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Hornyboy69 is your password.

So, here we are as like
this horny, horny Josh

the 13-year-old,

gone into my Twitter,
go into privacy and safety.

Display media that may contain
sensitive content -

all you have to do is click
that button

and you can watch as much porn
as you want on Twitter.

So, within two clicks
as this 13-year-old kid,

I'm watching tits,

but we can also watch
a fake driving school

which is hardcore

and this is with
my fourth click.

Man: So, what you're saying
is, like, I don't...

As a 13-year-old boy,

I don't need to go
on to a porn site...

No, you don't.

Man:
..to see quite hardcore porn?

Yeah, you don't need to go
onto a porn site.

That's what I think
it's a lot of people

don't realise about Twitter -

it's one of the biggest
porn sites in the world.

Narrator: That's how easy it is
to watch pornography.

Wherever you are,
whoever you are.

No-one needs to know
you're looking at it

and it's absolutely free.

In Britain,
we've become so worried

there are now plans to block

under-18s
from watching online porn.

- Yes.

Yes, I know you're cumming,
you're cumming, you're cumming.

Narrator: Since this programme
started 90 seconds ago,

another 85,000 people

have gone onto the world's
biggest internet porn site,

Pornhub.

Man: How often
would you use porn now?

Sometimes two times a day,
up to maybe easily

probably minimum
five times a week.

- It's hard to, like, get into
bed with your phone in your hand

and not then look at porn.
- Yeah.

Narrator: Pornhub alone

receives 92 million visitors
a day.

That's like
the combined population

of Spain and Uganda logging on.

- Big-tit anal MILFs.

Narrator:
Hardcore is now mainstream.

Anal darlings.
TS gang bangs.

Soapy anal babes.

And just, the list goes on.

Narrator: The genie
is out of the bottle.

- The internet
was made for porn.

We brought porn to the masses.

There's more porn
flooding the Earth

than ever before
in the history of mankind.

Narrator: We'll explore
how we got here,

how porn became free

and how it exploded
across the world.

- It can be in a whole variety

like a buffet -
you can just pick what you want,

what nationality you like.

I feel like I was fucked up

'cause I was
watching porn at 12 years old.

Narrator: We'll also try
to understand

if porn is beginning
to change you,

because whether you want to
admit it or not,

you are the people watching it.

Have fun. Rolling, and action.

[girls laughing]

- Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man.

- OK, it's not that horrible.
- It's really not that bad.

- It's not that horrible.
This is my porn suitcase.

- Just, like,
don't look in the closet.

- Oh, my god.

- That's her mess.
- Not mine.

OK.

This is where we sleep
in the same bed.

It's literally so big, though.
I'm on one complete side

and she's always on
the other side, she's so tiny.

- Here we have an enema.

- Yeah, it's for anal,
like, for cleaning out.

- Just, like,
repairing yourself.

- I'm, like,
huge into the anal thing.

- She's a big anal person.

Yeah, my first scene was anal.

- I don't do anal yet.
- Yeah.

- I wanted to do porn since
I was in, like, seventh grade

so it's just something

that I've been so passionate
about.

I just kind of
fangirled over it.

I had favourite porn stars,
like,

I thought more of them
as, like, actors and actresses

and people

than as like whores

and, like, dirty, like, sluts,
you know.

I don't know.

This is just what I want to do,
like.

I don't, I can't see myself
doing anything else.

I just realised
there's going to be

a lot of stuff in my car

because I never unpacked my car
from moving.

Man:
How long you been in LA?

Three weeks and two days.

It's been unbelievably hot
this whole time.

This is my car.

Drove all the way
across the country in this.

Nearly my entire life
is in this car right now.

I unpacked some stuff.
OK, let's see if this closes.

[soft guitar music]

Narrator: LA San Fernando
Valley has been and still is

a huge production hub
for the US porn industry.

Gianna arrived after packing up
her belongings

and driving 2,000 miles
across America

from her home in Alabama.

Sat nav: Turn left
on to De Soto Avenue.

- I was going to school
in Alabama,

I was majoring in psychology

and I was working two jobs.

