SIO274: A Pornhub Rebuttal with Tom Curry
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
A few weeks back I had Eli Bosnick on to talk about Nicholas D. Kristof's Pornhub article. Eli attacked some of the fundamentalist Christian sources for the piece, and talked about the plight sex workers who had been left without income after the backlash. Tom, from Cognitive Dissonance and Citation Needed, has major disagreements with Eli on the topic and wanted to respond.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Serious Inquiries Only. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only. This is episode 274. I'm Thomas, |
| 0:34.4 | I'm coming at you on the weekend, a little different scheduling, but that's because this one is |
| 0:39.1 | long overdue. You may recall a few episodes back. Eli Bosnick came on to discuss Nicholas |
| 0:45.0 | Christoff's op-ed for the New York Times that criticized Pornhub. It brought a lot of condemnation. |
| 0:51.4 | It brought a lot of some boycotting. It brought AMEX and I think Visa said they would no longer |
| 0:58.3 | allow payments through Pornhub. All kinds of stuff go and check that episode out if you haven't |
| 1:03.2 | heard it already. Today, it's interesting because not to rehash the entire episode, but Eli talked |
| 1:12.0 | about the religious influence and the fact that there's a radical anti-porn Christian group behind |
| 1:17.7 | some of the examples in the article. Also, Eli talked about the harms done to sex workers at a time, |
| 1:24.1 | especially during a pandemic when anyone needs their income. There was a lot of talk from that |
| 1:30.1 | angle and a sex worker advocacy, sex positive kind of angle. It's interesting. There was almost |
| 1:38.0 | no pushback that I saw to that episode. Almost none. I did see a comment later on that somebody |
| 1:45.2 | said they thought that Pornhub didn't have a good way to report it one time when they saw |
| 1:49.4 | something awful on Pornhub, which again, I don't really use Pornhub, so that's kind of hard. |
| 1:54.1 | I can't really evaluate that, but I take their word for it. Other than that, almost no pushback, |
| 1:58.1 | which I thought was interesting. I thought that was going to be perhaps a little more controversial, |
| 2:01.5 | except turns out there is somebody who does really disagree with Eli's take. That is Tom from |
| 2:07.3 | Cognitive Distance and, of course, they share a podcast citation needed. Tom Curry from those |
| 2:13.2 | shows disagrees with that episode pretty strongly and wanted to come on and give his side of things, |
| 2:20.5 | and I think this will be very interesting to see things from that angle. Without further ado, |
| 2:25.9 | I will note this was recorded a while back and then all the Georgia news and the election news |
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