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Obscenity (hard-core pornography) is the primary content on Pornhub (owned by MindGeek), the largest aggregate of pornographic content in the world with more than 42 billion hits in 2019, and includes categories depicting rape, incest, teens, torture, group sex, strangulation, bestiality, waterboarding, and eroticized racism. The top video categories on Pornhub include statutory rape (165,857 videos), strangulation (157,000 videos) and teen porn (155,445 videos).
Research shows this content fuels a vicious cycle of abuse, including child sex abuse, sex crimes, sexual exploitation, violence against women, child pornography (a.k.a. child sex abuse material or CSAM), sex trafficking, and sexual predation.
Obscenity has NO LEGAL PROTECTION under the 1st Amendment. Pornographers like Pornhub are KNOWINGLY and BLATANTLY breaking U.S. laws EVERY MINUTE and GETTING AWAY WITH IT!
Sadly, children under the age of 10 now account for 22% of online porn consumption among those under age 18, while 10-14-year-olds make up 36% of minor consumers of porn sites featuring categories such as ‘extreme brutal gang bang,’ ‘sleep assault,’ ‘domestic discipline,’ and ‘crying in pain.’
This toxic content has become the de facto sex educator of youth, conditioning many into believing that sexual violence, degradation and humiliation is acceptable.
An explosive New York Times article recently confirmed that Pornhub. “... is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spycam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content". In response, MasterCard and VISA announced they will block customers from using their credit cards to pay for purchases and memberships.
This week, Pornhub announced policy changes even removed some of the abuse videos, but the damage has already been done. The victims depicted in these exploitive videos have been irreparably harmed and repeatedly commercially exploited.....their images downloaded and shared to live on forever in the hands of porn consumers, predators and traffickers.
The White House, DOJ, and State AGs have consistently heard from EIE but they need to hear from you…. demanding they TAKE ACTION NOW.
Our message to DOJ is clear: We call on law enforcement to STOP THE DEMAND by prosecuting OBSCENE PORNOGRAPHY NOW. Prosecuting Pornhub ONLY for child sex abuse, sex trafficking and non-consensual porn content would send a loud, clear message to MindGeek and others that as long as they don’t host this type of content, they won’t be criminally prosecuted for illegal hardcore obscenity, which is the cornerstone of their business model.
We must strike while the iron is hot and continue the momentum by insisting that the stick of the law is aggressively applied. Pornhub and MindGeek must be held criminally liable for violations of U.S. Federal obscenity, CSAM and trafficking laws.
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