Dear Friend,

The new Netflix documentary Moneyshot: The Pornhub Story addressed multiple narratives around the rise of the popular pornography website Pornhub—but most importantly it shed light on cases of the company profiting from and facilitating sexual exploitation. [Content warning: this documentary includes nudity, child abuse references, language, sexual violence references.]  

Dani Pinter, a lawyer with the NCOSE Law Center, was interviewed for the documentary. 

A major take away from the documentary, that both NCOSE and most pornography performers interviewed agreed on, is the need for strict age and consent verification and improved moderation in the pornography industry.

You can help join the call for this common-sense reform by signing this petition. 

It is vital for every person depicted in a sexually explicit video or image to have meaningful age and consent verification—NOT just verifying the identity of a person who runs an account. As we have seen from survivor testimonies and court cases, the uploader can be the rapist or child abuser—verifying their identity does nothing to protect their victims.  

This is common sense. In fact, in the documentary, Siri Dahl, a prominent performer, shared that verification and improved moderation is “what people in the porn industry have been asking for.” 

It is clear by the cases of abuse that Pornhub's policies have NOT been effective at preventing abuse. Pornhub even has a history of "verifying" accounts that host sex trafficking and child sexual abuse. For example:

• GirlsDoPorn was a popular and verified partner channel on Pornhub–but they were actually a sex trafficking operation. 
• The NCOSE Law Center is representing a survivor in a lawsuit against MindGeek (Pornhub's parent company) in a case where the minor was sex trafficked through Pornhub’s verified “Modelhub” program. (Read more about that case here.)
• A young girl who was missing–until her mother found over 50 “verified” videos of her daughter posted to Pornhub by her traffickers.

And it goes beyond just Pornhub!

Other pornography platforms like OnlyFans , XHamster, and XVideos, and even mainstream platforms like Twitter and Reddit and more, have facilitated forms of child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, or image-based sexual abuse. We need greater corporate responsibility throughout all online platforms to verify age and consent for people depicted in any explicit content they host and/or profit from. 

How Can You Help? 

👉Sign the Petition

Join us in calling for common-sense reforms, requiring all websites that disseminate pornography to verify the age and meaningful consent of every individual depicted in that content. Take 30 SECONDS to sign the petition here!