there are the givers and the takers there are the sharks and the teddy bears there are the hunters vampires users and predators that like to hide within the industry.
Being a model it is very strange to me that there is not more information on this. It is bizarre that all day long we hear so much and there is so much news yet so much of it is not very informative. First I will define what these are and then I will move into how to spot them how to test people how to avoid ending up with them in the first place then I will discuss what to do if you find one, or if you become involved with one or if someone you know is you will hear me use the word typical alot this following information is based on a combination of research observation and life experience.

definitions: below I will describe what you are looking and the things that you can see or sense:

A predator:

A predator is more often then not someone who has in many ways lost there sensitivity lost there soul lost there respect for human life, they are often selfish and often have had or done everything. They are people who have done so much and had so much that often life becomes empty. Because things which when you have your sensitivity and your soul. Predators often come in pretty packages, more often then not they are wealthy, successful, and have many of the things the world and the media says are important not always but most of the time people become predators because nothing makes them excited anymore. Here is an example when I was young I encountered a man who owns one of the largest and most successful corporation in the united states. He is wealthy had success women threw themselves to him. But the thrill was gone because there was no game no challenge so the only thing that got him intrested or into it was to use force because normal wasent good enough it was dull to him. He became a preditor because sex and sexuality were not about love it was about a game. Now he worked in a usual way, first they try to usually gain your trust and respect. They draw you close the intice you they offer you something you want. Preditors prey of your dreams, most of the time that is exactly where they start. The truth is most preditors are very intune they can read you they know what you want and they will play off your dreams of your weakness. Most preditors are hyper intelligent and munipulative. This is why they get away with it. So there is an old saying if anything is too good to be true it probley is. Most preditors will tell you everything you want to hear to get you close to them most preditors will earn your trust or your circles trust and then pounce after the trust is earned. In the fashion industry preditors hide behind the titles agents,photographers and sometimes other models although for the most part they tend to hang in positions of power where there is control. There are good agents and bad ones and the same with photographers not all are bad but some are and you have to be aware. The best way to spot them is a combination of a few things the first is to be aware they exsist, and keep your eyes open and look below the surface. Ask them why, ask yourself why, if you feel like they are invading your space or if you feel like they are looking at you like a peice of meat they probley are. Preditors tend to work hard to get you alone the stories i hear and have been through all usually have that in comman although you have to be aware of two or more preditors working together. So usually they will do there best to get you alone and then often through drugs or achohol in the mix, then they usually pounce. Sometimes they will drug girls, sometimes they wont, sometimes they will take you far away sometimes it will be in there office or studio or on location but it happens and it is a reality. Preditors want to eat and you are there food, they get off on taking advantage of people they get off on the control, it is about power and control not about love and sex they get off on controling you or over powering you and getting you to do something you most likely didnt want to do. Sometimes they will just touch or fondel you, sometimes they will rape girls sometimes they will get you high and drunk or drug you so then you never say anything because you think it is your fault. They tend to be munipulaters to the extreme and will often make you feel like you did something wrong they will flip it so you feel bad. This is more of there game and it is based on a lie so be aware they do it to control you. preditors will thrive as long as we keep our eyes and mouth shut. They are all over the place and the internet is making it easier for them to reach there prey with less of an issue of being caught. They look for niave, innocent, trusting people. They look for those who they think will be too scared or too hurt to speak out or turn them in. Sometimes they will just get off on you getting naked for them, which is another trick they love. They often try to impress you with there money, fame, power, connections, what they can do for you to help you. But they tend to go over bored, if someone says trust me you have to wonder why they are saying that.
To bust one myth they use often, no one person will make you a star it is you and you alone who can do it. No one person can destroy your carrer I was told I would never work because I left a manager or an agency and that is a lie. There are thousands of photographers and agents you DO NOT NEED to be uncomfortable or to BELIEVE they are the only way. There are many ways and many people. I remember one photographer who was pretty big that I was working with in south beach and he made all these promises about what he could do, I did a few photoshoots and then he started wanting me to hang out, to stay with him, to sleep in bed with him saying I needed to so we could do better work. I did sevreal high end shoots with him and then I went to get the prints and the copies of the work and he basically said if I didnt he wouldent and I remember sitting there he was big he worked with all the big agencys the big magizines he was a big deal or so it seemed. But when it came to me sleeping with him I was not attracted in the least I only sleep with people I want to sleep with. So I looked at him and said " there are thousands of good photographers, and if you want a call girl there are numbers in the paper" he was shocked that I didn't bend , and didn't buy into his little game. I walked away and never looked back I would have liked to have continued to work with him but I cant work with people I can't respect. I went and told my agency and the word spread and the reality is photographers think they can pull that and sure they can sometimes unless they run into someone like me or hopefully when all is said and done you because you know the truth. You dont NEED them, dont let them control you there are so many more. Find the good ones don't waste your time on the bad ones. It is not worth it and there are lots of good people just find them.

