There have been plenty of accusations from professional performers that they were mistreated, underpaid, threated, and even raped on set while working with professional studios and directors. I don’t think that’s the litmus test. 

Yeah, same. After my dad died, I threw myself into a handful of “relationships” (honestly, just a series of hookups that I read too much into) with crappy dudes because I was convinced that someone taking care of me in that way would magically fix my grief. (Spoiler alert: it did not, but it took me a semester off…

It’s called professional porn versus the ‘amateur’ stuff. Anything marked amateur that isn’t a home movie is probably shady as hell.

you have no idea how many times i have yelled “IF SOMEONE WOULD HAVE JUST LISTENED TO RIPLEY!” — classic Cassandra complex, its a tale as old as time.

Yea, women are often not just portrayed as distressed, but hysterical to the point of implausibility. While men are shown to believe they are rational and refuse to even see the floating proverbial ghostly brick, that is about to turn their brain into mush.

Bankruptcy suggests he’s making a run for it. That’s what a lot of shady businesses do when they finally get hit with a civil lawsuit, and then they quietly re-open the same type of business under a different business name later on. Sometimes they do that multiple times in a row.

I suspect he’s going to do the same type of thing that restaurants and other businesses engaging in serious wage theft do when they finally get hit with a civil lawsuit: declare bankruptcy, close up shop, and then re-open the same type of business under a different label somewhere else. Only way he’ll get sure-fire…

The price for an act of stupidity when you’re young and  being taken advantage of should not be a lifetime of abuse, harassment, and humiliation. What is wrong with you? Where’s your sympathy and compassion?  These people were victims and intentionally singled out in order to be taken advantage of, it’s not stupidity,…

Midsummer was June 22 this year in Sweden, so a June 21 (Friday) release would have been perfect.

I hope to read more about this as it unfolds. The way this article read (to me) made the scenario seemed very rapey. Not stopping sex due to pain, continual sexual acts off screen. Even if they werent claiming coercion, those two lines really spoke to how unprofessional and misogynistic the shoot was, regardless of…

Someone somewhere wrote a really interesting piece about how me in horror movies ignoring their female companions is a great reflection of reality. It went into detail about how even IF the women in these movies were mistaken/delusional/whatever it shows the men as a kind of monster who ignores the obvious distress of…

I can understand a desperate college kid going to a shady local photo shoot and getting taken advantage of... But accepting a one way plane ticket? For a shady as fuck nude modeling Craigslist ad? Hard to believe a college student could be so damn naive.

The thing that just irrationally upsets me about this movie is that it should have came out on June 24th.

This is like if Independence Day had originally released on July 11th or something.

Don’t name a move after a day if you’re not going to release it on that day.

God damn marketers.

I won’t link it since these women have had their privacy violated enough, but there’s both evidence that strongly supports these guys are hideous, and also other evidence that supports that at least some of the other women involved signed contracts without duress.

Yeah, I bet you had the world completely figured out five minutes after you turned eighteen. Nobody could ever get over on you.

“I’m totally bankrupt though, guys!”

I don’t think Sweden’s goal is to make sex work better - it sounds like its goal is to “save” sex workers from sex work. Sweden’s laws are based on the assumption that all sex workers are victims. However, in either case, the goal is not being accomplished and sex workers’ lives are being made worse by Sweden’s laws.

Most sex work in the US is already legal. In fact, most of this article is about legal sex work. The reason why the strippers can make $500-$1000 is because they ask for, they ask for and they hustle, not because it’s a moral gray area. Hell the CEO of Dunkin Donuts make $5000 an hour and I doubt he flashes his boobs…

They kind of tried that 15 years ago. They unionized a few clubs that promptly closed, then re-opened under new management.

Herewith a few thoughts: