SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT
SEARCH
Hit enter to search or ESC to close
Fight the New DrugFight the New DrugFight the New Drug
Pornhub Reportedly Profits From Nonconsensual Videos And Real Rape Tapes—Here Are The Latest Examples
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
26.6K
SHARES
Pornhub-blur-pixelated-nonconsensual-porn-exploitative-sexting-revenge-porn-illustration
It’s no secret that Pornhub is one of the biggest free porn sites in the world. But what is lesser-known is exactly what kind of illicit and illegal videos this porn giant profits from.
The site has been in the news in the last few months for a range of reasons, but not for the reasons you might expect—they’ve gotten press from Kanye West’s porn habit confession to their “conservation efforts.”
In recent history, the tube-site has tagged their name to charitable efforts like planting trees, saving bees, and now cleaning up the ocean. Pornhub’s latest 2019 “Dirtiest Porn Ever” campaign asks consumers to watch an explicit video filmed on a garbage littered beach, and in return, this free porn website—one of the largest in the world—will donate to a plastic waste recycler. (The donation is an undisclosed sum. Chances are it’s similar to their “Save the Whales” stunt when they donated a penny for every 2K views. That’s $50 for 10 million views, in case you’re curious.)
Related: The Disturbing Irony Behind Pornhub’s “Anti-Domestic Violence” Campaign
Cleaning up the environment is no joke, but doing it under the guise of promoting a product with known harmful effects is virtue signaling at its finest. Pick up a trash bag and ditch the porn, we say.
Many people have praised Pornhub’s efforts to clean up one beach, but it doesn’t begin to make up for their abusive and downright illegal business practices. Story after story in recent news has also shown how tube sites like Pornhub profit from nonconsensual videos—including real rape videos, secret filming, revenge porn, upskirting, stolen videos, and child abuse videos of a trafficked teen.
And if you’re into Twitter threads, we’ve got one that compiles all of the following info:
FTND
✔
@FightTheNewDrug
We’ve been seeing a number of people praising PornHub recently for the porn video they released to help raise money to clean the ocean. But shall we review just a few other things PornHub has been in the news for, just in the past couple weeks??
5,296
8:35 PM - Oct 30, 2019
Twitter Ads info and privacy
3,738 people are talking about this
Note that as these reports are circulating in public conversations and a growing number of articles from large publications, Pornhub representatives aren’t denying the existence of this illicit and unacceptable content on their website.
Laila Mickelwait
@LailaMickelwait
Got confirmation that Pornhub/Mindgeek execs saw my article. The only thing they disputed was that they are technically registered in Luxembourg for tax purposes.
That. Speaks. Volumes.#Traffickinghub 👇 twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1226513759868506118 …
Washington Examiner
✔
@dcexaminer
At this very moment there could be hundreds, if not thousands, of videos of underage sex trafficking victims on @Pornhub**.**@LailaMickelwait says it’s time to shut down super-predator site Pornhub and hold the executive megapimps behind it accountable. washex.am/31CLaFf
312
12:11 AM - Feb 14, 2020
Twitter Ads info and privacy
115 people are talking about this
Give One For Love
The latest cases of illicit material on this massive porn site
Brace yourselves for a depressing list of the nonconsensual videos found on Pornhub in just the past couple of months alone. Note that for every known example, there are many more unidentified and other examples that aren’t public…yet.
Videos of underage sexual assault and rape victims
When Rose Kalemba was 14 years old in 2009, she was abducted by men driving around her neighborhood and reportedly raped by them for hours. Nearly losing her life and being stabbed multiple times, she was able to reason with the attackers and escape with her life.
She thought her nightmare was over, despite being victim-blamed and attempting suicide the day after she was released from the hospital.
A couple of months after the attack, Rose discovered a Pornhub link her schoolmates were sharing around—it was the video of her rape. There were 6 videos in all of the attack.
The video was uploaded under the titles: “teen crying and getting slapped around,” “teen getting destroyed,” and “passed out teen.”
