'Torture and barbarism' endemic in porn industry, finds study

The French High Council for Equality has laid bare violence and brutality in the porn industry, classifying pornography as an "illegal act of torture".

Entitled "Pornocrime", itsshocking report, which called on the authorities to combat a "system that massacres women for profit", was presented on Wednesday to Bérangère Couillard, France's Minister for Gender Equality. 

After analysing hundreds of videos, the organisation concluded 90% of pornographic content available online contains physical or verbal violence and is "criminally reprehensible".

The independent public institution carried out a study of the internet's four main pornographic platforms – Pornhub, XVideos, Xnxx and Xhamster. 

It found multiple videos entitled "triple anal" or "prolapse", which refers to the dropping of internal organs as a result of brutal penetration.

The report also points to "gangbang" videos in which several men simultaneously penetrate a woman through multiple orifices.

"Our aim is to shake people's consciences by crudely describing the torture practices that are commonplace in the porn industry. We call it 'pornocrime' because these practices are illegal and fall under the penal code," Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette, president of the council, told AFP.

The report goes further, pointing out that some of these videos – which sometimes count 14 million views a month – "fall within the legal definition of acts of torture and barbarism".

It singles out women as the main victims, saying that "these acts are not simulated, the violence is real, it is not cinema".

"There are 1.4 million videos of sadistic practices: "Suffocation, bukkake (as many as dozens of men ejaculating on one woman), gangbang, gagging (deep fellatio suffocation), torture,