I was a receptionist
at an eye doctor

and, um, I was a waitress
at a sushi restaurant.

And then I was just on Tinder,
a dating app,

and honestly,
I was just looking for hook-ups,

like, nothing crazy,

and an agent from Miami found me

and asked if I had ever
considered doing porn

and I said "No,"

and honestly, like, at that
point I had nothing to lose

so I was just kind of like,
"OK, I'm going to do it."

So, I went
and I just never came back.

I just loved it so much
that I stayed

until I moved here, pretty much.

Narrator: That's how easy it is,

a chance encounter
on social media

and a career in psychology
is swapped for one in porn.

- My hand.
Oh, it's right here, see.

Narrator: Gia also left
her hometown recently,

moving from Ohio to LA.

She'd originally wanted
to pursue a career as a vet.

- I'm doing my first, um,
boy-boy-girl scene.

And, yeah.

I'm excited.

Narrator: Since arriving in LA
three months ago,

she's already shot 50 films.

- You don't have to do anything
you don't want to do

but I'm pretty open.

And I do anal,
I do girl-girl, I do boy-girl,

I'm doing boy-boy-girl.

I don't do DPs yet.

DP is when you just get fucked
in the pussy and the ass

at the same time,
so I just, I don't know...

I feel I need to do more anal

and sort of work my way
up to it.

When I'm ready, I want to do it.

I'm just not ready yet.

Narrator: Gia's director today
is Mike Quasar.

He's been working in porn
since the 1990s.

Man: So, what's today?

- People having, er,
consensual intercourse

for money, mostly.

And then at some point,
I'll grow tired of this

and go home and make a cocktail,
I suspect.

25 years ago,
when I first started,

I thought there was
too much porn.

I just remember
going to video stores

and just, like,
this wall of pornography

and I'm thinking,
"Who's watching this?"

This is way too much porn here,
nobody can ever watch this.

And now, of course it's that,
you know, on hyper-steroids.

Man: So, how many scenes
do you shoot in a month?

- 50. Every single month.

Narrator: During his career,

Quasar has witnessed
a huge revolution in porn.

It's an industry
that's mirrored changes

in technology.

When the VHS arrived,

it meant you could watch porn
at home

without risking a visit
to a cinema.

By the end of the 1970s,

more than half the video tapes
sold in America

were pornographic.

The explosion of DVDs
allowed porn to be watched

at a much higher quality,

and then there was the internet.

Some say it was made for porn.

Suddenly, adult content
was easy to access

on a mass scale,
and completely anonymous

but in 2006, the game changed.

Online porn became free.

- The world
has an insatiable need

for erotic entertainment

that they have no intention
of paying for

so I'm there for them.

And I just need to set
my camera back.

There we go.

I shoot more porn than anyone -
not by choice, I just have.

I have to make a living.

Like, last year I think I shot
well over 500 scenes.

Woman: Do you know
what kind of scene this is?

All I know
is it's boy-boy-girl.

Er, bra, panties, cute outfit,

I kind of even like the skirt
you're wearing right now

but let's say replace the top
with something that doesn't say

er, 'Obey'.

Just dress like you would dress
if you were going to the mall.

OK.

Right about now,
we wait for her to be finished

and then we adlib
some sort of ridiculous scenario

as to why
they're having intercourse

and they have intercourse,
then I pay them

and then they leave.

So, here's the thing -
Eric Masterson,

even though he's, like,
100 years older than you,

he's your boyfriend, right,
and he cheated on you

so instead of breaking up
with him,

you're going to get even
by having sex with Bill Bailey -

that's the scenario.

Sound good?
I thought you'd agree.

Alright, let's go do it.
Come on, kids.

[laughing]

Man: When did you first
become aware, do you think,

of what is available online?

Um, I don't know
how much is out there,

I don't know what exactly
is out there.

I would think it's probably
worse than in my day as such

but I, I've never searched
online.

Man:
Shall we do an experiment?

Why don't you have a search
and put in search terms

to see what you get to
on Google?

I'm just worried
what you're going to put in,

to be honest.

