The website that purchases a billboard in Times Square and supplies snow plows to clean Boston streets takes pleasure in being the cheerful, winking face of naughty, and Pornhub is no exception. In order to help individuals during the COVID-19 outage, it provides free hot material and donations to charities working for racial equality.
The purportedly “wholesome Pornhub” surpasses even Netflix, Yahoo!, and Amazon in monthly visitors with 3.5 billion. With over three billion ad impressions daily, Pornhub makes a tidy sum.If you believe one ranking, Pornhub is the tenth most popular website on the planet.
But there’s more to the story: rape films abound on the company’s website. It makes money off of things like child rape, revenge pornography, anti-gay and racist movies, and spy cam footage of women taking showers. Searching for “girls under18” (without the space) or “14yo” yields over 100,000 videos in each instance. Sadly, a large number of these depict the brutal abuse of children.
A Florida mother discovered her daughter, who had gone missing at the age of fifteen, in 58 explicit films posted on Pornhub. Rather than the corporation itself reporting sexual attacks on a 14-year-old California girl to the authorities, it was a classmate who watched the footage that did so. Despite the apprehension of those responsible for the attacks, Pornhub managed to avoid accountability for its role in spreading and benefiting from the films.
Similar to YouTube, Pornhub lets users upload their own videos. Many of the 6.8 million films uploaded annually show nonconsensual violence and child abuse, however the vast majority likely include adults who are consenting. We don’t know how much stuff is unlawful on Pornhub or anywhere else since it’s hard to tell if a child in a video is 14 or 18.
Pornhub differs from YouTube in that it lets users download videos straight from the site. Authorities may succeed in having a rape film deleted, but by then it could be too late: As more people watch it or submit it, it will remain online indefinitely.
A woman called Cali informed me that Pornhub became her trafficker. Adopted from China to the United States, she claims her adoptive family subjected her to trafficking and forced her to star in pornographic movies starting at the age of 9. She added that films showing her being assaulted had made it onto Pornhub and that they appear on a daily basis.
The five years that Cali has been away from that life haven’t stopped the sales, she added. Even though she is now 23 years old and enrolled in college with the goal of becoming a lawyer, the shadow of those old movies never leaves her.
She spoke about how she might never be able to escape this. “People are still masturbating to my photos, even though I’m 40 years old and have eight children.”
I should be easy to discover if you search for ‘Young Asian,’ she said.
Possibly not, in fact. As of late, such search on Pornhub returned 26,000 videos. Not included in this tally are the videos that appear in Pornhub’s suggested “related searches,” such as “young tiny teen,” “extra small petite teen,” “tiny Asian teen,” or simply “young girl.” A Pornhub channel named “exploited teen Asia” may not even have its videos included.
Rape, not pornography, is at issue here. It’s unacceptable to advocate for the sexual assault of minors or anybody else without their permission. Like Pornhub, the issue with Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and Jeffrey Epstein was not the sex itself, but rather the absence of permission.
Many of the films I found on Pornhub depicted violent acts perpetrated on girls and women while they were unconscious. As a sign that their victims were unresponsive, rapists would open their eyelids and touch their eyeballs.
This last autumn, Pornhub made a killing off of a video showing a group of Chinese guys torturing a nude lady. Titles like “Screaming Teen,” “Degraded Teen,” and “Extreme Choking” are part of video collections that it is selling. If you watch a video of someone choking, it can recommend looking up “She Can’t Breathe” as well.
Being positive for sex and negative for Pornhub should be doable.
Pornhub issued a statement in lieu of an executive availability request. “Pornhub has implemented a thorough, industry-leading trust and safety policy to identify and eradicate illegal material from our community,” it claimed, emphasizing its commitment to eradicating child sexual abuse material. Any claim that Pornhub permits the hosting of child pornographic movies “is irresponsible and blatantly false,” the website continued.
Serena K. Fleites, a fourteen-year-old Bakersfield, California, girl who had never had a sexual encounter with a male, was an A student. However, she had a secret infatuation on a year-old kid in eighth grade, and he even urged her to film herself undressed. This altered the course of her life once she sent it to him.
She was both terrified and flattered when he begged for more. “That’s when I began to receive peculiar looks in class,” she said years later. Someone uploaded the footage on Pornhub after he shared them with other lads.
A universe crumbled around Fleites. Being 14 is hard enough without having your peers take pleasure in staring at your nudeness and insulting you as a slut. “People were texting me, threatening to send videos to my mom if I didn’t respond with one,” she explained.
Fleites started skipping class after the boy’s suspension because she couldn’t handle the embarrassment. After Fleites’ mother got Pornhub to take down the videos, her daughter changed schools. However, word got around the new school, and the movies were back up on Pornhub and elsewhere in no time.
Fleites started cutting herself after an argument with her mom. Eventually, she emptied the medication cabinet of any antidepressants she could locate.
She awoke in the hospital three days later, angry that she was alive. After that, she committed suicide by hanging herself in the restroom; miraculously, her younger sister discovered her and medical professionals were able to save her life.
An acquaintance of Fleites’s exposed her to meth and painkillers, which accelerated her downhill spiral. She lost her housing and dropped out of school.
She started selling nude images and videos of herself on Craigslist when she was 16 years old. She may earn some money and maybe even use it as a form of self-punishment. “Everyone has seen my body,” she informed me, and she felt worthless after that.
Also, Pornhub ended up hosting those videos. Removing them would be Fleites’ first request. She explains that this is how it generally works, but that they would be uploaded again. Apparently, she was too embarrassed to apply for fast food jobs after seeing a nude video of herself that received 400,000 views when she was fourteen years old.
At the moment, Fleites, a 19-year-old Bakersfield resident who has been clean for a year but is still jobless and frightened, lives in her car with three dogs—animals who have shown to be more devoted and affectionate than humans. Veterinary technician is her career goal, but she doesn’t know how to get there. “Going to school while living in a car with dogs can be a bit of a challenge,” she remarked.
She admitted, “I was dumb,” and went on to say that she had no idea the recordings might the internet. It is incredible how something as little as an adolescent’s actions may lead to something so significant.
“One small error has the potential to alter the course of an entire life.”
The issue extends much beyond a single business. In fact, XVideos, Pornhub’s competitor, may get more users since it has even less morals. Sites like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter also feature depictions of child abuse. Companies who profit from child abuse have Google’s backing.