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kleinbl00  ·  2533 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can We Learn About Privacy From Porn Stars?

    There's still nearly an infinite amount of complexity to it, but someone's eventually going to successfully navigate those waters.

Her name is Traci Lords.

    On July 17, 1986, video rental shops and adult movie theaters in the USA were ordered to withdraw from their shelves all hardcore material featuring Lords. John Weston, attorney of the Adult Film Association of America, said distributors should withdraw any movie made before May 1986, featuring Lords "in sexual conduct, no matter how briefly". The withdrawal of Lords' movies from the market cost the industry millions of dollars. Government prosecutors declared Lords was a victim of a manipulative industry, maintaining that she was drugged and made to do non-consensual acts. Industry insiders, including Ron Jeremy, Tom Byron, Peter North, and Ginger Lynn, said they never saw her use drugs and that she was always fully aware of her actions. While most of her movies were permanently removed from distribution in the United States, several were re-edited to remove Lords' scenes entirely (such as Kinky Business and New Wave Hookers), or in a few cases, had new footage filmed with a different actress playing her part (as in Talk Dirty to Me Part III). The only movie legally available in the United States was Traci, I Love You, filmed in Cannes, France only two days after her 18th birthday. She sold her rights to Traci, I Love You during early 1987 for $100,000. This action resulted in claims that she herself had tipped off the authorities to gain immunity from prosecution, while being the only one to profit from the movie.

It's possible? That Nora Kuzma was duped into participating in child pornography and drugged against her will from the age of 14 to 18, after which she suddenly woke up (aged 18 years and 3 days) and regretted her decision.

It's also possible that Nora Kuzma knew she had four years to make as much money as she could, after which she could make the act of looking at images of her naked childhood body a felony and that she could keep all the money and notoriety.

There are few industries as deserving of the karma.





am_Unition  ·  2530 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow, that was a messed up story, any way you slice it. Inevitable, for Big Porn to go up in flames. And the industry has always lead the entertainment and media in foretelling many future trends, but you prolly knew that. The YouTube advertisement revenue assassination, the FCC bullshit, these terrible superhero re-reboots, etc., we're so almost there. Very shook up.

But no, sorry, what I was talking about is some playgirl/boy CEO of a billion dollar company simultaneously doin' it live, streaming it for free 'cuz they get off on having an audience of several million. On the reg. And they manage no immediate negative repercussions, maybe for a decade or two. Then as they left their sexual prime, that'd be a whole 'nother weird thing. Huh, sounds like a movie.. heyyy waiiiit a tick.....

Paragraph 1 + paragraph 2 + world affairs = After Jared & Ivanka are mistakenly sent back into the past by the world's first time machine (of their own inventing, naturally), they end up unifying every Germanic tribe in 200 AD Poland shortly before participating in a holy orgy of mass political offense. All recorded on the new GoProfuckyourself. Before they can return home, the thumb drive is lost inside of Adam Sandler's ass, who appears in every shot, clinging to one of the camera or audio booms, actors, or props. Although Sandler's ass is agreed to be the ideal storage system, the closest hospital is in late 17th century St. Petersburg, and Peter the Great's upload speeds are throttled to shit. But the shit-covered USB thumb-drive.. hahahahahh ok, I'm sorry guys, I'll stop