Just another guy trying to make a buck? Or is he just another 'slime'? We report - you decide. Perhaps, a good dozen or so wacks against the guy's head with a hockey stick might improve his manners. Whaddya think?
From CNN - College Frat Parties and Nudity
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ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): College frat parties. For many they were the good old days. But for this woman whom we'll call Jill, a frat party that was supposed to be a good time turned into what she says was a nightmare.
Three and a half years ago, Jill was 18 years old when her boyfriend invited her to a party promoting a pornographic Web site.
JILL: We all thought it would be a good time watching people do stupid things.
CHERNOFF: After heavy drinking, some women began exposing themselves in front of men with video cameras. JILL: There were guys walking around with cameras trying to get girls to do things. Trying to get them to lift their shirts or kiss their friend. It was really creepy. Really creepy.
CHERNOFF: Jill says she and a female acquaintance entered a room and suddenly found the camera and all eyes trained on them.
JILL: I was just standing there and some girl started undressing me. And then it was the camera guy saying, oh, do this, do that.
CHERNOFF: Jill says she was drunk and that pressure from the crowd and the cameraman pushed her to do things she normally would never have done.
JILL: I couldn't stand up for myself and say, you know what, no, I'm not going to do this. There is no way that I could stop because I was so scared of what they would do if I stopped.
CHERNOFF: The cameraman worked for a Web site called CollegeFfests.com. The site packed with pornographic party videos. We'll call it CFF.
Soon the video was on the Internet, available to anyone willing to pay CFF's $30 a month membership fee. The night of the party, when Jill was drunk, she signed a document granting permission to appear in the video.
Jill says she came here to the company's Los Angeles office begging CFF to take the video off the Web but had no success. CFF, owned by a private pornography production company, GMM Global Enterprises, maintains it has no knowledge of any such request.
With the video online, Jill says she wanted to escape, just fly away. She dropped out of college and moved 200 miles away, but Jill couldn't escape her shame. A year after the party, she tried to kill herself.
JILL: I basically shoved like a knife, box cutter, glass, all into my wrists. Drank a glass of bleach. There is blood everywhere, all over my clothes, all over my face and I wanted to clean up. So I started cleaning up, blood dripping everywhere, and then I called my neighbor to see if he would help me clean up. And then he called the police.
CHERNOFF: Micah Coy is the host and lead cameraman of CFF.
(on camera): This woman appeared on your Web site, having sex, she tried to kill herself. That's how bad she felt after all of this. She felt totally taken advantage of. She regretted everything.
MICAH COY, INTERNET PHOTOGRAPHER: To some degree she sounds mentally unstable. You know, there are kids out there that, you know, have a bad day at school or something and then try to commit suicide.
CHERNOFF (voice-over): Coy claims he and his cameraman did not pressure Jill and never pressured women in their videos. COY: No one is forcing anyone in any situations. It is entirely up to the person -- at their discretion.
CHERNOFF: And, Coy argues, there is no undue pressure from men at the parties.
COY: Serious problems arise when you have two people naked and a bunch people drunk around them and you have everyone's emotions are going, you have a lot of hormones flying around. It can easily turn into a mob mentality and that was something I never wanted to have happen.
CHERNOFF (on camera): But your site is full of that. It is full of people egging them on. All of that.
COY: There is a finesse about it, I guess.
CHERNOFF (voice-over): What CFF finesse is is it's legal liability. Coy says a sign is posted at an entrance to all parties, giving notice cameramen will be shooting and those who appear on camera must sign waivers. Though neither Coy nor GMN Enterprises would show CNN the form.
(on-camera): Anyone who has sex on camera or exposes themselves on camera, right away afterwards you check their I.D., you have them sign a consent?
COY: Of course.
CHERNOFF: Afterwards?
COY: Yes.
CHERNOFF: What if somebody is passed out?
COY: We don't film people that are passed out.
CHERNOFF (voice over): But that appears to be the case in this CFF video. Coy says the woman is an actress. But he refused to give us her name or any contact information to verify his claim. On its web site, CFF advertises fraternities wanted, urging frats to invite CFF to film their parties. So Coy maintains he merely records what naturally happens at college.
(on-camera): So in a way do you see yourself as a person making a documentary?
COY: Indeed. Definitely.
CHERNOFF: Like National Geographic?
COY: Yes.
CHERNOFF: Except instead of animals, college students.
COY: People, yes. CHERNOFF (voice over): Believe it or not, CFF is not alone on the web. A quick search finds thousands of similar sites, including Drunk University and Dead Drunk Girls.
As for Jill, now 22, she is much smarter about life in the Internet age. Anyone, not just a professional pornography like Micah Coy, can snap a picture with a camera, especially those contained in cell phones and post it on the web. That means letting loose at a private party can easily become a public embarrassment, a mistake to regret forever.
Allan Chernoff, CNN, New York.
(Read Blogger: March 30th Entry)
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