Let’s make buying a child for sex in California a FELONY! Tag California state legislators
@scott_wiener
@SenBradfordCA
@NancySkinnerCA
@aishabbwahab
in the comments to let them know you SUPPORT SB1414, which will make the purchase of a child for s*x a felony level offense in
“It takes courage to publicly state that there are major problems with the largest pornography website’s existence, and we commend
@terrycrews
for using his influence to call on Pornhub to be defunded.”
@DawnHawkins33
#Traffickinghub
What proof do we have that Pornhub is enabling and profiting from videos of rape and child sex trafficking? This video exposes what countless victims have suffered. Please help us share it with the world so we can SHUT. IT. DOWN.
#Traffickinghub
Celebrities/influencers from a wide range of backgrounds are calling for Pornhub to be shut down for complicity in sex trafficking & rape. Thank you
@terrycrews
, host of
@agt
(America's Got Talent) for giving your voice to this fight!
#Traffickinghub
“If you are having sex where the woman could 'accidentally' end up dead, you are not having sex, you are being abused. In patriarchy, violence against women is sexualized to the point that the violence is rendered invisible, and even stands in for what is called ‘sex.’”
@GailDines
“Before you go on Pornhub consider this: you may be getting your pleasure from someone else’s pain & suffering. Pornhub doesn’t require age or consent verification to upload porn. If they look young or distressed, assume they are kids & victims.”
@LailaMickelwait
#Traffickinghub
"The world is waking up to the fact that Pornhub is infested with videos of the real rape and sex trafficking of underage victims as well as vulnerable women."
@LailaMickelwait
#Traffickinghub
“Terry Crews kicked up some more dust over on Twitter...this time he took aim at the adult industry when he tweeted "DEFUND PORNHUB." Thanks for using your voice
@terrycrews
!
#ShutDownPornhub
HBO & Melissa McCarthy dropped us from their 20 Days of Kindness campaign after a hit piece came out about us with false info. But many people began to post "I support everything Exodus Cry stands for." Here's what we stand for.
“I was raped at 14. I sent Pornhub begging emails. I wrote, 'I am a minor, this was assault, please take it down.'"
@RoseKalemba
Art by Birdy Rose
#Traffickinghub
“Prostituted women are prostituted children who were lucky enough to live long enough to become women. They are not two separate groups of people. They are the same group of people at different times in their lives.”-Catherine McKinnon
#prostitution
#enddemand
#NordicModel
In a recent interview with
@joerogan
,
@kanyewest
just acknowledged the presence of trafficking videos on Pornhub and called out the ways in which people are complicit in exploitation when they visit the site, regardless of what they watch.
#Traffickinghub
“If men stopped buying women and children for sex today the whole commercial sex industry would implode. And we would see the largest exodus of human beings from systemic oppression, violence and exploitation that the world has ever seen.”
@BenjaminNolot
If force, fraud, or coercion are used to produce a commercial sex act this is, by legal definition, sex trafficking.
The more people understand this, the more we can fight back against this sly injustice that is creeping into our culture under the guise of empowerment.
To the creators of Netflix’s Money Shot: The Pornhub Story… You can’t tell the full story without including the voice of survivors.
Share this video so their voices are heard.
Germany has been called the "brothel of Europe" because of its legal sex trade. But German politicians recently voiced support for the Abolition Model—a law that would criminalize the buying of sex & offer assistance to exploited women. This would be huge!
"Anti-sex trafficking and anti-sexual exploitation is not a ‘right’ or ‘left’ issue, it is one of very few issues that people of all backgrounds, political parties, ideologies and faith or non-faith backgrounds can come together on.”
#StrongerTogether
We joined a protest in front of Pornhub/Mindgeek’s L.A. offices today. On Friday, Oct 2, International Day of Non-Violence, join us at a protest in front of Pornhub/MindGeek offices in L.A. (US), Montreal (Canada), and London (UK). More details next week.
#Traffickinghub
In another MASSIVE WIN for our united
#Traffickinghub
movement,
#Visa
and
#Mastercard
have officially terminated their payment services on Pornhub after investigating the site for its complicity in the rape and trafficking of women and children.
“Prostituted women are prostituted children who were lucky enough to live long enough to become women. They are not two separate groups of people. They are the same group of people at different times in their lives.”-Catherine McKinnon
#EmpathySees
#sexualexploitation
#abolition
Two child trafficking survivors and 6 law firms just filed a class action lawsuit against Pornhub/MindGeek for distributing and profiting from videos of their sexual abuse. One was drugged/raped and the other was forced to engage in sex acts with adults.
