Thanks to one woman’s vision, the world’s biggest porn site is a shell of its former self
By Kurt Mahlburg, Mercator. (image credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Laila Mickelwait is a woman on a mission.
For over a decade she has been involved in anti-sex trafficking advocacy. But it was the “Traffickinghub” campaign she launched in February 2020 that has really made a mark on the world.
Leaving little mystery regarding its aims, Mickelwait describes her crusade as “a decentralised global movement of millions of individuals and hundreds of survivors, organisations and advocates from across a broad spectrum of political, faith and non-faith, economic, and ideological backgrounds, all uniting together for the single purpose of shutting down Pornhub and holding its executives accountable for enabling, distributing and profiting from rape, child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and criminal image-based sexual abuse.”
Three years later, over 2.3 million people have signed the petition to shut down Pornhub. In 2020 it was the 10th most visited website on the internet and the largest and most popular porn site, with 130 million visits per day. Now it is a shell of its former self.
Over the years, Mercator has featured many articles on both Pornhub’s perversions and Mickelwait’s mission — and we were delighted to read a recent update she posted on X, formerly Twitter, cataloguing some of Traffickinghub’s achievements to date.
“Let’s make 2024 the year we finish the job and shut down Pornhub!” she wrote, before listing a “summary of Pornhub’s reckoning so far”.
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