So far, only a select group of the hundreds of women Girls Do Porn filmed between 2009 and 2020 have spoken out publicly about their experiences. Their stories follow a common narrative: girls responded to Craigslist modeling ads promising filming of pornography; operators promised that videos wouldn’t be seen online or sold outside their country; instead, these were uploaded onto Girls Do Porn website and other porn sites where names, contact information, and social media accounts of participants were made public – subjecting women to extensive online harassment.
One of the victims, known in court documents only as Jane Doe 1, said she was coerced into shooting pornography for Girls Do Porn in October 2015 after responding to a Craigslist ad advertising beginning models. She believed her video would go directly into an Australian DVD collection instead of going public online – however it ended up on both Girls Do Porn’s website and PornWikiLeaks, both controlled by co-owner Matthew Wolfe of Girls Do Porn. From there it quickly made its way out onto social media where videos identifying her as Girls Do Porn model quickly went viral.
Since her experience, Jane has been playing an ongoing game of whack-a-mole online, tracking down instances of her videos still posted online and filing Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests. Even though Girls Do Porn has since closed and both Ruben Andre Garcia and Teddy Gyi were arrested on sex trafficking charges; Jane still feels haunted by what happened that night and feels as if someone is watching over her.