What Casey Calvert doesn't say is that the reason she supports him against these allegations is because he is the executive producer and main financial investor in Casey's dogshit boyfriends Kickstarter scam for a steam punk tv show which has milked $140K from private investors. James is the only public face they have to get this turd of a show off the ground and if he goes down so do they. She's a crafty one who also considers Stoya a role model. Except for this inconvenient rape allegation, yanno
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Read about Joe Murphy's experience of being falsely accused of being a sex predator by 2 attention seekers. they later retracted when he decided to sue them for libel and defamation
http://libraryfuture.com/contact-joe/libel/
Read about Joe Murphy's experience of being falsely accused of being a sex predator by 2 attention seekers. they later retracted when he decided to sue them for libel and defamation
http://libraryfuture.com/contact-joe/libel/
http://glowysweetfab.tumblr.com/post/135108715615/10-7-3-how-many-women-actually-accused-james
10 - 7 = 3 How many women actually accused James Deen of rape? Is one accusers story inaccurate? (18+ video/statements provided)
They now number 10. Starts off the The Hollywood Reporter article in which they interview Bret Easton Ellis on his friend and the star of his 2013 film The Canyons. I read the interview hoping for something newer then what I had heard/read in the past few days but there was nothing new. It was not a good interview. In terms of image. A man defending Deen and calling another woman unstable that’s just what the feminist movement needed to keep their anger fueled. The article was bad because it incorrectly stated that Bret was the only person who came to Deen’s defense. Untrue. Many women he has worked with have come forward to defend his character and have been largely ignored by the mainstream media.
Lisa Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHHjUEaEtA
Ava Addams
Casey Calvert http://caseycalvert.com/everything-im-not-saying-re-james-and-stoya
Asa Akira
Mike Quasar
Mystica Jade https://mysticajade.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/a-different-perspective/
Trisha Parks
Nica Noelle
April O Neil
Chloe Dyskstra
Jay Taylor
To name a few who have written on their Twitters or blogs or any where that alot of this, particularly the rape allegation, doesn’t fit in James’s character, it’s the not person he is today/person they know. These are people who work with him, have had good experiences with him, called out Farrah Abraham for lying on his behalf, and state that they will continue to work with him.
So what exactly about the victims. I have been preached to alot by feminists about how rare it is for women to lie about rape. So that’s why they decided to believe the victims with no such proof of any crime ever having taken place. Also these women are sex workers (never mind that James Deen is ALSO a sex worker)…do you know how hard it is for sex workers to be taken seriously? they told me. Probably just as hard for the woman who has dared to have an active sex life and not behave like a nun I thought but would still report an assault against her. What does their profession have to do with reporting a crime? I am not ignorant to the fact people can, even in positions of authority, can be judgmental, but still they would have to investigate any crimes reported. I feel strongly they could have reported any wrong doing to the authorities or to the people who they worked for. As a woman myself, I do hope if you are assaulted you report the crime to the police. Do not be afraid to do that. Do not be afraid to report a rape.
Speaking of rape, of the 10 women who have accused James of a wrong doing how many claimed they were raped by him?
Stoya. Kora Peters. Nicki Blue. Farrah Abraham.
Four people. The rest of the women stated he assaulted/violated their space on a set or that he was/is just an asshole. Later I would like to get into some of the women’s stories but I just wanted to write what know is concrete facts. Lets make this a series maybe.
Lets start with Kora Peters.
Kora Peters worked with James Deen twice by her own admission and video evidence. I found her story the most troubling right off the bat. I will freely admit that I am a James Deen fan and I love his work, while that sentence will be isolated from the fact that even as his fan currently, if there is ever any proof these allegations (The rape ones, he has always stated that he wasn’t a great bf to Joanna Angel and he has done a lot of growing up between then and now so hopefully he is much more professional and lots of people state that he is) are true, I obviously wouldn’t be a fan anymore and I would of course demand justice for the victims, through the legal system and not on social media.
So being that I am a James Deen fan I have seen a great deal of his work. I of course watched the very first scene he ever made with Kora Peters. It was for a company called New Sensations. I watched the scene on a website where the porn is free, not proud of that, I pay for most of my porn. Anyway the important thing is, Kora Doesn’t look like she is being raped at all in this scene. I am going to be blunt. She is absolutely not being raped in this scene. Not ever and not even a little bit. Not even in a tiny way.
