Ruby of the APAG Union shares concerns over a recent Jezebel.com piece in regards to pornstars speaking out about abuse within the industry
October 29, 2018PNT commentary: No amount of money in the world is worth anyone remaining silent in regards to being abused (personally or professionally). The right individuals WILL continue to work with you when you tell the truth. Anyone who elects NOT to work with you isn’t worth your time, energy or efforts to begin with.
So the FSC and APAC are using the mainstream media,AKA @Jezebel to basically warn the girls if they talk they wont get work,read the title, I can’t in good conscience tweet it.
a few excerpts from the piece on Jezebel.com
The backlash was swift. She was inundated with tweets, DMs, and emails from people in and outside of the industry “spewing hate,” she says. Within a week, her now former agent called to say that, as Fires put it, “There’s a lot of people who won’t hire you now.”
“The fallout to my career was devastating,” said Fires, who rarely shoots for mainstream productions anymore. Now she relies on work as a dominatrix, selling self-made videos on Clips4Sale, and shooting for the niche site Sci-Fi Dream Girls. “It never occurred to me that speaking my personal truth would have such ramifications,” she said. “That was almost more hurtful than anything he did.”
Benz says that the damage to her career largely results from speaking out against Brazzers, which is owned by the monopolistic MindGeek, which controls great swaths of the adult industry—including top tube sites like Pornhub and YouPorn, as well as popular producers like Digital Playground and Reality Kings. “It’s a silent blackball. They won’t work with me,” she said. “It went from me getting phone calls every week from one of their companies to me getting nothing.” (A MindGeek spokesperson told Jezebel, “This matter is currently before the courts. As a policy, we do not comment on ongoing litigation.”)
