【雅思精读】那些上了P站的孩子，一生因此改变

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　　The Children of PornhubP站之子Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?在加拿大，为什么会让这些公司从性侵视频中获利？

　　1. Pornhub prides itself on being the cheery, winking face of naughty, the website that buys a billboard in Times Square and provides snow plows to clear Boston streets. It donates to organizations fighting for racial equality and offers steamy content free to get people through Covid-19 shutdowns.

　　Pornhub总是吹嘘自己网站上那些甜美天真的笑脸，这个网站在时代广场买了一块广告牌，还提供扫雪机清理波士顿街道。同时，它还向争取种族平等的组织捐款，并免费提供视频内容以帮助人们挺过新冠封锁期。

　　2. That supposedly “wholesome Pornhub” attracts 3.5 billion visits a month, more than Netflix, Yahoo or Amazon. Pornhub rakes in money from almost three billion ad impressions a day. One ranking lists Pornhub as the 10th-most-visited website in the world.

　　这个看上去”和谐有爱“P站月访问用户达35亿，超过网飞、雅虎和亚马逊。Pornhub广告浏览量每天达30亿，该网站借此赚得盆满钵满。有一项排名将Pornhub列为全球访问量10大网站。

　　3. Yet there’s another side of the company: Its site is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags. A search for “girls under18” (no space) or “14yo” leads in each case to more than 100,000 videos. Most aren’t of children being assaulted, but too many are.

　　然而，这家公司还有不为人知的一面：该网站上充斥着各种性暴力视频。该网站通过各类色情暴力视频盈利。搜索“18岁以下的女孩”(不加空格)或“14岁女孩”的关键词出来的视频观看量都是10W+。虽然很多视频都不是儿童侵犯，但是有一大部分是。

　　4. After a 15-year-old girl went missing in Florida, her mother found her on Pornhub — in 58 sex videos. Sexual assaults on a 14-year-old California girl were posted on Pornhub and were reported to the authorities not by the company but by a classmate who saw the videos. In each case, offenders were arrested for the assaults, but Pornhub escaped responsibility for sharing the videos and profiting from them.

　　佛罗里达州一名15岁的女孩失踪后，她母亲在Pornhub上的58个色情视频里面看到了她。针对一名14岁加州女孩的性侵也被发布在Pornhub网站上，是一名学生看到了视频然后报告给了警局，而该公司对此却置之不理。在每一个事件中，侵犯者都被逮捕了，但是Pornhub却因为这些视频获利，还逃脱了惩罚。

　　5. Pornhub is like YouTube in that it allows members of the public to post their own videos. A great majority of the 6.8 million new videos posted on the site each year probably involve consenting adults, but many depict child abuse and nonconsensual violence. Because it’s impossible to be sure whether a youth in a video is 14 or 18, neither Pornhub nor anyone else has a clear idea of how much content is illegal.

　　Pornhub就像YouTube一样，是一个视频分享软件。这个网站每年会发布680万新视频，其中绝大部分都是成人视频，但是也有很多是关于儿童性侵和非知情同意性虐待视频。因为无法确定视频中的女孩是14岁还是18岁，所以无论是Pornhub还是其他任何人都不清楚有多少内容是非法的。

　　6. Unlike YouTube, Pornhub allows these videos to be downloaded directly from its website. So even if a rape video is removed at the request of the authorities, it may already be too late: The video lives on as it is shared with others or uploaded again and again.

　　与YouTube不同的是，Pornhub允许用户从其网站上直接下载这些视频。因此，即使一段强奸视频应当局要求被删除，也可能已经太晚了:视频在与他人分享或一次又一次上传的过程中依然存在。

　　7. “Pornhub became my trafficker,” a woman named Cali told me. She says she was adopted in the United States from China and then trafficked by her adoptive family and forced to appear in pornographic videos beginning when she was 9. Some videos of her being abused ended up on Pornhub and regularly reappear there, she said.

　　一个叫卡丽的妇女跟我说，“Pornhub绑架了我。”她说，她被美国家庭从中国收养，从9岁开始，她就被迫拍色情视频。她说，她被虐待的视频被放到了Pornhub上。

　　8. “I’m still getting sold, even though I’m five years out of that life,” Cali said. Now 23, she is studying in a university and hoping to become a lawyer — but those old videos hang over her. “I may never be able to get away from this,” she said. “I may be 40 with eight kids, and people are still masturbating to my photos.” “You type ‘Young Asian’ and you can probably find me,” she added.

　　卡丽说:“现在我的视频还在被卖，虽然我已经不做这行五年了。”卡丽现在23岁，在一所大学学习，想做一名律师，但是那些旧视频一直在影响她。她说，“那些视频可能会伴随我一辈子。可能我40岁了，有了8个孩子，但是人们还是会对着这些照片'自我宣泄'。她补充道，”输入“亚洲少年”，就能看到我的视频。”

　　9. Actually, maybe not. Pornhub recently was offering 26,000 videos in response to that search. That doesn’t count videos that show up under “related searches” that Pornhub suggests, including “young tiny teen,” “extra small petite teen,” “tiny Asian teen” or just “young girl.” Nor does it necessarily count videos on a Pornhub channel called “exploited teen Asia.”

　　事实上，你可能还看不到这些视频。最近，在Pornhub 上输入这个关键词，就会出现26000个这样的视频。这还不包括Pornhub的“相关视频”中出现的视频，这包括“小小少年，娇小孩子，亚洲少年或者小女孩”等，这还不包括输入“亚洲少年虐待视频”出现的视频。

　　10. The issue is not pornography but rape. Let’s agree that promoting assaults on children or on anyone without consent is unconscionable. The problem with Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein was not the sex but the lack of consent — and so it is with Pornhub.

　　问题的关键不是色情，而是性侵犯。未经同意就对儿童或者任何人实施攻击都是不合理的。比尔•考斯比、哈维•韦恩斯坦或杰弗里•爱泼斯坦的问题不在于性，而在于缺乏同意——Pornhub也是如此。

　　11. I came across many videos on Pornhub that were recordings of assaults on unconscious women and girls. The rapists would open the eyelids of the victims and touch their eyeballs to show that they were nonresponsive.

　　我在Pornhub网站上看到过很多视频，都是对那些昏迷的女孩或者妇女实施侵犯。暴徒们甚至会打开受害者的眼睑，触摸他们的眼球，以表明她们确实昏迷了。

　　12. Pornhub profited this fall from a video of a naked woman being tortured by a gang of men. It is monetizing video compilations with titles like “Screaming Teen,” “Degraded Teen” and “Extreme Choking.” Look at a choking video and it may suggest also searching for “She Can’t Breathe.”

　　今年秋天，Pornhub上有一段不堪入目的群体暴力视频，它因此赚了一大笔。Pornhub还因为“尖叫少年，堕落少年，窒息视频”等关键词下的视频大赚特赚。观看一个“窒息”视频，可能会推送更多相关视频。

　　13. It should be possible to be sex positive and Pornhub negative. Pornhub declined to make executives available on the record, but it provided a statement. “Pornhub is unequivocally committed to combating child sexual abuse material, and has instituted a comprehensive, industry-leading trust and safety policy to identify and eradicate illegal material from our community,” it said. Pornhub added that any assertion that the company allows child videos on the site “is irresponsible and flagrantly untrue.”

　　性并不可耻，可耻的是Pornhub。Pornhub拒绝公开高管身份，却发表了一份声明，称“Pornhub明确承诺打击儿童性虐待内容，并制定了一项全面的、行业领先的信任和安全政策，以识别和根除我们社区中的非法内容。”Pornhub补充说，任何声称公司允许儿童视频在网站上出现的说法“都是不负责任的，也是不真实的。”

　　14. At 14, Serena K.Fleites was an A student in Bakersfield, Calif., who had never made out with a boy. But in the eighth grade she developed a crush on a boy a year older, and he asked her to take a naked video of herself. She sent it to him, and this changed her life.

　　14岁的塞丽娜·K·弗莱茨是加州贝克斯菲尔德的一名A级学生，她从未与任何男孩发生过性关系。但到八年级时，她喜欢上了一个大她一岁的男孩，他让她拍了一段自己的裸体视频。她把视频发给了他，这改变了她的一生。

　　15. He asked for another, then another; she was nervous but flattered. “That’s when I started getting strange looks in school,” she remembered. He had shared the videos with other boys, and someone posted them on Pornhub.