Must be 18 or older..
http://www.newsensations.com/tour_ns/gallery.php?id=310&type=vids&
Free scene and also the audio is slightly off
http://www.xvideos.com/video1616453/milf_gets_owned
Oh but she is acting the feminists will shout (where the hell is her AVN award?). Editing!!! another feminist will shout. Are you fucking kidding me?? I will think.
First of all in the scene KORA is the one who takes his penis out of her vagina and places it near her anus after they engage in some fingering. He fingers her anus, which she does NOT object to, ever, and she fingers her vagina. James then goes back into her vagina. He fingers her anus again. You can hear James ask Kora, “do you want it there?” Meaning his penis in her butt as anyone with sight watching the scene can see. It’s also not in her anus for very long. At this point James preps her anus, she bends over while he performs anulingus, lubricating her anus for him to attempt a smoother entry later or hell I think it was just to pleasure her. After awhile he is able to get going in her anus, she does say she loves his big cock in her ass, she does say this hurts so good, she NEVER tells him to stop or says no as he fingers her clit to make it more pleasurable for her. He asks “do you want it back it your ass or pussy?” after he has spent awhile in her anus and Kora says in her pussy and James doesn’t object, pulls out of her anus and continues vaginal sex with her. He does tell her “This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen” as he looks at her ass. and “I don’t want you to get hurt.” She does again mention this is the 1st time she has has ever had anal sex.
Now before anyone says well he could have done it after the scene ended or blah blah blah or this or that. The feminists I spoke with immediately believed the statement of the victim. After all. Women lie about rape so rarely. Well Kora’s statement is this and I am going off of Kora’s OWN words. http://pornvalleymedia.com/?p=15959
“Another incident which is on film for the world to see is when I was paired with James for a large production company [New Sensations]and we were only doing a boy/girl scene as anal was on my no list. James keep trying to get inside my ass but I kept pushing him away, so he choked me then he slammed my face down into the couch and forced himself in my ass anyways. The crew all high fived him and told him what a great job he did getting an anal scene for the price of a b/g scene. I went to the bathroom and called my agent Joel from Goldstar and he told me I should feel honored that James wanted me so badly because he was one of the best male performers. I then hired an attorney to get me out of my contract with Goldstar and got a new agent. Anal has been number one on my no list ever since. I had to be seen by my personal physician afterwards and I have permanent damage because of James and I have to live with that for the rest of my life. I just want to prevent this from happening to any other women. It’s crazy how I was the one under attack and James got accolades for raping me on set.“
Uhhh Thank you Kora for directing us to that scene where you are clearly not being raped. I showed a feminist I has having a discussion with on Twitter all of what I am showing now and like some Emperors New Clothes shit, she couldn’t see Kora was clearly not being raped. Okay lets just say this, Kora was not being raped. Everything I have learned about rape my entire female life shows me that this was as far from rape as you can get. None of what Kora says happens in the video.
Also Kora appears to have the timeline wrong as well. The scene with New Sensations appears to be the very first scene she shot with James. However she says that the scene she shot with James for his site is the first scene and after that she was “paired” with him for New Sensations. Uhhh no. It is hard to prove though just by looking on the websites because for some reason porn companies don’t list when the scene was shot. I think it may appear in the beginning of a legitimately watched scene, so if you pay for the scene on New Sensations website it may show the day of production. In James’s Daily Beast article he also goes by the timeline of the New Sensations scene being their first scene together and then she worked with him for his site months later.
I haven’t watched the 2nd scene in its entirety but I have viewed the BTS footage several times as it is free. Around the 5:00 min mark She tells him that this is her 2nd time doing anal and he is the only one to have ever done it. Verifying this in fact her 2nd scene with James and her 2nd time doing anal. She is all smiles BTW. She makes mention of her no list as well. They then show her having sex with him and the camera guy filming it. It cuts to Kora as she tells him he is a great coach. Please feel free (if you’re 18 and older) to watch the free BTS footage and if you’ve got deeper pockets then me pay for the scene. I am sure it will also disprove any of what she told Porn Valley Media.
http://jamesdeen.com/video/kora-peters-985.html
Kora also seemed to have very friendly feelings toward James after he supposedly raped her, twice, contacting him on Twitter.
http://therealpornwikileaks.com/all...-kora-peters-begs-deen-for-attention-in-2012/
I feel like if the media or anyone were real journalists nowadays someone would have uncovered this, instead of letting this horrible 10 victim narrative continue for longer than it has too. I know way more important things happened in our world during this time but if you’re reporting on this story and not doing any kind of research or investigation and just printing the victim accounts and vilifying James Deen, then I feel like that’s not Ok.
