Porn Star Nikki Benz Sues MindGeek, Brazzers, Co-Stars for Sexual Battery & Gender Violence

[msgrottesca]

Porn actor Nikki Benz sues MindGeek, Brazzers, co-stars for sexual battery, gender violence https://t.co/MugSMNWjjp pic.twitter.com/eYve5mzH0i
- Jezebel (@Jezebel) April 11, 2018

Comments

[msgrottesca]

They're such an obvious band-aid on a bulletwound. Everyone who said "Well, we'll do mandatory interviews, that'll fix it!" knew that people would simply be coerced or threatened into giving a good interview. It doesn't take a genius to suss that out but no one wants to ACTUALLY regulate the industry because they like being able to fap to whatever they see fit =/

[space_poodle]

The porn industry is damaging to women and inherently upholds the patriarchy. No porn performer deserves to be in danger or have his/ her stipulations ignored, but I just cannot see how we are trying to pass off this business as anything remotely feminist when it's not only rampant with exploiting people who are struggling somehow (for every "I am a college-educated woman from an amazing family who does porn just because I genuinely love it" there are 10,000 women who were coerced by money, the idea of acceptance, fame or a sense of family that doesn't really exist).

Women CAN choose to perform in porn for any reason they want, but should we be encouraging this as any other choice of her autonomy, as if it were choosing between which school to go to or which hairstyle to wear?

[andres01234]

what I cannot wrap my mind around is that some people actually get aroused by those kind of shitty things and pay for them, hence why they keep doing them. abuse/rape porn should be considered a crime too

[space_poodle]

IA. Look, I understand fetishes and kinks and believe they can even be healthy ways for consenting partners to deal with potentially difficult things that may impinge on their sexual comfort. However-- and it's a big however-- I cannot for the life of me understand why it is so easily accessible on ANY porn website to see these ROUGH hardcore scenes that imitate rape and violence of women, that impressionable children and teens can watch with no context or mental maturity to understand in what realm this may be acceptable or healthy. To them, what you see is what you get, and the porn sites and companies don't give a flying fuck. In fact, let them explore their sexuality with slapping, choking, spitting and gang rape-simulating as far as the sites are concerned: they're merely future desperate customers

[andres01234]

omg, that was beyond disgusting. hope those motherfuckers go to jail

[msgrottesca]

Just as a general comment on the porn industry, can we take a moment to talk about how horrible and unregulated cam sites are?

I was able to sign up and do camming from ages 13-15 on several different websites and there was NOTHING there to stop me, zero safe guards, nothing to make me confirm my age at all. I'm guessing I wouldn't have been able to do it for money since I didn't have a bank account or credit card, but to assuage my pubescent low self esteem for free?

Sure - sign up, click the button and boom, thousands and thousands of men fapping to my underage self and now I have to live with knowing some of the videos are likely still out there. It's one of my biggest fears that those videos will come back to haunt me.

[msgrottesca]

That's good if it's true. This would've been quite a few years ago (I'm 23 now). That said, I know sites like ChatRoulette and Omegle still do nothing to confirm your age even though they have 18+ sections specifically for adult camming =/

[autumnheartbeat]

oh my gosh. stuff like this makes me never wanna watch porn again. even if the actresses are supposed to be consenting, there seems to be even more room for sexual violence/harassment behind the scenes than there is in non-pornagraphic films. porn workers deserve to be safe.