I know, but I'm just thinking
what would they put in

'cause they probably know more
than me.

- Need to click on the thing.
- Thank you. [laughs]

So, I've got Sextube movies
comes up straight away,

hot sex videos.

Are those ads
or are they things?

- That's an ad.
- Oh, my god, that's disgusting.

Man:
So, that's taken you what?

Well, that's taken me
to a site with women.

Basically, you can click
on seeing women

with vibrators,

women doing things with men.

The video is just looping,
isn't it?

Man:
Shall I take it off you?

But that,
how long did that take?

Nothing. [laughs]

Man: So that took you, what,
less than a minute?

Yeah.

[moaning]

- Alrighty, then, fabulous.

I'd like to offer you a tissue
and an apology,

here you go.

And if you wouldn't mind, er,

giving the floor a once-over,
that would be wonderful too.

Taxes have been withheld

for your convenience
and consideration.

- Thank you, you were awesome.
- Yeah, thank you.

You're awesome too.

Narrator:
The cheque's worth $1,500

for less than three hours' work.

- Yeah, that was the first time
with two guys.

It was... I mean,
I had a lot of fun,

I liked it,
it was kind of a fantasy of mine

so, like, I feel like
it's fulfilled. [laughs]

If you saw that,
what did you think?

But because I've been
too exposed to it,

that's what I would deem
the normal.

That's not
what I would deem extreme.

Really?

You would deem it extreme

because you haven't
been exposed to that

over the period of time
which I have.

Whereas that, for me,
is pretty normal.

Narrator: 17-year-old Travis,
a sixth former from Britain,

and Gia, a 19-year-old
American porn actress.

They're the internet generation.

A world of free porn
is all they've ever known.

- For a generation of males
and females,

everywhere you go,
there's porn, porn, porn, porn.

Even if you go on social media
and you're not looking for porn,

it's going to find you,
you know.

It's an astonishing thing,
the 'pornisation'

of the planet Earth.

Narrator: In the Czech Republic,
porn is booming.

There's a ready supply
of new performers,

cheaper than
their US counterparts

and a liberal attitude
towards erotica.

[whispers]
They're shooting downstairs.

[whispers] This feels so weird
when you're here.

Narrator: Every week,
24-year-old Joe

commutes from Kent
to the suburbs of Prague

where he works
for the family business.

More than 1,000 porn films
are shot every year

in these two converted houses.

- This is the make-up room
and the costume room

and Melody, Melody Petite
is currently dressed up as -

what are you?

Voodoo girl.

- A voodoo girl? Oh, my god.

This is the communal
shower area.

We just had a threesome
in here today.

So, probably a bit slippery.

If you want to
come through here,

this is the massage room.

We are getting a massage table
with a hole in it

and it's a called
a milking table.

Narrator: This is the HQ

for a very British-flavoured
porn brand

that's watched
across the entire world.

Fake Taxi.

So, this is the garage
for Fake Taxi.

I think Fake Taxi
is obviously our biggest

and most popular,
and I think the whole appeal

that people have with it
is that it's real.

The premise of it is the girls
usually have lost their purse,

they can't find their purse,

and he driver says,

"Well, you're going to have to
pay me in some way."

Narrator:
Fake Taxi has become cult,

porn mimicking reality TV.

- We've just about to hit
a billion views

on Pornhub alone for Fake Taxi.

- Man: A billion?
- Yeah, a billion views.

- Man: Massive, isn't it?
- It's absolutely huge.

And sometimes it is staggering

to think how big
it actually is

and it's kind of like,
you kind of forget.

Narrator: The numbers
really are staggering.

Those billion views
have all come from people

seeing Fake Taxi videos
for free.

So, how did we get here?

Well, Joe's dad, JT,

was one of the architects
of free porn.

- We brought porn to the masses.
The internet was made for porn.

How it all started
was the end of

a really drunken night,

that I was in a bar

and I heard these two guys

talking about this brand-new
website, YouTube, for porn

and just thought,
"Wow, this sounds amazing."

Narrator: In 2006, he joined
them to create YouPorn,

at the time, the world's biggest
free porn site.

