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Judge Awards Nearly $13 Million to Women Who Say They Were Exploited by Porn Producers
New York Times ^ | 01/02/2020 | Michael Levenson

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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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies
KEYWORDS: california; girlsdoporn; michaellevenson; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; porn; sandiego
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To: wally_bert

LOL

A lot of things lost in that area!


61 posted on 01/04/2020 1:03:20 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: Gena Bukin

There are some on this forum—not just liberal, anti-christian forums—who will defend porn like it is their religion. They’ll burn in Hell just like the pornographers.


62 posted on 01/04/2020 1:04:11 PM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: unlearner

Is it defending porn, or just acknowledging that a government that has the power to eliminate it, may be a case of the ‘cure being worse than the disease’?


63 posted on 01/04/2020 1:05:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gena Bukin

So, they were OK doing porn, they just didn’t want their friends watching it.


64 posted on 01/04/2020 1:09:33 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: wally_bert

“I’ve heard of a couple of women that fell for the overseas only bit.”

Well your IQ would have to be pretty low in order to not think that through, and realize that it makes no sense in this day and age. Not in the age of digital media.


65 posted on 01/04/2020 1:10:32 PM PST by Revel
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To: goldstategop

“...Women don’t spread their legs for strange men...”
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My wife of 40+ years has several girlfriends from former workplaces.
They are all single, divorced women.
She regularly meets with them for lunch, dinner, etc.
Their description of their sex lives are amazing to me.
Go on vacation, meet a guy at a bar, and have a poke.


66 posted on 01/04/2020 1:11:03 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: dfwgator

There’s the old saw about freedom: you should be able to do anything lawful regardless of what busybodies think about it and its none of their business if you do.

A principled libertarian position, held by Peter McWilliams, who wrote a book about the absurdity of nonconsensual crimes.

Still worth reading.


67 posted on 01/04/2020 1:12:34 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Revel

One would think.


68 posted on 01/04/2020 1:14:30 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: goldstategop
I think they should go after every person who has bought these videos and sue them all.....why just the producers of it?...why not the pervs that make it a billion dollar industry?....

of course I am just kidding but I do get tired of victims always being pummeled while the truly evil porn industry and its perv clientele get the ho-hum wink-wink attitude.....

ultimately, God will judge won't HE?

69 posted on 01/04/2020 1:15:34 PM PST by cherry
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To: goldstategop

I’ve got three teenaged sons
My rib is appalled at how high school girls act today

I don’t think I said anything about strange men but I agree

Women do avoid strange men absolutely unless it’s weirdness seeking weirdness

My point in one of my posts was that today much porn is made by women

And I guess reflects their perspective

It’s not couples porn like most would assume but the rough stuff

And a lot of daddy stuff camouflaged as step daddy

Or it’s gang bang or bdsm

And women making the porn and running it

Not to mention so much home porn produced by college aged girls

It’s just insane commercial bacchanalia

And do indeed watch porn too or at least act like they do in Twitter chatter

I’m personally more fond of the old days of Hefner and Guccione and Annette Haven

The racial aspect of today’s porn is over half of what one sees just googling

Feminists have succeeded in getting most young women to have the sexual discretion of a Roman barge prostitute

Equality with men projected onto our young flowers by bitter older women for whom marriage or a decent beau was never in their future anyhow
To converge my meandering
Many of the women making porn today are lesbians and often dykes


70 posted on 01/04/2020 1:19:15 PM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: dp0622
This whole thread is worthless without Videos or at least Pictures :)

I posted a couple of pics of two girls who made the news due to their GDP photoshoots, which wound up being costly for them.

Then I felt bad because the events were several years ago and the women now probably just want to get on with their lives and bury this old notoriety so I asked the post get pulled.

One thing I will say about GDP is they managed to find SMOKIN' HOT girls to have sex on camera. It was mystifying how they did it. Of course, now we know. Seriously though, in a world where most pro-am porn chicks are all tatted up, pierced, and look like they're fighting meth addictions, the GDP girls were freakin' hot AF!

And what did these dipsh*ts do with all of this incredible talent? They proceeded to make the worst-quality porn films imaginable. Bad lighting, awful camera angles, horrible editing. Just terrible productions.

At least, this I've been told...

71 posted on 01/04/2020 1:19:25 PM PST by Drew68
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To: wardaddy
My point in one of my posts was that today much porn is made by women

See "The L Word", for one.

72 posted on 01/04/2020 1:21:28 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Sadly


73 posted on 01/04/2020 1:23:24 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: Drew68

you’ve been told :)

lol

Yeah porn “actresses” usually look beat to heck

Amazing how many gullible and trusting people there are.

Ah, it’s better than being a jaded NYer. I learned to stop trusting people by 7 :)


74 posted on 01/04/2020 1:25:17 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: goldstategop
These women aren’t at fault. The people who tried to get to them into the porn biz under false pretenses are.

The court rightly awarded the women damages for use of the content they starred in that was outside of the scope of what they agreed to. But the women willingly chose to get into the port business regardless of whether the movies were allegedly for DVD customers in Australia or for general distribution.

Once somebody decides to take a $5,000 check in return for having sex with a stranger in front of a camera they are in the porn business of their own volition.

75 posted on 01/04/2020 1:25:24 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: Gena Bukin

Right, they were “tricked” into taking their clothes off.


76 posted on 01/04/2020 1:45:13 PM PST by Fledermaus (Horowitz was a waste of time and money, Barr and Durham better not be.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I know a guy who passed up a day at his sales gig and was told to strip.


77 posted on 01/04/2020 1:47:42 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: Gamecock
Reminds me of the old joke:

Guy: Will you have sex with me for 1,000,000 dollars?

A lot of people say, "I wouldn't do that for a million bucks!"

I don't believe this is true.

I believe most people would do that for a million bucks, --and often for much, much less.

78 posted on 01/04/2020 1:50:58 PM PST by Gena Bukin
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
Stupid judge . . . those women knew exactly what they were doing when they took their clothes off in front of cameras.

Not quite. There was a lot of fraud and deceit going on. Read the verdict. It's long but interesting. These guys screwed up.

79 posted on 01/04/2020 2:11:13 PM PST by Gena Bukin
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To: Gena Bukin

The Porn Producers should have been charged with Human Trafficking - a serious Federal crime.


80 posted on 01/04/2020 2:55:19 PM PST by EC Washington
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