Here is the definition of irony: The size of the audience watching and/or downloading your rape on Pornhub: hundreds of thousands. The size of the audience who knows your story: zero. Your body is on display for mass consumption, but your voice is locked away. This is the reality for many victims of rape, sex trafficking, assault, and other forms of abuse posted on tube sites like Pornhub. One of...
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It’s estimated that human trafficking earns roughly $150 Billion a year for traffickers, of which about $100 billion comes from commercial sexual exploitation. It's a massive criminal industry that enslaves somewhere between 20-40 million people worldwide. Trafficking has a wide range of forms, and many shades. It usually involves some level of coercion and abuse of vulnerability in order to exploit someone for sex. Many times victims don’t even realize...
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If you've been tracking with the Traffickinghub campaign then hopefully by now you're well aware that Pornhub has been hosting and profiting from real videos of rape and sex trafficking. We've exposed this through our petition, in articles, blogs, tweets, a viral video, and many other ways. But there's something about a piece of art that strikes differently. It pierces the heart in a way that, often, mere words cannot....
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Nine people from the “Czech Casting” channel owned by NETLOOK, the largest producer of pornography in the Czech Republic, were charged last Friday with human trafficking, sexual coercion, and rape.1 The videos produced from this criminal scheme were uploaded onto “Czech Casting” Channel, which is part of the Czech Authentic Video Network on Pornhub—it boasts nearly 1 BILLION monetized views across their channels. Pornhub has once again been caught monetizing...
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Over the last year, an abundance of evidence has surfaced showing Pornhub’s complicity in sex crimes. One of the most shocking and disturbing of these revelations has been the amount of child sex abuse material discovered on the site. Mind you, content they are profiting from. The Internet Watch Foundation investigated and confirmed 118 cases of child sex abuse material on Pornhub, in only in 2 years.1 Half of the...
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“I saw a video of you today on Pornhub.” Imagine getting a text like this. Then learning a private moment showing your nude body was broadcast to millions of people without your consent. Unfortunately, a growing number of people are grappling with this horrific reality—and unless something is done, it will no doubt continue. Last year, footage emerged from a secret camera placed inside a Limestone College locker room. The...
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At the height of my vulnerability, as a mentally ill eighteen-year-old, I was trafficked into the porn industry in Los Angeles. Over one hundred pornographic videos of me were made in a year, over forty of which are still featured on Pornhub. The videos were made over 10 years ago at one of the lowest and most vulnerable times in my life. It is disturbing to know that people are...
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How much damage can a two-minute video really do? Just ask a survivor of child rape. Or sex trafficking. Or revenge porn. Or any other form of non-consensual video content that has been monetized and made downloadable on Pornhub to its 115 million visitors per day. For most victims of the crime scenes featured on Pornhub, they've been scarred with lifelong trauma. The kind that takes years and years of...
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In 1986, the U.S. surgeon general concluded that secondhand smoke was a major health risk to nonsmokers. It’s been estimated that secondhand smoke causes the premature death of 41,000 adults and more than 400 infants each year. Tragic. The real tragedy of secondhand smoke is that it's extremely damaging those who choose NOT to smoke. You could say that it threatens and violates the innocent. When its danger was fully...
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