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The recently launched game "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" has quickly captured the attention of Pornhub users. The popular adult website has revealed…

Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Getty ImagesPornhub disabled access to its website for people in Utah on Monday to protest the state’s new age verification law, which requires websites with adult content to confirm users are 18 years of age or older.Twitter Verification is a Hot MessUsers in Utah, which declared that porn was a “public health crisis” in 2016, who tried to access Pornhub on Monday were instead greeted with a video message from adult performer Cherie DeVille. The performer went on to explain that…

Utah's age verification law, which targets publishers distributing material deemed to be "harmful to minors on the internet," has gone into effect. As a response, MindGeek has chosen to block everyone in the state from being able to access its websites, including Pornhub. As Motherboard reports, if somebody with a Utah IP address accesses Pornhub, they'll now be met with a video of adult performer Cherie DeVille. In it, DeVille explained that the company believes requiring users to submit their government IDs isn't the…

Colombian OnlyFans actress Katty Blake has become national news in the Latin American country after she posted a video of herself performing oral sex at the Rock of Guatapé, a 721-foot-high (220 meters) batholith that is considered a national landmark. Now, her and her partner may face legal trouble. Making the Facebook Papers PublicBlake, who goes by her stage name, published the video to Pornhub a week ago, where it has since racked up more than 170,000 views. The video shows her and a man named Zac, Blake’s boyfriend…

Photo via Netflix There is a reason why the term ‘sex sells’ is a well-known saying, and one, it would seem, that also applies to this week’s Netflix top 10 charts, after a deep dive into the internet sex industry has managed to capture people’s attention. Money Shot: The Pornhub story is a documentary featuring adult performers, creators, and former employees talking about one of the biggest adult sites, Pornhub. The documentary garnered over 13 million hours viewed and found itself in fourth place as a…

Welcome to Week in Review, folks, TechCrunch’s regular recap of the week in tech. GPT-4, OpenAI’s text- and image-understanding AI, might’ve dominated the headlines over the past few days. But fresh drama around Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse emerged as well. We cover all that and more in this edition, so grab a coffee and settle in. Quick note, TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 is fast approaching. It’ll be in Boston on April 20 and will feature three concurrent tracks of founder-forward workshops, case studies and deep…

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story, a new Netflix documentary on the biggest porn website in the world, opens with a simple question: do you remember the first porn you ever saw? The film’s older subjects (read: late millennial and above), including several adult film performers, recall bespoke, analog porn, illicit and enticing – movies of Mother Goose fairy tales given a raunchy twist, a neighbor’s video tape of women using a giant ice dildo, Playgirl and Playboy spreads.Noelle Perdue, an internet porn historian and…

Documentaries about pornography are usually building to one of two different climactic conclusions: that porn is actually a hateful enabler of rape, or that porn is actually a sex-positive celebration of sensual pleasure. It seems to me that Suzanne Hillinger’s uncertain documentary about Pornhub isn’t exactly sure what its money shot should be.Pornhub is the colossally successful porn site, owned by a Canadian company with the airily tech-bro name of MindGeek; for years it provided a lucrative and arguably enlightened…

Pick of the weekTo LeslieThe controversy over the (successful) campaign to get the film’s star, Andrea Riseborough, an Oscar nomination has taken away from what should be universal praise for her lacerating performance. In Michael Morris’s touching drama of redemption, she plays self-destructive alcoholic Leslie who, after frittering away a $190,000 lottery win, finds herself homeless. Hoping to reconnect with the teenage son she abandoned, she falters and fails, but then meets Marc Maron’s motel manager Sweeney. He seems…