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talkpolitics20 yo woman is at a club and convinced to dance in front of a Girls Gone Wild camera (she knew she was being filmed and was dancing specifically for the camera) but consistently refused to show her breasts (this can be heard in the audio).
Then while dancing someone reached around from behind her and pulled her top down.
She never signs a consent form for the pictures to be published and yet published they are.
Flash forward 4 years and she's married with a kid and her husband gets a call from a friend telling him that his wife's breasts are famous.
Open and shut defamation of character lawsuit right?
Apparently not...
http://jezebel.com/5594774/jury-decides-consent-is-not-required-for-girls-gone-wild
Can someone find the idiots who were on this jury and hit them upside the head with a clue stick?
When I first saw the article linked I figured it was a case where she intentionally exposed herself in the club but did not realize she was being filmed, in which her case would be much weaker and I could at least see an argument for her losing.
With the facts the way they are forget her winning the lawsuit I can't see how the Girls Gone Wild Camera Crew are not facing sexual assault charges right now (at a minimum they are guilty of being an accessory after the fact).
Shit like this really destroys my faith in humanity.
Then while dancing someone reached around from behind her and pulled her top down.
She never signs a consent form for the pictures to be published and yet published they are.
Flash forward 4 years and she's married with a kid and her husband gets a call from a friend telling him that his wife's breasts are famous.
Open and shut defamation of character lawsuit right?
Apparently not...
http://jezebel.com/5594774/jury-decides-consent-is-not-required-for-girls-gone-wild
Can someone find the idiots who were on this jury and hit them upside the head with a clue stick?
When I first saw the article linked I figured it was a case where she intentionally exposed herself in the club but did not realize she was being filmed, in which her case would be much weaker and I could at least see an argument for her losing.
With the facts the way they are forget her winning the lawsuit I can't see how the Girls Gone Wild Camera Crew are not facing sexual assault charges right now (at a minimum they are guilty of being an accessory after the fact).
Shit like this really destroys my faith in humanity.
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Date: 26/7/10 23:32 (UTC)1: Unless someone wants to find the video, look at the clips and identify the woman involved, there's very little we can do to assess what was going on at the time. The jury likely ended up watching the clip in question, which gives them perspective that we lack.
2: GGW is obviously a smut peddler, and as much of a fan that I am of "smut" there are concerning legal lines that need to be addressed. From what I know, a lot of the smaller "Man on the Street/Woman picked up off the street" videos often pay a girl a piddling amount of money and either get her consent via video, or have her sign a document releasing her rights to the events. I'm sure GGW does the same thing, but what's worrisome is that they have no signed consent form to produce, which forces to jury to define what is "consent" as compared to the situation at hand.
3: The link provided is obviously a single-minded site. I question the black and white version of events as described in the article.
4: While the events that happened probably got out of hand for the woman in question, I have to wonder what *actually* happened that night. Is this an event of "Oh, I really didn't want to sleep with him, so I'm gonna tell everyone it was rape?" Or is this legitimate? Until we have access to better information, we can't answer those questions.
Lastly, people are getting heated up over this, and (like every other fucking OP about sex issues) are dividing up into the "you're a rapist in disguise" camp and the "she's got some part in this too" camp. Chill. The. Fuck. Out. All of you.