Drunk and Naked for the Camera: Predators Exploit Young Girls for Online Porn Business

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AlterNet / By Ayesha Adamo

Drunk and Naked for the Camera: Predators Exploit Young Girls for Online Porn Business

Reality is quite different from 'Spring Breakers' for the non-celebs when it comes to sex on the Internet.

March 27, 2013 |

Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers exposes the darker inner regrets that fester beneath the intoxicating day-glo of girls going absolutely wild in the hypnotic Florida sunshine. But what about the real Girls Gone Wild, those sometimes-underage revelers caught permanently between beer-stained contracts and Joe Francis’ camera lens? What about the real young women whose acts of sex come with regrets? Haven’t we all -- especially in our youth -- found ourselves mentally suspended in moments of coercion, moments we smile through by rote? In Spring Breakers, those smiles are reflected back to us, glistening softly with the lipstick we’ve applied in the broken mirror that is America.

In Spring Breakers, director Harmony Korine viscerally captures the emotional, mental and sensual inner process of coercion, both when he shows Faith (Selena Gomez) nearly quaking under the weight of Alien’s (James Franco) sweet and sinister cajoling, and also when our leading coeds (Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens) corner Alien, and the tables are turned. We watch Korine’s cast flawlessly embody those gray area experiences that young people in particular seem to stumble into—the moments when life mimics the artistic style of this film, and the only real explanation is: It’s just sort of how it all happened, that’s all.

I can’t think of a single woman I know who is entirely free of sexual encounters that she regrets, for whatever reason. Spring Breakers is a surreal place to witness just the sort of real dilemmas that come with being young and beautiful and not yet entirely sure what’s what in the world. Fortunately for most, those moments play out with lower stakes and without the sting of being publicly scrutinized, acting as a container for society’s wayward projections.

http://www.alternet.org/culture/drunk-and-naked-camera-predators-exploit-young-girls-online-porn-business

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1. I'm ashamed to say

I probably could have written that essay in GD called "My bad sex...wasn't rape. I believe in taking responsibility for some bad decisions in my youth. I think taking some ownership relieves some of the victimhood I adapted as a defence mechanism.

I am sick about these young girls being filmed in a vulnerable position, however, especially if it is perpetrated on them by adults who have planned and executed these acts, by ulterior design. That is criminal behavior.

I grew up in a small town and we all lived in glass houses.In a similar way the internet and video cameras have made the whole world a small town.

I know we need to teach our young men to respect girls and women and nothing excuses exploitation but, lord almighty, young women need educated about drinking, sex and drugs. From a young age!!!