose most recent test was negative.

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The woman said Pratt told her that he could provide a list of 200 women who would vouch for the company and ease any of her concerns about the distribution of the videos. But, Pratt persisted, she said, continuing to tell her that the videos would be sold to private collectors in Australia or New Zealand and would not be released online. “This is an extremely important ruling that returns power to the victims by giving them control of the images and videos that caused them so much pain and suffering,” said Southern California district acting US attorney Randy Grossman. The US Department of Justice has ruled that rights to videos and images produced by the now-defunct sites belong to the women.

Adult Film Performer Pleads Guilty in GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Conspiracy

The owners and operators of GirlsDoPorn knew the type of women they wanted to appear in their amateur porn videos—college-age millennials—would not agree to casually participate in the porn industry. After all, these women grew up in the Internet age, where amateur porn has been rampantly available for years. On top of that, many instances of their peers’ sexual exploration through sexting had traveled down several slippery slopes, including cases where teens had been criminally charged for sharing x-rated media they took of themselves. In January, a US judge awarded $US13 million ($17.5 million) in damages to 22 women who the court found had been coerced and tricked into making pornography by the owners of GirlsDoPorn in videos hosted on Pornhub and elsewhere, according to US media reports. Prosecutors say numerous women were lured by the defendants through the promise of modeling jobs, flown to San Diego, then were threatened with lawsuits and canceled return flights home if they backed out of filming pornographic videos.

• In the complaint for damages against Mindgeek it was alleged that victims had sent the company “complaints detailing the fraud and coercion they were subject to by Girls Do Porn” but the company had not ended the partnership.
• Now with two children, she said she worries what she will tell them if the video ever surfaces again.
• If porn spurs teen sexual irresponsibility, then since the late 1990s, when porn exploded on the Internet, teens should have become more sexually active.
• When victims asked to stop filming, Garcia and other co-conspirators told the victims that they had to keep going and finish the videos.
• “Our harassment policy prohibits content that features unwanted sexualization,” a spokesperson for YouTube said in a statement.

Pornhub sued by 40 sex trafficking victims

Few have tried with as much ardent, self-serious determination to remake the industry from the inside. She told police that after filming concluded on a subsequent photo and video shoot, Garcia pestered her with invasive questions. She said Garcia asked her to be his girlfriend, then eventually became irate and forcibly pushed her down onto a bed and sexually assaulted her.

Due to the one-time-only amateur paradigm, GirlsDoPorn required a constant stream of new models to keep the content on the website fresh. One plaintiff testified that when she tried to leave the hotel room where the porn shoot was taking place, Pratt pushed a chair against the door and refused to move it. “The findings of fact in the civil case do not carry over to the criminal case where the government will have to prove the facts under a much more stringent standard.”

• She said she filled out the online form and attached pictures of herself.
• However, GirlsDoPorn videos are still readily available on Pornhub and other aggregate sites, despite repeated requests to have them taken down.
• According to records obtained by The Appeal, it appears that police never followed up.
• Michael Pratt remains a fugitive on the FBI’s most-wanted list for both sex-trafficking and the production of child pornography.

He was a registered Republican but made a $15 donation to the Progressive Turnout Project, a group working to increase voter turnout for Democrats, in January 2021, as USA TODAY previously reported. As part of his plea, Garcia admitted to threatening and deceiving the women, and paying other women to lie to reluctant recruits, falsely asserting that the footage would not be seen in the U.S. but was intended for private DVD collections overseas. Judge Enright awarded the 22 women $9.48m in compensatory damages and $3.3m in punitive damages. On the day of the shoot, models were often given alcohol and cannabis before being asked to sign an eight-page contract.

In addition, during the COVID lockdown of 2020 to 2022, many of these same folks fretted that pandemic-related isolation, boredom, and loneliness would drive a huge increase in teen porn viewing. Compared with controls, the porn actresses were significantly more likely to have tried many drugs. In addition, they were twice as likely to report histories of alcohol problems.

A judge awarded the women nearly $13 million at the conclusion of a trial. In December, Ruben Andre Garcia, 31, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, coercion and fraud, and admitted his role as a recruiter and performer with GirlsDoPorn.com and GirlsDoToys.com from 2013 to 2017. Authorities said the company lured in young women who had never appeared in adult films. In July 2015, Jane Doe 1 responded to a Craigslist ad seeking models in the Las Vegas area.

“MindGeek has zero tolerance for the posting of illegal content on its platforms, and has instituted a comprehensive, industry-leading trust and safety policy to identify and eradicate any illegal material from its community,” MindGeek said in a statement. That’s precisely why GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, videographer Matthew Wolfe, and actor Andre Garcia created a bait-and-switch scheme to get the women to appear in their videos. First, Jane Doe 7 found out the photo shoot was actually a video shoot only when she was picked up at the airport by Matthew Wolfe, a videographer working for the porn website GirlsDoPorn. When she flew to San Diego in October 2013 with her friend who found a modeling ad on Craigslist, Jane Doe 7 believed she’d be paid $2,000 to do a nude photo shoot. Other website addresses connected to the business also appear to be offline, reports Vice.