As the founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City, or Ihopkc — not to be confused with the International House of Pancakes – Mike Bickle led a successful campaign against the professional porn industry. His idealogues formed the anti-porn evangelical group Exodus Cry in 2008, and over a decade later, in 2020, Exodus Cry’s then-“Director of Abolition,” Laila Mickelwait, birthed the hashtag #TraffickingHub, accusing the platform of being a sex trafficking hellscape that must be killed (even though Facebook and other platforms reportedly host far, far more child sexual abuse...
- 11/11/2023
- by Cherie DeVille
- Rollingstone.com
Don’t be put off by the unnecessarily crude name – Moneyshot: The Pornhub Story is a thought-provoking and tastefully created documentary. And even if you’re familiar with Pornhub’s recent controversies, it’ll almost certainly tell you something new.
For instance, it may seem counterintuitive that at its heart, MindGeek’s Pornhub is a pretty run-of-the-mill tech company, which former employee Noelle Perdue describes as “a hilariously boring office space”.
That makes it all the more remarkable that Pornhub has become such a controversial website that it deserves its own Netflix documentary, charting its meteoric rise, eventually becoming the world’s most popular porn site and changing the game for porn performers, and its subsequent explosive fall from grace, becoming the centre of an ongoing row where it is accused of profiting from the likes of child sex trafficking and revenge porn.
We discover that the key to...
For instance, it may seem counterintuitive that at its heart, MindGeek’s Pornhub is a pretty run-of-the-mill tech company, which former employee Noelle Perdue describes as “a hilariously boring office space”.
That makes it all the more remarkable that Pornhub has become such a controversial website that it deserves its own Netflix documentary, charting its meteoric rise, eventually becoming the world’s most popular porn site and changing the game for porn performers, and its subsequent explosive fall from grace, becoming the centre of an ongoing row where it is accused of profiting from the likes of child sex trafficking and revenge porn.
We discover that the key to...
- 3/16/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Pornography, as a visual medium, has long followed the lead of technology. First it was drawn by hand. Then it was photographed. Then it was shown in back rooms on 8mm one-reelers. Then it was shown in movie theaters. Then it moved to video cassettes and DVD. Then it arrived on the Internet. Then, in the age of Pornhub, it exploded on the Internet. That’s when porn-on-the-computer innovation became the all-porn-all-the-time revolution.
“Money Shot: The Pornhub Story,” a documentary that drops March 15 on Netflix, is not a movie about the cultural prominence or significance of porn in our time. Someone should really make that documentary; it’s a story that, like so much else about pornography, is totally out there yet hidden in the shadows. “Money Shot,” directed by Suzanne Hillinger and produced by Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, does touch on key aspects of how porn today is...
“Money Shot: The Pornhub Story,” a documentary that drops March 15 on Netflix, is not a movie about the cultural prominence or significance of porn in our time. Someone should really make that documentary; it’s a story that, like so much else about pornography, is totally out there yet hidden in the shadows. “Money Shot,” directed by Suzanne Hillinger and produced by Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, does touch on key aspects of how porn today is...
- 3/11/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
“Another day, another request to talk about Pornhub.” That’s what I thought when director Suzanne Hillinger and Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions asked me to appear in their new Netflix documentary Money Shot: The Pornhub Story.
The film recounts how Pornhub exploded in popularity until The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof and sex-trafficking victim advocates accused the streamer’s parent company, MindGeek, of hosting vile illegal child pornography and rape videos. Hillinger promised the film would show how right-wing Christians deployed sex-trafficking allegations as a Trojan...
The film recounts how Pornhub exploded in popularity until The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof and sex-trafficking victim advocates accused the streamer’s parent company, MindGeek, of hosting vile illegal child pornography and rape videos. Hillinger promised the film would show how right-wing Christians deployed sex-trafficking allegations as a Trojan...
- 3/11/2023
- by Cherie DeVille
- Rollingstone.com
San Francisco, Sep 5 (Ians) Meta-owned Instagram has taken down the official account for adult entertainment website PornHub amid pressure from the civil rights groups. The company, however, did not reveal the reason behind the move.
Before the Instagram account was removed, Pornhub had 13.1 million followers and more than 6,200 posts, reports Variety.
On its Instagram account, Pornhub shared non-pornographic videos and images but it “directly promoted pornography” and featured videos to encourage people to become pornography performers.
The screenshots shared by anti-PornHub campaigner Laila Mickelwait suggest the account was taken down for violating Instagram’s community guidelines.
The move comes after Visa and Mastercard cut off payment privileges of TrafficJunky, the advertising arm of Pornhub parent company MindGeek.
There has been widespread criticism of PornHub for facilitating “child abuse material” on its platform in recent years.
In 2020, Visa and Mastercard stopped processing payments on PornHub due to the presence of “unlawful content” on the platform.
Before the Instagram account was removed, Pornhub had 13.1 million followers and more than 6,200 posts, reports Variety.
On its Instagram account, Pornhub shared non-pornographic videos and images but it “directly promoted pornography” and featured videos to encourage people to become pornography performers.
The screenshots shared by anti-PornHub campaigner Laila Mickelwait suggest the account was taken down for violating Instagram’s community guidelines.
The move comes after Visa and Mastercard cut off payment privileges of TrafficJunky, the advertising arm of Pornhub parent company MindGeek.
There has been widespread criticism of PornHub for facilitating “child abuse material” on its platform in recent years.
In 2020, Visa and Mastercard stopped processing payments on PornHub due to the presence of “unlawful content” on the platform.
- 9/5/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
In the wake of the Atlanta massage parlor shootings last week, in which eight people were murdered, there was much anguish and sober-minded discussion on social media placing the attack in the context of increasing rates of anti-Asian violence, the exploitation of Asian massage workers, and the historical fetishization of Asian women in general, who comprised a majority of the victims. This discussion was complicated by the fact that officials later revealed the shooter, 21-year-old Robert Long, was an evangelical Christian who reportedly claimed he targeted massage parlor workers because...
- 3/25/2021
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
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