The coronavirus pandemic has seemingly put the world on hold — including porn productions. While the Free Speech Coalition has released preliminary safety guidelines for shoots to restart, they said in their blog post it still may not be safe.
Conversely, while producers can’t make porn, viewers are watching it in droves: Pornhub’s traffic has spiked throughout the pandemic, for example. The demand for porn is, if not at an all-time high, then at least higher than at this point last year.
In many cases, though, that demand doesn’t translate into actual dollars for sex workers. Just as millions of people are out of work, so too have porn performers and other sex workers seen income reductions. Read more…
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