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Hiraeth

(4,805 posts) Thu Dec 3, 2015, 09:52 AM Dec 2015

Porn star loses column over rape accusation

30 November 2015

After an adult film star was accused of rape, the editor of an online magazine dedicated to pop culture and relationships has pulled his sex column.

Over the weekend, adult film star Stoya tweeted accusations that her former partner, the adult film star James Deen, had sexually assaulted her.

Since then, another adult film star made a similar accusation in the Daily Beast.

Deen has publicly denied these accusations, writing on his own Twitter account "these allegations are both false and defamatory."

It's a familiar pattern in cases of alleged sexual assault: woman makes accusation, man denies it. But the claims were enough for Amelia McDonnell-Parrey, editor-in-chief of online magazine The Frisky, to discontinue her working relationship with Deen, who contributed to a sex column on the site.

"We won't be publishing [Deen's column] going forward," wrote Mcdonnell-Parrey in a post explaining the decision.

"This makes it impossible for me to work with him any further, to give him a forum for giving advice that he is accused of not following himself."

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Porn star loses column over rape accusation (Original Post) Hiraeth Dec 2015 OP

Looks like he was on some no lists for some time and even female producer J. Angel warned others jakeXT Dec 2015 #1

jakeXT

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1. Looks like he was on some no lists for some time and even female producer J. Angel warned others

Reply to Hiraeth (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:14 AM

Dec 2015

Her original tweet

https://twitter.com/stoya/status/670685987601825792

“People knew,” Raphael said. “A lot of people knew. I don’t think everyone knew. And some people had really good experiences with him, but that doesn’t mean anything.” Performers let each other know what they had heard about Deen, she said. “I remember getting ready for my first gang bang, and I was talking to people – what should I know, I’ve never done this before, I was really nervous, do you have any tips? And two people were like: put James Deen on your ‘no’ list” – the performers she would not do scenes with.

“I was proud of her,” porn performer Sydney Leathers told me, after reading Stoya’s tweets. “That’s a bold thing to do.” Leathers started performing in porn not long after the press outed her as the sexting partner of then US congressman Anthony Weiner. When she got into the business, she was advised about Deen, too, she said. At a convention in 2013, Leathers spoke with porn performer and producer Joanna Angel. “I remember one specific sentence she said: ‘He likes to try to break women.’ I found that troubling. And I knew that Joanna was serious. He’s always been on my ‘no’ list for that reason.”

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/04/how-stoya-took-on-james-deen-and-broke-the-porn-industrys-silence

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