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<blockquote data-quote="SlickyBoy" data-source="post: 1242268" data-attributes="member: 8508">The exact opposite is true - you can get married in some US states as young as 15, but the federal age for porn &quot;acting&quot; is 18. It&#039;s worth noting there&#039;s no allegations of anything underage going on or it&#039;d be case closed. What might cook their goose on the criminal charges is the bit about threats. If the guys were dumb enough to put that into some kind of messaging, coupled with a &quot;commercial sex act&quot; it could result in sex trafficking convictions. <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7102" target="_blank">The federal law</a> doesn&#039;t have to involve underage people, physical abuse or confinement. That said, my guess is the defendants will take a plea to any lesser charge without the word &quot;sex&quot; in it (garden variety extortion, etc.). If that happens, the monetary ambitions of lawyers in the civil suits are hindered:No sex offense convictions make a &quot;sex-slave theory&quot; lawsuit less convincing to a jury and belie the transactional nature of all participants. Plaintiff attorneys don&#039;t want to take that risk, or the even bigger disappointment if the defendants go to trial and are found not guilty.$17 million in revenue - holy crap, that&#039;s a lot of incels footing the bill.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlickyBoy, post: 1242268, member: 8508"] The exact opposite is true - you can get married in some US states as young as 15, but the federal age for porn "acting" is 18. It's worth noting there's no allegations of anything underage going on or it'd be case closed. What might cook their goose on the criminal charges is the bit about threats. If the guys were dumb enough to put that into some kind of messaging, coupled with a "commercial sex act" it could result in sex trafficking convictions. [url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7102]The federal law[/url] doesn't have to involve underage people, physical abuse or confinement. That said, my guess is the defendants will take a plea to any lesser charge without the word "sex" in it (garden variety extortion, etc.). If that happens, the monetary ambitions of lawyers in the civil suits are hindered: No sex offense convictions make a "sex-slave theory" lawsuit less convincing to a jury and belie the transactional nature of all participants. Plaintiff attorneys don't want to take that risk, or the even bigger disappointment if the defendants go to trial and are found not guilty. $17 million in revenue - holy crap, that's a lot of incels footing the bill. [/QUOTE]

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