Porn website Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek have recently suffered a major setback. 34 American women have filed a lawsuit against this website in California. According to these women, the website Pornhub is earning money by sharing videos of sexual harassment with minors and women on its website without permission.
Lawyers for these complainant women alleged that Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult websites, has become a market for child pornography and all kinds of sexual content without consent. She said that she wants the company to compensate for the loss. The women said MindGeek, the company that runs Pornhub, is running a criminal empire in the name of adult entertainment.
Lawyers said MindGeek’s business model is based on capitalizing on unconsensual sexual relationships. He said, ‘This case is about rape, not pornography.’ Barring one, all the women have not revealed their identities. Many of the women complaining are also from abroad. The 14 women said they were videotaped when they were minors and should be treated as a case of child sex trafficking.
Lawyer Michael Bowe, representing one of the women, said the court could ask MindGeek to pay millions of dollars in compensation to their clients. Revealing her identity, Serena Fleitas said in 2014 she found out that a nude video of her with her boyfriend had been uploaded to Pornhub without her consent. At that time Serena was only 13 years old. When Serena complained about it to Pornhub, her video was removed several weeks later.
