Why we must hold Pornhub to account
This short article lays out how Pornhub is complicit in sex trafficking, exploitation and abuse.
This short article lays out how Pornhub is complicit in sex trafficking, exploitation and abuse.
This week saw the launch of a landmark report by Professor Clare McGlynn, Dr Fiona Vera-Gray, Dr Kate Butterby, and Dr Ibad Kureshi entitled “Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography”. This report is arguably the most…
The past week has seen a sadly necessary but welcome groundswell in media attention around the anti-sexual violence campaign group “Everyone’s Invited”, who have been active in highlighting just how prevalent and insidious rape culture and sexual abuse has become…
The University of Durham is now offering “training for students involved in the Adult Sex Industry”. Similarly, a so-called “Sex Work Toolkit” was put together by the University of Leicester a few months ago and went viral on Twitter, with thousands…
“I’m going to go in the other room, and I’m going to cover myself in oil, I’m going to do that for about 10 minutes, and I’m going to make about £8000”. This is the opening line of Channel 4’s…
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This past week, the Canadian Government finally put the owners of Mindgeek – and by extension its subsidiary company Pornhub – under the spotlight and grilled them on their involvement in hosting child abuse, rape, and other illegal content. Members…
Earlier this week, Teen Vogue published an article asking “is it bad to watch porn”. While the question itself is one regularly posed and batted away by pro-porn industry advocates, the article used some notably horrendous euphemisms to sanitise sexual…
Another nail in the coffin for Mindgeek this week, as news broke of a $600 million lawsuit being filed against them by a Canadian woman who alleges that MindGeek hosted a video depicting her sexual abuse at age 12 on…
The past week has seen some fantastic progress made in the fight against sexual exploitation in the porn industry. Pornhub have announced that they have removed, and will continue to remove, any videos not uploaded by “verified partners” after a…