What counts
The climax of the million: The story of Pornhub
, which premiered
Netflix
, has not finished yet.
If pornography, with the site
Pornhub
, exploded on the internet, and empowered sex workers, it was also accused of abetting sex traffickers.
It is certainly not something new.
The most famous pornography platform has long been accused of sex trafficking, publishing non-consensual content, rape and sex with minors.
He uploaded millions of videos, many linked by credit card payment to sex worker sites, but most were posted anonymously and for free.
The documentary features testimonials from people who work in the porn industry and many on Pornhub.
Among the porn stars is Siri Dahl, who, given the drop in Pornhub,
qualifies her followers on OnlyFans as penises
.
A sex worker -the one who scores the penises of her followers on Onlyfans-, with her new colleagues.
netflix photos
Pornhub, created 15 years ago, is a platform for adults that knew how to revolutionize the porn industry.
If, on the one hand, the creators of erotic content were allowed to reach an unusual mass (a sex worker says that thanks to the fact that she uploaded her videos to Pornhub, she was able to buy her house), the platform founded in Montreal, Canada, became a multi-million dollar .
It is that in the age of the Internet, pornography "evolved."
Pornhub is a subsidiary of MindGeek, a private company based in Montreal.
The site receives 3.5 billion visits a month, more than Netflix, Yahoo or Amazon
.
He has had a billboard in Times Square, and much of his profit comes from advertising.
The site works like other Internet monsters: data collection, preferences, marketing, and search engine optimization.
The original poster of the Netflix film.
The site receives 3.5 billion visits a month, more than Netflix, Yahoo or Amazon.
The problem with Pornhub, and that's what the documentary emphasizes, which is controversial, is that it included videos showing victims of trafficking, child sexual abuse, and rape.
The attacks were not long in coming, with Laila Mickelwait at the head of the activists.
Or Nicholas Kristof, from
The New York Times
, who in December 2020 published in the newspaper The Children of Pornhub, in which he put everything in white on black.
Kristof did not stop at the exposure of the matter: he asked the site for three things: content moderation, prohibit downloads and that only verified users be allowed to post videos.
In action.
But there are more words than action in the documentary.
The immediate consequences were that credit cards were cut off from the issue.
But since one of Pornhub's strongest sources of income is advertising -it collects almost three billion dollars from advertising-, the main victims were the sex workers.
Suzanne Hillinger's documentary (Emmy nominee and
Morgan Spurlock producer Inside Man ) offers testimonials from people who work in the pornography industry, as well as those who investigated the site, from
The New York Times
journalist
to employees of US state agencies.
Gwen Adora says that the physical does not matter.
She does everything: she records, edits and uploads from her house.
Some are lapidary: "They are responsible for profiting from sex trafficking."
Work and sex trafficking
The phrase “Anything can be porn”, said by one of the performers who lives on pornography certainly does not help to clarify anything.
Perhaps more accurate is what a Pornhub "ambassador" says: "(critics) fail to see that sex work and sex trafficking are two completely different things."
Pornhub receives 3,000 million dollars in advertising.
Any sexual act without consent is rape.
It is illegal.
There are thousands of women who have asked for videos that were uploaded to the site, without their consent, to be taken down.
And if they succeeded, they were back online.
But the issue of minors is the harshest.
A Pornhub moderator, who appears with a distorted voice and a blurred face, claims that each moderator verified 700 videos per day.
They worked 8 hours and guessed the age of those seen in the images.
Controversial,
The climax of the million
will not leave anyone numb.
“The Millionaire Climax: The Story of Pornhub”
Good
Documentary film.
USA, 2023.
Original title:
“Money Shot: The Story of Pornhub”
.
93', SAM 16.
From:
Suzanne Hillinger.
With:
Gwen Adora, Asa Akira, Siri Dahl.
Available on:
Netflix.
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