Another Pornstar Abuse Case

[JurisDictum]

So as I have bringing up for some time now, there is a trend of porn directors and producers using their position to violate boundaries and record the reaction of pornstars.

In this case the perpetrator is black filming some kind of interracial revenge porn, so I expect the news reading population to take notice more. Hence this article was linked to the Drudge Report.

The YouTube testimonial, which was filmed and uploaded by Raven’s wife Nikki Hearts, begins with nearly 40 minutes of Raven’s detailed and graphic description of the shoot. Wearing a hoodie and facing the camera head-on, she says that Strong, whom she considered a friend, called her on Tuesday to ask if she could replace a no-show performer in a shoot that day. Raven, who is white, says that Strong, who is black, told her that it was a “kinda rough” scene with “light racial play,” and that he would be referring to her as “‘my little saltine’ or ‘my little cracker.’” She agreed and showed up on the set that afternoon, where Raven says a production assistant similarly told her that the scene would be “a little rough.”

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In her YouTube account, Raven alleges that Strong said something about “black payback” and “comes into the scene and hits me very, very hard across the face.” She adds, “It wasn’t a fake slap, it wasn’t a slap that we typically use in porn to make things look a little bit more intense than they actually are. It’s very painful and it definitely stunned me. I, you know, saw stars, so to speak.”

Then they moved onto the blow job scene, “a very, very, very rough blow job where if I pulled back I got punished, so to speak,” she says. “I would get hit, I would get called names.” Then, she says, the director became “aggravated” that she was not vomiting from the blow job. (On-camera vomiting is generally considered extreme and is usually prohibited within the industry.) “They tossed me a bag of apples and a water and they said, ‘I hope you like apples,’” she says, the idea being that the apples would help her to vomit. “So I began to eat my apples, at this point covered in saliva, snot. I’m sitting on the edge of the couch, not really saying much, wanting this to really be over.”

The issue has been pinpointed pretty well at this point. Those that hold a porn performers paycheck have all the power until the scene is done. The only option is to walk away (after already working halfway or more through the scene sometimes) or put up with it. So it should be very clear what one is expected to do...the onus should be on the producer/director to explain what will be expected before the scene.

I guess the question is: is Rico Strong going to get railroaded by this?