Gwen Adora has wild red curls and a big smile. But anyone who watches her videos will probably find it irrelevant: Because there she is naked, holds her big breasts in front of the camera and then begins to masturbate.
For this she has at least fifteen different dildos from which she chooses one depending on her mood. One purple, one with nubs, one extra long. Adora earns good money in the “BBW” (Big Beautiful Women) category. So much that this is her main job.
If you want to watch the new Netflix documentary “Money Shot: The Pornhub Story”, you should send your underage children out of the room. Because in the hour and a half you can see big and small breasts, bare buttocks and lots of sperm.
Pornhub’s history could be a success story, but not everything about the porn site is “great”. In the documentary, former employees of Pornhub, actors, journalist Nicholas Kristof and lawyers for victims have their say.
Because in the past, Pornhub was in court in the US for the distribution of child pornography. The central question must therefore be how Pornhub deals and has dealt with sexual exploitation, rape and criminals. And whether dealing with it was too lax for profit reasons.
“New York Times” journalist Kristof reports on his research, which was published at the end of 2020. He tells of a 14-year-old who sent a slightly older boy a nude video of herself in eighth grade. But that wasn’t enough for him, he wanted more and more videos.
“Then other people started grinning at her because her footage was on Pornhub. One of them was viewed over 400,000 times,” says Kristof. The student asked Pornhub to remove the videos.
But some recordings remained on the page, while others were deleted. “But if one was deleted, it was re-uploaded by someone else. Pornhub makes money from it, put ads there.”
The documentary so impressively shows the dark side of the porn empire. Revenge porn and rape videos made the site a lot of money, but they also damaged Pornhub’s reputation. PayPal, Visa and Mastercard, for example, ended their cooperation a few years ago, and Instagram also blocked Pornhub’s account last year.
Actress Gwen Adora concludes, “A lot of those who wanted Pornhub to go under didn’t understand the meaning. They just wanted to take down the site and thought, tick it, done, we’re done. I agree that Pornhub doesn’t has done enough to help the victims. But illegal content is everywhere. In that sense, all websites should be taken down, and still such videos would somehow spread.”
Pornhub has managed to take porn out of the shabby corner and into the mainstream. So far, they haven’t been able to do much to counteract the dark side of the industry either. Like Facebook and other social media, they have responsibilities by which they are measured and must live up to.
The documentary shows this conflict very vividly, the various protagonists bring the complex problems to life and make it a format worth seeing.
