“I may be 40 with eight kids, and people are still masturbating to my photos.” “I may never be able to get away from this,” she said.
Now 23, she is studying in a university and hoping to become a lawyer - but those old videos hang over her. “I’m still getting sold, even though I’m five years out of that life,” Cali said. Some videos of her being abused ended up on Pornhub and regularly reappear there, she said. She says she was adopted in the United States from China and then trafficked by her adoptive family and forced to appear in pornographic videos beginning when she was 9. “Pornhub became my trafficker,” a woman named Cali told me. Nicholas Kristof’s Newsletter Get a behind-the-scenes look at Nick’s gritty journalism as he travels around the United States and the world. So even if a rape video is removed at the request of the authorities, it may already be too late: The video lives on as it is shared with others or uploaded again and again.
Unlike YouTube, Pornhub allows these videos to be downloaded directly from its website. Because it’s impossible to be sure whether the youth in a video is 14 or 18, neither Pornhub nor anyone else has a clear idea of how much content is illegal. A great majority of the 6.8 million new videos posted on the site each year probably involve consenting adults, but many depict child abuse and non-consensual violence. Pornhub is like YouTube in that it allows members of the public to post their own videos. 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. But if you're trying to set the mood and also not support abusers, I'd steer clear.After a 15-year-old girl went missing in Florida, her mother found her on Pornhub - in 58 sex videos.
Hopefully, in the future, it'll work with less controversial artists (and let Blac Chyna shine without having to repeatedly talk about the site).Ĭheck out the EP below, if you want. Pornhub launched a record label back in 2014, and then didn't really do anything with it, so maybe this-along with the fact that it tapped Kanye West for its namesake awards-is a sign that the site holding the largest monopoly on porn content at the moment is eyeing the music industry once again. Any playlist or EP I'd want to listen to-especially on Valentine's Day-would at least have the decency to only include artists who respect women. Just last week, Tekashi 6ix9ine's ex-girlfriend Sara Molina described his alleged abuse and rape in great detail. If my partner ever hit play on a song that had Lil Xan repeating "She a bad hoe," I'd immediately put on a turtleneck and sweats and tell him to take a hike.Įven less sexy? Tekashi 6ix9ine, who pleaded guilty to the "use of a child in a sexual performance" and has been charged with assault, appears on the third track "LANES" with Lil AK. Let me be clear: It's not about explicitness, it's the artists they chose to tap to contribute to the project. Blac Chyna opens it up with a raunchy bit of spoken word spon-con, name-dropping the site a handful of times, and it's all downhill from there. Pornhub released a Valentine's Day album a day ahead of the holiday, because, of course, it would? And.