Posted on 01/04/2020 11:07:41 AM PST by Gena Bukin
A Superior Court judge in San Diego tentatively awarded nearly $13 million to almost two dozen young women on Thursday, ruling that they had been tricked into performing in pornographic videos that derailed and uprooted their lives and led several to become suicidal.
The ruling capped an unusual 99-day civil trial that exposed the bait-and-switch tactics and false promises deployed as part of a scheme to induce young women, who would not otherwise consider filming pornography, to fly to San Diego and shoot a pornographic video.
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Judge Enright found that the women had been lured with Craiglist ads that offered to pay them around $5,000 for photos or video shoots. The ads did not indicate that any nudity or pornography would be involved.
“Wanted,” one ad read, “beautiful college type preppy girls,” for video and photo shoots.
The women who responded to the ads said they were directed to innocuous websites, with pictures of clothed women, that asked for their contact information and photographs.
The ads turned out to be from the producers of GirlsDoPorn, who were seeking women to make so-called amateur pornography, which often features fresh-faced actresses paired with seasoned male performers.
Once a newly recruited woman had flown to San Diego, she found herself alone in a hotel room with two men about to shoot a pornographic video, Judge Enright wrote.
At this point, the producers had the women sign documents containing “dense and ambiguous legalese,” which they falsely described as guarantees that their videos would be distributed only on DVD outside of the United States and would never be published online, Judge Enright wrote.
“Defendants rush and pressure the woman to sign the documents quickly without reading them and engage in other deceptive, coercive and threatening behavior to secure their signatures,” Judge Enright wrote...
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Reminds me of the old joke:
Guy: Will you have sex with me for 1,000,000 dollars?
Gal: Sure!
Guy: How about sex in exchange for $20.00?
Gal: What kind of girl do you think I am?
Guy: We’ve already established that. Now we are just haggling over the price.
Under California’s new “Gig work” Law, that answer is “YES!” It’s the law, they are considered full time employees.
“...TO HAVE SEX WITH STRANGERS FOR MONEY”
What’s the big deal when they likely have been doing guys/gals several different ways in high school. This is the liberal educational system delivering idiots out the door into an accepted world of perverts and weirdos, and other forms of evil.
Just look at the Woltz character from “The Godfather”, and that was probably in the 1930s.
In the novel, it said that he slept with nine year-old girl. In the movie, it was a teenage girl.
They thought they were signing up to do legitimate modeling/beauty assignments.
That’s many a beautiful woman’s dream. They didn’t think they were going to be led into doing porn.
Misrepresentation and fraud are not only grounds for a lawsuit, they’re criminal offenses also.
These women aren’t at fault. The people who tried to get to them into the porn biz under false pretenses are.
Following FR’s Lazmataz Rule, I declare all the young women harmed not guilty!
Less Cinderella, more Jemima Puddle-Duck.
“find out they will be paid far less than originally promised.”
In other words, they’re prostitutes, they just didn’t get paid enough.
Girls today are completely open to sex if they like you
It’s crazy
A popular guy in high schools is like a bull let loose in a feed lot full of ovulating heifers
Women have got to require discretion
They have been encouraged to act this way
Parity
The CL ads promised a video or photoshoot assignment and never said anything about nudity or doing porn.
To young women it looked like a modeling assignment. Like its a bad thing.
Maybe they were naive and should have gotten everything in writing but it doesn’t excuse their being tricked and abused.
The defendants behaved unethically and also broke the law as well.
He was a disgusting character how he described the girl in his pervy delight
Should have cut off his head rather than the beautiful stallion
The women were using Craigslist ???
That thing has had a notoreity since it came out ... hookers, blind dates, couples -you know what i mean there, some nasty criminals got their injured victims from there, and more.
Bingo...sadly..many have been molested by near family...many have other psych probs...schizo...depression...drug abuse...it is truly a fallen world..
Women don’t spread their legs for strange men. Its a porn male fantasy.
It has nothing to do with reality and any man who expects a woman to sleep with him on the first date is in for disappointment.
And the flip side? No man wants to marry an easy woman. That’s male nature, too.
So, girls decide to go for a photoshoot, get talked instead into doing porn for money, then complain the money was less than they were told, and sue. Seems the suit is legit in that the money wasn’t right, but they chose to do the shoot.
I have no doubt there were strong tactics used against them, and maybe even threats, but what kin of girls gets stars in her eyes and flies off with strangers??
I’d order payment for salaries promised, but I have zero empathy for girls that choose their own actions.
This whole thread is worthless without Videos or at least Pictures :)
“Women don’t spread their legs for strange men”
ROFLMFAO!!! They do it all the time, Sunshine. All the time.
You don’t happen to have their numbers do you? :)
“It has nothing to do with reality and any man who expects a woman to sleep with him on the first date is in for disappointment.”
You’ve never dated. Or, your’e so ugly it just never happened to you.
No, all lost in a tragic boating accident in the Bermuda Triangle.
I’ve dated and I know the rules.
I’m not into the friends with benefits stuff.
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