'A lot of girls get into it really impulsively in a way that they could not do in the past because of the internet, because it's so immediate,' Gradus says. The impulsive nature of that first entree, however, can be misleading, explains Gradus. These are girls who want to do something with their lives and they see fame and fortune because they get $800 a shoot, five shoots first week. 'They've just been given a free ticket to Miami, which represents freedom to them. It's a starkly different image from the historical notion that young women are driven into pornography out of desperation, or peer pressure.'They feel a tremendous amount of power,' Bauer says. Initially, the young women in this story feel tremendously empowered. So we put the boy version of Sexy Baby on the back burner and we just ran with this one.' It turned out that it really had not been told and we just thought, whoa, this is the story.
If this was really the story, that thousands of girls are doing things, it would have been told by now. 'We just thought to ourselves, wait a minute, this can't actually be happening.