It’s true. If men were to stop buying sex today, sex trafficking would literally cease to exist overnight. Men are overwhelmingly the biggest consumers of the women and girls who are being sold for sex (99% of buyers are men) and, whether they realize it or not, their money fuels
"If men stopped buying women & children for sex today the whole commercial sex industry would implode. And we would see the largest exodus of human beings from systemic oppression, violence & exploitation that the world has ever seen."
@BenjaminNolot
#WorldDayAgainstTrafficking
“Pornhub is under fire from all directions. The global exposure of Pornhub enabling and profiting off of sex trafficking, rape and exploitation of women and children is posing an existential threat to its existence.”
@LailaMickelwait
#Traffickinghub
#ShutDownPornhub
“Prostitution is not a way out of poverty. Most women enter it poor and those that manage to get out, end up even poorer, but now scarred emotionally, physically and mentally.”-Mickey Meji
#AbolitionModel
@SPACEintl
@nordicmodelnow
"As a 9 year old I thought... that I needed to help my parents pay the bills" wrote Sofia, a child trafficking survivor. The videos of her abuse were uploaded to Pornhub, and after being taken down some were re-uploaded 6 times. Shut it down.
#Traffickinghub
“Children under 10 now account for 10 percent of traffic on porn sites. For a site like Pornhub, which boasted 42 billion visits in 2019, that could mean 4.2 billion visits from kids who haven’t hit fifth grade.”
#Traffickinghub
#ProtectChildrenNotPorn
This brave survivor was one of the 100 girls who were coerced & defrauded into shooting porn for the Pornhub channel GirlsDoPorn, a proven sex trafficking scheme. She & 21 other women won a major lawsuit against GirlsDoPorn, but the channel owner is currently a fugitive.
If you're a porn site in which one of the most searched categories is "teen," how can you get away with not verifying age or consent? The reason some of Pornhub's videos get so much traffic is because those featured in them are underage, non-consenting, or both.
#Traffickinghub
“Thailand has closed the worldwide sex site Porn Hub for violating the country’s Computer Crime Act...The closure of the site in Thailand will be a huge blow to the lucrative business as Bangkok was quoted as its 10th biggest market.” 🙌🏻
#Traffickinghub
Just launched , a central place dedicated to the campaign to expose & shut down Pornhub! See the articles written in the wake of the petition, get the Traffickinghub profile pic, & donate all in one place. Send your friends here who want to know more.
Over 100 women responded to a "modeling" ad which was a bait and switch for amateur porn. Then they were warned they could be sued for the cost of their already-paid flight & hotel if they didn't comply. Now 22 women are fighting back with a lawsuit
A study of 854 prostituted women in 9 countries found 60-75% raped, 70-95% physically assaulted, & 68% met criteria for PTSD at same level as treatment-seeking combat veterans. Prostitution is an institutionalized form of violence against women.
@LailaMickelwait
#VAW
#abolition
For the FIRST TIME EVER, Pornhub/MindGeek execs had to testify publicly for a Canadian parliamentary committee as part of Canada's investigation into their crimes. Over 2 hours, these execs plead ignorance. But they convinced no one.
#Traffickinghub
Thailand shut down Pornhub for violating their Computer Crimes Act & Thai news aired clips from our Traffickinghub video. Bangkok is Pornhub's 10th largest market & it will be harder for predators to upload videos to Pornhub channel Exploited Teens Asia.
BREAKING: Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof just published a scathing in-depth exposé on Pornhub, which "is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos..."
Our
#Traffickinghub
campaign founder
@LailaMickelwait
is in Washington, D.C. today—World Day Against Trafficking In Persons—to meet with change-makers who have the power to help shut down Pornhub for complicity in mass rape and sex trafficking.
#WorldDayAgainstTrafficking
“A $600-million lawsuit has been filed in Quebec against MindGeek, and Mickelwait says there have been others filed in the U.S. She also wants the Canadian government to take action.”
#Traffickinghub
@LailaMickelwait
“Three Pornhub child rape survivors I am in touch with were physically attacked in the last few days...Survivors are Pornhub’s worst nightmare and they won’t be silenced.”