users:

these people often wont try to rape you or get you naked but they may. these are the people who use you, for gas, money, rides, connections, there are a lot of models who are users and its sad because it hurt both people. Users take and take and never return, we all need each other to exsist to create to learn to share to grow. Users though are usually all about them and no one else and they just want to get as much out of you as possible and then move on. They dont care about anyone or anything except themselves usually. The modeling world is an industry as a model you have to face the reality you will be used, as a model you are a product understand that so you dont feel so bad when people who used to love you wont speak to you. The users are all over though agencys, photograpehers, you name it they are everywhere they are usually so sugarly fake and they say nothing but how wonderful and beautiful and marvoulus you are honey. Not saying all who say this are lying I am just saying those who say it and that is all they say you may want to watch out for. The industry will use you up though and throw you away unless you know what is going on and the only way to understand something is to look to study to watch to question it. It is best not to let your head get big because if you are hanging out with users they will use that to own you. If you live for anybody else but yourself you will be doomed to a cycle of severe ups and downs. The users know this and that is why you will see all these people following and almost worshiping some people within the industry because they understand how to make you feel good, they use your lack of self confidence and or your youth and lack of understanding to control you and then they use you to get as much as they can out of you and when they got what they wanted you are no longer relevent to them.
Photographers will often push a model to do nudes and it isnt about helping the model but helping the photographer. Once he gets them they dissapear and you are wondering what you did wrong. Nothing it is a bussiness you are a product and once you give it to them if they are users they move on. An agent who tells you if you do this or that for this person or that person ( dinner,dates,favors,sex,) you will get ahead, or if you take care of your agent ( dinner,dates,presents,flowers,sex,drugs) then they will take care of you. People like this are users, and are best to be avoided. A healthy relationship is give and take, if one person makes another uncomfortable and dosent care and trys to convince the person that the feelings are wrong and they are wrong, if they tell you they are always right and you are always wrong then you may need to be more aware.Once again it is a big industry so if you feel unhappy or like you are being used first try to confront the person and speak out they may not be aware if they continue to do it after you speak out move on.

vampiers:

no fangs no blood we are talking energy. Vampiers are those people who latch onto you and wont let you go. There are a good handful of them out there they are people who need to feed energy off of someone else. They tend to be people who don't know how to feed themselves on there own, vampiers tend to be lost souls and tend to have to feed off your inspiration energy and so on. Now we all do it in someways and there is nothing wrong with it in moderation we all feed and inspire each other but it is dangerous when you become the center of there lives and they need you all the time. Vampiers never want to go away, they drain your energy because when you are around them they are feeding. They never give back in energy, maybe in money or presents or connections but not in energy. They tend to be depressed they tend to want to hang out all the time even when nothing is being created. They are like letches they attach themselves to you and wont let go. I see this happening with models alot they will be hanging out with someone who is all over them and you can tell they arent so happy " why are you doing it besides the money, or connections, or work" and usually when I have asked other people that as well as myself there is no other reason besides the money, connections, or work. Now we cant always be around people we like but there is a diffrence between what is healthy and what is harmful. Now I have had my share of energy vampiers and due to the fact that I seem to be a magnet for strange creatures I have learned how to deal with them. You can tell them you need space but vampiers will find excuses to invade that space, you can tell them you don't want to see them they will make you feel bad so you continue to see them, they will munipulate you silly. So when you think you have a vampier you have to flip the position. You have to reverse it, which is simple enough, you tell them how you feel and then you ask them why they need you they may give you a ton of ansewers, from there you can push it what you need to do is get them to understand you can't make them happy or make them better that they have to do that on there own. I have told people I can't be around them till they are happy without me. I have had to walk away and hope people would find themselves. If people feel worthless or not good enough they will often try to make up for it by being around people they think are better or pretty or worthwhile and this is not a bad thing unless they become letchs and dont grow and dont learn that the reason people are this way is that they are often happy or content with life. Many older people do it with younger people I see alot of that going on and the younger people are usually controlled by money or connections or something. It isnt a healthy cycle because they are using each other and if you are not being open and honest it is negitive. There is nothing wrong with exchanging with working together it is when the lies and the munipulation and the truth being covered that there is a problem. If you tell someone they drain you, it should make them either try to change or at least be aware, if you continue to be drained and dont see change you have to cut them off and its not easy and often it is not for forever but it has to be done because if you cant work it out you cant let them drain you. Some will change some wont but if you really love them or care you have to try to do what is right not what is often easy

