cause of action, one only has to prove that what the law
provides for has happened to you. The Ordinance provides
five such possibilities for suit: for coercion into pornography,
for having pornography forced on you, for being assaulted because of particular pornography, for defamation through pornography, and for traf icking in pornography.
to coerce, intimidate, or fraudulently induce (hereafter, “coerce”) any person, including transsexual, into performing for pornography, which injury may
date from any appearance or sale of any product(s) of
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such performance(s). The maker(s), seller(s), exhibitor^), and/or distributor(s) of said pornography may be sued for damages and for an injunction, including
to eliminate the product(s) of the performance(s) from
the public view.
None of the following facts shall, without more, negate a finding of coercion: (i) the person is a woman; or (i ) the person is or has been a prostitute; or (i i) the
person has attained the age of majority; or (iv) the person is connected by blood or marriage to anyone involved in or related to the making of the pornography; or (v) the person has previously had, or been thought to have had, sexual relations with anyone, including anyone involved in or related to the making of the pornography; or (vi) the person has previously
posed for sexually explicit pictures with or for anyone, including anyone involved in or related to the pornography at issue; or (vi ) anyone else, including
a spouse or other relative, has given or purported to
give permission on the person’s behalf; or (vi i) the
person actually consented to a use of a performance
that is later changed into pornography; or (ix) the person knew that the purpose of the acts or events in question was to make pornography; or (x) the person showed no resistance or appeared to cooperate actively in the photographic sessions or in the events that produced the pornography; or (xi) the person signed
a contract, or made statements af irming a willingness
to cooperate in the production of pornography; or
(xi ) no physical force, threats, or weapons were used
in the making of the pornography; or (xi i) the person was paid or otherwise compensated.
The first victims of pornography are those in it. Pornography indelibly makes those it uses into its presentation of them, so that no mat er who they are or what they say about
how they really felt, to those who have seen them in pornography, they are pornography for life. Pornography is not like 42
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other forms of acting or modeling. The viewers have a sexual
stake in believing that the women in pornography are not
models or actors but truly feel and want what the script cal s
for. That they are having a wonderful time seems essential to
the sexual pleasure of the largest segment of the audience, although for many it is pleasurable to believe that the woman is being forced. Either way, the consumer believes that the
woman in the material
nature by the acts performed on her. This is the bedrock to
the scepticism that women are coerced into pornography.
Pornographers promote an image of free consent because it
is good for business. But most women in pornography are
poor, were sexually abused as children, and have reached the
end of this society’s options for them, options that were biased
