22 women win $13 million in suit against GirlsDoPorn videos Los Angeles Times

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Yet in this fraud trial, these women all claimed they believed the porn videos they shot, which were published among GirlsDoPorn’s library of hundreds of porn flicks viewed collectively over one billion times, would never get posted online. SAN DIEGO – Adult film performer and producer Ruben Andre Garcia was sentenced in federal court today to 20 years in prison for conspiring with the owners of the adult websites GirlsDoPorn (GDP) and GirlsDoToys (GDT) to recruit young women to appear in sex videos for adult websites using force, fraud, and coercion. Papadopoulos (2010) also suggests that pornography has a profound impact, particularly on girls and young women by creating a culture of sexualization and body dissatisfaction.

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This finding is in agreement with increasing numbers of the plastic surgeries among young females focused on breast operations and labiaplasty (Crouch et al., 2011), and a similar trend was observed also in men regarding penis surgery (Marra et al., 2020). Most of the videos created as a part of the conspiracy were shot at hotels or short-term rental units in the San Diego area. If one of the victims agreed to act in the pornographic video, Garcia and his co-conspirators promptly booked flights to San Diego within a day or two to limit the chances that the victim would change her mind. After the victim arrived at the hotel or short-term rental unit, Garcia would continue to falsely assure them that the videos would not be posted online and that no one who knew the victims would see – or even know about – the videos. Victims were told that the contracts they were presented with simply said what the victims had already been told, including that the videos would not be posted online.

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Scanlan, who conducted the analysis into the chatbot trial, says there were some complexities with the work. The data provided by Pornhub, the IWF, and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation wasn’t always complete, and there weren’t any figures from before the warnings were introduced to compare the results against. However, Scanlan says the results show the method could be one part of broader education and deterrence efforts against people finding CSAM online. “If someone’s doing that sort out of curiosity, you want to nudge them away from it before they get involved in it, because we can’t arrest our way out of the problem,” Scanlan says. Cruz Rodriguez was arrested on charges of possession of sexual performance by a child and promoting sexual performance by a child.

• People with porn addiction may compare their sex life to what they see in porn and feel let down.
• One of the things that surprised me most is that several of the subjects say they have never discussed porn (and sometimes even masturbation) with anyone, even with their own partners when in long-term relationships.
• Most were told the video production would take around 30 minutes, when in reality, they typically lasted for several hours.
• This pornography-related body perfectionism may be linked to narcissistic tendencies, and some studies indicate that sex addiction is positively related to narcissism (Andreassen et al., 2018; Kafka, 2010; Kasper et al., 2015; Raymond et al., 2003; Widman and McNulty, 2010).
• ONE knows intellectually that she’s supposed to enjoy body-positive porn.
• According to recent studies, the growing consumption of Internet pornography mainly in male population becomes an increasing problem, which is closely linked to compulsive sexual behavior.

Crime and Public Safety

That lawsuit alleges MindGeek hosted the videos on Pornhub and its other pornographic websites despite being aware of the sex trafficking allegations. A group of 22 women also sued the website and its operators, accusing them of saying the videos would only be distributed to private customers, rather than online. A judge awarded the women nearly $13 million at the conclusion of a civil trial in San Diego. Attorney’s Office and the civil lawsuit both alleged that young women who applied online for modeling jobs as far back as 2015 were initially deceived about the true nature of the work — to appear in porn videos. In trial, defense attorneys argued that the women were over 18, understood what they were doing, accepted payment and in some cases returned to San Diego again and again to make more videos. The plaintiffs’ attorneys said the videos were not immediately posted on the internet and defendants later refused requests to take down the films.

Screens and interactive media form an important part of teens’ and young adults’ social lives, education, and entertainment choices with teens and young adults engaged in a constant and often simultaneous interaction with the online world alongside their “real life” world. Although many guidelines for screen time exist, preschool-aged children spend an average of 2.5 hours per day using screens, and online videos from platforms like YouTube are extremely popular for children this age. These negative feelings can lead to even greater helplessness to eliminate the consumption of pornography and may lead an individual to a state of greater frustration and concern (Young et al., 2000). In addition, the connection between religiosity and a culture emphasizing sexual purity can exacerbate this negative influence, including feelings of great guilt (Grubbs et al., 2015). These findings suggest a relationship between perceived addiction to Internet pornography and psychological suffering related to a moral conflict and incongruency due to guilty feelings (regardless of an individual’s religiosity) (Bradley et al., 2016; O’Sullivan et al., 2014). When we talk about controlling women’s bodies, abortion typically bookends the conversation.

The interviews in Porn demonstrate how easy it is for any of us to operate with our own system of myths and half-facts about sex and porn, even in the internet age when we can theoretically look anything up, because we mostly don’t talk about it. Information about something like this may technically be accessible, but there can be a comfort in assuming our experiences are universal, especially those which are painful or difficult, which might prevent a person from seeking it out. Jane Doe 14 asked to stop filming multiple times during the shoot because she was in pain. She was yelled at and not allowed to leave until they got the footage they wanted.

Some of the women testified that although they agreed to perform sex on camera to earn money, including paying for college, the subsequent publicity ruined their lives and careers. The plaintiffs are seeking damages under Section 1595 of US law, which lets victims of trafficking bring civil actions against either perpetrators or people who benefit when they “knew or should have known” about the crimes. Despite this knowledge, MindGeek continued to partner with GirlsDoPorn, never bothering to investigate or question its business partner regarding the mounting evidence of sex trafficking that MindGeek received. MindGeek continued its partnership with GirlsDoPorn until October 2019 when the Department of Justice shut down GirlsDoPorn by arresting and indicting its principals. At this point, there was no longer a company left for MindGeek to partner with.

“We have taken unprecedented steps to mitigate the ability of bad actors to upload illegal material on our platforms,” including using AI technologies and human monitoring to police content, she said. “You can hear the woman yelling to stop because it hurts,” she said recently of the video, which includes a tag showing it’s been on the site five years. “She’s angrily telling the man to shut the camera off and stop filming.” Michael Pratt, who allegedly manipulated hundreds of young women into making sex tapes and then lied about not distributing them, was included on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list this year. The company denied that many of the sites hosting this content use its services. “In this case, a number of the websites you listed do not appear to be using any of our services, and the remaining websites are using our pass-through security and performance services described above,” Cloudflare wrote to Holm.