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| 12-15-20 11:27pm - 1467 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Asa Akira's Thoughts via Twitter on the PornHub Controversy What’s happening to Pornhub is not a war on Pornhub, sexualabuse, or childtrafficking; it’s a war on sexwork. These supposed “activists” are rightwing, anti-porn, anti-feminist, anti-sexwork groups using unfortunate situations victims have had to endure, to push their own agenda. whether it be social media platforms treating us with extreme bias, politicians attempting to (and succeeding) in passing measures that further put us in danger, or evangelist groups trying to shut us down under the guise of “saving the children” like in this particular instance. They donate millions, head campaigns to better the world (not just in areas of human sexuality, but also the environment, feminism, etc.) and are proudly supported by much of mainstream media. If they can be taken down by such hate - who is next? How are we, as an industry, safe? Pornhub is the only big media platform that has human moderators screening every video before publishing - a fact that is highlighted in the data that Facebook has had 84 MILLION cases of Child Sexual Abuse Material reported in the last 3 years, and Pornhub has had 118. Total. Again, if even they are not safe - what does that mean for adult work?? I am most saddened because Pornhub has unapologetically stood as allies and defenders of us sex workers, when so many companies we work with have not. Thank u for reading all of this. I will always continue to live as my true horny self, and I will never give up on my right to do so. But I am scared. They have always worked with authority to catch these sick predators, and continue to search for ways to better prevent such videos from seeing the light of day. Recently, they banned and deleted ALL uploads from non-verified users. What’s scarier this time around for me - compared to any of the times before - is that Pornhub is arguably the biggest, most mainstream company our industry has ever seen. They are a household name, and have done more than any other company in the past to normalize sex work. I hope Visa and MasterCard see the harm they are doing to sex workers and the porn industry, but I’m not hopeful; they’ve never been our allies, and I doubt they will start now. It’s a very sad, disheartening time... but I can’t really say any of it is brand new. One thing all of these fights have in common, is that they are always led - dishonestly - in the name of “activism.” Please, I beg of you, do not be fooled by this. In the time I’ve been in porn, there has not been a single moment we sex workers have been free of this war; What’s happening to Pornhub is not a war on Pornhub, sexualabuse, or childtrafficking; it’s a war on sexwork. These supposed “activists” are rightwing, anti-porn, anti-feminist, anti-sexwork groups using unfortunate situations victims have had to endure, to push their own agenda. Asa's words above - and a Vice article that she recommended: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7v33d/s...-means-to-performers | |
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| 12-17-20 04:28pm - 1465 days | #2 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I read many of her tweets but ultimately what I got out of them is that Asa has an agenda because this so called war on sex workers is such B.S that I'm surprised people keep up using the same examples. 1-The attack is coming from the two biggest capitalistic CC on the planet and last I checked neither is associated with any Government, Religious group or moral group. Visa and MC are companies that are out to make as much money as they can and until this article came out then they had no problem with PH using their services and pocketing their 3-4%. 2-This isn't the first time that Visa and/or MC have gotten involved with the porn industry because they basically told Kink years ago that they could no longer shoot some of the content they did or they would ban their members from using their services and I don't remember fans and performers saying peep about it. 3-At this point one of the biggest tube site on the planet has been targeted and frankly PH has never been a friend of the porn industry so while many models may be decrying it's disappearance. Unless PH offered a significantly better profit margin to the models who used their services then they still have Many Vids and C4S. They even have OF which is supposedly a Godsend to performers because they get to keep more of the money they earn. The only thing PH had going for them was name recognition but to us fans. That name is bathed in the blood of all the producers and by extension the performers who have lost money because their content wound up on PH a millisecond after it was uploaded on their platform. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 12-17-20 06:35pm - 1465 days | #3 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
If PH is so hated by adult performers for stealing their shit, that's hard to prove with the reaction to these moves against PH. Because every adult performer, sex worker, etc from the most gonzo to solo-girls whose main relation to PH is to constantly hound them to get pirated versions of their material taken down, understand that this is the tip of the spear in the latest war on porn. There have already been noises about OnlyFans coming under attack in a lot of different ways, and if the ability of porn performers/sex workers to make money from both PH & OF is ripped out from under them, well that's going to really suck and this mini-era of porn performers/sex workers having a lot more autonomy than they have mainly had in porn is going to be squashed. As to Visa/MC, they go according to what's going to help them/hurt them in terms of publicity. They would rather cut off PH on their own before there is a chorus of voices screaming at them to do so. But it sure ain't about protecting children. Cause nobody's stopping FB from getting Visa/MC charges processed on their related sites when, as Asa said, there are hundreds of thousands times more child abuse related material on FB than there has been on PH. And nobody stopped people using any form of payments to get money to the fucking Catholic Church during the decades that they were operating a global child molestation ring. | |
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