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> Read the stories that Mia Khalifa has put out

But she was posting amateur porn on Reddit way before she became a porn star. This is going back to 2013-ish, she posted on r/cuckold and r/hotwife very detailed descriptions and photos of her first sexual encounter in her new open relationship with her husband at the time (or maybe it was fiancé?).

Like literally in real time.. she posted text "Waiting for him to arrive" along with pictures of herself ... all the way to the finish as it were.

This was the first encounter of many that she willingly posted. Along with verification photos.

A lot of this feels like having your cake and eating it too. You created this persona and you promoted it and shared with the world when it suited you and enjoyed the wealth and fame.

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> But she was posting amateur porn on Reddit way before she became a porn star.

Not really “way before”.

> This is going back to 2013-ish, she posted on r/cuckold and r/hotwife very detailed descriptions and photos of her first sexual encounter in her new open relationship with her husband at the time (or maybe it was fiancé?).

Wikipedia reports that occurred in 2014, the same year as her professional porn career started (and, if her account of only working in scenes for 3 months is true, the same year as essentially her entire professional porn career, which started that October and ended in January 2015, not counting 11 subsequent months as a camgirl.)

> A lot of this feels like having your cake and eating it too. You created this persona and you promoted it and shared with the world when it suited you and enjoyed the wealth and fame.

According to Khalifa she made $12K in porn @ $1000/scene, Bangbros claims $178K over two years; in either case not exactly notable wealth. And the fame included wider public death threats, being publicly disowned by her family, etc.

Really, it seems more like pursuing what you think is cake and discover fairly quickly is cow dung and regretting and fleeing from it, more than having your cake and eating it to.

This is Consent 101. She consented to all those activities, and had agencies in them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8

What is your point? Did she consent to and get paid for the porn she made in later years or not?

The point is that she consented to the creation of the content and the distribution.

As with GDP, part of Mia's issue was that the content was distributed outside the terms she agreed to.

GirlsDoPorn involved more trickery/fraud/misleading/coercion than distribution terms.

True, but based on reporting the one common issue for all of the victims was that they agreed to make private videos for the private viewing of wealthy one-off clients in a far-away country and were not aware that the videos would be made available to the general public in their home country.

Rape by fraud is a form of rape in some states and many countries.

I am sorry you will have spell it out for me because I still don’t understand; what were the distribution terms she wanted? And how would those terms have resulted in different outcomes?

Yeah, I understand the GDP complaints; but Mia Khalifa seems to be the odd choice here.

Her most known video was filmed for a very well known porn company that was definitely known to distribute in the United States and the content was specifically meant to be controversial. If she was somehow misinformed, there’s gotta be some agency on her part (without victim blaming, if some manipulation occurred of course).

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