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This guy is famous within the porn community for his use of coercion on reluctant "actors". He will hire a naive woman new to the business, one who has heard all the bullshit about how nice the industry is and how respectable it has become.He then proceeds to impose whatever he wants on the "actors", counting on the fact that the police are not likely to take seriously a claim by an "actor" in a porn film to have been raped, or humiliated. The typical police response is that the "actor" knew what she was getting into.
Women have ended up badly traumatized, beaten physically, psychologically abused, and it has all happened in the name of free speech without the women involved being given any recourse except to run as far away from this animal as they can.
First of all, I'd like to see some links for these claims. Do you have any?
Secondly, if what you're describing were even remotely true, then he would be guilty of far more than obscenity -- what you're describing is assault, kidnapping and potentially even rape. It's easy for you to come and blurt things out like that, but given the DOJ's commitment to putting him in jail, I find it extremely unlikely that they would not have charged him with the crimes you claim he committed if he actually did.
From all the accounts I read, the federal prosecutors never even made any such claims as part of their sentencing arguments.
Third, this is only one of many, many examples of rising federal obscenity prosecutions for porn producers. You're trying to claim this is some sort of aberration, but it is part of a much larger trend for the reasons I documented.
This is far from being a simple First Amendment case. Women have been scarred for life by this animal. Even those of us who are heavily oriented towards protecting the right of free expression need to take a closer look at this before jumping in with this sort of defense of Paul Little. Don't waste a lot of your sympathy on this guy. He beats and pisses in the mouths of naive 18 year old girls who, as I think most of us can agree, are not terribly sophisticated and able to protect their own rights.
As always, we get to the heart of the matter -- adult women can't make good decisions for themselves and need to Sutungpo's of the world to interfere in their lives, using the force of law, to override their will and tell them what they really want for themselves.
