It almost goes without saying that the Internet has enabled pornography to flourish. But when pornography is in demand, fueled by pornography tube sites’ lust for profit, there’s a strong likelihood that those in front of the camera did not consent to being there.
Case in point: In January 2020, 22 sex trafficking survivors were awarded $12.7 million after a civil lawsuit against the GirlsDoPorn company was decided in their favor. The young women were groomed by GirlsDoPorn under false pretenses, trapped in hotel rooms, manipulated and threatened into signing contracts and making pornographic videos. They were lied to about how the videos would be distributed. The GirlsDoPorn company uploaded the exploitative videos to Pornhub, which monetized them, profiting from their victimization. Over 40 Girls Do Porn survivors filed a lawsuit against Pornhub for its role in further exploiting them by refusing to remove their coerced videos.
Outrageously, Pornhub continued to host and promote GirlsDoPorn and its material on its platform throughout the plaintiffs’ civil lawsuit and all the way up until federal criminal charges were formally filed against GirlsDoPorn’s operators.
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