• Pornhub launches explicit audio for the visually impaired
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Source: [url]https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jun/15/pornhub-launches-porn-blind-described-video[/url] [quote]For the around 285 million people worldwide who are visually impaired, pornography can seem like an acoustic blur of heavy breathing, squelches, slaps and Maria Sharapova-esque grunts. To help them find some sexual inspiration, the video-sharing site Pornhub has launched a “described video” category, in which professional voice actors explain what’s going on in the scene. The section has launched with a collection of 50 of the site’s most popular videos, and [B]there’s something for everyone: straight, gay, female friendly, bi and transexual[/B]. [...] [B]The new narrated videos include descriptions of the settings, models, what they are wearing and the positions they are getting into, combined with the original audio of the video.[/B] Many of the explicitly titled clips have already attracted more than 20,000 views. The accessibility initiative is being championed by [B]the adult entertainment company’s philanthropic division (yes, really), Pornhub Cares[/B], which has previously launched a clothing line to fight against domestic violence and a breast cancer awareness campaign called [url=http://www.pornhub.com/event/save-the-boobs]“Save the Boobs”[/url], where it donated 1 cent for every 30 videos viewed within its “big tit” and “small tit” categories. [...] “People who are blind have every right to access porn as they do classical Shakespeare or any other kind of video,” says Joel Snyder, director of the audio description project at the American Council of the Blind.[/QUOTE] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6pwsu5wOk[/media] It never ceases to amaze me that PornHub has one of the best marketing teams in the whole world.
Cant wait to hear this on the bizarre stuff
[QUOTE]The accessibility initiative is being championed by the adult entertainment company’s philanthropic division (yes, really), Pornhub Cares, which has previously launched a clothing line to fight against domestic violence and a breast cancer awareness campaign called “Save the Boobs”, where it donated 1 cent for every 30 videos viewed within its “big tit” and “small tit” categories. [/QUOTE] Honestly, its good they're using all that fap bandwidth to good use like this.
Pornhub, an internet company showing the world how other companies should act.
This is why I love PornHub, because they don't take themselves too seriously and can go about experimenting. They know their income is off dicks and titties, so might as well have some fun with it.
I hope its TTS and WillFromAfar.
[quote]and a breast cancer awareness campaign called “Save the Boobs”, where it donated 1 cent for every 30 videos viewed within its “big tit” and “small tit” categories.[/quote] I wanna see the numbers on this. No joke, I'm completely serious, I wanna see how much they've donated for this so far.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;50532912]I wanna see the numbers on this. No joke, I'm completely serious, I wanna see how much they've donated for this so far.[/QUOTE] $24.7k during october 2015
I remember at my old job we got in a pile of old cassette tapes for recycling and while going through them we found two erotic novels in audiobook format.
The audio is uniformly the worst part of porn, though. All that bad dialogue and horribly-acted moaning and screeching. Also, let's not jump and say Pornhub is some sort of paragon of corporate magnanimity, they do this shit because it gets them into the news and when people see Pornhub in the news they, 9 times out of 10, will say "oh man I haven't had a wank for ten minutes". Pornhub's Philanthropic Division is just a subset of their public relations department. [QUOTE=Araknid;50532980]$24.7k during october 2015[/QUOTE] Is that a lot? It doesn't seem like a lot.
Friendly reminder that there is a Japanese market for erotic and non-erotic voice works: [url]http://www.dlsite.com/ecchi-eng/[/url]
[QUOTE=Butthurter;50534439]is this another "celebrity does charity work just to raise awareness/attention" argument because you say it like its a bad thing[/QUOTE] It's more 'a company that profits from exploitation uses philanthropy to make it more money' argument, but I suppose my point is the same; don't pretend pornhub is a model of excellence
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50534524]It's more 'a company that profits from exploitation uses philanthropy to make it more money' argument, but I suppose my point is the same; don't pretend pornhub is a model of excellence[/QUOTE] How does pornhub profit from exploitation? Exploiting consumer's boner urges, maybe.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;50534534]How does pornhub profit from exploitation? Exploiting consumer's boner urges, maybe.[/QUOTE] Well, there's that, and then there's the general possibility of women being exploited in order to make porn. There's very few ethics in pornography, after all
:snip: :rrerr:
I see so much comedy potential in people using these audio clips in all sorts of unrelated situations!
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50534318]Is that a lot? It doesn't seem like a lot.[/QUOTE] Considering that it was donated a cent at a time in one month I'd say it's a lot
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50534524]It's more 'a company that profits from exploitation uses philanthropy to make it more money' argument, but I suppose my point is the same; don't pretend pornhub is a model of excellence[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50534577]Well, there's that, and then there's the general possibility of women being exploited in order to make porn. There's very few ethics in pornography, after all[/QUOTE] I get the impression you're a staunch anti-porn guy.
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50534524]It's more 'a company that profits from exploitation uses philanthropy to make it more money' argument, but I suppose my point is the same; don't pretend pornhub is a model of excellence[/QUOTE] "Profits from exploitation", what? You make it sound like porn stars are some kind of sex slaves kept in rape dungeons or something.
