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Googling the phrase “celebrity fake porn” returns 37.3 million sites; “celebrity porn” generates 170 million; and “celebrity porn sites”, 60.5 million.
But it’s difficult to find any lawsuits against fake celebrity porn sites. One of the key reasons might be the awkward position celebrities inhabit in the public world. In most legal jurisdictions (though not all), it is permissible to parody or satirise a public individual and this allows the use of an identity in this way.
2) perhaps it is just embarrassing for celebrities to draw attention to celebrity fake porn – after all it is their face that has been used and to draw further scrutiny might be seen as further sullying reputations and images.
As this legal inertia continues, there is no question the universe of celebrity fake porn is expanding, partially driven by user-generated content.
It’s important to note that celebrity fake porn is potentially major entry point into online pornography and serves to link many pornography sites as users move through images. In other words, celebrity fakes do what celebrities do at red-carpet events: they attract attention and that attention is valuable for both the website and those linked to that website.
