The High Council for Equality attacks the porn industry head-on. In a report published this Wednesday, the institution denounces “illegal” acts of “torture” committed in “porncrime”, and calls on the government to act against a “system of massacre of women for profit”. “Our goal is to shock consciences by crudely describing the torture practices that are commonplace in the pornography industry. We are talking about porn crime because these practices are illegal and fall under the Penal Code,” said Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette, president of the HCE.
“There are 1.4 million videos with sadistic practices: choking (choking), bukkake (dozens of men penetrate a woman then ejaculate on her), gangbang, gagging (choking by deep fellatio), torture, electrocution, surprise », Commented the HCE, which carried out a study on the four main pornographic platforms (Pornhub, XVideos, Xnxx, Xhamster). “It’s not cinema, these acts are not simulated, they are real,” emphasizes Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette. The contracts that these firms make women sign are illegal: we do not have the right to profit from the exploitation of the human body and consent to an act of violence against our own person. They serve to silence these women,” she explains.
A report denounced by sex workers
Half of 12-year-old boys visit these sites every month, according to Arcom, the regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication. “It’s a school of sexual violence: 42% of boys exposed to porn think that girls enjoy physical aggression in their sexual relationships,” declares the president of the HCE, who is not calling for a ban on porn, but the fight against it. against “illegal” sequences.
This very crude report is denounced by sex workers, who regret having been little or poorly consulted. “We are treated like children, we consider that we cannot consent. However, the notion of consent is what also allows you to say no! ”, confided to France Inter actress Lulla Byebye, who cried when reading the report. “This is not a synthesis of knowledge, but a report ONLY mobilizing the work allowing them to support their abolitionism,” mentioned another porn actress on X (ex-Twitter).