@LailaMickelwait
#Traffickinghub
#StrongerTogether
Art by Abigail Helser
"There have always been teen girls and boys in the adult porn industry... I was 14 when I was trafficked in porn." Jewell explains the deep significance of this cultural moment, as many are being awakened to the reality of trafficking in porn
“Boys are being socialized and groomed by porn to be perpetrators and predators. Why are we surprised by rampant sexual assault when hardcore porn is the average boy’s sex education?”
@LailaMickelwait
#rapeculture
#pornharms
We believe all sides can agree that the sexual exploitation & trafficking of children or adults of any race, religion, or sexual orientation is heinously wrong & never to be tolerated. If you believe that no person should be exploited and sold, you're welcome in this fight.
The rest of the developed world is waking up to the social crisis of child exposure to porn and embracing the obvious solution. America must, too.
#ProtectChildrenNotPorn
Sunday Times found underage victims on Pornhub in videos that "had 350,000 views and had been on the platform for more than three years." How can a newspaper easily find child porn on a site which claims to review every video upon upload?
"Call us crazy, but we have a vision for a world without the filmed sexual exploitation of trafficking victims made available to the masses for profit."
@BenjaminNolot
Art by Michael De Vincenzi
#Traffickinghub
#artxfreedom
“Most people don’t know what’s really going on behind the closed doors of porn studios..’they don’t tell you in the credits that ya know this actress had to have surgery to repair damages done to her body by the scene that you just thought was so erotic.’”
Germany plans to block access to 4 major porn sites including Pornhub, YouPorn, MyDirtyHobby and xHamster because none of these sites require its visitors to verify their age. Tomorrow, we're launching a campaign calling for required age verification on porn sites worldwide.
In 1855, as the move to outlaw slavery was growing in America, abolitionist John Sullivan Dwight helped to popularize "O Holy Night." It became a favorite among abolitionists. We're inspired by Jesus' example of laying down His life so others can be free.
We asked our followers to share their experiences of seeing porn for the first time. Each of them echoed the same warning: Porn is addictive and can derail your life. Break the silence and share your
#PornHurtMe
story with
#ProtectChildrenNotPorn
and mention
@ExodusCry
Sites like Pornhub have made it possible for predators to profit off the recorded abuse of women and children, and for millions of porn consumers to take pleasure in that abuse.
#traffickinghub
BREAKING NEWS: “Mastercard Inc is ending the use of its cards at Pornhub, citing the presence of illegal content on the website.” 💥💥🙌🏻🙌🏻
#Traffickinghub
In the last couple days some misinformation has been circulated about Exodus Cry so this is a reminder about who we actually are and what we really stand for. Thanks for listening, sharing, and supporting us. We appreciate each and every one of you! 🙌🏻
This underage victim of rape contacted Pornhub to have the video of their abuse removed. Pornhub refused. Then a commenter posted the victim's personal info. "Their inability to moderate comments... gave my abuser the direct chance to call me"
#Traffickinghub
.
@LailaMickelwait
,
#Traffickinghub
movement founder, announces the milestone of hitting 2 MILLION petition signatures to shut down Pornhub for complicity in rape & trafficking. Signers come from nearly every country and it took less time to hit 2M than 1M. Momentum is growing!
MORE BREAKING NEWS: Visa follows suit and bans use on Pornhub pending an investigation. “We are instructing the financial institutions who serve MindGeek to suspend processing of payments through the Visa network.” ‼️ 🙌🏻
#Traffickinghub
Children are two clicks away from the most graphic and degrading sex acts imaginable, and Big Porn and Big Tech are responsible. Sign our new petition and join us in calling for required age verification on all sites hosting porn
#ProtectChildrenNotPorn
|
#Traffickinghub
Founder
@LailaMickelwait
testified for Canadian Parliament's investigation into Pornhub's crimes. Her testimony conveyed this predatory platform's guilt as she shared the heartbreaking stories of many Pornhub victims, while offering practical solutions.
“It is not an extreme point of view to think that the largest and most popular porn website in the world should not be allowed to cash in on the trauma, exploitation, and rape of women and children.”
@LailaMickelwait
#Traffickinghub
“Authorities arrested 27 year old Michael Terrell Williams on Sept. 15 after an 18 year old woman told police about a 2018 video on Pornhub that featured her performing sexual acts on Williams...when she was 16.”
#Traffickinghub
Thanks to activists like you, we're providing therapy to survivors of trafficking on Pornhub. Something priceless is robbed from every exploited person, especially when the exploitation is broadcast for millions. But therapy can help to restore some of what was stolen.
