Girls Do Porn Ordered To Pay Millions And Turn Over Copyrights To 22 Women

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Even after the women’s videos were released on the site, the victims said they were doxxed, and their personal info was released to the internet. Women also testified that the men refused to stop the porn shoots, and that they were threatened with withholding their hotel reservations and plane tickets they were going to use to return home. During his own testimony in October of 2019, Matthew Wolfe would admit that he and Andre Garcia were continuing to recruit young women to film scenes for the website, despite them standing trial for widespread fraud. He also admitted to continuing to upload scenes to the website using the same business practices that had resulted in this lawsuit, admitting on the stand that these women were not being told that the videos were ever going to be uploaded to GirlsDoPorn… However, when questioned about the specifics of the lawsuit – such as whether these women were being told that the footage they were filming was only going to be distributed on DVDs in foreign nations – Wolfe decided to play stupid.

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You can ask them questions such as, “Has anything happened online that made you upset? Research shows that instead of simply creating rules without your child’s input, having open discussions with them on how to safely navigate the internet may be protective against cyberbullying. 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. Adolescence is an active period of change finalizing the shift from childhood to adulthood. Teens are maturing physically, sexually, and cognitively while they also develop more complex and nuanced relationships with peers and seek even greater independence from primary caregivers. They’ve just been so traumatized with everything they’ve gone through with having to provide services to multiple buyers a day.

• When 22 women sued independent label Girls Do Porn in June for allegedly manipulating them into performing sex acts for a global audience, it wasn’t enough for giant adult video site Pornhub to stop promoting Girls Do Porn as an official “Content Partner” and profiting from the arrangement.
• Considering the impact of gender, knowledge about STD, and sexual attitude on forced sex, educational interventions among the youth especially girls are required to provide complete and proper information about sexual and reproductive health and rights and correct the sexual attitudes of the youth.
• For a girl that didn’t have many resources to rely on, it seemed like a dream-come-true.
• 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.
• The chance of such a sexual relation was higher in girls by 2.94 times compared to boys.
• The report says there was a “meaningful decrease” in searches for CSAM on Pornhub and that at least “in part” the chatbot and warning messages appear to have played a role.

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In the 2016 lawsuit, the Jane Does, who were all between the ages of 17 and 22 at the time, said Girls Do Porn duped them into creating videos based on the understanding that the content would only be for a private collector, sold outside the US, or for a limited-release DVD. Once the women discovered their videos were posted online, the website owners ignored requests to take the videos down and cut contact with the women altogether. If the women ever changed their minds about filming or completing the scenes, the defendants threatened to sue them, cancel their flights home or post footage that had already been filmed online, the U.S. Many of the women testified that Garcia sexually assaulted them, and spoke of how the videos’ existence continues to plague them years after the fact, destroying familial relationships and employment prospects. Some of the women said they attempted suicide after the videos were released and continue to seek therapy to this day. Garcia and his co-defendants lied to victims by claiming the videos would only be distributed to private customers living outside of the country, rather than proliferated online, despite always intending to post the videos on the internet, according to the U.S.

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• During the civil trial, Pratt, Garcia, Wolfe, and several other individuals were criminally indicted for sex trafficking.
• If MindGeek did not know GirlsDoPorn was a sex trafficking venture before October 2019, it should have known for a great number of reasons, the most notable of which is that GirlsDoPorn’s victims sent MindGeek complaints detailing the fraud and coercion they were subjected to by GirlsDoPorn.
• It corroborates the stories of multiple women—plaintiffs in the case as well as women Motherboard spoke with directly—who said they only did the videos with the assurance of the director and owners that these images would be isolated to adult stores on the other side of the world.
• Further, he ordered the defendants to take down the women’s sex videos and take steps to get them off other porn sites they don’t control but allowed to post clips, ads or entire films.

The judge in that case found in favor of the women and handed down a $12.7 million judgment against Pratt, cameraman and website operator Matthew Isaac Wolfe, adult performer Ruben Andre Garcia, and various business interests connected to Pratt. Pratt, a New Zealand native who was added to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list months before his arrest, is believed to still be in Spanish custody awaiting extradition to San Diego, where he’s under indictment on charges of sex trafficking and production of child sexual abuse material. Pratt fled the US in 2019 as a civil lawsuit against him and his business partners was underway in San Diego. Twenty-two women accused him and his co-conspirators of coercing them into making porn videos and then lying about their distribution, leading to severe harassment and psychological pain. 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.

It is one way Pornhub tries to combat illegal material, the spokesperson says, and is part of the company’s efforts aimed at user safety, after years of allegations it has hosted child exploitation and nonconsensual videos. When people in the UK have searched for any of the terms on Pornhub’s list, the warning message and chatbot have appeared. For the past two years, millions of people searching for child abuse videos on Pornhub’s UK website have been interrupted. Each of the 4.4 million times someone has typed in words or phrases linked to abuse, a warning message has blocked the page, saying that kind of content is illegal. And in half the cases, a chatbot has also pointed people to where they can seek help. LGBTQ+ teens and young adults may be particularly at risk of participating in sexting, with 21% of LGBTQ+ youth reporting they have shared images or videos of themselves.

He again assured her that nothing she appeared in would be posted online and that the shoot would be quick and painless – taking less than 30 minutes of her time. He began making final plans to fly her out to San Diego to film the scene, offering an all-expenses-paid trip to Southern California, as well as an opportunity for this young woman to make decent money without having to ask her mom for help (who was already helping support two other children). Jonathan made the final arrangements, and Jane prepared to be treated like a celebrity for a day. Most of the video shoots took place in San Diego – at local hotels and short-term rental units. Although the women were promised that the video shoots would be brief, they often took hours.