Rose described the following days and months to the BBC in an interview. “The worst videos were the ones where I was passed out. Seeing myself being attacked where I wasn’t even conscious was the worst,” she said. Most of her peers in school saw the uploaded videos, and intense bullying from both male and female classmates ensued.
SEARCH
Hit enter to search or ESC to close
Fight the New DrugFight the New DrugFight the New Drug
Pornhub Reportedly Profits From Nonconsensual Videos And Real Rape Tapes—Here Are The Latest Examples
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
26.6K
SHARES
Pornhub-blur-pixelated-nonconsensual-porn-exploitative-sexting-revenge-porn-illustration
It’s no secret that Pornhub is one of the biggest free porn sites in the world. But what is lesser-known is exactly what kind of illicit and illegal videos this porn giant profits from.
The site has been in the news in the last few months for a range of reasons, but not for the reasons you might expect—they’ve gotten press from Kanye West’s porn habit confession to their “conservation efforts.”
In recent history, the tube-site has tagged their name to charitable efforts like planting trees, saving bees, and now cleaning up the ocean. Pornhub’s latest 2019 “Dirtiest Porn Ever” campaign asks consumers to watch an explicit video filmed on a garbage littered beach, and in return, this free porn website—one of the largest in the world—will donate to a plastic waste recycler. (The donation is an undisclosed sum. Chances are it’s similar to their “Save the Whales” stunt when they donated a penny for every 2K views. That’s $50 for 10 million views, in case you’re curious.)
Related: The Disturbing Irony Behind Pornhub’s “Anti-Domestic Violence” Campaign
Cleaning up the environment is no joke, but doing it under the guise of promoting a product with known harmful effects is virtue signaling at its finest. Pick up a trash bag and ditch the porn, we say.
Many people have praised Pornhub’s efforts to clean up one beach, but it doesn’t begin to make up for their abusive and downright illegal business practices. Story after story in recent news has also shown how tube sites like Pornhub profit from nonconsensual videos—including real rape videos, secret filming, revenge porn, upskirting, stolen videos, and child abuse videos of a trafficked teen.
And if you’re into Twitter threads, we’ve got one that compiles all of the following info:
FTND
✔
@FightTheNewDrug
We’ve been seeing a number of people praising PornHub recently for the porn video they released to help raise money to clean the ocean. But shall we review just a few other things PornHub has been in the news for, just in the past couple weeks??
5,296
8:35 PM - Oct 30, 2019
Twitter Ads info and privacy
3,738 people are talking about this
Note that as these reports are circulating in public conversations and a growing number of articles from large publications, Pornhub representatives aren’t denying the existence of this illicit and unacceptable content on their website.
Laila Mickelwait
@LailaMickelwait
Got confirmation that Pornhub/Mindgeek execs saw my article. The only thing they disputed was that they are technically registered in Luxembourg for tax purposes.
That. Speaks. Volumes.#Traffickinghub 👇 twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1226513759868506118 …
Washington Examiner
✔
@dcexaminer
At this very moment there could be hundreds, if not thousands, of videos of underage sex trafficking victims on @Pornhub**.**@LailaMickelwait says it’s time to shut down super-predator site Pornhub and hold the executive megapimps behind it accountable. washex.am/31CLaFf
312
12:11 AM - Feb 14, 2020
Twitter Ads info and privacy
115 people are talking about this
Give One For Love
The latest cases of illicit material on this massive porn site
Brace yourselves for a depressing list of the nonconsensual videos found on Pornhub in just the past couple of months alone. Note that for every known example, there are many more unidentified and other examples that aren’t public…yet.
Videos of underage sexual assault and rape victims
When Rose Kalemba was 14 years old in 2009, she was abducted by men driving around her neighborhood and reportedly raped by them for hours. Nearly losing her life and being stabbed multiple times, she was able to reason with the attackers and escape with her life.
She thought her nightmare was over, despite being victim-blamed and attempting suicide the day after she was released from the hospital.
