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It took over a week and accusations of sexual assault from somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 ten women, but porn star James Deen has finally broken his silence.
In an email interview with former porn star Aurora Snow of The Daily Beast Deen gives his side of the story which has grown exponentially since his former girlfriend and fellow porn star Stoya first tweeted that he had raped her and went on record again with in an interview the other day.
Deen claims that he is “completely baffled” by Stoya’s accusations as well as the claims of the many other women who have come forward. He even goes so far as to postulate that Stoya is fabricating her story to drive traffic to her Web site.
Here are a few excerpts.
With regard to Stoya’s claims…
I do not know at all. I am completely baffled. I also can’t speak to her motivations. There are public articles all over the internet, written by her, that make the exact opposite claims. She discusses how we communicated and how we were very careful with consent especially when involved with rough sex. What I do know is that Stoya and I did not have a clean break up. It was pretty messy, full of a lot of emotions and both Stoya and I are to blame for that. She made threats towards me and harassed one of my employees. She spit at this employee as well as sending very inappropriate texts. I have spent this past week terrified and confused so I can’t help but run through the details of our relationship in my head. The reason Stoya made this claim could be as simple as her finding out that my current girlfriend and I are moving in together. We have mutual friends, one of our friends notified Stoya of this information. It could be as calculated as Stoya trying to drive traffic to her website. Which I have to say is very well done and I am proud to have the movie I produced for her up on the site, but the same day this happened she pinned a tweet about her site that just so happened to have an update with me in it right above this madness. I can’t speak to her reasoning or motivations.
With regard to the claims made immediately thereafter by Tori Lux…
I can safely say that did not happen. All of the accusations are from either ex-girlfriends or events that happened on set. I always try to take responsibility for my actions and apologize when needed. As far as these other claims, at a certain point I feel like people have to step back and analyze this stuff in context. Most of these are descriptions of things on BDSM or rough sex sets. When I am on set I am under instruction of the company who is paying me. I could describe the events of the scene I was in the other day and it could be just as dramatic. I have no desire to blame people who consider themselves victims or throw stones. I will just say this: my job as a performer for rough sex companies is to engage in certain acts. If at any point I pushed boundaries past the point of comfort, I am sorry. I have always tried to respect peoples’ limits and safe words and operated within that space. If someone expressed anything to me I honored the request with the fullest care.
Deen then goes on to address pretty much each individual accusation that has been made against him as well as public perception of him as a “feminist.”
The whole thing is pretty much one denial after another so at this point we’ve basically got a he-said, she-said situation on our hands.
Unfortunately, there are SO MANY women making accusations that it’s going to be very hard, no matter what Deen says, for him to come out of this looking anything but awful.
Read the entire interview over at The Daily Beast.
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