In 1999, Sandler was deported from Cambodia for operating a pornography website called "Welcome to Rape Camp".[1][4] He was referred to by The Cambodia Daily as the country's first known Web pornographer.[6] The website was the subject of an academic paper published in the Journal of Sexual Aggression, with the author noting that viewers were encouraged to "humiliate these Asian sex slaves to your hearts content" and that viewers could pay to have their preferred bondage acts performed on the women.[7] Sandler claimed that the women featured on the site were not harmed, but told the Associated Press that it would be a good thing if the site was perceived as encouraging violence against American women, because "I hate those bitches". He blamed an ongoing divorce for his misogynistic attitudes. As a result of the scandal, he changed his first name to Adam.[8]