Is a pornstar’s endorsement of Black Lives Matter a pledge to enable pimps & sex trafficking?
June 26, 2020
PNT commentary: It seems that BOTH Alana Evans and Manuel Ferrara are utilizing the #BlackLivesMatter movement to deflect from other VERY serious issues revolving around their activity in the adult film industry – and it’s important to note that neither Alana or Manuel are Black.
article below via Jezebel.com – by Tracy Clark-Flory
This month has brought a flood of allegations of sexual abuse in the adult film industry. While the last several years have seen many allegations of on-set boundary violations, this sudden outpouring directed at multiple alleged abusers by over a dozen women is unlike anything the industry has ever seen before. The reactions of those accused, and their defenders, however, are familiar. Again and again, when allegations of abuse arise within the industry, an iteration of the same defense is repeated: She didn’t say anything. She didn’t speak up. I can’t read minds. Concerns raised by accusers around insufficient pre-scene boundary negotiations are ignored, as are the complex power dynamics that make speaking up difficult. The anxieties performers may have about long-term career consequences and the material need for a paycheck are also ignored, positioning the “speak up” defense as an uncomplicated matter of personal responsibility.
This idea has become persistent despite the fact that experts say freezing is a common response to sexual assault. It effectively casts mounting claims of sexual misconduct within the industry as discrete personal failures on the part of accusers, as opposed to a systemic problem.
This attitude was plainly reflected in recent comments from the longtime director John Stagliano, who was accused in 2018 by performers Jenny Blighe and Ginger Banks of non-consensually touching them while directing a scene for the porn documentary Cam Girls: The Movie. The allegations recently resurfaced on Twitter and, when asked by the trade publication XBIZ about the claims, Stagliano pointed to a YouTube interview in which he said, “We’re all assuming that you’re an adult and you can just say ‘no’ when you don’t want to do something instead of say, ‘Well, I didn’t really want to do it. Oh, the pressure [pretend crying]. Oh, help me.’ Well, say ‘help me!’” He continued, “Women want the right to be equal to men, and there comes a little responsibility with that. Which is: stand up for yourself.” Stagliano added, “Don’t expect us to treat you like a full human being if you don’t act like a full human being.”
In a related shoot for Cam Girls, Blighe alleged that performer Manuel Ferrara strangled and hit her excessively, forced her to squirt, and left bite marks on her body during a scene she was told by Chris Gentile, the director of the project, would be “fairly vanilla,” as documented in a text message. On June 12, Ferrara responded to the allegations of abuse, which were first made in 2018, but which recently regained traction on Twitter. “All involved are smiling, laughing, and communicating how happy they are with the experience in the moment,” he wrote in a statement shared with XBIZ. “I am not more clairvoyant than anyone else who was present that day. I regret that Jenny’s experience in hindsight was not what she wanted it to be, but given the messages she was sending, I see no way that we could have known to change it.”
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MY BIG BREAK IN PORN WAS A NIGHTMARE
Jenny Blighe’s first professional porn film will be her last.
What was supposed to be her “big break” in the adult film industry turned into a nightmare for Blighe, who says she was pressured to perform hardcore sex acts, choked until she was nearly unconscious and groped by a director during a shoot in February — all of which was caught on video.
“I tried to stop the scene but [the director] told me I was ruining the flow and to just put my head back in the frame,” Blighe told The Post. “I felt helpless. All my nightmares about filming a pro boy/girl scene were coming true.”
Blighe said she was not prepared for what happened when she arrived on set to film a scene with Banks — a fellow cam model — and well-known male performer Manuel Ferrara.
“I didn’t expect to be treated like a piece of meat,” she said.
In one scene, Ferrara puts his hand over her mouth, then grabs her throat. Blighe’s face turns bright red and for a few heart-pounding moments it isn’t clear if she can breathe.
“I don’t mind being lightly choked,” she told The Post. “[But] when Manuel choked me, I was barely conscious and almost passed out numerous times.”
While some porn films do include aggressive choking, Blighe says it was certainly not part of the “vanilla” film she had been promised. She does not know whether Ferrera had been told she was promised a “vanilla” scene.
