Evidence that Nicole Prause attends porn industry awards and events

Introduction

In 2013 former UCLA researcher Nicole Prause began openly harassing, libeling and cyberstalking Gary Wilson. (Prause has not been employed by an academic institution since January, 2015.) Within a short time she also began targeting others, including researchers, medical doctors, therapists, psychologists, a former UCLA colleague, a UK charity, men in recovery, a TIME magazine editor, several professors, IITAP, SASH, Fight The New Drug, Exodus Cry, NoFap.com, RebootNation, YourBrainRebalanced, the academic journal Behavioral Sciences, its parent company MDPI, US Navy medical doctors, the head of the academic journal CUREUS, and the journal Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity (See – Numerous Victims of Nicole Prause’s Malicious Reporting and Malicious Use of Process)

While spending her waking hours harassing others, Prause cleverly cultivated – with zero verifiable evidence – a myth that she was “the victim” of most anyone who dared to disagree with her assertions surrounding porn’s effects or the current state of porn research (See: Nicole Prause’s fabrications of victim-hood exposed as groundless: she is the perpetrator, not the victim). To counter the ongoing harassment and false claims, YBOP was compelled to document some of Prause’s activities. Consider the following pages. (Additional incidents have occurred that we are not at liberty to divulge – as Prause’s victims fear further retribution.)

• Nicole Prause’s Unethical Harassment and Defamation of Gary Wilson & Others
• Nicole Prause’s Unethical Harassment and Defamation of Gary Wilson & Others (Page 2)
• Nicole Prause’s Unethical Harassment and Defamation of Gary Wilson & Others (Page 3)
• Nicole Prause’s Unethical Harassment and Defamation of Gary Wilson & Others (Page 4)
• Nicole Prause’s Unethical Harassment and Defamation of Gary Wilson & Others (Page 5)

In the beginning Prause employed dozens of fake usernames to post on porn recovery forums, Quora, Wikipedia, and in the comment sections under articles. Prause rarely used her real name or her own social media accounts. That all changed after UCLA chose not to renew Prause’s contract (around January, 2015).

Freed from any oversight and now self-employed, Prause added two media managers/promoters from Media 2×3 to her company’s tiny stable of “Collaborators.” (Media 2×3 president Jess Ponce describes himself as a Hollywood media coach and personal branding expert.) Their job is to place articles in the press featuring Prause, and find her speaking engagements in pro-porn and mainstream venues. Odd tactics for a supposedly impartial scientist.

Prause began to put her name to falsehoods, openly cyber-harassing multiple individuals and organizations on social media and elsewhere. Since Prause’s primary target was Gary Wilson (hundreds of social media comments along with behind the scenes email campaigns), it became necessary to monitor and document Prause’s tweets and posts. This was done for her victims’ protection, and crucial for any future legal actions. Note: within months of this page going live, Prause became embroiled in two defamation lawsuits (Donald Hilton, MD & Nofap founder Alexander Rhodes), a trademark infringement case, and a trademark squatting case.

It soon became apparent that Prause’s tweets and comments were rarely about sex research, neuroscience, or any other subject related to her claimed expertise. In fact, the vast majority of Prause’s posts could be divided into two overlapping categories:

1. Indirect support of the porn industry (1, 2, 3): Defamatory & ad hominem comments targeting individuals and organizations that she labeled as “anti-porn activists” (often claiming to be a victim of these individuals and organizations). Documented here: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5.
2. Direct support of the porn industry:
   • direct support of the FSC (Free Speech Coalition), AVN (Adult Video News), porn producers, performers, and their agendas
   • countless misrepresentations of the state of pornography research and attacks on porn studies or porn researchers.

Evidence that Nicole Prause attends porn industry awards and events

There is no doubt that Prause attended 2016 X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) awards ceremony. According to Wikipedia,

The XRCO Awards are given by the American X-Rated Critics Organization annually to people working in adult entertainment and it is the only adult industry awards show reserved exclusively for industry members.^[1]

You can see photos and read more about the 2016 XRCO awards in this AVN article. From the article:

If there’s one thing the 32nd annual XRCO Awards Show proved, it’s that porn has not forgotten how to party. A major contingent of the industry’s biggest luminaries packed OHM nightclub at the Hollywood & Highland complex to sardine-like capacity for what was easily the organization’s most jubilant gala in years. Harking back to the free-wheeling porn megabashes of the pre-recession era, it was a genuine celebration for the ages and a rousing reminder that the commonwealth of adult is very much alive and vibrantly kicking.

On the XRCO site, the 2016 awards show is described as an “ADULT INDUSTRY ONLY event – no tickets – no fans – admission is based on recognition at the door or via RESERVATIONS”

Another pic of Prause at the XRCO with porn industry buddies:

Good times at the 2016 XRCO:

Prause at a reserved table with porn industry friends:

Watch this 20-minute video of the 2016 XRCO awards (pretty racy). Prause can be seen around the 6:10 mark sitting at a table with porn star buddy Melissa Hill:

UPDATE: Deletion of the above 4-year old XRCO awards video occurred not long after it was placed on this YBOP page. Nothing suspicious about that, right?. We are wondering if Prause asked XRCO officials to remove the video? Did XRCO help her out? After all, Prause attending the 2016 XRCO is a hotly disputed item the Hilton defamation suit. It’s important to note that the XRCO awards video was originally found and tweeted by Diana Davison in response to Prause threatening Davison with a lawsuit (largely because Davison exposed Prause as lying about attending the 2016 XRCO Awards):

That she lied about attending the XRCO event and she's threatening to sue people who say they've seen a picture of her there. Also, falsely accusing people of stalking just for doing research and defending themselves.

