In honor of October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the pornography streaming website Pornhub has announced that they’ll be donating one cent for every thirty views of “breast-related videos” to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
The Komen Foundation, for some strange reason, has decided to refuse this money.
I’m just as shocked as you are.
According to the Huffington Post, the Komen Foundation has told them, via email:
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is not a partner of pornhub.com. We will not accept donations from this organization and have asked them to stop using our name.
To their credit, Pornhub apparently still wishes to donate the funds to another organization. Again, from Huffington Post:
Unfortunately, we have had to change our targeted beneficiary. As such, Pornhub.com is now calling on all breast cancer foundations to come forward and be considered as the recipient of this cash donation.
Classy job there, Pornhub. Classy job.
This article appears in Oct 4-10, 2012.
It’s the Komen foundation’s loss.
The fact that the SGK Foundation is not accepting donations from a legitimate industry doesn’t make sense. They should be happy to accept the money, it’s not like NAMBLA or NANDLA (North American National Drug Lord Association-yes, I made that one up, unfortunately I didn’t make up NAMBLA though) are making these donations. It makes them seem, well, snobby & prudish. Sometimes when we are in a position to help others we need to be a bit more open minded & put our archaic beliefs to the side.
It’s a proven fact that women are the people who rule the Porn Industry anyways. They always receive top billing in these films, they make more money for their “acting” than their male counterparts and they are alot more involved w/ the behind the scenes elements than they have ever been; this includes “writing”, directing, producing & distribution. It’s time for SGK to step into the 21st Century and accept funding from an industry that has emerged as commonplace.