Tag: PORNOGRAPHY
Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘I had an unhealthy relationship to porn’
Jada Pinkett Smith is opening up about once having a problematic relationship with pornography.
The 47-year-old actress shared on “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch talk show, that she “had a little porn addiction” in the past.
“I wasn’t in a relationship when I had a porn addiction, believe it or not, thank goodness,” she told her co-hosts, daughter, Willow Smith, and mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones.
She continued, “I actually feel like I was using ‘addiction’ a little lightly. And maybe I’ll say now that I had an unhealthy relationship to porn at one point in my life where I was trying to practice abstinence.”
Pinkett Smith, who has been married to actor Will Smith for nearly 22 years, said she resorted to outside stimulation because she felt an “emptiness,” adding that porn gave her “false expectations” when it came to interacting with real partners.
In the more-than-20-minute episode, Pinkett Smith and her family discussed how there is a stigma around enjoying porn, but also how addiction to it can be detrimental to a person’s career and personal relationships.
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Teacher accidentally played porn during history class: district
A substitute teacher in Michigan showed pornography for at least 30 seconds during a middle school history class, district officials said.
The unidentified teacher at O.L. Smith Middle School in Dearborn had intended to play footage about the Lewis and Clark Expedition, but mistakenly aired pornographic material to an entire class of startled seventh-graders on March 13, WJBK reports.
“This event was a very unfortunate and rare occurrence,” the school’s principal, Zeina Jebril, wrote in a letter to parents of the 29 students in the class. “Our district has very powerful and proven filtering software to prevent this type of event from happening. Each day thousands of students log on to the internet throughout the district without incident.”
Jebril said school officials were investigating how the incident occurred and what steps are needed to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
David Mustonen, a spokesman for Dearborn Public Schools, said the substitute teacher was “unaware that the video was there,” blaming the in-class peep show on a technological glitch.
“In this particular instance, it appears that there was some type of loophole,” Mustonen said. “One time too many, but very isolated.”
Police and district officials told WJBK there’s no evidence that a student was responsible for playing the footage, perhaps as a prank.
No criminal intent was found on behalf of the teacher, but the educator won’t be invited back to schools in Dearborn because district officials can’t confirm where the video originated, WJBK reports.
Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’
“Deepfake” creators are making disturbingly realistic, computer-generated videos with photos taken from the Web, and ordinary women are suffering the damage.
The video showed the woman in a pink off-the-shoulder top, sitting on a bed, smiling a convincing smile.
It was her face. But it had been seamlessly grafted, without her knowledge or consent, onto someone else’s body: a young pornography actress, just beginning to disrobe for the start of a graphic sex scene. A crowd of unknown users had been passing it around online.
She felt nauseous and mortified: What if her co-workers saw it? Her family, her friends? Would it change how they thought of her? Would they believe it was a fake?
“I feel violated — this icky kind of violation,” said the woman, who is in her 40s and spoke on the condition of anonymity because she worried that the video could hurt her marriage or career. “It’s this weird feeling, like you want to tear everything off the Internet. But you know you can’t.”
Airbrushing and Photoshop long ago opened photos to easy manipulation. Now, videos are becoming just as vulnerable to fakes that look deceptively real. Supercharged by powerful and widely available artificial-intelligence software developed by Google, these lifelike “deepfake” videos have quickly multiplied across the Internet, blurring the line between truth and lie.
But the videos have also been weaponized disproportionately against women, representing a new and degrading means of humiliation, harassment and abuse. The fakes are explicitly detailed, posted on popular porn sites and increasingly challenging to detect. And although their legality hasn’t been tested in court, experts say they may be protected by the First Amendment — even though they might also qualify as defamation, identity theft or fraud.
Disturbingly realistic fakes have been made with the faces of both celebrities and women who don’t live in the spotlight, and the actress Scarlett Johansson says she worries that “it’s just a matter of time before any one person is targeted” by a lurid forgery.
Johansson has been superimposed into dozens of graphic sex scenes over the past year that have circulated across the Web: One video, falsely described as real “leaked” footage, has been watched on a major porn site more than 1.5 million times. She said she worries it may already be too late for women and children to protect themselves against the “virtually lawless (online) abyss.”
“Nothing can stop someone from cutting and pasting my image or anyone else’s onto a different body and making it look as eerily realistic as desired,” she said. “The fact is that trying to protect yourself from the Internet and its depravity is basically a lost cause. . . . The Internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself.”