So now that we have that covered lets move on, the entertainment industry tends to attract odd and off beat people. There are alot of people who are lonely and who deep down inside dont feel like they are good enough as they are so they feel they have to prove they have to earn there worth. A large of beautiful work comes from pain lonelyness and the longing to be loved, being creative is a much better ansewer then supression. Most of the people who are preditors,vampiers,users are often more then not people who where either lonely felt unloved or where themselves abused.They usually never got help or dealt with there pain and so the pain turned to anger and there hearts went numb or cold.The number of people who are sexually mentally and emotionally abused dosen't seem to be falling but rather rising. The cycle cannot be stopped unless we are aware and proactive if something happens to you and you are silent you will often become overtime cold hard and numb and end up doing it to someone else. If you deal with the pain, if you seek help for yourself and the person involved then often you can fight back. The real battle is not about us against each other but against something far larger. We all have the capacity to harm and we all have the capacity to love, if someone harms us then we need to see what we can do to dissolve and ressolve the situation. In order to resolve it we must be open about it, the truth never hurt anyone. It is the lies and covering things up that cause the harm. We all make mistake and if we allow others to hurt us and do not say anything we are as well causing harm. We all want love we all want to be whole and happy and we all mess up and we all hurt each other. If we find ourselves with a preditor we need to challange the situation tell others who you trust be open be honest. The only true way to stop things is to turn a light on and expose the truth. If the light is not turned on it will only continue to get worse, the numbers are not falling but seem to be rising it is a cycle someone is abused and then becomes the abuser. The way to stop it is to not run from the pain but to face it work through it confront it and understand it. Preditors are people too and we could all be there. So prevention is the way, you would look before you cross the street it is the same policy understand what you are getting involved with. Search it dont just accept things question them. Look at intentions and motive, look at people and look at there lives, what are they like as people. Look at what is around them, look at there relationships. Just really look.
The best way to avoid preditors is to ask lots of questions dig look search and follow your gut. The very process of you searching will usually make them run, because most preditors do not want to be uncovered. They used to love me because I was young from a small town and trusted everyone and wanted to love people and do love people. So I got pounced on a few times, and each time I learned, each time I went back and I saw the things I should have seen but had never been taught or warned so I had no idea. Then I became friends with some to understand them, then I suppose by understanding I became on there level but I made a choice not to use my understanding just for selfish purposes. Which is what seperates the angels from the demons the angels want to help you and will do whatever they can to do that and it is self-less they dont want anything back the demons are all about what they can get out of it. Angels and demons are the same it is the intention and the motive that really affect the outcome. With people is it often the same situation. It is not indiviual acts it is the intention and the motive. In order to see someones intention and motive you have to look, but you can see it if you look. I began to understand how to tell over time and then I learned how to see often from just there mannerisms, people who are all about them will reveal themselves, you can tell if you are aware. You feel like you are meaningless a sidekick you feel often like you have to EARN there APPROVAL selfish people make you feel that way. Self-less people will build you up, often they will tell you the truth even if it is hard to hear, they will do what is right for you not them. They wont be afraid to offened you or call you out. The light offen appears dark and the dark light. As I said if things are too good to be true they most likely are.