Choose a Girl

And just welcoming and trying to activate people from all walks of life. And it became this real team effort where we had whistleblowers who were coming forward, and survivors who were coming forward, and attorneys and journalists and lawmakers, and everybody kind of taking their place and doing their part. And I think that is what made this effort particularly effective over the last few years. While Mickelwait says she has no problem with legal pornography, she has zero tolerance for those who illegally profit from sex trafficking and child rape – and that’s what she found on Pornhub. Miller’s Girl’s sex scene occurs while Mr. Miller is reading Cairo’s short story in the shed.

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• Pornhub’s parent company has settled a lawsuit brought by 50 women who said they were victims of a sex-trafficking operation.
• According to Arjona, informed and continuous consent was the central focus when filming the sex scene between Ortega and Freeman.
• I just want to see this message and this story spread far and wide, so that we can actually do something about this and stop it from happening in the future.
• It had uploaded numerous explicit videos to Pornhub and other public websites.
• Miller’s Girl has created controversy online due to the 31-year age gap between Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega.

After Girls Do Porn went to trial in August, the National Center for Exploitation—a group that’s supported harmful legislation and lobbies against the rights of sex workers—released a statement commending the case. Chilly, an independent porn performer, told Motherboard that she believes cases like what happened at Girls Do Porn are not unheard-of in the adult industry, but they’re not openly discussed—mostly because of the shame and stigma society still places on sex work. “I’m glad so many girls are coming forward with this,” one woman, who appeared in Girls Do Porn videos, told me anonymously. After the videos were spread online and she was identified, she became suicidal and depressed, and ended up moving across the country to a place where no one knew her.

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Which is to say, it’s part of a larger set of memes surrounding Kamala Harris’ political persona. Harris has been spawning memes longer than she’s been vice president. But her laugh, her bus, her dance moves and her love of Venn diagrams have all become social media fodder. Gillmor says lawmakers shouldn’t mandate any form of age verification – even one built by Apple or Google – until a vetted and well-established system is built that ensures civil rights protections. Pornhub’s parent company Aylo says it’s ready to dedicate significant resources and manpower to building a comprehensive device-based age verification system, but it needs partners in government and industry to make it work.

While there isn’t lewd nudity, the scene does show Ortega bent over the bed with Martin Freeman behind her. There’s also movement that implies he’s sliding his hand up her dress. Though some viewers would’ve been uncomfortable no matter the sexual contact, viewers mentioned the graphic elements as disturbing given their age difference. Had Miller’s Girl implied sex without showing it, there might not have been as much backlash. In the complaint for damages against Mindgeek it was alleged that victims had sent the company “complaints detailing the fraud and coercion they were subject to by Girls Do Porn” but the company had not ended the partnership.

Separately, 22 women who appeared in the films took the company to civil court in San Diego, and say they were lied to about the nature of the films, how much they would be paid, and how the videos would be distributed. When the films were uploaded to huge porn websites, people identified the women to their communities and families. SAN DIEGO – The owners and two employees of the popular adult websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys were charged in federal court today with sex trafficking crimes in connection with a scheme to deceive and coerce young women to appear in sex videos. The founder of Girls Do Porn, a website that published videos of women who said they were coerced into making sex tapes, was arrested in Spain this week after being on the run for years from sex trafficking and child sex abuse images charges. Kelsy Burke of the University of Nebraska and other critics say that many age verification laws are vague enough to sweep up far more than content intended for sexual gratification.

“We don’t want kids on our platforms, and we welcome further regulation to make it difficult if not impossible for children to access age-inappropriate content.” Over a dozen US states have passed resolutions declaring that pornography is a “public health crisis”, highlighting the dangers to children in particular. “The porn industry is lying to you and being hysterical,” Schilling says. A generational gap in understanding online platforms and digital literacy is one reason the young women and girls surveyed and interviewed showed little trust in adults and existing mechanisms to root out abusers and perpetrators.

Viewers immediately took to social media to call the sex scene gross, uncomfortable, and distressing to watch. Many people disturbed by Miller’s Girl said they’ve written off age-gap movies entirely after watching Ortega and Freeman simulating sex. Others called the casting choices unethical, given the age gap and sex scene. “This is the canary in the coalmine, it isn’t just about porn,” says Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group. Greer says age verification laws are a thinly veiled ploy to impose censorship across the web.

“There’s an important and valid discussion to be had about the impact of porn on our society, and platforms should be pressured to do more to protect children,” she says. “But once you need an ID scan in order to browse the web, it immediately creates a barrier to free speech and limits people’s access to information.” In 2023, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah and Virginia all passed laws requiring age verification, and Pornhub blocked them all as the laws took hold.

“None of us were ‘porn stars,’ we were all just young girls that needed money.” A judge ruled in favor of the women in January 2020, ordering Girls Do Porn to pay them $12.7 million in damages and granting them ownership rights to the content. “My mother … would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’ ” Harris said with a laugh. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”