Homeless men paid to get beaten up by women for video sales

This story shocks me. Homeless men were paid peanuts to get beaten to a pulp by women on video so the videos can be sold on a fetish site. What's the betting they were quietly told not to hit back? Excerpt:

'A video company paid homeless men $US50 to be filmed while scantily clad women punched, kicked and whipped them, according to a lawsuit filed in a Florida court.

Lawyers for two homeless men said the website www.shefights.net sells videos on the internet of the so-called "beatdowns," starting at $US2.99 for a two-minute "sparring session" clip and increasing in price to $US33.99 for a 33 minute clip of two women beating a man.

The lawsuit contends the beatings violate a state hate crimes law that specifically protects the homeless and that the producers are exploiting the poverty of transients for whom any cash is hard to come by.

"What type of society would allow this to happen?" said Neil Chonin, the lawyer for the homeless men. "This company preyed on people who are desperate."'

Interestingly, the words 'homeless men' are used regularly, rather than 'the homeless' or 'homeless people' - note the word MEN.