Like a wolf in a really unconvincing sheep’s costume, Pornhub is trying to convince the world it’s not the den of sexual illegality everyone knows it to be.
The website, which has been proven to be hosting illegal content depicting rape and the trafficking and exploitation of minors, is releasing its first non-pornographic movie, according to a report by Variety.
By hosting a non-explicit film, the pornographic website’s parent company, MindGeek, is sending the subliminal message that it’s on par with other streaming platforms across the internet. Here’s what the film is reportedly about:
“Shakedown” is a stream-of-consciousness, nonfiction narrative about the queer women and men who populated the lesbian strip club scene in Los Angeles in the early aughts. It is culled from neatly 15 years of footage shot by Weinraub over her adult life, and offers a humorous, sensual and informative look at a vibrant subculture.
Pornhub also tried softening its image last summer. In a dangerous ploy to make it look as if the leaders behind the smut site have any sort of moral compass, the website produced a pornographic scene shot on a litter-covered beach while people wearing Pornhub-emblazoned hazmat suits picked up garbage around the couple.
Don’t fall for it. Don’t fall for any of it.
Pornhub’s leaders can feign morality, but it’s not there. They can pretend to have an interest in helping create a robust and respectable culture, but it’s all an act.
As Laila Mickelwait, director of abolition for Exodus Cry, an advocacy organization focused on ending sexual exploitation and sex trafficking, told Faithwire last month, Pornhub is openly and brazenly profiting off “crime scenes.”
The person behind the Pornhub Twitter page even admitted — perhaps inadvertently, though on several occasions — that the company verified an account uploading video footage of the rape of a 15-year-old girl.
“The onus of responsibility is not just on the traffickers and those who are raping the girls; it’s on the website that is not only hosting these videos, but profiting off of them,” she said. “And that’s what makes them a mega-trafficker.”
Every click to see that non-pornographic film on Pornhub puts more dollars in the pockets of those running the site, which is actively hosting countless illegal videos depicting the sexual abuse of children and the nonconsensual exploitation and assault of women.
Pornography is not victimless. Don’t fall for this trap.
If you are struggling with an addition to pornography, Faithwire has a seven-week, video-based course, Set Free, handing participants the spiritual and practical tools they need to tackle this sexual sin.