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For the most part, I think the most important thing is for people to be able to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't interfere with others having that same freedom.
However, first of all, I can be simply disguested by some things. There is nothing wrong with having limits to what you can stand to know about happening. Someone selling videos of women being abused, consentually or not, pushes a lot of our buttons.
I think there is more of a case here for this being wrong than simple discomfort, though. It is not an uncommon position that there are rights that a person cannot sign away... Mostly because there are things that no person should have to do, just because they need the money or whatever.
In the end, I think this site crossed all sorts of lines. I imagine the girls had their doubts, as they were filming... Even if they gave their consent before, I don't trust a situation where consent can't be withdrawn. With a strong man's hand around your throat, or once you have passed out, there isn't really an option to change your mind. That's why hardcore fetishists have safe words. No matter how much someone says they want something, people change their minds-- and it isn't okay to do those things once they have. It is your responsibility not to do things that someone can't stop you from doing.
I hope someone does get these guys on obscenity charges, and maybe even assault and battery. Who knows what else. People should have limits, and maybe if they get charged some people will wake up and realize that.
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