In September, Google added “involuntary synthetic pornographic imagery” to its ban list, allowing anyone to request the search engine block results that falsely depict them as “nude or in a sexually explicit situation.” But there’s no easy fix to their creation and spread.
A growing number of deepfakes target women far from the public eye, with anonymous users on deepfakes discussion boards and private chats calling them co-workers, classmates and friends. Several users who make videos by request said there’s even a going rate: about $20 per fake.
The requester of the video with the woman’s face atop the body with the pink off-the-shoulder top had included 491 photos of her face, many taken from her Facebook account, and told other members of the deepfake site that he was “willing to pay for good work :-).” A Washington Post reporter later found her by running those portraits through an online tool known as a reverse-image search that can locate where a photo was originally shared.
It had taken two days after the request for a team of self-labeled “creators” to deliver. A faceless online audience celebrated the effort. “Nice start!” the requester wrote.
“It’s like an assault: the sense of power, the control,” said Adam Dodge, the legal director of Laura’s House, a domestic-violence shelter in California. Dodge hosted a training session last month for detectives and sheriff’s deputies on how deepfakes could be used by an abusive partner or spouse. “With the ability to manufacture pornography, everybody is a potential target,” Dodge said.
Videos have for decades served as a benchmark for authenticity, offering a clear distinction from photos that could be easily distorted. Fake video, for everyone except high-level artists and film studios, has always been too technically complicated to get right.
But recent breakthroughs in machine-learning technology, employed by creators racing to refine and perfect their fakes, have made fake-video creation more accessible than ever. All that’s needed to make a persuasive mimicry within a matter of hours is a computer and a robust collection of photos, such as those posted by the millions onto social media every day.
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Man guilty of photoshopping stepdaughter’s head onto porn
A man who photoshopped his teenage stepdaughter into pornographic photos involving himself said he did so because he was morally outraged about her blossoming sexuality.
However, Brisbane District Court Judge Leanne Clare on Monday dismissed his claims as “implausible,” saying his sexual obsession with the girl he had raised since she was two warranted 12 months behind bars.
The court heard the creation of the images took place in late 2014, just months after he was given a suspended sentence for touching the same girl’s genitals while she slept.
He used Photoshop to digitally add images of the girl when she was about 13 onto the bodies of adult women engaged in sexual acts with himself. He also created an image of her engaged in bestiality with a dog. The man, now 51, was arrested in September 2015 after being caught with around 100 images on hard drives in his luggage as he returned to Brisbane from a trip to South Africa.
He described the photos as “artworks” and said there was no sexual motivation behind their creation.
However, he pleaded guilty to four charges including possessing or producing child pornography material outside Australia, and importing and exporting objectionable goods without approval.
His lawyer, Colin Reid, urged the court to accept the man’s claims, saying he had “unusual beliefs” about promiscuity.
He told the court his client created the photos after his stepdaughter, then aged 16, told him she was becoming sexually active with her boyfriend. Judge Clare was sceptical.
“On material that I currently have before me, I find your client’s explanation not credible,” she said.
“Perhaps you were jealous of her interest in other people, but what you did was hardly an act of parental concern.” She sentenced the man to two years’ jail but ordered he be released on a good behaviour bond after serving 12 months.
The 51-year-old was arrested in September 2015 after being caught by customs officers with around 100 images on hard drives in his luggage as he returned to Brisbane from a trip to South Africa.
He is being sentenced on Monday in the Brisbane District Court on four charges including possessing or producing child pornography material outside Australia, and importing and exporting “tier two goods” without approval.
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Man admits to tricking women into sex for ‘porn rehearsals’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City-area man has pleaded guilty to duping dozens of women into having sex with him on camera by telling them they were rehearsing for roles in pornographic movies.
The U.S. attorney’s office says 34-year-old Mario Antoine, of Raymore, pleaded guilty to one wire fraud count and will be sentenced to 10 years in prison under the terms of the deal he agreed to Friday. He also will be required to pay restitution to his victims. Formal sentencing is set for Sept. 13.
Prosecutors said Antoine created online aliases as a talent manager, photographer and videographer and claimed to work for fictitious companies in the pornography industry. Investigators say he promised to pay the women thousands of dollars.
Prosecutors say when the women complained about not being paid, Antoine forwarded images of the sexual activity to their employers or significant others.
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