It was 21 days after "Jane Doe's" 22nd birthday when she boarded a flight to San Diego that, unbeknownst to her, would change her life forever. That day, she would become one of hundreds of young women who had been filmed for GirlsDoPorn, a wildly popular porn production company which garnered well over a billion views,
1 ranking around the 20th most popular channel on Pornhub,
2 and reportedly generating an estimated $17 million dollars in revenue.
3 But what most of GirlsDoPorn's millions of viewers did not realize was that Jane — and many other women involved with GirlsDoPorn — was actually a victim of sex trafficking.
See, Jane never agreed to do porn at all.
4 She had flown to San Diego to participate in what she was told would be a fitness modeling job. But when she arrived, she was met by several men who took her phone, intimidated her into signing a contract she wasn't allowed to read, plied her with drugs and alcohol, and trapped her in a hotel room where they told her she would be filmed for a porn video. Even after she tried to run away, the men physically forced her to comply. With no way out, Jane was violently raped on camera for over 6 hours.
The nearly hour-long video of her abuse was then released on the GirlsDoPorn website and published on nearly every major porn site,
5 even using her full legal name in the title.
6 When Jane first learned that videos of her rape had been published, she ran to the bathroom and was violently sick.
Comment: Fight the New Drug has a wealth of information on their website and medium page that is well worth checking out.
While some countries move towards controlling access to porn, and card companies like MasterCard announced new rules for banks processing credit card payments to pornography websites, Fight the New Drug argues that bans "tend to add fuel to the flame by making the illegal substance or activity illicitly attractive. A much more effective way to decrease the demand for pornography is to make people aware of its unfortunate reality."
They summed up their thoughts on banning porn below: See also: