Everything you ever wanted to know about pornhub and never dare to ask without using private browsing is not exactly what can be found on Deep Down: The Story of Pornhub, the newly arrived documentary Netflix. The film directed by Suzanne Hillinger on what, every second, is one of the most visited websites on the planet, he wants to take a more analytical and incisive position, he wants to broaden his vision to our relationship with pornography as a society.
Alex Gibbney, the director of dozens of award-winning current documentaries such as Enron: The guys who ripped off America (2005), Client No. 9. The Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010), We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story (2013) or The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019), about Elizabeth Holmes, He appears as executive producer in this work made up of interviews with actors, actresses, activists and former employees of the Pornhub website.
Gibney’s trained look is noticeable for take one mildly sensational aspect of reality and make it resonate with your other anxieties and burning issues, but here it is Hillinger – co-director of totally under control (2020), on the response of the Trump government to the covid pandemic- who shapes the material to dialectically expose the a thousand and one contradictions that circulate around porn.
Inside Pornhub
The story of Pornhub as a technological success is one of those stories that Silicon Valley is crazy about, to the point that we could consider it capitalist porn built from the sexual. The website was born in Montreal in 2007 as a page for photographs, both professional and amateur. Three years later, the Canadian conglomerate mindgeek he acquired it and turned it into the most robust and well-known leg of his online pornography empire.
Deep Down: The Story of Pornhub On several occasions, he shows the completely depersonalized and routine offices of the company. We are closer to the series Separation that from the years of cultural emergence of pornographic cinema portrayed by Boogie Nights either The Deuce. There is also none of the festive lag of the series Nacho, dedicated to telling the story of Nacho Vidal. Hillinger’s approach centers on the business and the material.
For example, in the testimonies of actresses such as Gwen Adora, Siri Dahl, Cherie DeVille either Allie Knox, whose careers in the world of adult content took off thanks to the use of Pornhub as an open platform to upload their own materials, having control over what is shown and its monetization. The other face? Victims of rape, sex trafficking or child abuse who have reported to the page in the past for allowing that content to be uploaded.
they are not few the sexual scandals that appear in the history of Pornhub: from owners of official channels who were prosecuted for sex trafficking to lawsuits from victims of rape or abuse who do not get a very diligent response when removing the reported videos.
Lawyers and journalists appear in the documentary, which also warns about how conservative and abolitionist extremist groups of all sexual content they benefit from putting the legitimate professionals on the site on a par with the worst criminals. An issue that also generates frictions within feminism When pornography is approached: degrading exploitation of the woman’s body or path to sexual liberation and economic independence?
Question in which it is exercised the biggest stance in the documentary, aligned with a defense of freedom of expression that does not ignore the relevance of regulation where corporate greed does not consider it: Until 2020, Pornhub did not require its users to identify themselves and prove the age of majority before uploading content to the page. Why do it if the opposite allowed you to earn more money?
As usual, sex work exposes the dynamics of abuse and power that are disguised in other spheres. That is the most explicit of Deep Down: The Story of Pornhub.
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