Rashida Jones exposes amateur porn industry with 'Hot Girls Wanted'

Yahoo ^ | 27 May 15 | Michael Walsh

[Drew68]

Actress Rashida Jones is best known for her work in “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation.” But her latest project, a documentary called “Hot Girls Wanted,” explores the amateur porn industry, which she says rakes in gobs of cash by exploiting the gullibility of young women who thirst for fame and fortune.

“So much stands in the way of them and that dream,” she tells Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric. “And the things that stand in the way are not being fully explained to them. “Their naiveté is really important as an engine for the porn industry, or at least this part of the porn industry. That’s the problem.”

The film, which Jones produced, premiered at this year’s Sundance Festival. It takes its title from ads that commonly appear on Craigslist seeking “hot girls” for amateur porn, a genre whose name gives the impression that the films are not professionally produced.

“The truth is, it’s cast, it’s lit, it’s scripted; and most of the young girls who go into amateur porn are very young, which makes it seem like they might just be the girl next door,” Jones says.

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“Hot Girls Wanted” debuts May 29 on Netflix.

[Organic Panic]

The girl is just stupid.

[usconservative]

My point was more about anyone assuming that feminists don’t care about women being exploited in the porn industry.

Ah, thanks for that. Went right over my head! (Guess I'm an example eh?)

[Nero Germanicus]

No problem!
I happened to have been living in Minneapolis when the following occurred:
“The idea of combating pornography through civil rights litigation in the United States was first developed in 1980. Linda Boreman, who had appeared in the pornographic film Deep Throat as “Linda Lovelace,” published a memoir, Ordeal, in which she stated that she had been beaten and raped by her ex-husband Chuck Traynor, and violently coerced into making Deep Throat. Boreman held a press conference, with Minneapolis based feminist Andrea Dworkin, Minneapolis feminist lawyer Catharine MacKinnon, and members of Women Against Pornography supporting her, in which she made her charges public for the press corps. Dworkin, MacKinnon, and Gloria Steinem began discussing the possibility of legal redress for Boreman under federal civil rights law. Two weeks later, they met with Boreman to discuss the idea of pursuing a lawsuit against Traynor and other pornographers. She was interested, but Steinem discovered that the statute of limitations for a possible suit had passed, and Boreman backed off. Dworkin and MacKinnon, however, began to discuss the possibility of civil rights litigation as an approach to combatting pornography.”— Wikipedia