‘I Started to Get Extremely Vengeful:’ A Girls Do Porn Victim Is Still Fighting Harassment 6 Years Later

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“My first time seeing pornography was a video of myself, my own body, which was sent to me hundreds of times a day by friends, family, strangers,” said Victim H. “I lived in constant fear from … thousands of men who said they will find me, rape me, and kill me in my own home.” The only woman defendant, 37-year-old Valorie Moser, was an administrative assistant for the porn company for more than three years. She recently testified in civil court about her involvement in the company—perhaps unaware that she was about to be criminally indicted.

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• The typo-laden script listed the names of the 22 women who sued the porn site.
• And once the images hit the internet, many of the women were threatened, harassed and faced other serious repercussions.
• The crime was utterly callous in nature and there is no excuse or justification for his conduct, which was driven purely by greed.
• Some people are more sexually exuberant than others, notably those on the sexual fringe.
• But when it came to criticizing the actual, existing adult-film industry—sure, she could do it with the best of them, and with a lot more inside knowledge than most.

In addition, during the COVID lockdown of 2020 to 2022, many of these same folks fretted that pandemic-related isolation, boredom, and loneliness would drive a huge increase in teen porn viewing. Compared with controls, the porn actresses were significantly more likely to have tried many drugs. In addition, they were twice as likely to report histories of alcohol problems.

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Weeks after they returned home, the videos were released in full on Pratt’s subscription site, and as clips on PornHub and other popular free porn platforms. Other co-defendants have struck plea deals, but Pratt — who faces decades in federal prison if convicted — could choose to take the case to trial after pleading not guilty. Dozens of victims had gathered at San Diego’s James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep Courthouse to speak at the sentencing hearing when they were told that Pratt was in federal custody. Pratt was on the lam for three years and had been listed among the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives by the time he was arrested in Spain in December 2022. Five of those indicted alongside him have pleaded guilty to their crimes, each fingering Pratt as the ringleader.

Due to the one-time-only amateur paradigm, GirlsDoPorn required a constant stream of new models to keep the content on the website fresh. One plaintiff testified that when she tried to leave the hotel room where the porn shoot was taking place, Pratt pushed a chair against the door and refused to move it. “The findings of fact in the civil case do not carry over to the criminal case where the government will have to prove the facts under a much more stringent standard.”

The film might have done better in illuminating this corner if it had had the elementary courage to interview black or Latino performers, and to think about race as well as class. Even as it is, though, the film makes it clear that porn for many performers was a way out of a dilemma—or, for some, a way to compound it. “And then I started to get extremely, extremely vengeful,” Jane said.She threw herself into finding the men who abused her.