MAJOR VICTORY! Michael Pratt, the founder of GirlsDoPorn, would lure college age girls through a Craigslist modeling ad, fly them to another city, and coerce them into making amateur porn by being told they now had to pay for their travel expenses by performing in porn scenes.
Spanish authorities have captured
#FBI
Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Michael James Pratt in Madrid, Spain. Pratt has been a fugitive since 2019 and was wanted for sex trafficking and the production of child pornography.
“The ‘sex worker’ story is the contemporary justification for the sex industry... It provides society with an excuse not to have to face the exploitation, misery and inequality that prostitution entails.”-Kajsa Ekis Ekman
#notachoice
#notajob
#bansexbuying
#AbolitionModel
“Prostitution is a men’s issue, and it needs to be addressed as such. We need to move the conversation on from only talking about women’s choices (or lack thereof), and we need to start talking about men’s choices to buy or not to buy sex.”
@LailaMickelwait
#endDemand
💥💥BREAKING NEWS: “Discover Financial Services...joined rivals Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. in halting acceptance of its cards on Pornhub.” 🙌🏻
#Traffickinghub
Texas has become the first US state to make sex buying a felony, and this represents a big win for the fight against sex trafficking. A 2016 report indicated there were 79,000 minor and youth sex trafficking victims in Texas alone. We applaud this new legislation.
A survivor of the GirlsDoPorn trafficking scheme embraces survivor-leader
@JewellSurvivor
at the protest in front of Pornhub's Los Angeles office. Both were trafficked at age 19. This
#Traffickinghub
movement is exactly for children, girls, and women like them.
“With signers from 192 countries...
@LailaMickelwait
’s
#Traffickinghub
petition to
#ShutDownPornhub
for allegedly enabling and profiting from the sex trafficking and rape of women and children on the site has surpassed 1 million signatures!” Thank you! 🙌🏻
“The desire to see women in violent scenes of rape, domination, and humiliation does not develop from the root of a healthy culture.”
@Jewellmb
To
#shiftculture
we must see the humanity of those exploited in porn.
#listentosurvivors
#EmpathySees
“Prostitution is a men’s issue, and it needs to be addressed as such. We need to move the conversation on from only talking about women’s choices (or lack thereof), and we need to start talking about men’s choices to buy or not to buy sex.”
@LailaMickelwait
#EndDemand
Kanye West once celebrated porn—he was creative director for the Pornhub Awards—but he's changed. His porn addiction, since age 5, "affected almost every choice I made," and he recently asserted that anyone visiting Pornhub is contributing to trafficking.
"It is not an extreme point of view to think that the largest and most popular porn website in the world should not be allowed to cash in on the trauma, exploitation, and rape of women and children."
@LailaMickelwait
#Traffickinghub
#ShutDownPornhub
Art by Jens Rudischhauser
“Boys are being socialized and groomed by porn to be perpetrators and predators. Why are we surprised by rampant sexual assault when hardcore porn is the average boy’s sex education?”
@LailaMickelwait
#rapeculture
#pornculture
Since memes are the language of the internet it’s only fitting that we harness them to share the truth about the rape and trafficking videos littered across the world’s largest porn site. Here are a few great ones created by
#Traffickinghub
activists like you. Let's see more!
Pornhub just DISABLED its site in Texas. Why? Because the courts ruled that porn sites must check ID before allowing access, to keep CHILDREN off the site. This tells us everything we need to know about Pornhub.
"You can't dehumanize a girl in one part of your life and not have it affect the way you relate to every other female in your life." —
@Jewellmb
, trafficking survivor and abolitionist
#Traffickinghub
movement has gained the attention of Pornhub. Their CEO even started following campaign founder,
@LailaMickelwait
. But have they apologized to rape victims or pledged to fix the lack of age/consent verification? Quite the opposite:
Porn does not belong on a platform that allows 13 yr olds to create an account. If Twitter wants to host porn, they need to raise the age required to create an account to 18.
@elonmusk
If you think porn should be scrapped from twitter like this tweet now.
Twitter is a social space and a work space. I’m tired of seeing hardcore porn on here. It’s unhealthy, unnecessary and exhausting.
Prostitution survivor & abolitionist
@RachelRMoran
makes a great point: what other “profession” requires the majority of its workforce to be addicted to drugs/alcohol to get through the day? Serious trauma= serious self-medicating. Prostitution is NOT a job like any other.