GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking victims: Hold Pornhub accountable for role

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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. She does not annotate the interviews, and one of her skills as an interviewer is that she does not moralize at her subjects and avoids steering their answers. But Porn has the quality of a good novel, in that while reading it you often notice small details or perspectives which make you think about the world, or your own life, differently, without having a lesson overtly spelled out to you. It struck me while reading the above conversations, for example, that theoretically open, progressive public discourse around porn can have almost the same silencing effect as no discourse at all. In the sense that, when a consensus emerges on the progressive perspective to hold on a certain aesthetic of porn, it will change the way we speak and what we admit to, but perhaps not how we feel. I found myself wondering too if this kind of progressive consensus can have negative outcomes as well as positive ones.

Criminal charges

When Plaintiff refused, Pratt, now 41, and his conspirators immediately pressured her and plied her with booze and pills to soften her reluctance,” the lawsuit states. “Threatened, coerced, and physically and sexually assaulted, Plaintiff was forced to succumb to the demands of the GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking venture, entirely sustained by MindGeek’s vast online network,” the federal lawsuit filed on Sept. 8 states. It was in June 2020 when Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he plead guilty to federal counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. Once the videos were posted online many victims contacted Garcia and his co-conspirators seeking to get their videos taken off the websites.

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In 2019, a Maryland appellate court found 6-1 that child pornography laws apply when a teen is both the subject and sender of sexually explicit media. Under the ruling, where the judicial panel encouraged lawmakers to change the law, the appellate court upheld a lower court’s decision where a 16-year-old girl was convicted as her own pornographer. Pornhub listed the official Girls Do Porn channels as a « Content Partner », and only removed it as a partner after the owners and employees of the ring—by then already embroiled in the civil trial—were charged with federal sex trafficking counts.

• The intention, though, was always to upload the videos onto the internet, according to the U.S.
• He was sentenced Friday by a San Diego federal judge to one year and one day in prison.
• Our doctors are very busy and we don’t know what questions to ask them anyway.
• The lawsuit was filed against Pornhub and Pornhub owner MindGeek in US District Court for the Southern District of California.

I felt speaking to a broader sample of straight men too may be interesting in terms of precisely the anxiety that Barton repeatedly articulates, about men who have learned to perform their feminist credentials. The five straight men she interviews all seem very cognizant of current feminist thinking on porn and are adept at referring back to this while discussing their own views and habits. Maybe this is the way they truly think, but I would be interested to read more from those who are less steeped in theory. Sexting is not uncommon among even young teens; keep in mind that this behavior may seem commonplace and safe to your teen. Modeling healthy digital media use for your teen will go a long way in helping them to develop good habits. Advertising, product placement, and influencer marketing can be an important piece of teens and young adults purchasing choices.

When attorneys finished with closing arguments, the judge took the matter under submission on Dec. 13. Chapin said Enright is giving attorneys additional time to file any objections to his rulings. She sent a second request that month asking MindGeek to remove the video from Tube8.com, another MindGeek property, the lawsuit said. Her third takedown request came in May 2017 « after MindGeek continued to publish her video on PornHub.com, » the complaint said.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright, who presided over a four-month-long bench trial, decided in favor of all 22 plaintiffs and against 13 defendants. Another one of the Jane Doe plaintiffs in January 2016 « submitted a content removal request to MindGeek, begging to have her video removed because of the lack of consent and harassment she was under, » the complaint said. The lawsuit was filed against Pornhub and Pornhub owner MindGeek in US District Court for the Southern District of California. The complaint asks for « compensatory damages in an amount that exceeds one million dollars for each plaintiff, » plus another $1 million or more, each, in punitive damages.

I can’t recall if I bought the tampons myself at the pharmacy a few blocks from my middle school or if I had surreptitiously added them to my father’s grocery store list. But I remember the complicated instructions inside the box, how having to decipher them alone made me feel small and scared—like a young girl who needed her mom. But Mom’s not here, I told myself, so you’re going to have to figure this out on your own. While less drastic than Paley’s, hurdles have persisted for generations of women since.

“I worried about what porn stood for, I worried about what it has done to us, is doing to us and will do to us, and I worried that this worry made me a bad feminist,” she writes. She started thinking about how she might embark on a book to investigate how we really use and think about porn. With a greater focus on peer relationships and increased smartphone ownership comes increased opportunities for bullying and exclusionary behaviors like ostracism or shunning. Teens can be the victim (one who is bullied), the perpetrator (the one doing the bullying), the bystander (one watching and allowing the bullying to happen), or a combination of all three at different times, yet they often don’t share with their parents when they are being bullied. By working together with your teen to create a media use agreement — and to update it as they grow increasingly independent and responsible about their media use — you can help them build the habits that will lead to a healthier, more balanced engagement with the digital world. As they strike off more independently into the online world, teens and young adults need opportunities to take risks with safety nets and to rely on their caregivers and trusted adults for support and guidance.