Another 62 Girls Do Porn Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million

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Evie explains what happened and that she couldn’t afford her tuition, so she answered an ad for modeling work which turned out to be pornography. When questioned, Daniel and Matt claimed that it was consensual and that she liked it when the guys roughed her up. If you or a loved one has a porn addiction, you can find the help you need or even seek confidential medical advice for a treatment referral. Additionally, a healthcare professional may recommend certain medications to help with some side effects of porn addiction, such as antidepressants. Therapy and counseling from mental health professionals have proven to be the most effective treatment options for porn addiction. As someone’s porn addiction continues to grow and intensify, they may have to watch more porn to experience pleasure and arousal.

• Half of them said the widespread proliferation of their abuse videos convinced them death was a better option than living in perpetual pain and humiliation.
• Wolfe admitted to posting those videos on the U.S. website GirlsDoPorn for public viewing.
• Sit down with your teen to walk through the privacy settings on each of their accounts and “friend” them on their social media accounts.
• Authorities said the pornography depicted girls and boys who appeared to be as young as 2 years old.

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However, Girls Do Porn distributed the videos after they were shot, and they appeared on popular porn websites. Pratt is being held in Spain pending extradition to the US, where he faces a litany of federal sex crime charges, including sex trafficking, production of child sex abuse images, sex trafficking of a minor, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments in connection with Girls Do Porn, the FBI said. The group told the models they’d receive $3,000 to $5,000 for a one-day video shoot, court documents show.

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Reading Porn is a reminder that, in the internet age, we are living through a major societal change too. “Ultimately, each plaintiffs’ case is about regret in agreeing to film pornography videos for money and the clear and foreseeable consequences that followed,” the brief states. According to court documents, the women typically answered ads for a purported modeling agency, then were flown by the defendants to San Diego. The women — identified in court documents as Jane Does 1 through are seeking more than $22 million in damages from the defendants, which include GirlsDoPorn CEO Michael J. Pratt, actor Andre Garcia, and videographer Matthew Wolfe. Details of that monitoring — part of a deferred prosecution agreement from the Pornhub network’s years of hosting hundreds of videos from the GirlsDoPorn sex-trafficking ring — have not been made public. A law enforcement source told BI last week that an announcement will be made soon.

Garcia told these women that the videos would be published only on DVDs and sold overseas. However, the operators of Girls Do Porn posted them for free on websites including Pornhub, causing extreme trauma to the victims. In some cases, these girls were forced to change their communities or even change their names after their families came to know about it.

The 22 plaintiffs sought compensatory and punitive damages, alleged intentional misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, misappropriation of name and likeness, and deceptive business practices, among other civil grounds. In writing about this case, Samantha Cole described the genre as “a fantasy that plays on coercion, and a real-life version of the ‘casting couch’ porn trope, which blurs the line between reality and fiction”—and sex trafficking, we may add. Of course, not every porn company tricks, forces, or coerces performers to have sex on camera.

Her rapist, Ruben Andre Garcia, was sentenced in June 2021 to 20 years in prison. His sentencing came several months after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, coercion, and fraud, and admitted to his part in recruiting for and performing in GirlsDoPorn videos. Theodore Wilfred Gyi, 44, pleaded guilty to a federal count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking for his role in the website’s operations, which prosecutors say involved lying to women who appeared in the videos by telling them their scenes would only be distributed on DVDs to private customers. SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A videographer for the now-defunct San Diego-based pornographic website GirlsDoPorn.com was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for taking part in a sex-trafficking conspiracy that coerced hundreds of women to appear in online pornographic videos under false pretenses. Pratt victimized hundreds of young women, federal prosecutors said, including at least one girl under the age of 18.

Authorities said the pornography depicted girls and boys who appeared to be as young as 2 years old. Porn is full of moments and observations like these, which spark trains of thought that can hurtle off to various locations. It is a tricky book to write about because of this generative quality, and because the sentiments that strike me as particularly consequential maybe appear banal to a different reader. In fact, the disparateness of our perspectives on and experiences of sex and porn, alongside the fact we mostly assume ourselves to be the norm, is something I was routinely reminded of while reading Porn.

Most content shared through social media has the potential to reach a large audience, regardless of privacy settings. Talk with your teen about the permanency of the internet and how, once something is shared, they lose control of that message or image. Sit down with your teen to walk through the privacy settings on each of their accounts and “friend” them on their social media accounts. Some applications even have family or group account options which allow a parent or caregiver to set privacy and screen time settings for children under 18 that can be modified as your child ages and learns more digital skills to regulate their own digital use. Ask before you post about your teen online; no matter how proud you are of them, they have a right to control how their image and information is shared online, even by their parents. As teens’ sexual identity becomes more established, teens and young adults may turn to the internet for information.

Once the video productions began, court documents say that some women weren’t allowed to leave the shooting locations until the adult films were completed. If the women tried to leave, the group would either force the girls to “perform certain sex acts” or threaten them with lawsuits and flight cancelations, the documents continued. To dispel doubts, Pratt paid other young women, including Moser, to “act as references or provide false assurances to the women that, if they filed a video, the video would not be posted online,” court records show.

Over and above the message about abstinence, can there be more of a discussion? Yes, abstinence is key because you need to be emotionally mature to consent to sex. But it’s also important for parents to start to paint sex and sexuality as healthy and a beautiful thing to look forward to, with the right partner, and at the right stage in your life, instead of saying, ‘You’ll fall pregnant!