“They [Aylo] need to push stuff that’s less accepted”
KEY POINTS:
On undercover camera, Sylvain Fernandez, Production Coordinator at Pornhub’s porn giant parent Aylo, claims Pornhub has “educational aspects to it… especially with boys” and that kids “will find their kink” on an Aylo porn site.
Dillon Rice, Senior Script Writer at Aylo: “Let’s say you’re 12-years-old. You’re still figuring out your sexuality. Maybe even your gender. Wouldn’t it be helpful to see not a celebration but just like maybe a normalization of something that you think is what you want? You know? Probably helps a lot.”
Rice: “You also try to see how much you can take of that [gay and transgender porn] and bring it to mainstream, vanilla content… You try to push the envelope as much as you can.”
Rice: “They [Aylo porn site] need to push stuff that’s less accepted. Like putting a trans male or a trans female in a scene… See if you can convert somebody… They sell [transgender porn] to straight men.”
[MONTREAL – December 6]
Today, Sound Investigations releases another undercover video investigating Pornhub and its parent company, Aylo (formerly MindGeek).
A Sound Investigations journalist met with Aylo employees undercover and recorded their conversations about children accessing Aylo’s pornography sites as well as Aylo’s push for “less accepted” content in pornography, namely gay and transgender pornography.
One subject, Sylvain Fernandez, a production coordinator for Men.com and other Aylo sites, tells the hidden camera that Pornhub has “educational aspects to it… especially with boys.” When the journalist asks Fernandez if Men.com is a good resource for “LGBTQ kids,” Fernandez replies, “I’m sure. Yeah. I mean, they’ll find their kink in there, I’m sure.”
Dillon Rice, a senior script writer for TransAngels and other Aylo sites, reflects on how his work affects developing children. “Let’s say you’re 12-years-old. You’re still figuring out your sexuality. Maybe even your gender. Wouldn’t it be helpful to see not a celebration but just like maybe a normalization of something that you think is what you want? You know? Probably helps a lot.”
Rice also describes how Aylo uses its near-monopoly on North American pornography studios and sites to “push stuff that’s less accepted.” He says, “when you write for like Sean Cody [an Aylo porn studio and site], which is primarily gay-targeted, when you write for TransAngels [another Aylo porn studio and site], which is trans-female-presenting-targeted, you also try to see how much you can take of that and bring it to mainstream, vanilla content. Right? Because Brazzers [Aylo porn studio and site] and Reality Kings [Aylo porn studio and site] is predominantly for ‘strait’ men, but you try to like push the envelope as much as you can.”
Further describing Aylo’s pornography strategy, Rice says one of Aylo’s porn sites and studios, Brazzers, has “done a lot to explore kind of every mainstream thing. So what they need to do now is, they need to push stuff that’s less accepted. Like putting a trans male or a trans female in a scene… See if you can convert somebody… Bi[sexual] stuff is usually marketed towards women. But they also want to try to get more men, straight men, in on it, too. Or bi-curious men… The thing about TransAngels which is a site, it’s female-presenting trans women. And like they sell that to straight men.”
This is a developing story. Sound Investigations will be releasing more undercover videos imminently. Contact media@soundinvestigations.com or 404-955-7002.
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