Maybe James Deen and his team were planning to do this anyway but as the days go by and this continues I got a little frustrated with how slow this was moving. I am an impatient girl and if I know the proof is out there, accessible, then I see no reason to hold up clearing James’s name or proving guilt if that were the case. If Mr. Deen’s team feels any of this is inaccurate I will remove it. If New Sensations has evidence that goes against what I saw in the scene. I will retract my comments. Of course I will apologize profusely to Kora Peters…if I am wrong.
10 - 7 = 3 How many women actually accused James Deen of rape? Is one accusers story inaccurate? (18+ video/statements provided)
They now number 10. Starts off the The Hollywood Reporter article in which they interview Bret Easton Ellis on his friend and the star of his 2013 film The Canyons. I read the interview hoping for something newer then what I had heard/read in the past few days but there was nothing new. It was not a good interview. In terms of image. A man defending Deen and calling another woman unstable that’s just what the feminist movement needed to keep their anger fueled. The article was bad because it incorrectly stated that Bret was the only person who came to Deen’s defense. Untrue. Many women he has worked with have come forward to defend his character and have been largely ignored by the mainstream media.
Lisa Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHHjUEaEtA
Ava Addams
Casey Calvert http://caseycalvert.com/everything-im-not-saying-re-james-and-stoya
Asa Akira
Mike Quasar
Mystica Jade https://mysticajade.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/a-different-perspective/
Trisha Parks
Nica Noelle
April O Neil
Chloe Dyskstra
Jay Taylor
To name a few who have written on their Twitters or blogs or any where that alot of this, particularly the rape allegation, doesn’t fit in James’s character, it’s the not person he is today/person they know. These are people who work with him, have had good experiences with him, called out Farrah Abraham for lying on his behalf, and state that they will continue to work with him.
So what exactly about the victims. I have been preached to alot by feminists about how rare it is for women to lie about rape. So that’s why they decided to believe the victims with no such proof of any crime ever having taken place. Also these women are sex workers (never mind that James Deen is ALSO a sex worker)…do you know how hard it is for sex workers to be taken seriously? they told me. Probably just as hard for the woman who has dared to have an active sex life and not behave like a nun I thought but would still report an assault against her. What does their profession have to do with reporting a crime? I am not ignorant to the fact people can, even in positions of authority, can be judgmental, but still they would have to investigate any crimes reported. I feel strongly they could have reported any wrong doing to the authorities or to the people who they worked for. As a woman myself, I do hope if you are assaulted you report the crime to the police. Do not be afraid to do that. Do not be afraid to report a rape.
Speaking of rape, of the 10 women who have accused James of a wrong doing how many claimed they were raped by him?
Stoya. Kora Peters. Nicki Blue. Farrah Abraham.
Four people. The rest of the women stated he assaulted/violated their space on a set or that he was/is just an asshole. Later I would like to get into some of the women’s stories but I just wanted to write what know is concrete facts. Lets make this a series maybe.
Lets start with Kora Peters.
Kora Peters worked with James Deen twice by her own admission and video evidence. I found her story the most troubling right off the bat. I will freely admit that I am a James Deen fan and I love his work, while that sentence will be isolated from the fact that even as his fan currently, if there is ever any proof these allegations (The rape ones, he has always stated that he wasn’t a great bf to Joanna Angel and he has done a lot of growing up between then and now so hopefully he is much more professional and lots of people state that he is) are true, I obviously wouldn’t be a fan anymore and I would of course demand justice for the victims, through the legal system and not on social media.