A couple of months after the attack, Rose discovered a Pornhub link her schoolmates were sharing around—it was the video of her rape. There were 6 videos in all of the attack.
The video was uploaded under the titles: “teen crying and getting slapped around,” “teen getting destroyed,” and “passed out teen.”
Rose described the following days and months to the BBC in an interview. “The worst videos were the ones where I was passed out. Seeing myself being attacked where I wasn’t even conscious was the worst,” she said. Most of her peers in school saw the uploaded videos, and intense bullying from both male and female classmates ensued.
In talking to Fight the New Drug about her story, the now 25-year-old Rose said:
“My assault itself put me in a mental prison, but PornHub gave me a life sentence. Millions of men watched the six videos of my assault. I have no way of knowing how many of those millions downloaded them and still have access to them even after PornHub finally removed them from its site after I pretended to be a lawyer… The porn industry made it so that my rape didn’t just end that horrible night, and my fears weren’t just that—they quickly became reality. Because of the porn industry, I was harassed, stalked, threatened, and so much more for years and years after my attack. I was followed multiple times when I was walking around, spit on, and groped, and touched against my will—by complete strangers and also some boys and grown men I knew.”
Every day, she had to live with the aching anxiety that everyone she met had seen her worst nightmare on video. “Had they seen it? Were they aroused by it? Had they gratified themselves to my rape?” she asked herself whenever interacting with a new stranger.
After discovering that her rape was broadcasted online for anyone to see, Rose spent 6 months periodically emailing Pornhub, asking for the videos to be taken down.
“I pleaded with them. I wrote, ‘Please, I’m a minor, this was assault, please take it down,’” Rose told the BBC.
Rose says she received no reply to her emails, and the videos stayed live on the site.
After months of unsuccessful petitioning—months of reliving the horror of her rape every time she saw a stranger knowing they could watch her filmed assault at any second—Rose set up an email account and contacted Pornhub posing as a lawyer threatening a lawsuit. Rose says that within 48 hours of this email, the videos were gone.
So the summary of this horrifying reality is that Pornhub ignored an underage rape victim for months but listened to a lawyer threatening to sue within 2 days. Let that sink in.
But Rose is far from the only one this has happened to. After Rose’s story went public, many people reached out to her, letting her know she isn’t alone. There is an untold number of people whose recorded abuse is still available to view and download on Pornhub. How is any of this okay?
Sinbad ⚔
@Iam_Fouad
"Dozens of women and some men responded to her post, saying that videos showing them being sexually abused had also appeared on the site." www.bbc.com/news/stories-51391981 …
Rose Kalemba
‘I was raped at 14 - the video ended up on a porn site’
When Rose Kalemba was raped, it took her months to persuade a porn website to remove the video.
bbc.com
4
11:38 PM - Feb 10, 2020 · Accra, Ghana
Twitter Ads info and privacy
See Sinbad ⚔'s other Tweets
Videos of underage trafficking victims
In November 2019, a sex-trafficked 15-year-old girl was found after a year of being missing after her mother reported to the police 58 videos of the girl being raped by her trafficker and other sex buyers on Pornhub.
“Police investigated and discovered nearly 60 pornographic videos of the Sunrise girl posted on Periscope, Pornhub, Modelhub, Snapchat and other websites, according to an arrest report,” reported the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
And to make matters worse, there are new reports emerging that the 15-year-old trafficking survivor was “verified” on Pornhub with a blue checkmark next to the account the videos were uploaded to, implying she was an adult professional. Given that anyone can be “verified” on Pornhub, no identification or age check required, this isn’t surprising, but it’s a new low for the giant porn site. Her story drives the point home that you can never know if content is truly consensual.
Christopher Johnson, the 30-year-old man arrested at the time of the girl’s rescue a few months ago, denies raping the girl—legally, she cannot consent to sex, so it’s rape—despite his appearance in the videos. The rape tapes that showed Johnson assaulting her were filmed inside his apartment, the girl told the police. The 30-year-old was charged with felony lewd or lascivious battery on a victim between 12 and 16.