Before YouPorn,

if you wanted to watch
adult content,

you had to go on an internet
porn site and pay for it.

But YouPorn changed everything.

It was supposed to be
a video-sharing site

like YouTube, but for porn.

But then something unexpected
happened.

Out of the blue,

porn users took clips
they'd paid for

and without permission,
began uploading them

onto YouPorn's site.

Suddenly, anyone could watch
these clips for free.

The industry's producers
were furious -

content was
their bread and butter.

Their customers
were now stealing it

right in front of them.

They issued YouPorn
with take-down notices -

legal orders that the site
remove their clips.

But YouPorn went viral.

As fast as the site took down
a porn clip,

another user
would put it straight back up.

Trying to police YouPorn
was hopeless.

It was like the Wild West.

370 million users a month

pulled in the advertisers
and the money followed.

Free porn was born.

- It was the start
of an absolute rush.

Our growth was phenomenal.

We were, at the time, growing
10 times faster than Facebook

and that was all through
word of mouth.

- Hello.

- Hello.

So, today, we are doing the...
We've got YouPorn Snapchat.

- Yep.

So you can just do
a selfie video

and say hello
to all of their fans on there,

so just very, like, 10 seconds,
very, very quick.

Narrator:
Today, as porn producers,

Joe and his dad
export Fake Taxi's content

across the world.

They couldn't do it
without social media.

- Hi, guys.
I'm Cherry Kiss from Serbia

and I'm going to be today
female driver for a Fake Taxi

for a female Fake Taxi.
[laughs]

Follow me on Twitter.
Big kiss from Cherry Kiss.

- Awesome, that was perfect.
Thank you, Cherry.

- When I try and speak fast,
then I fuck it up.

No, it's OK.

Man: How would you describe
your job, Joe?

I think my job is kind of,
it's a job that you,

that 10 years ago,
would never have existed.

I'm the social media manager
for Fake Taxi

and all of the other brands,

so, yeah, I definitely
mass market internet porn,

for sure, yeah.

When I started the job,
I think our total followers

was about...

..about 200 overall.

Now we've got about 1.2 million.

This was put out two days ago,

so watch Amber Jane's brand-new
ride with John, out now.

It's got 68,000 views,
478 retweets,

1.5k favourites and likes.

I expect that to get up
to about 100,000 views

over the next few days.

Narrator: In the UK,
there are plans for a new law

which will mean
you'll have to prove you're 18

before you can access
a porn website

via a credit card, passport
or driving licence.

But it won't apply
to social media.

- People can watch anything
on Twitter.

So, let's say you've got
a 13-year-old boy, right.

You can just,
you can just sign up

as a straight-up,
like, brand-new

Twitter account as a teenager.

Man: No age verification?

- No age verification
on that, no.

I've got on to Fake Taxi

as this 13-year-old kid

and...

With Twitter, there's no history
on what you've scrolled past

and what you've watched

unless you like
or you retweet it.

Man: Most sort of 13,
14-year-olds

are quite computer savvy,

they'd know how to change
the settings

on a social media account.
- Yeah, yeah.

Man: And they're not being asked
whether they're 18?

- No. As a parent,
if you're letting your

13-year-old
have free reign on their iPhone,

you, even if you're strict,
there's no way of stopping it.

I had no idea, to be fair,
when I first started this job.

I had no idea
that there was porn on Twitter

and now I'm, like, one of
the top Twitter porn people.

Man: So, there's research
that says

the average age
of a child's first exposure

to internet porn

could be as young as 11.

Wow.

That's sad.

- I just can't
get my head around

that 11, 12, 13-year-olds
are watching porn.

I think, if you haven't
got anything

to context porn with,

that it could, you know, just -
this is just a 47-year-old guy

saying this.

I think it could have
some real impact.

I'm actually quite worried
about it, and I'm not a prude.

Narrator:
But there's another loophole

with the proposed UK age block.

Installing a VPN

or virtual private
network software on a computer

hides a user's location.

So, even though you might be
visiting a porn site from the UK

that website would never know.

