A man used women's need to pee for his own twisted fantasies.

A man used women's need to pee for his own twisted fantasies.

Right now, that man is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

He did a lot of damage.

102 victims.

I was the 102nd.

Men like him usually get away with it. That's exactly why I think more women deserve to know what can happen while camping.

So here's my story.

Last year. 2am. I'm at a campsite in Oregon, asleep in a tent with my husband.

All of a sudden, I needed to pee.

I've always hated going outside exposed like that, so normally I'd try to hold it until morning. But this time I couldn't. I had to go.

I left the tent, regretting it the whole way.

In the distance, I could hear a group of men laughing, drinking, playing music. I made a mental note of them — then squatted down and peed anyway.

A little dribbled onto my ankle. The usual discomfort. Whatever. Time to get back.

As I walked back, I heard rustling nearby. I walked faster.

Then I heard a man say, "That's a good one."

I walked even faster.

Within seconds I was back in the tent with my husband. Safe.

Or so I thought.

Something about the way he said "that's a good one" stuck with me. It was too quiet — like he was saying it to himself and didn't realize I'd heard.

In the morning, I told my husband.

He answered like he knew something I didn't. He told me about rumors of dark web sites where men buy trail-camera photos and videos of women peeing.

Then he said it: "What if there's a video of you?"

My husband called our younger nephew, who was camping in another tent, and had him pull up the site people had been whispering about.

It didn't show private parts. But it showed clear photos of faces.

"White Women Caught on Video Peeing" — $450
"White Women Caught on Video Peeing (no censor)" — $2,000
"Ugly White Women Caught on Video Peeing (no censor)" — $1,000

My heart sank.

Because the "Ugly White Women" video had my face as the thumbnail.

I was scared. Embarrassed. Completely violated as a woman.

My husband was fuming.

But my nephew kept scrolling, and he noticed something else: the ten most recent "girls" were all from this campsite.

We all got victimized.

But one woman was lucky, well actually, smart.

The only woman who wasn't on the site was my camping friend — the one who never left her tent to pee. She'd used a women's pee bottle instead, going right there in the tent.

She told me to use one of those too.

Anyway, my husband called the police and handed everything over.

Somehow it got escalated fast, because non-local officers were swarming the campsite within 45 minutes.

The feds.

Everything got shut down. Everyone was detained and questioned on-site.

Remember that group of men drinking, partying, and laughing?

Turns out the feds had been trying to track them down for months.

Their tent was bigger than everyone else's. Inside were five laptops running on a Starlink connection. They'd been running the entire operation out of that tent.

That "man" I'd heard? It wasn't one man. It was a coordinated group making money off these videos.

Disgusting.

Within hours, the website was taken down. And those men got exactly what they deserved: prison.

This is why I'm telling my story.

Every week, more sites like this pop up on the dark web. The creep market is huge. And where there's demand, there's supply.

So I'm urging women who camp: be aware.

Don't just pee anywhere. Don't let yourself be exposed anywhere.

The one woman who avoided all of this used a women's pee bottle so she could go inside her tent.

So, did I stop camping?

No. I love camping. I'm just smarter about it now.

I don't squat and pee outside anymore. I use a women's pee bottle, and honestly, I think every woman should.

Because even setting creeps aside, peeing outside comes with too many other unknowns.