Leaked Sex Tape Genre on PornHub
| Leaked Sex Tape Genre on PornHub | |
|---|---|
| Short Title | Home Porn Video Leaked to PornHub |
| Location | Global |
| Date | July 2020 |
| Solove Harm | Increased Accessibility, Insecurity, Exposure |
| Information | Physical Characteristics, Identifying, Behavioral, Sexual |
| Threat Actors | PornHub, Unidentified hackers |
| Individuals | |
| Affected | People who's sex tapes are leaked |
| High Risk Groups | Females |
| Tangible Harms | Anxiety, Changed Behavior, Embarrassment |
Pornhub has a category called Leaked Sex Tapes, that contains real sex tapes of people, who didn't consent to the distribution of the videos.
Description
The world’s most popular porn site PornHub allows posting of non-consensual videos and is marketing them as “pornography”. Generally PornHub is heavily critiqued for aiding trafficking and non-consensual sex tapes distribution. To upload videos onto Pornhub all is needed is an email address. It takes less than 10 minutes and the content goes live instantly. It also offers a categorisation of videos, which includes genres as Leaked Sex Tape, or Teen Porn, which helps promoting the videos of non consensual sex tapes. It also has no system in place to verify the age or consent of those featured in the content. This all amplifies the accessibility of videos, and can be interpreted as Increased Accessibility.
One of the cases describes, that a woman’s iCloud account was hackedInsecurity in 2019 which lead to videos of her and her ex being stolen and uploaded to Pornhub. Exposure.
She tried to have her videos taken down: she told the company that she was underage, that she didn’t consent to being on their website and still it took several weeks to remove it. Unfortunately, by then the damage was already done. When one video had been removed, an identical video with her full name attached would pop back up again. This cycle of reporting the video to Pornhub, delayed removal and subsequent re-uploading continued for months – until she ended up on Pornhub’s top five trending videos in the UK. Increased Accessibility
Laws and Regulations
Sources
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/09/pornhub-needs-to-change-or-shut-down
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/time-to-shut-pornhub-down? amp=true