So being that I am a James Deen fan I have seen a great deal of his work. I of course watched the very first scene he ever made with Kora Peters. It was for a company called New Sensations. I watched the scene on a website where the porn is free, not proud of that, I pay for most of my porn. Anyway the important thing is, Kora Doesn’t look like she is being raped at all in this scene. I am going to be blunt. She is absolutely not being raped in this scene. Not ever and not even a little bit. Not even in a tiny way.
Must be 18 or older..
http://www.newsensations.com/tour_ns/gallery.php?id=310&type=vids&
Free scene and also the audio is slightly off
http://www.xvideos.com/video1616453/milf_gets_owned
Oh but she is acting the feminists will shout (where the hell is her AVN award?). Editing!!! another feminist will shout. Are you fucking kidding me?? I will think.
First of all in the scene KORA is the one who takes his penis out of her vagina and places it near her anus after they engage in some fingering. He fingers her anus, which she does NOT object to, ever, and she fingers her vagina. James then goes back into her vagina. He fingers her anus again. You can hear James ask Kora, “do you want it there?” Meaning his penis in her butt as anyone with sight watching the scene can see. It’s also not in her anus for very long. At this point James preps her anus, she bends over while he performs anulingus, lubricating her anus for him to attempt a smoother entry later or hell I think it was just to pleasure her. After awhile he is able to get going in her anus, she does say she loves his big cock in her ass, she does say this hurts so good, she NEVER tells him to stop or says no as he fingers her clit to make it more pleasurable for her. He asks “do you want it back it your ass or pussy?” after he has spent awhile in her anus and Kora says in her pussy and James doesn’t object, pulls out of her anus and continues vaginal sex with her. He does tell her “This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen” as he looks at her ass. and “I don’t want you to get hurt.” She does again mention this is the 1st time she has has ever had anal sex.
Now before anyone says well he could have done it after the scene ended or blah blah blah or this or that. The feminists I spoke with immediately believed the statement of the victim. After all. Women lie about rape so rarely. Well Kora’s statement is this and I am going off of Kora’s OWN words. http://pornvalleymedia.com/?p=15959
“Another incident which is on film for the world to see is when I was paired with James for a large production company [New Sensations]and we were only doing a boy/girl scene as anal was on my no list. James keep trying to get inside my ass but I kept pushing him away, so he choked me then he slammed my face down into the couch and forced himself in my ass anyways. The crew all high fived him and told him what a great job he did getting an anal scene for the price of a b/g scene. I went to the bathroom and called my agent Joel from Goldstar and he told me I should feel honored that James wanted me so badly because he was one of the best male performers. I then hired an attorney to get me out of my contract with Goldstar and got a new agent. Anal has been number one on my no list ever since. I had to be seen by my personal physician afterwards and I have permanent damage because of James and I have to live with that for the rest of my life. I just want to prevent this from happening to any other women. It’s crazy how I was the one under attack and James got accolades for raping me on set.“
Uhhh Thank you Kora for directing us to that scene where you are clearly not being raped. I showed a feminist I has having a discussion with on Twitter all of what I am showing now and like some Emperors New Clothes shit, she couldn’t see Kora was clearly not being raped. Okay lets just say this, Kora was not being raped. Everything I have learned about rape my entire female life shows me that this was as far from rape as you can get. None of what Kora says happens in the video.
Also Kora appears to have the timeline wrong as well. The scene with New Sensations appears to be the very first scene she shot with James. However she says that the scene she shot with James for his site is the first scene and after that she was “paired” with him for New Sensations. Uhhh no. It is hard to prove though just by looking on the websites because for some reason porn companies don’t list when the scene was shot. I think it may appear in the beginning of a legitimately watched scene, so if you pay for the scene on New Sensations website it may show the day of production. In James’s Daily Beast article he also goes by the timeline of the New Sensations scene being their first scene together and then she worked with him for his site months later.