EDIT: nvm
[QUOTE=AaronM202;50534979]I get the impression you're a staunch anti-porn guy.[/QUOTE] Nah, I'm not anti-porn, I'm anti-mainstream porn. At the risk of sounding horrifically pretentious, when I do watch porn I make sure it's made ethically. [QUOTE=Laserbeams;50535049]"Profits from exploitation", what? You make it sound like porn stars are some kind of sex slaves kept in rape dungeons or something.[/QUOTE] There's been plenty of research that shows pornography routinely exploits pornstars; most of them are girls who need money and don't have many options, and who perceive porn as a safe bet, but are quickly stuck in a contract where they can't say no, where they're manipulated, where they're pressured into sexual encounters they don't want to go along with. Lots of them have said they had to pay for their own makeup and flights etc. etc. and ended up losing money overall, that contracts were torn up on set, being forced not to use condoms, no health or safety involvement, and obviously there's a great deal of physical and emotional abuse that gets levelled at porn stars. Plenty of legitimate honest-to-christ rape as well. That's not to say anything of the human trafficking and all that nasty shit that goes on, albeit less frequently. If you're interested, there's a couple of articles and documentaries I can PM to you that go into a bit more detail. They (obviously) have some NSFW content.
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50535281]Nah, I'm not anti-porn, I'm anti-mainstream porn. At the risk of sounding horrifically pretentious, when I do watch porn I make sure it's made ethically. There's been plenty of research that shows pornography routinely exploits pornstars; most of them are girls who need money and don't have many options, and who perceive porn as a safe bet, but are quickly stuck in a contract where they can't say no, where they're manipulated, where they're pressured into sexual encounters they don't want to go along with. Lots of them have said they had to pay for their own makeup and flights etc. etc. and ended up losing money overall, that contracts were torn up on set, being forced not to use condoms, no health or safety involvement, and obviously there's a great deal of physical and emotional abuse that gets levelled at porn stars. Plenty of legitimate honest-to-christ rape as well. That's not to say anything of the human trafficking and all that nasty shit that goes on, albeit less frequently. If you're interested, there's a couple of articles and documentaries I can PM to you that go into a bit more detail. They (obviously) have some NSFW content.[/QUOTE] can you please not ruin pretty latina chick gets rammed by hung stud for me ok thanks
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50535281]when I do watch porn I make sure it's made ethically.[/QUOTE] I'm curious, how do you do that?
[QUOTE=gokiyono;50535923]I'm curious, how do you do that?[/QUOTE] I get my porn direct from the source; there are plenty of pornographers that guarantee their stuff isn't shady, usually run by former porn stars or sex workers. There's the Ethical Porn Partnership, too, which only allows as its affiliates those that conform to a couple of fairly basic ethical guides.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;50535923]I'm curious, how do you do that?[/QUOTE] Homemade green label porn
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50535954]I get my porn direct from the source; there are plenty of pornographers that guarantee their stuff isn't shady, usually run by former porn stars or sex workers.[/QUOTE] Isn't that just taking their word for it? Aren't you worried about them lying? [QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50535954]Ethical Porn Partnership[/QUOTE] This seems like a great initiative, but they don't really seem to have so much influence, as far as I can tell
[QUOTE=gokiyono;50536089]Isn't that just taking their word for it? Aren't you worried about them lying? This seems like a great initiative, but they don't really seem to have so much influence, as far as I can tell[/QUOTE] Yeah, the EPP is quite new at the momen (like, first few months new) but it's set to do quite well, IMO. As for lies: there's a great deal of transparency with regard to how most of their stuff is made; more than one is funded via patreon and they're pretty hot on keeping their patrons informed, and they're all run (or have as participants) porb stars and the like who've been pretty vocal about the porn industry and how harmful it can be. Stoya (who you might be familiar with) has worked with them and she founded her own ethical porn site. Not to mention the media scrutiny that they're under - they've invited feminist thinkers and writers to get involved, and honestly I think if there was anything shady going on then the people involved would speak about it - there'd be a much more receptive audience to any inkling of upset than in mainstream porn.
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50534318]The audio is uniformly the worst part of porn, though. All that bad dialogue and horribly-acted moaning and screeching. Also, let's not jump and say Pornhub is some sort of paragon of corporate magnanimity, they do this shit because it gets them into the news and when people see Pornhub in the news they, 9 times out of 10, will say "oh man I haven't had a wank for ten minutes". Pornhub's Philanthropic Division is just a subset of their public relations department. Is that a lot? It doesn't seem like a lot.[/QUOTE] It sounds like this is someone describing what's happening
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;50535954]I get my porn direct from the source; there are plenty of pornographers that guarantee their stuff isn't shady, usually run by former porn stars or sex workers. There's the Ethical Porn Partnership, too, which only allows as its affiliates those that conform to a couple of fairly basic ethical guides.[/QUOTE] Direct from the source, eh? So you sit there and watch them live?
[QUOTE=Apache249;50537002]Direct from the source, eh? So you sit there and watch them live?[/QUOTE] Don't kinkshame voyeurs, man. Sometimes you just gotta get your rocks off at people eating breakfast and doing taxes.
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