When Maryann Sahoury agreed to do an instructional breast-feeding video, she thought she was going to be helping out other mothers. To her horror, that tape was made into a pornographic movie. Yes. That's right. Porn.
Now she is suing the Meredith Coproration, a production company, for allowing what she thought was a beautiful thing into smut. And boy is that video trashy.
Sahoury was invited to do the video by her lactation consultant, who said it would appear on a popular parenting website Parents TV. She decided to do it "because she felt her own personal experience would be insightful and helpful to other first-time mothers who are considering breastfeeding," according to court papers.
She and she her 1-month-old daughter demonstrated breast-feeding techniques in the 2010 video created to help new mothers. But someone pirated the video and took portions of that footage and intermixed it with a pornographic clip. "It went from me talking, to a woman who looked like me having sex. It was just a full porn video, maybe six or seven minutes long," she told CBS New York.
Google-ling herself, many links to pornographic sites and videos popped up. The same happened when she typed in her little girl's name too. “It was terrifying,” she told The Associated Press.
The Meredith Corp was shocked too that someone had misused their video. Though Sahoury feels the company did not do enough to take the video down from the Internet once it was discovered. Plus, her lawsuit alleges she was promised her their last name would not appear but the Iowa-based company says Sahoury signed a release allowing them to use her image, voice, and name.
“Sometimes I want to crawl into bed and say, ‘God I wish it wasn’t me,’ but it was me for a reason,” she said. “I need to be as strong as I was when I made the video and say, look, I’m still supporting mothers everywhere, our rights to breast-feed wherever and whenever we want and not be exploited by major corporations or any kind of perverts.” AMEN SISTER
This story is just sad proof that nothing is safe or sacred anymore. What kind of a pervert turns nursing a baby into something to masturbate to. Totally sick.
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reality of the breastfeeding situation is there are sick people out there looking for anyone with skin showing. if your baring all in public then ur at risk to being taking advantage of like this. i breastfeed in public but always covered up. i wasnt ashamed of the fact tht i was a mom feeding her baby the natural way. i had respect for the families and children around me and did not want to expose myself. and there are men like this everywhere i just wish women would stop being so naieve thinking tht they shouldnt make an attempt to cover themselves becuase their baby is hungry. theres ways to do it by covering up. there are people around you tht may stare and or be offended by your nipples. just know there are children who havent been exposed to breast and perverted men who want an oppurtunity to catch a peak. just cover ur nipples.
I feel so disguested by whoever did this. I don't think a mom signing a release should give anyone the right to be able to use her video clips in a manner that is porn related. I wish whoever did this would get jail time, but I know that won't happen. This is in no way this mothers fault, she was just trying to do something good to help others.
She has NO ONE to blame but herself. If you're going to make a public video of yourself topless, it may be a good idea to read all the paperwork with a lawyer present. If you do not do this, you have no one but yourself to blame when that video ends up on a porn site. I do not feel bad for her.
I feel so disguested by whoever did this. I don't think a mom signing a release should give anyone the right to be able to use her video clips in a manner that is porn related. I wish whoever did this would get jail time, but I know that won't happen. This is in no way this mothers fault, she was just trying to do something good to help others.
Except she admitted to signing something she didnt read...whose fault is that? I guess we should blame the school she went to for not giving her common sense
Victim-blaming is chauvanistic, too. While it was not wise of her to not read the contract, it does not make it okay for her instructional video to be made into a porno!