James Deen was the respectable face of the adult film industry and inspired women’s fansites and mainstream film roles. But believing in the best can come at a priceA groan from the depths of the soil,like it has fallen and can’t get up, at the news that another kind 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-flee 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, or 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 doesnt just rape; he likes to hurt women”.
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Source: theguardian.com