Four hours after James Deen denied the rape allegations made by his ex Stoya, a second woman came forward with a similar claim. In an essay published on The Daily Beast, former adult performer Tori Lux described an “assault” that took place on a porn shoot in 2011.
According to Lux, Deen got aggressive with her after she finished her shoot. (He was on set, but not filming with her that day.)
“I hadn’t even had time to dress myself when he said, with a smirk on his face, ‘Tori Lux, would you like to sniff my testicles?’ ‘Nope,’ I replied in a neutral tone. ‘I’ll repeat myself: Tori Lux, would you like to sniff my testicles?’ he asked, more aggressively this time. I replied with a firm ‘No,’ in order to establish my boundary—which James then disregarded by grabbing me by the throat and shoving me down onto a mattress on the floor.
He proceeded to straddle my chest, pinning down my arms with his knees. Then, he raised his hand high above his head, swinging it down and hitting me in the face and head with an open palm. He did this five or six times—hard—before finally getting off of me.”
Lux alleged that she stood up after the initial attack, before being grabbed again by Deen. He then “shoved me to my knees, forcing my face into his crotch several times before shoving me to the floor,” she wrote. According to Lux, there were witnesses on the set, but no one intervened.
Lux declined to pursue police assistance because of a widely held assumption about sex workers. People generally, and police specifically, “tend to believe that sex workers have placed themselves in harm’s way, and therefore can’t be assaulted,” she wrote.
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