MindGeek, Pornhub’s Parent Company, Sued for Reportedly Hosting Videos of Child Sex Trafficking Article
The world’s largest porn company is being sued by abuse and trafficking survivors. Here’s what their cases are about and what the lawsuit means.
The world’s largest porn company is being sued by abuse and trafficking survivors. Here’s what their cases are about and what the lawsuit means.
Sex trafficking shares a variety of symbiotic connections to porn. Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than most people think.
As a popular mainstream porn performer, Alia experienced trafficking, abuse, and exploitation, eventually leaving the industry on her own terms.
Ruben Andre Garcia, the performer in notorious porn company “GirlsDoPorn” videos, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to “conspiracy to commit sex trafficking” and “sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.”
At least 50 women are suing MindGeek for allegedly knowingly profiting from images and videos of their sex trafficking nightmares and failing to properly moderate sites owned by MindGeek for the abusive videos.
The 33-year-old persuaded teens to engage in sex acts with him on camera by falsely claiming the encounters were being shot for a porn video he was creating.
When sex trafficking and porn are placed side by side, the common thought is that they are miles apart. However, all it takes is a look at…
In many cases, porn portrays people who want nothing to do with it, but are coerced into being a part of it. Now is the time to speak up and stand out.
“Teen” porn has ranked within the top ten genre searches in the last 8 years, making it clear how much consumers look for “seemingly” underage performers.
Hay allegedly directs an illegal escort service in which he sells “personal sexual encounters” with his LA Direct clients—he forces these clients to participate.
Porn isn’t produced with accurate information about sex in mind, it’s created to entertain and manifest fantasies—no matter how violent or violating.
There is plenty of room for change in the porn industry, but even if extensive improvements did take place, research still shows the harms of porn itself and its deep connection to sex trafficking.