Sex workers blast Louis Theroux in shocking claims they were ‘manipulated’ for tvshow

[Noregrets]

Watched this last night on Virgin Media, may have been discussed before.

It was cringe to watch Theroux to try put words in the sex workers mouths, and he was obviously not comfortable with their chosen line of work and IMO used his prejudice to give the impression the sex workers were not working in the industry by choice.

Having googled the show, the girls featured complained afterwards that the show did not represent what they had said or their own feelings.

The media sadly are very powerful and can twist anything to suit their own agendas.

[Northstar]

Louis Theroux used to make entertaining, fun and quite often hilarious documentaries in the late 90's till the early 00's.

At some point he decided to change his image becoming more serious. It was at this point that the editing of his shows became far more about his own personal narrative instead of just observing people in unusual and different situations with no judgement.

It was certainly strange to see him pushing his agenda so hard in the "Selling sex" documentary given that he spent months in a legal Nevada brothel getting to know sex workers very personally for his 2003 documentary "Louis and the Brothel".

In that film he does highlight one girls past but doesn't use it as a weapon against her in the final edit. Actually he strikes up quite a friendship with her.

However, in "Sex Sells", he concludes his time with each girl that he interviews with a sharp stab in the dark about why he thinks they are in the business.

I almost feel the girls had the image of the affable younger Louis in their heads when agreeing to do this.
Possibly they didn't realise just how much he had changed in recent years.

This recent film could have been so much different had he not decided to put his own spin on it. Being on a channel like BBC 2 with a mainstream audience watching there was a chance here to show the industry in a positive light.

Instead we got a quite one sided view that focuses heavily on individuals past. Whom among us doesn't have a history of past issues or some kind of troubles?. You could pick anyone, put then under a microscope and try to use those problems to somehow explain the path they took in life.

But that is ridiculous and even more dangerous given that this was then broadcast on TV.

Louis used to be a rebel but now sadly has just fallen in line with all the other pseudo-journos that are not willing to stray from the established narrative in fear they won't get another commission dare they say anything against the grain.

[Electro]

Journalism is dead. It's too easy offend people and people today are offended by the truth. What's portrayed in the media isn't the general audience's opinion.

I'm disappointed in Louis but I'm not really surprised. If he said otherwise woke culture would cancel him and #MeToo would support it