I haven’t watched the 2nd scene in its entirety but I have viewed the BTS footage several times as it is free. Around the 5:00 min mark She tells him that this is her 2nd time doing anal and he is the only one to have ever done it. Verifying this in fact her 2nd scene with James and her 2nd time doing anal. She is all smiles BTW. She makes mention of her no list as well. They then show her having sex with him and the camera guy filming it. It cuts to Kora as she tells him he is a great coach. Please feel free (if you’re 18 and older) to watch the free BTS footage and if you’ve got deeper pockets then me pay for the scene. I am sure it will also disprove any of what she told Porn Valley Media.
http://jamesdeen.com/video/kora-peters-985.html
Kora also seemed to have very friendly feelings toward James after he supposedly raped her, twice, contacting him on Twitter.
http://therealpornwikileaks.com/all...-kora-peters-begs-deen-for-attention-in-2012/
I feel like if the media or anyone were real journalists nowadays someone would have uncovered this, instead of letting this horrible 10 victim narrative continue for longer than it has too. I know way more important things happened in our world during this time but if you’re reporting on this story and not doing any kind of research or investigation and just printing the victim accounts and vilifying James Deen, then I feel like that’s not Ok.
Maybe James Deen and his team were planning to do this anyway but as the days go by and this continues I got a little frustrated with how slow this was moving. I am an impatient girl and if I know the proof is out there, accessible, then I see no reason to hold up clearing James’s name or proving guilt if that were the case. If Mr. Deen’s team feels any of this is inaccurate I will remove it. If New Sensations has evidence that goes against what I saw in the scene. I will retract my comments. Of course I will apologize profusely to Kora Peters…if I am wrong.
The rape-culture crusade has ushered in a new era of mob justice.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsit...njustice-of-twitter-trials/17725#.Vm9H1fkrLIV
The world of adult entertainment has been rocked by allegations of rape and sexual violence against one of its biggest stars. James Deen, variously called the Tom Cruise and Ryan Gosling of porn, was accused by his ex-girlfriend and fellow porn actor, Stoya, earlier this month. Deen had developed a reputation as a ‘feminist porn star’, often including disclaimers in his films that everything depicted was completely consensual, and advocating for greater awareness of consent and sexual violence. Stoya took to Twitter and denounced Deen, accusing him of holding her down and raping her ‘while I said no, stop, used my safe word’. The tweet has been retweeted over 11,000 times. And there are now a total of 10 porn actresses who have come out and accused him of similar crimes. One woman, Tori Lux, posted an online essay accusing Deen of pinning her to the floor during a film shoot and hitting her on the head.
These accusations led to an online rush to express support for the women making them. An article in Time claimed the case represented a ‘shift in rape culture’ in which a ‘tidal wave of women’s truth’ was ‘washing away the detritus of lies about sex and violence’. The article appeared to have the case against Deen all sewn up, arguing that because between 0.2 and 8 per cent of rape allegations are false, Deen was probably guilty. Another writer said, ‘I don’t need Stoya or any woman to “prove” that she has been raped for me to believe her… I BELIEVE WOMEN. Period.’ The hashtag #IStandWithStoya began trending, with one tweeter claiming that if you questioned the truth of the allegations then you were ‘part of rape culture’. The fallout from the tweets has been swift: Deen has had his sex-advice column with a women’s magazine pulled and he has resigned from the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee.
Make no mistake: what’s happening to James Deen and others who find themselves on the harsh end of the Twitterati is terrifying. Deen’s is just the latest case of an allegation of serious sexual violence playing out in the kangaroo court of social media, in which the presumption of innocence and due process are routinely ignored. Sadly, these informal Twitter courts are becoming more popular. Deen’s case mirrors that of Jian Ghomeshi, the Canadian talk-radio host, who was subject to an allegation of sexual assault in a newspaper at the end of 2014. Shortly after the story was published, the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported began trending, with women posting allegations of sexual violence that they had not taken to the police. Ghomeshi has now been charged with sexual assault. Last year, 23-year-old YouTuber Sam Pepper was accused by a young woman in a lengthy YouTube video of raping her. The video received over two million views. But when the Los Angeles police contacted the woman, she refused to proceed with a complaint.
These Twitter tribunals pose a significant threat to justice. By plastering allegations all over the internet, by throwing opinions and judgements on to any available social-media platform, those making allegations and their supporters risk seriously prejudicing any future trials that may come as a result. When these allegations are made, the internet becomes awash with all kinds of potentially inadmissible evidence, which any defence lawyer worth their salt would point to as potentially prejudicial. Worse, the online scrutiny these allegations receive may work to undermine the credibility of these women. What if they say things at this stage that are inconsistent with what they may say later on? We may be very keen to ‘believe’ Deen’s accusers, but if he is ever to receive a fair trial they will have to convince a jury of his guilt. This will be a lot harder if they have shown themselves to be unreliable on Twitter or in the celebrity gossip pages.
