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This past week, the Canadian Government finally put the owners of Mindgeek – and by extension its subsidiary company Pornhub – under the spotlight and grilled them on their involvement in hosting child abuse, rape, and other illegal content. Members…
Earlier this week, Teen Vogue published an article asking “is it bad to watch porn”. While the question itself is one regularly posed and batted away by pro-porn industry advocates, the article used some notably horrendous euphemisms to sanitise sexual…
Another nail in the coffin for Mindgeek this week, as news broke of a $600 million lawsuit being filed against them by a Canadian woman who alleges that MindGeek hosted a video depicting her sexual abuse at age 12 on…
The past week has seen some fantastic progress made in the fight against sexual exploitation in the porn industry. Pornhub have announced that they have removed, and will continue to remove, any videos not uploaded by “verified partners” after a…
Thousands of women and young girls in Ireland have this week been subjected to a profound violation of their dignity and private life following the leak of explicit sexual images – including both adults and children – onto the internet.…
Pornhub has recently announced a new “sex education series” via its “Sexual Wellness Centre” that promises to be an initiative where “viewers can learn about male and female anatomy, preparing for sex, communicating during sex, masturbation, sexually transmitted infections, and…
Last week saw the launch of the global Voice for Justice campaign an ambitious initiative asking women all over the world to support child survivors of sexual exploitation by raising their voices and recording an audio testimony to highlight the…
Following an online summit hosted on Monday with politicians, senior police officers and diplomats, campaigners have urged the Home Secretary Priti Patel to recognise and tackle what has been referred to as the “industrial-scale sexual exploitation” of Romanian women by…
Over the past months we have often heard people speculate that an upside of the pandemic will be a reduction in sexual exploitation. Their reasoning being that the presence of a virulent airborne virus will reduce demand for prostitution. In…