The Pornification of Society
The pornification of society
Despite Pornhub’s recent run of bad press and lawsuits, including, but not limited to, reports of them hosting and profiting from nonconsensual content and child exploitation, top credit card companies severing ties and suspending processing payments on their site, and investigations against them (Canadian Parliament members investigated the company, the site receives 3.2 billion visits a month and over 38 billion visits a year.
That’s billion, with a “b.”
There are 8 billion people in the world. That means the average human visits the adult site about five times yearly. And that’s just one porn site. It doesn’t include Pornhub’s competitors, like XVideos, which receives 3.3 billion monthly visits. (In case you were curious, they also face accusations of profiting from nonconsensual content and underage videos).
So, let’s take a look at this year’s most viewed content on the site:
Given Pornhub’s questionable history, it’s no surprise that the company continues to allow the sexualizing of underage children, profit from racist stereotypes, and fetishize LGBTQ+ individuals.
Cartoon porn can be just as harmful as real porn.
The most searched-for term on Pornhub in 2022 was “Hentai.” Otherwise known as cartoon porn, some consumers would argue it’s more ethical to watch it because no physical human being is harmed in its making. But that’s not necessarily true for several reasons.
Hentai depicts highly exaggerated sex acts with impossibly large body parts. It also features disturbing and dangerous ideas and fetishes like aliens, monsters, children (specifically small girls), and incest. It is not uncommon for non-human creatures like demons and giant insects to rape cartoon women, who tend to look like a mixture of an adult and a child.
What porn videos depict is nowhere near safe or healthy. While part of its popularization is because it’s not “real,” Hentai creates unrealistic sexual fantasies that normalize and glorify toxic fetishes and abuse. And that can easily translate into the real world.
Read the rest of the article at https://fightthenewdrug.org/the-most-searched-for-porn-in-2022-according-to-pornhubs-annual-report/
We have no way to fact-check and verify all of the metrics provided by Pornhub in their Annual 2022 report – we’re just going to have to take their word for it. (Sidenote: they’re historically not known for their honesty and transparency.)
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