Lawsuit: Homeless get $50 to be beaten on video

[KamaAina]

I don't know about you, but this is starting to remind me uncomfortably of the A.D. period of the Roman Empire. :scared:

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20110412/homless.paid.beaten/

A video company paid homeless men $50 to be filmed while scantily clad women punched, kicked and whipped them, according to a lawsuit filed this month in a Florida court.

Lawyers for two homeless men said the website www.shefights.net sells videos on the internet of the so-called "beatdowns," starting at $2.99 for a two-minute "sparring session" clip and increasing in price to $33.99 for a 33 minute clip of two women beating a man....

Several men explained that promoters and others from shefights.net recruited homeless men for the female domination fetish videos. The men were taken to a nearby townhome, where women beat them while someone videotaped the session. Sometimes, the men told Rolle, they were handcuffed or shackled and whipped or flogged....

The lawsuit said that said one woman fought 20-year-old Kyle Shaw and "used him as a punching bag," resulting in back injuries and a dislocated arm for Shaw. The other plaintiff, 37-year-old George Grayson, was videotaped on numerous occasions. Grayson said he was whipped and suffered multiple lacerations on his back.

:wow:

As for me, if I must watch women fighting, I'll watch women's boxing, thank you very much.

[arcane1]

1. I want to say I am surprised there is a market for this, but alas I cannot

NOTHING surprises me anymore in this regard!

[provis99]

2. throw these women in prison.

Then they can learn what it really means to fight when 220 lb Bertha wants to be their girlfriend.

[KamaAina]

5. I'd go with the men who are behind the whole operation.

The women are likely being victimized, too.

[provis99]

6. so if strong, vicious men got paid to beat up homeless women,

would you call them victims, too?

[KamaAina]

7. This is pornography.

Women in pornography are frequently victimized.

[provis99]

8. oh I get it.

You're part of the "women are always victims, men are always oppressors" crowd. got it.
Perhaps you'd like to see the homeless men charged with battery for getting in the way of the women's fists.

[tularetom]

3. If you say you wouldn't watch a nude mud wrestling match

between Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann you are being less than truthful.

[zazen]

4. Gee. I thought pornography was "protected speech"

even if the females being beaten/raped are doing it because they're so poor, crazy, traumatized, or scared of further beatings they're apparently "choosing" it.

:sarcasm:

[onethatcares]

9. yeah, it's happening right here in sunny St. Petersburg Floriduh

in the new condos lining one of the main drags.

Meanwhile prickscott cuts the budget for schools, medicaid, enviromental regulation, wetlands protection and every other thing he and his

cronies in the legislature desire.

That's even more obscene than men getting paid to be beat up by women.