‘Pornhub became my trafficker’

Survivors break their silence. 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Every month it attracts more visitors than Netflix, Yahoo or Amazon, and its corporate owners rake in vast sums of money. What most people don’t know about it is that it’s infested with rape videos. Anybody can upload a video to Pornhub, making it a bit like YouTube for sex. The majority of the videos depict consenting adults, but others show sexual assaults on children or on unconscious women — and that’s the topic of a special investigative report I’ve written for the Sunday Times, [released online now](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhrOIlP0TpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8xMi8wNC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9wb3JuaHViLXJhcGUtdHJhZmZpY2tpbmcuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMTIwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNDcxMyZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD00NjA5MSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKADUlXcpfewgwBFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). I’ve been working on this for months, and I owe special thanks to a number of young women and men who were willing to recount what happened to them and share documentation — in hopes that it would spare other girls and boys. The photo above is of Serena Fleites who was an innocent eighth grader who had never made out with a boy when her crush persuaded her to send him naked videos. He shared them with buddies, they were posted on Pornhub and at 14 Serena’s life unraveled. She left school, twice attempted suicide, became addicted to drugs and is now living in a car in Bakersfield, Calif., with three dogs — for dogs have shown her much more compassion than humans have. 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When a 15-year-old girl went missing in Florida, the girl’s mom found her on Pornhub, in 58 sex videos that the company was profiting from. “They made money off my pain and suffering,” another woman, Taylor, who at 14 discovered that a boyfriend had put a sex video of her on Pornhub, told me. She wept as she spoke, and she too attempted suicide twice after the videos went on Pornhub. Let’s be clear: The problem is not porn but rape. Just as the issue with Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and Jeffrey Epstein was not sex but lack of consent, that’s the issue with Pornhub. And it goes beyond Pornhub: There is an epidemic of child abuse sexual material on the internet — and Congress, the executive branch and industry have mostly been asleep at the wheel. So I spoke to experts, including porn stars, and my article outlines steps that the industry and government could take to remedy the problems. I know this is an uncomfortable topic to talk about or wrestle with, but the numbers are staggering. In 2015, 6.5 million videos or other child sexual abuse material were reported to the authorities in the United States; last year, the figure was 69 million. [Here’s the column](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhrOIlP0TpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8xMi8wNC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9wb3JuaHViLXJhcGUtdHJhZmZpY2tpbmcuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMTIwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNDcxMyZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD00NjA5MSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKADUlXcpfewgwBFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). Iran and Saudi Arabia, United in Misogyny Iran released its great human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, sometimes called the “Mandela of Iran,” from prison — and then this week sent her back to prison. 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The women and men who spoke for this article risked humiliation to dredge through painful memories and documentation to share their stories; we owe it to them to listen. (And she doesn’t know I’m asking this, but if any of you know someone in Bakersfield, Calif., who might be able to help Serena move out of her car or get a job, ideally in a vet’s office, reach out to me at kristof-newsletter@nytimes.com.) And [here’s the column](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhrOIlP0TpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8xMi8wNC9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS9wb3JuaHViLXJhcGUtdHJhZmZpY2tpbmcuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMTIwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNDcxMyZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD00NjA5MSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKADUlXcpfewgwBFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). 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