He Said, She Said

Well, I was going to post about the new 2257 regs that came out last week, but I think that my post over at Viv's linked to an article which did as decent a job as I could have, and has input by an actual lawyer, so instead I'm going to fan the flames of Porn Valley gossip instead.

Back on Friday, ill-loved porno yenta Luke Ford posted a letter that he had purportedly received from Bessi, formerly ultra-filthy* pornstar Bisexual Britni. In it, she described a life of oppression and abuse at the hands of her ex-, Dennis. It's an upsetting, tragically plausible tale.

But.

About a year ago, a West Coast friend of mine mentioned that he had been propositioned by a woman on a popular internet classifieds site in response to a picture of himself that he had posted. After assuaging my initial disbelief**, he told me that woman in question had mentioned that she was a pornstar, in an open relationship. He gave me the name that she had given him and after a little bit of digging, I confirmed to him that a woman with that name was better known in the porn world as, you guessed it, Bisexual Britni.

Now if Bessi-formerly-Britni is to be believed, she "never even SAW [her] emails", which would mean that it was probably abuser Dennis propositioning my friend and pretending to be Britni. I find that... creepy. But even if you accept Dennis arranging seedy anonymous hookups between Britni and strange men posting mask-wearing pictures of themselves on sleazy hookup sites, my friend also reports that he spoke to Britni on the phone, and she sounded distinctly female. In his own words:

My thought is that either A: Dennis does a much better job imitating a woman that you'd believe or B: she's exaggerating a bit. Mind you, I'd never take away from the horror of an abusive relationship, but ... at least a year ago she was more free to talk than [her letter to Luke] would lead you to believe.

Of course, thanks to the anonymizing power of the internet, any of all of this could be complete bupkus. The woman that emailed Luke might not be Britni. The person that emailed and spoke to my friend might not have been Britni***. Bessi-formerly-Britni could be lying. My friend could be lying. I could be lying. But hell, isn't that what internet gossip is all about?

* And I don't use that descriptor lightly.
** "A woman!?"
*** Though she did have the last name that Britni used, which may not prove anything, but definitely adds a soupcon of veracity to the tale.