Despite the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the porn industry is taking advantage of everyone’s fears by releasing various films.
In a report by VICE, websites such as Pornhub and XHamster are taking advantage by targeting regions affected by the coronavirus. A spokesperson from XHamster said the company offered free premium accounts to customers in those regions and said there was an increase in new user accounts.
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“Since mid-week, xHamster Premium has been providing free access to those regions severely affected by the coronavirus, in hopes of keeping people off the streets. The response has been overwhelming, and our support team is working overtime to verify and grant access”
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The report also said a “coronavirus” search result on PornHub provided over 112 videos and some of the videos on other sites are targeting their audience to educate them about the virus. During an interview with Little Squirtles and Chase Poundher, the pair states their videos were censored:
“We thought we would use our porn as an avenue to get some legitimate information out with some comic relief included to get people interested and reduce our chances of being banned. This sparked the idea, knowing every current event ends up as porn eventually, we knew people will be searching for it on less censored platforms like Pornhub.”
Some of the plots involve people being placed in quarantine, nurse and patient roleplay along with face masks. However, the actors and actresses say they don’t want to make the films too real due to the tragedy surrounding the virus.
“We knew that the corona event was ‘good viral material’ but we also knew it was affecting people in tragic ways,” -Spicy of Spice and Rice.