[cerrelio]

Well, they actually did have (veiled) connections to various mafias. They had associates who just hung out all day in strip clubs and solicited girls (with the consent of the owners). Where do you think all those eastern European and Latina chicks starring in porn come from? Strip clubs are an entirely different level of shady.

Also, at the company I worked at, they had a sort of level of employee where you were "made". You got to go on lavish trips (the owner had a private jet) and dinners with executives. At that point, you had a job for life as long as you didn't fuck them over.

[harryjo]

I don't doubt (or endorse) claims of mafia connections, but I don't see how "recruiting at a strip club" is shady or criminal.

[cerrelio]

Two words: sex trafficking.

(To elaborate - strip club owners would often set up dorms where women hung out all day doing cam stuff. They would "import" the women, but eventually the porn companies came up with a less risky idea. They simply went to the origin countries and set up (with the help of the shadier people) these porn dorms. No need to illegally bring talent into other countries.)

[nickpsecurity]

What cerrelio is describing happens in my area, too. Another common technique is a modification of pickup-artist stuff where they make lots of fraudulent promises, push them into more risky stuff, often pressure them to do initial stuff in isolation, and/or use drugs for dependence. This is not to say that many women don't do it just for the money, fun, etc. There's groups that use those techniques to pull them. It's those that push them which we're referring to.

I don't know the ratio but there's a lot of pushers.

[digi_owl]

Makes me think of something i read a while back, about a "professional" (guy seems to have his own online show or something) pick-up artist. He claimed that he hated Nordic women, because his usual MO of offering economic support didn't work. This thanks to the Nordic welfare model.

[qb45]

You probably meant Roosh V: Don’t Bang Denmark

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/cockblocked-by-redis...

http://www.rooshv.com/katie-j-m-baker-purposefully-distorted...

[vidarh]

Roosh is probably the most disgusting PUA I've come across. His nazi sympathies and tendency to quote Hitler as an authority doesn't help either.

[us0r]

"Where do you think all those eastern European and Latina chicks starring in porn come from"

In the case of Eastern European girls - the overwhelming majority are shot in Eastern European countries (especially Czech and Hungary).

[rurban]

More like Russia over Hungary over Czech and Romania. Russians have their safe heaven in Russia because there's no foreign competition, and the mafia-like connections do help. Hungary's golden age is over.