In each case, offenders were arrested for the assaults, but Pornhub escaped responsibility for sharing the videos and profiting from them. Sexual assaults on a 14-year-old California girl were posted on Pornhub and were reported to the authorities not by the company but by a classmate who saw the videos. Most aren’t of children being assaulted, but too many are.Īfter a 15-year-old girl went missing in Florida, her mother found her on Pornhub - in 58 sex videos. A search for “girls under18” (no space) or “14yo” leads in each case to more than 100,000 videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags. Yet there’s another side of the company: Its site is infested with rape videos. One ranking lists Pornhub as the 10th-most-visited website in the world.
Pornhub rakes in money from almost three billion ad impressions a day. That supposedly “wholesome Pornhub” attracts 3.5 billion visits a month, more than Netflix, Yahoo or Amazon. It donates to organizations fighting for racial equality and offers steamy content free to get people through Covid-19 shutdowns. Pornhub prides itself on being the cheery, winking face of naughty, the website that buys a billboard in Times Square and provides snow plows to clear Boston streets. This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.
