Jane Does v GirlsDoPorn: How 22 millennial women brought down a porn empire

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These symptoms may have very malignant effects mainly in adolescent age and can determine psychopathological changes related to processing of sexual stimuli and negatively influence sexual fantasies, attitudes, and behavior (Braun-Courville and Rojas, 2009; Cooper et al., 2004; Kafka, 2010). Further findings also indicate that Internet pornography exposure provides “artificial” (not natural) stimuli that do not correspond to real psychosocial contacts and interpersonal relations, which may lead to eliciting abnormal emotional responses (Burtăverde et al., 2021; Laier et al., 2013; Mauer-Vakil and Bahji, 2020; Ross et al., 2012; Štulhofer et al., 2016). In addition, due to huge amount of pornographic material on the Internet, repeated experiences of immense number of sexually arousing objects lead to long-lasting arousing emotional experiences that decrease usual mechanisms of “habituation” and lead to very long periods of sexual arousal and sensitization to these stimuli. Similarly, addiction studies have also reported that cues explicitly paired with the absence of a drug reward can have marked inhibitory effects on dopamine release (Leyton and Vezina, 2014). Consistent with a negative prediction error, Banca et al. reported a decrease in ventral striatal activity in response to the omission of an expected sexual image (following a conditioned cue) (Banca et al., 2016).

GirlsDoPorn deceived vulnerable women to profit off amateur porn—until Jane Does fought back.

All true, too – well mostly true, then stretched a little, for extra fun, you’ll know if you saw The Real Versailles on BBC2 the other day. Catch up if you didn’t, it’s useful background. When I did Louis XIV at school it wasn’t half as entertaining – all about difficult noblemen and Spaniards, I seem to remember. Moeller and d’Ambrosio argue that sincerity and authenticity have faded away in light of a new mode of social identity construction that they call profilicity. Internet culture structures group devotion in essentially the same way, no matter what the subject matter. The group could be fanatics of esoteric 1980s anime, or of 17th century Puritan moral theology (in some cases, these circles overlap), but either way, how they signal their habits of piety will be nearly identical.

• Recent developments related to the influx of 100,000 ethnic Armenians and the related humanitarian crisis, tensions at the Armenian border, the potential reversal of money transfers inflows, and a possible slowdown in trading partner economies pose significant risks to the economic outlook.
• I think everyone that looks at me weird recognizes me.
• Operating in a turbulent and uncertain geo-political context, the country struggles with low investment rates, weak attraction of foreign direct investment, limited human capital, connectivity constraints both within Armenia and with other countries, and limited diversity in its export base and destinations.

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The preference for a novelty of sexual partners has also been well documented in animal and human studies and described as the “Coolidge effect” (Fiorino et al., 1997; Wilson, 1997). Some studies suggest that the unbridled access to a large quantity of novel sexual images on the Internet has various effects on neural processing in the mesolimbic reward center, which is similar to some influences of addictive substances (Barrett, 2010; Burtăverde et al., 2021; Mauer-Vakil and Bahji, 2020; Pitchers et al., 2013). Research of addictive behavior related to pornography suggests that approximately 56% of men experience pornography as a form of relaxation decreasing subjective feelings of tension (Cooper et al., 2004; Weiser, 2000). Other findings indicate that a large proportion of individuals involved in online pornography consumption are mainly seeking sexual relaxation and feelings of “satisfaction” related to masturbation (Ross et al., 2012; Mauer-Vakil and Bahji, 2020). Some findings also suggest that the Internet pornography-related addictive behavior might cause subjectively negative sexual experiences and increased sensitivity to stimuli and can cause symptoms of craving related to masturbation experiences (Laier et al., 2013) and fetishism (Ross et al., 2012).

• Given that possibility, we need to know more about whether, how, and why pornography influences social norms as well as individuals’ behavior, and what we can do to address that influence if it is harmful.
• Perhaps this is because the standards of public rhetoric by official leadership are currently so cautious, homogenizing, and feminine in its attributes.
• They wouldn’t have figured this out on their own.

I understand why many pastors are reticent to engage actively on the internet. They want to be a pastor to their local congregation first, and don’t want the bizarre incentives of online optics to interfere with their local work. But even if they want to remain aloof and disinterested in the internet, the internet is interested in them.

Prause and Pfaus suggested that “erectile problems may occur when real-life sexual stimulation does not match the broad content [accessible online]” (Prause and Pfaus, 2015). Human and animal studies also indicate that when expectations are not met (due to a negative prediction error), then such a “disappointing event” may cause that as a response certain activities in the mesolimbic dopaminergic system are inhibited (Bayer and Glimcher, 2005; Hart et al., 2014; Mauer-Vakil and Bahji, 2020; McClure et al., 2003; Sunsay and Rebec, 2014). For example, Snapchat became very popular social network for “sexting” as the most usual way of sharing sexually explicit materials (Goodwin et al., 2015; Handyside and Ringrose, 2017; Park et al., 2016). A 2017 study using a representative sample of Australians researched distress about sex video use.[57] It found that of 10,131 women surveyed, 0.5% of women agreed with the statement that they were “addicted” to pornography; 1.2% (of 4,218 who viewed) when limited to women who say they viewed sex films. The comparable figure limiting to men who view sex films was 4.4%.

So if you thought our aging church leadership was effeminate already, just buckle down. Several findings also show that some individuals may use pornography and other forms of sexual stimulation with the purpose of distracting their attention from emotional and contextual stressors (Bőthe et al., 2020, 2021). Other findings also show that tendencies to use online pornography may be related to reactive stress response and may be used for a temporary escape, as well as for coping with discomfort feelings (Cooper et al., 1999) and reduction of anxiety (Giugliano, 2009; Kafka, 1993; Marshall and Marshall, 2000). Developmental findings also show that adults with adverse stressful childhood experiences tend to have anxious attachment and sexual compulsion (Aaron, 2012).

As in 2022, the services sector, particularly in IT, trade, and transportation, played a significant role in driving this growth. “That’s where almost all of pornography that’s produced goes,” Wolfe said. That’s precisely why GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, videographer Matthew Wolfe, and actor Andre Garcia created a bait-and-switch scheme to get the women to appear in their videos. Jane Doe 7 ended up filming a porn video under duress in a hotel room where furniture blocked the door, preventing her from leaving.