In September 2020,
20 Minutes
revealed the opening of an investigation for “rapes” and “procuring” on the shooting conditions of films labeled “Jacquie & Michel”.
Since then, many actresses have spoken out to denounce the way they are treated by producers and directors.
In an attempt to regain their confidence, Jacquie & Michel and Dorcel have published “charters of good conduct”.
But these approaches are struggling to convince.
The phone call was made a few weeks ago.
On the one hand, an affable man.
Obviously proud to present himself as a “producer-director”.
On the other, an experienced porn actress.
Who therefore immediately understands that his interlocutor takes her for a fool.
“He told me he didn't even have a camera!
He didn't know he had to pay the girls on the day of the shoot, she says.
But he wanted us to do a scene together… Quiet!
"
The attempted crude approach would almost make you smile if it didn't perfectly illustrate the confusion the porn industry finds itself in today.
Since September, targeted by accusations of "rape", "procuring" and "trafficking in human beings" during filming, the middle of the X is struggling today to find a second wind.
“The judicial inquiries into Jacquie & Michel and French Bukkake have put a few guys out of harm's way, but others will come, prophesies the actress and producer Nikita Bellucci.
We must not be under any illusions.
Everyone squeezes their buttocks waiting for it to settle down.
But there will be other drifts… ”
“Intimacy coordinators” to put actresses at ease?
To avoid being associated with it, the big distribution platforms have decided to take refuge behind “charters of good conduct”. After that of Jacquie and Michel written in an emergency in three days of November, according to our information, the Dorcel company published its own on Wednesday. Four months of work. About thirty professionals from the sector interviewed. For about twenty measures which ultimately convince no one. "We believe in it almost as much as the tobacco companies who are committed against lung cancer," ironically the association Face à l'inceste, which is campaigning for the abolition of pornography.
However, Dorcel tried to answer the main problems. To reassure actresses who are sometimes "uncomfortable with a partner" during a shoot, the company now offers them the possibility of exercising a right of withdrawal. The contracts will also now have to specify in black and white the practices provided for in the scenario and the number of partners. And they will have to be sent a week before the shoot. Fifteen days before even for the actresses for whom it is the first time.
Above all, Dorcel now promises to appoint “trusted third parties” on the shoots.
Also called “intimacy coordinators”, these chaperones will be responsible for preventing actresses from having things imposed on them against their consent.
"Yes, but if these" trusted third parties "are chosen by the production, it is useless ... Me, I would only have confidence if I can choose my companion on my own", testifies Marion Lew, an actress who has just filed complaint for "sexual assault" after a nightmarish filming.
400 euros "minimum" for a heterosexual scene
Dorcel's charter, like that of Jacquie and Michel before it, however, fails to fully resolve the problem of the medical tests that the actors must pass before each shoot to avoid sexually transmitted infections. "We come up against medical confidentiality here," explains Matthieu Cordelier, a lawyer who participated in the work for Dorcel. We do not have, unlike the United States, an establishment or a laboratory which would centralize the tests and make it possible to ensure whether an actor is "available" for a shoot or not ... "A real concern: a few weeks ago , a French actress was accused of having falsified her tests and contaminated the actors with whom she had just shot ...
Beyond these material contingencies, it is above all the question of remuneration that arouses the anger of actresses today.
In this regard, the Dorcel charter is limited to "indicating" that a "minimum" of 400 euros must be proposed for a heterosexual scene.
Like the rest, this is only a "recommendation", without any coercive value ... A real problem, for Nikita Belluci.
“Porn is a bit like the court of miracles.
Without clear rules, you will always have girls who will take any fare.
And therefore producers who will allow themselves to make them do anything ... "
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Marion Lew doesn't want to hear about it anymore.
Like many actresses, she believes that the future now lies in platforms such as "Onlyfans".
On these networks, “fans” must pay a subscription to access the exclusive photos and videos available on the “creators” account.
Here, no need for a producer or director.
Basic equipment is sufficient.
And that works well for consumers looking for more ethical porn.
"And then, it allows you to have direct exchanges with your audience," says Marion Lew.
It works well.
Even if for the moment, it only allows me to earn 500 to 600 euros per month.
"
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Anxious not to insult the future, Jacquie & Michel also created its own network on this model and called it “MerciFans”.
But
the label still believes in old school porn.
“Obviously the rape accusations shocked us, recognizes Thierry Doucre, the brand's marketing director.
But we have changed.
We are now organizing unannounced visits to certain shoots to make sure everything is going well ... Our goal is for the porn industry to come out of it all.
"
Our file on Jacquie & Michel
And especially that the business remains juicy.
Thus, the franchouillarde brand prides itself on having ceased any new collaboration with directors and producers involved in “rape” cases such as Math HDX.
Difficult to do otherwise: this director who has more than 200 films to his credit is now sleeping behind bars.
But while several American platforms such as Pornhub, also in the eye of the storm, have just cleaned up their files, Jacquie & Michel have no way of removing their films from their catalog.
About twenty of them are still available for sale.
From 4.9 euros… We say thank you who?
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