— Diana Davison (@d2davison) November 25, 2019

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From her tweets, it appears that Prause has also attended the Adult Video News Awards:

In June, 2015 Prause describes hearing  Jeanne Silver’s (a porn star) story “at AVN” (we must assume the Adult Video News Awards, because a Google search for Adult Video News returns mostly the AVN awards; second was the AVN expo).

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Trolling PornHarms, Prause offers free t-shirts to others willing to troll with her. The t-shirts are a tasteless parody of the FTND porn kills love t-shirts. The 3 winners are porn stars!

One of the porn stars (Avalon) is from Australia. She tells Prause that it’s too expensive to ship a t-shirt to her. Prause asks Avalon if she would like to pick up her t-shirt at “the AVN” (we must assume the Adult Video News Awards, because a Google search for Adult Video News returns mostly the AVN awards; second was the AVN expo). The only logical conclusion is that Prause will be attending AVN awards, the AVN EXPO, or both.

Avalon tells Prause to have an amazing time at the AVN.

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And on and on it goes with Nicole Prause and the porn industry.

Is it any surprise that FTND, or anyone else, might wonder if Prause, a former academic with a long history of harassing authors, researchers, therapists, reporters and others who dare to report evidence of harms from internet porn use, who lives in LA, who has obtained study subjects through the FSC, who hangs out with big names in the industry, who attends porn industry award ceremonies, and who has publicly been offered (and accepted) support by the FSC, might be influenced by the porn industry?

Again, no one has claimed Prause receives direct funding from the FSC or the “porn industry”. In fact, it seems most unlikely that the FSC would make any such arrangements directly, let alone make them public, even if they did exist. Nor has anyone stated that Prause is “in the porn industry” or “has, herself appeared in pornography“, as she falsely asserted in her bogus cease and desist letters, and in her response to Don Hilton, MD’s defamation lawsuit against her. Sections documenting these false assertions:

• October, 2016 – Prause publishes her spurious October, 2015 “cease and desist” letter. Wilson responds by publishing his letter to Prause’s lawyer.
• Ongoing – Prause silencing people with fake “no contact” demands and spurious cease & desist letters
• May, 2019: Prause triggers defamation per se lawsuit with bogus sexual harassment claim against Donald Hilton, MD
• July, 2019: Donald Hilton amends defamation lawsuit to include affidavits from 9 other victims of Prause, Texas Board of Medical Examiners complaint, incorrectly accusing Dr. Hilton of falsifying his credentials.

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Updates – Prause falsely claims she was accused over 1,000 times of having attended the XBIZ awards (it was the XRCO awards). Her tweets falsely accuse feminist Julie Bindel of attending XRCO awards

Context: Julie Bindel is a prominent anti-porn, anti-prostitution, radical feminist. As documented in Prause’s failed motion to dismiss Hilton’s defamation suit against her, and previous sections on this site, Prause has steadfastly asserted that she never attended ANY porn industry awards show.

Of course she is lying, as documented here: Evidence that Nicole Prause attends porn industry awards and events. There is no doubt that Prause attended the 2016 X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) awards ceremony as a friend of the industry. According to Wikipedia, The XRCO Awards are given by the American X-Rated Critics Organization annually to people working in adult entertainment and it is the only adult industry awards show reserved exclusively for industry members.^[1]

Despite the above tweet and a dozen more pictures, Prause insists she never attended the XRCO (when faced with irrefutable evidence, she simply doubles down on the lies).

In the following thread supporting PornHub and attacking NoFap, @BrainOnPorn (Prause) tweeted an XBIZ article targeting Julie Bindel. RealYBOP falsely claimed that Julie Bindel attended XRCO. This is a bold-faced lie. Bindel attended the XBIZ awards, which are open to the public (unlike the exclusive XRCO). Funny that RealYBOP’s tweet exposes her lie as the screenshot says that Bindel attended the XBIZ awards. Also notice how RealYBOP (Prause), Ley, and JamesF often work as a defamation tag team:

The purpose of RealYBOP’s tweet is to give the false impression that anyone (including anti-porn feminists) can attend the XRCO awards, including Julie Bindel. Lying comes easily for these porn-industry shills.

Months later and Prause is now forced to use her regular account – because the porn-industry shill Twitter account she managed (@BrainOnPorn) was permanently banned for targeted harassment and abuse. This time Prause adjusts the narrative, yet still mentions the red herring of Bindel’s attendance at the open-to-the-public XBIZ event.

The new version now has Prause being falsely accused over 1,000 times(!) of attending the XBIZ awards. Those “accusations” didn’t happen. All “accusations” were about her documented attendance at the exclusive porn-industry XRCO awards:

Notice the odd language she employs: “I was ticketed to go.” As for “only people in porn are invited,” this appears to be true for the “X-Rated Critics Organization awards.