The use of statistics in the discussion of Deen’s case, and other cases in which people rush to ‘believe at any cost’, has also been revealing. It is often said that a low number of rape allegations are false, and so most allegations of sexual violence are likely to be true. But the important caveat to the statistic that the Time piece and others missed was the word ‘provably’. It is true that only 0.2 to eight per cent of rape allegations are provably false. But, for obvious reasons, proving an allegation is false or misconceived is extremely difficult, perhaps even more difficult than proving an allegation to be true. Rape is a crime for which there is likely to be little objective evidence. It often comes down to one person’s word against another. The whole concept of ‘truth’ and falsity is very difficult when considering rape: two people’s perceptions of a particular interaction could be very different, with one person feeling as though what occurred was consensual and the other genuinely believing otherwise.
This is especially true in Deen’s case. Working on a porn set, in which extreme forms of sexual behaviour are far more common than in your average bedroom, means that the scope for misunderstanding, confusion and ambiguity is bound to be far higher. Once the word ‘provably’ is included the logic of the argument so often used to convict men like Deen completely collapses. Just because a low percentage of allegations are provably false does not mean that the rest of them are true.
But what makes these twitch-hunts even more dangerous is that we may never know if an injustice has been done. The move away from due process to online kangaroo courts means that those accused are simply punished at the behest of an online mob, without any scrutiny whatsoever, and then left to live with their sentence. If James Deen loses his career without ever going before a courtroom, we will never know whether this was a just outcome. We will just have to accept blindly the verdict of the Twitter court.
What the James Deen fiasco shows is that rape culture is a catastrophically dangerous idea. It is being used to usher in a new era of ‘no smoke without fire’ justice. In this world, the rush to ‘believe’ at all costs is elevated above the need for objectivity, impartiality and due process. We need to end the Twitter trials and give allegations of rape and sexual violence the serious and careful attention that they deserve.
Luke Gittos is law editor at spiked, a solicitor practicing criminal law and convenor of the London Legal Salon. He is the author of Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans. (Buy this book from Amazon(UK).)
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsit...njustice-of-twitter-trials/17725#.Vm9H1fkrLIV
The world of adult entertainment has been rocked by allegations of rape and sexual violence against one of its biggest stars. James Deen, variously called the Tom Cruise and Ryan Gosling of porn, was accused by his ex-girlfriend and fellow porn actor, Stoya, earlier this month. Deen had developed a reputation as a ‘feminist porn star’, often including disclaimers in his films that everything depicted was completely consensual, and advocating for greater awareness of consent and sexual violence. Stoya took to Twitter and denounced Deen, accusing him of holding her down and raping her ‘while I said no, stop, used my safe word’. The tweet has been retweeted over 11,000 times. And there are now a total of 10 porn actresses who have come out and accused him of similar crimes. One woman, Tori Lux, posted an online essay accusing Deen of pinning her to the floor during a film shoot and hitting her on the head.
These accusations led to an online rush to express support for the women making them. An article in Time claimed the case represented a ‘shift in rape culture’ in which a ‘tidal wave of women’s truth’ was ‘washing away the detritus of lies about sex and violence’. The article appeared to have the case against Deen all sewn up, arguing that because between 0.2 and 8 per cent of rape allegations are false, Deen was probably guilty. Another writer said, ‘I don’t need Stoya or any woman to “prove” that she has been raped for me to believe her… I BELIEVE WOMEN. Period.’ The hashtag #IStandWithStoya began trending, with one tweeter claiming that if you questioned the truth of the allegations then you were ‘part of rape culture’. The fallout from the tweets has been swift: Deen has had his sex-advice column with a women’s magazine pulled and he has resigned from the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee.
