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March 10, 2020 01:30 am

Petition Calls On Pornhub To Prevent Non-Consensual Videos From Being Posted

A petition with over 350,000 signatures is calling on Pornhub to stop posting non-consensual videos and marketing them as "pornography." Kate Isaacs writes via The Guardian: Pornhub's argument that "extremists" are lobbying to shut them down is ridiculous. I'm non-religious, liberal and sex positive and in no way "anti-porn." I started the #NotYourPorn campaign after a friend had her iCloud account hacked last year. Videos of her and an ex had been stolen from her phone and then uploaded to Pornhub. We have tried to have my friend's videos taken down: we told the company that she was underage, that she didn't consent to being on their website and still it took several weeks to remove it. Unfortunately, by then the damage was already done. When one video had been removed, an identical video with her full name attached would pop back up again. This cycle of reporting the video to Pornhub, delayed removal and subsequent re-uploading continued for months -- until she ended up on Pornhub's top five trending videos in the UK. My friend fell into a state of depression at the knowledge that she had been reduced to a search term, her body packaged up as porn and sold for profit. Since then I have worked with 50 women who were turned into "porn stars" without their permission -- some of whom were under 18 -- when videos of them were posted on Pornhub without their consent. Before you tell yourself that this would never happen to you (because you wouldn't be so careless as to have a video of yourself like that in the first place) then I'd ask you to consider Catherine's* case. Catherine got in contact with me when she found that her ex had been secretly recording them having sex, and without her knowledge uploading these videos to Pornhub for glory -- and even a cash reward. When Catherine discovered his Pornhub page, she found videos of what appeared to be other unsuspecting victims too, all promoted under "secret recording" categories on the website. Secret recording categories can still be found on Pornhub. "Pornhub hide themselves behind freedom of expression and argue that all sexual fantasies on their site are just that: legitimate fantasies acted out by consenting adults. They have defended the "young teen" and "drunk stolen snapchat" categories as legitimate fantasy protected by freedom of speech," Isaac writes in closing. "Let me be clear: this isn't about censorship or stifling kinks -- there are plenty of ethical porn companies who have strong systems in place to ensure everyone involved in production is a consenting adult. This is about a huge corporation profiting from non-consensual videos -- and an industry that publishes abusive content with no regulatory body or government holding them to account."

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