Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023)

Asa Akira, Siri Dahl, Cherie DeVille, Gwen Adora, Noelle Perdue, and more - pornstars, reporters and employees...

It's a movie of scandals and innovations both, that ultimately paints the owners of PornHub at least in an unpleasant light.

For a moment I thought it'd end up being a promo for them, then I thought it'd be a campaign against them, but as it turns out it's a surprisingly objective take on the industry as a whole. And PornHub specifically.

It makes an effort to differentiate sex workers from management.
For those that actively work for their paycheck, and those who've been mistreated in order for others to earn theirs. Before all those unverified videos went down... don't know what I'm talking about? Neither did I. Watch this and get informed. ;)

There may have been some PornHub headlines in the news looking back, I didn't pay them much mind. They didn't last long. Wonder if they had the financial resources to keep things on the low low...

Though it's not entirely uncensored it is a graphic documentary too. Unexpectedly so sometimes - though suitably considering the premise. You'll see some skin. You'll see assortments of dildos and butt plugs casually set on a shelf in back of an interview like an alien lifeform - a bouquet of sinful devices - sprouting out in all shapes and sizes...

It's a good documentary.

It speaks of the recent OnlyFans scandal too - which I hadn't heard of either.

Fighting for sex worker rights is a good case, and a good fight.

I did not realize the Internet was suddenly as heavily regulated as it currently is either... we need new payment providers no? Mastercard and Visa monopolizing the market is dangerous. They've basically become the gatekeepers of all online content.

With the war between Russia and Ukraine it was suddenly apparent how much influence they have on the world also. Russian content creators basically had their revenue streams severed entirely. Banks enforced sanctions and weren't a viable alternative, and cryptocurrencies used credit cards or transfers for any initial exchange.

Fortunately there are work-arounds, but it's not easy, and people don't want to pay for things if they have to go out of their way to do so.

These credit card providers really have an excessive level of control on the global market, but that's beside the main points of this documentary...

This movie definitely made me a fan of Siri Dahl, Gwen Adora and that red-haired girl. Wish Asa would've spoken a bit more - maybe speaking's not her forte though.

Porn really is the canary in the coal mine of free speech, as they say.

It always has been, before the Internet was a thing, with social rights and liberation. With freedom of expression, and equality, and open relationships. So when they crack down on porn...

Shouldn't be that you have to shut down every form of communication to prevent any crime from ever happening. What kind of world would that be.

Props Netflix on allowing and making this. Sex sells, for sure, but sex... is apparently pretty important too.

This was surprisingly eye-opening. For real.

It's starts a simple documentary, and ends a wake-up call for the world today. Where nothing's really free after all. But let's keep it as free as we can, shall we?

Great watch.

 rated 4.5/5: almost awesome