Effectively, you can pretend
to be anywhere in the world

and wouldn't be asked
to verify your age.

There's some things happened
that I've seen on porn

and I think I'm, like,
I've only seen

the real basic stuff.

You could see some stuff

that I think could, could...

..affect how you
form relationships.

Man: So, more than half the boys
in a recent study,

and they're talking boys
from 11 to 16,

think porn is a realistic
depiction of sex.

Really?

That's high.

If people are watching it
and just thinking

that's what we do,
you know, you imagine

somebody meeting a girl

and then, you know -
bang, that's it, they're there.

And I would worry about
those sorts of boundaries.

- Mmm.

If you sort of treated
somebody like that.

- Today was not work.

Like, I went there,
I fucked that guy,

I got paid and I left.

Did you cum, like, a tonne?

Yeah. A lot.

Was it anal or regular?

It was just regular.
[giggles]

Oh, my god, guys, I could not.

What? You can't do anal?

I can't. I mean, I can do it.

You can't do it yet.
You can't do it yet. It's OK.

I can't, like, fuck two dicks
at once yet.

Narrator: They've only known
each other a couple of weeks

but a shared past seems to have
brought Gia, Gianna

and their new friend Kendra
together.

- I feel like I was watching
porn at a young age

because I never got
real sex education.

Like, if I had been actually
educated on sex,

I wouldn't have started
having it

at fucking 13 years old.

Literally, if that would
have been explained to me,

my life would be
a completely different life.

I started when I was 15.
I think that's a good age.

- My whole sex education
was me going to a class

and them forcing us
to sign a card

that said we would be abstinent
until we got married.

That was it.

They didn't tell us anything
about sex.

That was it.

- That's why you started
watching porn at a young age.

I know. I think that's why
I am the way I am.

Narrator: Despite being from
different parts of America,

they all grew up
experiencing the same thing -

sex was never talked about

but was only ever
one click away.

- Hi, lovers.

I'm on set,
this beautiful location.

I'm having sex with a girl
named Gianna.

I've never had sex with her,
so I'm very excited

to spread her legs
and have dessert for breakfast.

[laughs] Mwah.

Narrator: In the four weeks
Gianna's been in Los Angeles,

there's already a growing buzz
around her

from those in the porn world.

Today, she's appearing
in a feature-length adult movie.

Everyone off set, please,
for the background.

You caught me in
a pretty decent place, dude.

We're talking as close
as you can to the white couch.

There we go, and action.

Ooh, I do love
that lingerie set.

It is my favourite.

I love the way the colour
goes against your skin.

- Want me to wear it for you?

Yes, I do.

Do you wanna look sexy for me?

- I can see how you can think
that women are being degraded

and how women are treated
as objects,

but then I can also see it
as women are allowed

to be sexualised now

in a sense of, it's their own
sexual empowerment

and they can be more...

But they're the stars of porn,
ay, you know?

Yeah, women make all the money.

They make all the money
and no-one knows -

the guy's face is never in it.

Well, not very often.
She's, you know...

There's mostly female porn stars

which are the ones that,
the names, really.

- I'm sure
there's female porn stars

that think
it's the greatest career ever

and then I'm sure
there's female porn stars

that think, "I wish I could go
and make 300,000-400,000 a year

"somewhere else."

- Just sad.
- It's a tough one.

Narrator: Career-wise, things
couldn't be going much better.

But Gianna's started to miss
her family

back home in Alabama.

- Yeah, well, happy birthday.

Woman: Thank you.

I'm working.

Woman: You're so cute!

How did I not know
that you had braces, though?

Summer has them too, right?

Woman: Yeah.

Crazy. I had no idea.

OK.

Woman: Thanks for calling.
Love you, love you.

Love you. Bye.

Narrator: Gianna's not felt able

to tell her stepbrother
and sister

what she's doing in LA.

- I'm probably going to miss
Thanksgiving this year

'cause I just don't feel
comfortable going

and I just know
it's going to be kind of weird.

Man: Why don't you feel
comfortable?

'Cause my dad is not totally
comfortable with it yet

and I don't think he even,
like, wants to be around me

so I'd rather just not go.

