I unfortunately know a lot of about this case and the industry because I work in poverty outreach. The industry/this case is no different/not separate from stripping, modelling etc…it’s all massive grey area - some would call it a black hole.
What the GDP umbrella company was doing isn’t much different to what any amateur porn studio/modelling agency does: They’re these sex-trafficking pipelines that lure women in with promises of modelling contracts, commercials etc. Theres no porn company that posts an ad saying “porn actors wanted” (or very few). There’s almost always a continuum of interconnected agencies that start women off soft with calendar/bikini shoots but ultimately try to funnel women to hardcore porn…but will make money off them at the earlier stages…or just “leave” them in the earlier stages if they resist/make enough money. The “problem” with GDP was the male actors were basically rapists…didn’t take no for an answer if they wanted somebody in their pipeline to do hardcore. They would functionally imprison them by bringing them from far away and delaying flights and shuffling them between hotels. They were also using existing talent to coerce prospective talent…like you’d see in a sex work “stable”. Along the way they would make them more complaint with drugs and alcohol…implicitly telling them it would be over once they shot their scene. The majority of women could plausibly be said to have consented at some point…but not all of them.
Most agencies stop short of outright rape…but all agencies assault or coerce their talent to go deeper into the pipeline in one way or another. The woman who’s the subject in this case likely only went to prison because of things she didn’t know her male actors/owners were doing (although I don’t know the exact details, it’s likely they kept clerical people insulted from the acts).
Ok that’s the part that I’m struggling with (yay all or nothing thinking). See I thought they were all saying no.
I unfortunately know a lot of about this case and the industry because I work in poverty outreach. The industry/this case is no different/not separate from stripping, modelling etc…it’s all massive grey area - some would call it a black hole.
What the GDP umbrella company was doing isn’t much different to what any amateur porn studio/modelling agency does: They’re these sex-trafficking pipelines that lure women in with promises of modelling contracts, commercials etc. Theres no porn company that posts an ad saying “porn actors wanted” (or very few). There’s almost always a continuum of interconnected agencies that start women off soft with calendar/bikini shoots but ultimately try to funnel women to hardcore porn…but will make money off them at the earlier stages…or just “leave” them in the earlier stages if they resist/make enough money. The “problem” with GDP was the male actors were basically rapists…didn’t take no for an answer if they wanted somebody in their pipeline to do hardcore. They would functionally imprison them by bringing them from far away and delaying flights and shuffling them between hotels. They were also using existing talent to coerce prospective talent…like you’d see in a sex work “stable”. Along the way they would make them more complaint with drugs and alcohol…implicitly telling them it would be over once they shot their scene. The majority of women could plausibly be said to have consented at some point…but not all of them.
Most agencies stop short of outright rape…but all agencies assault or coerce their talent to go deeper into the pipeline in one way or another. The woman who’s the subject in this case likely only went to prison because of things she didn’t know her male actors/owners were doing (although I don’t know the exact details, it’s likely they kept clerical people insulted from the acts).
Too much info? YW.
iirc, the only reason GDP got singled oit was because one of the latter woman to get screwed over and doxxed was the daughter of some big bank CEO
$ and connections is all that matters in this country