Make no mistake: what’s happening to James Deen and others who find themselves on the harsh end of the Twitterati is terrifying. Deen’s is just the latest case of an allegation of serious sexual violence playing out in the kangaroo court of social media, in which the presumption of innocence and due process are routinely ignored. Sadly, these informal Twitter courts are becoming more popular. Deen’s case mirrors that of Jian Ghomeshi, the Canadian talk-radio host, who was subject to an allegation of sexual assault in a newspaper at the end of 2014. Shortly after the story was published, the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported began trending, with women posting allegations of sexual violence that they had not taken to the police. Ghomeshi has now been charged with sexual assault. Last year, 23-year-old YouTuber Sam Pepper was accused by a young woman in a lengthy YouTube video of raping her. The video received over two million views. But when the Los Angeles police contacted the woman, she refused to proceed with a complaint.
These Twitter tribunals pose a significant threat to justice. By plastering allegations all over the internet, by throwing opinions and judgements on to any available social-media platform, those making allegations and their supporters risk seriously prejudicing any future trials that may come as a result. When these allegations are made, the internet becomes awash with all kinds of potentially inadmissible evidence, which any defence lawyer worth their salt would point to as potentially prejudicial. Worse, the online scrutiny these allegations receive may work to undermine the credibility of these women. What if they say things at this stage that are inconsistent with what they may say later on? We may be very keen to ‘believe’ Deen’s accusers, but if he is ever to receive a fair trial they will have to convince a jury of his guilt. This will be a lot harder if they have shown themselves to be unreliable on Twitter or in the celebrity gossip pages.
The use of statistics in the discussion of Deen’s case, and other cases in which people rush to ‘believe at any cost’, has also been revealing. It is often said that a low number of rape allegations are false, and so most allegations of sexual violence are likely to be true. But the important caveat to the statistic that the Time piece and others missed was the word ‘provably’. It is true that only 0.2 to eight per cent of rape allegations are provably false. But, for obvious reasons, proving an allegation is false or misconceived is extremely difficult, perhaps even more difficult than proving an allegation to be true. Rape is a crime for which there is likely to be little objective evidence. It often comes down to one person’s word against another. The whole concept of ‘truth’ and falsity is very difficult when considering rape: two people’s perceptions of a particular interaction could be very different, with one person feeling as though what occurred was consensual and the other genuinely believing otherwise.
This is especially true in Deen’s case. Working on a porn set, in which extreme forms of sexual behaviour are far more common than in your average bedroom, means that the scope for misunderstanding, confusion and ambiguity is bound to be far higher. Once the word ‘provably’ is included the logic of the argument so often used to convict men like Deen completely collapses. Just because a low percentage of allegations are provably false does not mean that the rest of them are true.
But what makes these twitch-hunts even more dangerous is that we may never know if an injustice has been done. The move away from due process to online kangaroo courts means that those accused are simply punished at the behest of an online mob, without any scrutiny whatsoever, and then left to live with their sentence. If James Deen loses his career without ever going before a courtroom, we will never know whether this was a just outcome. We will just have to accept blindly the verdict of the Twitter court.
What the James Deen fiasco shows is that rape culture is a catastrophically dangerous idea. It is being used to usher in a new era of ‘no smoke without fire’ justice. In this world, the rush to ‘believe’ at all costs is elevated above the need for objectivity, impartiality and due process. We need to end the Twitter trials and give allegations of rape and sexual violence the serious and careful attention that they deserve.
Luke Gittos is law editor at spiked, a solicitor practicing criminal law and convenor of the London Legal Salon. He is the author of Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans. (Buy this book from Amazon(UK).)
Seems like you have a lot emotions tied into this story, canada-man.
Why is that???
Why can't we wait for the facts to come out instead of jumping to one side or the other.
Seems some are quick to hang the guy while others defend him.
Like with the Jian Ghomeshi story I'll wait it out (unlike his fans who rushed to his defense)
More often than not the truth is in the middle.
Seems some are quick to hang the guy while others defend him.
Like with the Jian Ghomeshi story I'll wait it out (unlike his fans who rushed to his defense)
More often than not the truth is in the middle.
Actual "provable" rape is arguably out of control too...You're being extremely selective in your choice of battles.
The fact that a bottom-line, profit-driven business, like Porn walked away from James Deen so easily tells you that he's as much of an asshole as he admits to being. It's an unscrupulous business that chews people up and spits them out. The whole controversy just reinforces the cliche of an industry full of damaged people.
Please read this.
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume6/j6_2_4.htm
I found it shocking, and I think you will too.
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume6/j6_2_4.htm
I found it shocking, and I think you will too.
