https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/girls-do-porn-lawsuit-ruling-women-copyright-rights
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/style/girls-do-porn-lawsuit-testimony.html

The producers in question are the ones behind Girls Do Porn. Another article of note is the following, highlighting the same outfit:

https://thoughtcatalog.com/january-nelson/2018/03/heres-why-you-should-maybe-not-agree-to-film-a-video-for-girls-do-porn-the-website-that-features-real-amateur-girls-doing-it-on-camera-for-the-very-first-time/

In the second link, we are told there were over a dozen women involved in a June of 2016 lawsuit. (I wonder what the verdict was, assuming the case went to trial?)

There are certainly times when some women look upon themselves as victims and can exaggerate the tales of what has happened to them, as several commenters here have mocked. Yet there can never be an excuse for the ways in which the woman who has written what is above to have been terrorized, and to be coerced. (She may have agreed, but it is a prerogative for a woman to change her mind, when it comes to sex.)

It is easy to believe how they can be lied to by the sleazebags in charge, as with the promise of the video never being distributed on the Internet (although even if released on DVD, these women were not bright enough to figure what is on a DVD could easily be put on the internet by others), and then there is the trauma of having been “outed” by the patrons who are obsessed, as the second link describes.

The second link provided an additional story about the 2016 lawsuit:

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/sep/12/ticker-bad-reviews-san-diego-pornographers/#

In the comments section, one of the affected girls provided her thoughts. An anonymous coward with the handle of “Lana Ednos” (Based on his Facebook page, apparently some punk kid from Germany into video games) berated her, ending with this third comment:

“Melissa King i mean, by the time we talking here, i just saved all of your new facebook pictures, and made a copy of your friendslist. maybe i will send your good friends some links to your video. you are so smart melissa.”

As we may see, the degree of evil is not only limited to the producers of some porn outfits.
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Lets give these girls a break on how much they were paid because that fact makes little or no difference to the reality of the situation and lends the allusion of credibility to GDP claims of innocence. I will say though that the young lady I know was handed a stack of bills and told there was $5000 but after counting found that there was just over $3000, which sure fits these individuals m.o. and afford her story the attention it deserves.

Model Mayhem has helped many young ladies and men launch sucessful mainstream modeling careers. Business models like GDP and other less savory characters in the industry try and piggy back on their more respectable peers giving everyone a bad reputation, rightfully deserved or not.

Forget about GDP for a moment. Why not address the underlying socioeconomic factors that bring these young people into the industry in the first place? Don’t get me wrong, EVERYONE should have the inherent right to do what ever they want to their body, but lets at least make damn sure its under their own power and not someones elses direction.

The trafficking dynamics are troubling…from her willingness to subject her friends to the trauma she laments to the expectations that she or someone in the situation described has the fortitude to say fuck you I’m leaving and go.