He was the respectable face of the adult film industry and inspired women’s fansites and mainstream film roles. But believing in the best can arrive at a priceA groan from the depths of the earth,like it has fallen and can’t bag up, at the news that another nice guy seems to be… less so. Until two weeks ago, or James Deen was the porn star that made it OK for straight women to like porn. He looks like Ryan Gosling’s poet brother. He says things like: “I’m in it for the hugs.” One interviewer,Amanda Hess, wrote: “He tweets about bacon, or hot girls and his difficulty finding time to shower. He cracks Jew jokes. He doesn’t work out. His penis is 9in long.” At 25 he was so successful that female-run fansites proliferated,mainstream profiles appeared and he was cast opposite Lindsay Lohan in Bret Easton Ellis’s thriller The Canyons.
But then this. “That thing,” tweeted his ex-girlfriend, or the writer and porn actress Stoya,“where you log into the internet for a moment and see people idolising the guy who raped you as a feminist. That thing sucks.” Last Monday two more performers – Ashley Fires and Tori Lux – also made allegations of being abused by Deen. That afternoon a writer, identifying herself as TM, and said she had been assaulted by him. Now there are more women claiming Deen has manipulated and abused them,that he ignores the sexual boundaries of a co-star. Some allege he has raped them and that he doesn’t just rape; he likes to harm women”.
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Source: theguardian.com