For two months I've been dating this girl, we decided to be serious/exclusive after about a month. I really clicked with her and we get along with no problems until now. She's met my parents and even bought them a christmas gift.
So I just found out a few days ago that she's made some 'erotic' home movies with her ex boyfriend that found their way on to the internet. I found the video myself when browsing one of these porn you tubes. I did a double take and I recognized her face while watching it. Her face wasn't prominently displayed throughout the video, but she is clearly recognizable at certain points. Anyone who knows her can recognize her.
What's worse, you can stream the same video live on nearly 15 different porn tube websites, as it seems quite popular. I saw one site had well over 33,000 views, and a number of perverted comments from viewers. The videos have been live and active for 2 years when I saw the upload date. and when you google the title they gave the video you can find download links on rapidshare. The video has spread, and it's all over the internet.
She was young, about 23, when they made the videos together . he was her first boyfriend and took her virginity. he was much much older and basically treated her like crap in every possible way. They made lots of videos together, and lots as is maybe 6 months of being together making videos practically all the time. He used her, degraded her, and exploited her. She is, was, very naive. She must have recognized he didn't love her, was using her, and either didn't mind or was dumb enough to think he would come around I guess. She let him do pretty much anything he wanted to.
The video that I saw on the porn tube has pretty mild, regular stuff as far as what they do, nothing extreme. However, when searching throughout google to find more sites that feature the video, I stumbled onto another video of her with the same guy. This was a different video, with much more upsetting material. She has anal sex, and he was very rough while doing this. you can see her face saying oww, and you can see the pain on her face when she's getting it. He's yelling these degrading things to her, thrusting on her as hard and fast as he can, and in the end he finishes on her face. This one is not widespread as the other, but it is out there.
This video was upsetting to me on a number of levels. I can accept maybe she was with the wrong guy and made some bad choices, but she totally let herself get manipulated and used and exploited and this will be out there forever. Not only that, but she lied about herself when I breezed over the subject of her past, and what she was into bedroom-wise. I asked her if she's ever tried anal sex and she told me no, and that she wasn't it. Not only did she try it, she realllly tried it. She said she didn't have much experience in bed, and even asked if 'I could teach her.' She was used like a slut, and there is permanent reminder of this online. It;s bad enoughto know how she was treated but to know it has a life of it's own online. I trusted her, she met my parents, I really perceived her a different way.
I can understand a girl being shy about her past and sort of wanting me to feel like I was special, but this goes above and beyond lying, especially when I came to her as down to earth and laid back as can be, not stressing her over things like this. I confronted her with this, i was pretty understanding/nice about it. She had no idea they were online, and she did not give consent for them to be seen. I helped her to go to the police and report this. She filed a police report of harassment against him, and is trying to either file criminal charges of invasion of privacy and harassment or go get an order of protection at a family court. I'm really not sure what she'd doing as this just happened few days ago. To be honest I think the videos will never stop circulating, nor will she ever win any kind of victory in court, as the guy will probably claim it was stolen, and she'll just end up looking bad.
It's hard for me at this point, as I want to be there and support her, but I really don't know if I can shake those images, the way she lied to me, the stuff she's done with guys and what that says about her personality, all of this kind of stuff. I really saw her as a sweet girl, and I even saw a possible long term thing with her. Now I see her as a naive bimbo. After all this was discovered, she came clean and was honest about her ex and the videos, and even told me a few other things I didn't want to know about her.
This really came in and ruined everything, I'm stuck in between hating her, caring about her, being sexually addicted to her, and wanting to break away clean immediately. Right now I've told her we're friends and that I'm here to help, but we are not together. She's been crying and begging me back, very appreciative of how I have been handling it, and seemingly very serious about wanting me in her life. Can I really be serious about a girl who has videos online? probably not. It's a big shot to the gut, any objective opinions on what you would do would be helpful.