　　他连续向她要了很多视频。她有点紧张，但又有些受宠若惊。她回忆道 “从那时起，在学校里人们开始用奇怪的眼光看我。”那个男孩把这个视频分享给了别人，有的人把这个视频上传到Pornhub。

　　16. Fleites’s world imploded. It’s tough enough to be 14 without having your classmates entertain themselves by looking at you naked, and then mocking you as a slut. “People were texting me, if I didn’t send them a video, they were going to send them to my mom,” she said.

　　弗莱茨的世界开始崩溃了。14岁的时候，如果有同学对着你的裸体想入非非，然后骂你荡妇，这太难顶了。她说，“人们给我发短信说如果我不把视频发给他们，他们就会把视频发给我妈。”

　　17. The boy was suspended, but Fleites began skipping class because she couldn’t bear the shame. Her mother persuaded Pornhub to remove the videos, and Fleites switched schools. But rumors reached the new school, and soon the videos were uploaded again to Pornhub and other websites. Fleites quarreled with her mother and began cutting herself. Then one day she went to the medicine cabinet and took every antidepressant pill she could find. Three days later, she woke up in the hospital, frustrated to be still alive. Next she hanged herself in the bathroom; her little sister found her, and medics revived her. As Fleites spiraled downward, a friend introduced her to meth and opioids, and she became addicted to both. She dropped out of school and became homeless.

　　男孩被勒令退学，但是弗莱茨开始逃课了，因为她无法忍受这些耻辱。她的母亲说服Pornhub删除了这些视频，弗莱茨转学了。但谣言传到了新学校，很快这些视频又被上传到了Pornhub和其他网站。弗莱茨和母亲吵了一架，开始自残。有一天，她来到药店把所有能找到的抗抑郁药都吃了。三天后，她在医院里醒了过来，知道自己还活着，她很沮丧。后来，她在浴室上吊自杀了，她的妹妹发现了她，把她救了下来。之后，弗莱茨的情况急转直下。一个朋友给了她病毒和阿片类毒品，她对这些东西上瘾了。之后，她辍了学，流浪街头。

　　18. At 16, she advertised on Craigslist and began selling naked photos and videos of herself. It was a way to make a bit of money, and maybe also a way to punish herself. She thought, “I’m not worth anything any more because everybody has already seen my body,” she told me.

　　16岁的时候，她在Craigslist上做广告，开始出售自己的裸照和视频。这是一种赚点钱的方式，也许也是一种惩罚自己的方式。她告诉我，“我已经一文不值了，因为大家都看到了我的裸体。”

　　19. Those videos also ended up on Pornhub. Fleites would ask that they be removed. They usually would be, she says — but then would be uploaded again. One naked video of her at 14 had 400,000 views, she says, leaving her afraid to apply for fast-food jobs for fear that someone would recognize her.

　　这些视频最后也被上传到了Pornhub。弗莱茨要求网站删除这些视频。她说，一般来说，这些视频还会被上传到Pornhub上。她说，她14岁时的一个裸体视频点击量达40万次，这让她不敢去快餐店应聘，因为她担心有人会认出她来。

　　20. So today Fleites, 19, off drugs for a year but unemployed and traumatized, is living in her car in Bakersfield, along with three dogs that have proved more loyal and loving than the human species. She dreams of becoming a vet technician but isn’t sure how to get there. “It’s kind of hard to go to school when you’re living in a car with dogs,” she said.

　　如今，19岁的弗莱茨已经戒毒一年，但她没有工作，精神也受到了很大创伤。她和自己的三条狗住在一起。事实证明，这些狗比人更忠诚，更有爱。她想做一名兽医，但不知道如何实现这些。她说，“你和狗住在一起，去上学有点难。”

　　21. “I was dumb,” she acknowledged, noting that she had never imagined that the videos could be shared online. “It was one small thing that a teenager does, and it’s crazy how it turns into something so much bigger. “A whole life can be changed because of one little mistake.”

　　她承认，“我太蠢了。”她说，她从没想到这些视频会被传到网上。“对于一个十几岁的孩子来说，这只是一件小事，但它怎么会变成这么大的事情，真是不可思议。一个小小的错误就可改变了我的整个人生。”