![]() ![]() "The victims must be believed and heard, and justice must do its job. Jacquie et Michel hides behind its status as a “broadcaster”, a means of absolving itself of any responsibility for the content of videos posted online.Īs for Gregory Dorcel, boss of the porn giant of the same name, the necessary defense of victims must not lead to "generalisation" or to a "caricature". "We are anxious to be able to explain this to the investigators in order to show the seriousness of our companies and the fierce desire that the adult industry be just as respectable and respected as any other industry," Michel Piron, the CEO of Jacquie et Michel, stated in a letter. ![]() Major porn companies including Jacquie et Michel and Dorcel have announced the publication of ethical guidelines meant to prevent abuses, but those prosecuted for complicity in rape and human trafficking contest the accusations. Pornhub screen ROMAIN LONGIERAS / HANS LUCAS / AFP Taking / avoiding responsibility The report states that Acrom should be given stronger means to impose "dissuasive" fines on porn sites accessible to minors, and that the government should impose the "development of age verification devices". A court rejected the blocking order in early September and suggested mediation. The senators also put forward a proposal to prevent minors from accessing porn on the Internet, a precaution which is theoretically required of broadcasters but which is often not applied in practice.įrance’s media regulator Arcom (ex-CSA) has been seeking to block access to porn sites unless they put in place age-verification mechanisms that prevent them being viewed by children. ![]() The report released yesterday puts forward 23 recommendations, including strengthening legal arsenal to better protect actresses, the recommendation to "make sexual violence committed in the context of pornography an offence of incitement to a criminal offence", and facilitating the deletion of online videos in the "right to be forgotten”. The films were viewable in France and the producers demanded large sums of cash (between €3,000 and €5000) from the women to remove them - only for the images to continue to circulate online. Investigators believe the women were lured into participating under false pretenses and were told the videos would only be accessible on private Canadian websites. "These legal proceedings reveal the barbarity, violence, sexist and racist hatred of the French pornographic industry," commented a group of feminist associations in a statement, which welcomed the Senate's "fundamental report". Three actors and a director were taken into custody this week in the latter investigation, for aggravated human trafficking, gang rape and aggravated pimping. Dozens of alleged victims have come forward in what has been described as one of the country’s biggest trials over sexual violence. The parliamentary report comes as the French "amateur" porn industry has been rocked for the past two years by several judicial investigations, one targeting the "amateur" porn site ‘Jacquie et Michel’ and the ‘French Bukkake’ platform. The report states clearly that the government must lead the charge against the excesses of the porn industry and that the fight against this violence must become a "public and criminal policy priority." One of the country's biggest trials over sexual violence “When the woman cries, she really cries,” says Charles, referring to certain videos online. ![]()
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