He's lived in the South
his whole life,

so he's very, like,
Bible Belt Christian

and, like, very strict, I guess.

If it looks bad,
we'll go somewhere else.

- I think times are changing.

My generation is pretty open
about sex.

But if I even mention anything
to my parents about sex,

they'd be like,
"Don't talk about that,"

like, "Don't bring that up."

[chatter]

It's like they're scared of sex.

- What happened to what we did
when we were kids, you know?

Where you went out
with somebody for three months

and you might get a little bit

of over-the-jumper
feeling of boobs

and then you, you know,
you move on to the next,

and it's sort of -
to me, there was, like,

it graduated,

and, you, know they called it
going through the bases

in America, didn't they?

Because you were
building up to something

that was consensual

and was sort of enlightening

for both of you
when you were young.

Do kids miss out on that now
because they just say,

"I want a blowjob and can I
ejaculate on your face?"

Man: There's no going back,
though?

- Yeah.

There's no going back.

And I'm fine with it,
I've accepted that

and I'm glad that I thought
about that before I started,

like, I knew that...

Now I'm not going to be able
to be, like, a school teacher

or whatever,

not that I want to be,
but, like, I had to, like,

accept the fact that people
are gonna, like, know

that I did porn, so...

You are amazing,
thank you so much.

Man: You're welcome.

Narrator: And that's
the inescapable truth

about internet porn.

It will always be there.

It can never be erased.

- Crikey. It's freezing.

Oh, I've gotta, um,
get on to Twitter,

on to Fake Taxi

and do my 1pm-3pm tweet.

'Cause it's Wednesday,
I'll do like a - it sounds funny

but I do, like,
a 'wank Wednesday' tweet.

Narrator: Although Joe says
he's concerned about the ease

with which kids can watch porn
on Twitter,

he's still using it to advertise
Fake Taxi

because to him and his dad,

porn is, first and foremost,
a business.

So, yeah, right now
it's coming up to -

well, it's half 12
in England now

so people will be
on their lunch break,

but we have fans
all over the world

that are constantly on Twitter.

Especially
if you've got, like, 330,000,

there's always going to be
people online.

So, even if you post it
at 4:00 in the morning,

there's going to be Americans
that are up, or Australians

or whatever.

It's now at 300 views
in four minutes, 13 retweets.

In a couple of hours,
it will be thousands of views,

yeah, for sure.

If we look at the view tweet
activity,

it's had 160...

Narrator: You're probably
starting to wonder,

if porn is now free,

how do producers
like Joe and his dad

make any money?

Well, it's all about
percentages.

Producers like Fake Taxi
came to realise

that they had to use
the big, free sites

as their shop window.

Now, Joe says their films

are getting a quarter
of a billion views a month

just on Pornhub.

If he can get a tiny proportion
of those

to click on the Fake Taxi
Ad Banner,

it will take them straight
to Fake Taxi's own website.

Once the traffic's
been driven there,

he only needs to tempt
a small percentage to sign up

as Fake Taxi members

but that costs, on average,
$30 a month.

Why would anyone pay for that?

Well, members get access

to exclusive,
uninterrupted content.

Fake Taxi has 100,000
monthly members.

That's just 0.04%

of the original
quarter of a billion viewers,

but that tiny number can
generate millions of pounds.

So, if you know
what you're doing,

there's plenty of money
still to be made in free porn.

Woman: So, how much do you earn,
do you think a year, JT?

Yeah, quite a lot.
Enough to keep everybody happy.

- There's a lot of us as well.
- Woman: Ish?

I don't know, just quite a lot.

- Woman: More than?
- Yeah, more than that.

Woman: More than what?
Come on, give us a clue.

I would never tell,
nobody knows.

To give you an idea -
we have over 100,000

active, paying members a month,

and the average...

The average membership
is about $30, so.

That'll give you some idea.

Narrator: Well, according
to those figures,

they're making $3 million
a month, just in memberships.

[woman laughing]

L-O-L. It's little.

This is 2003.

I was 6.

I was so cute.

The cutest.

There's me and my sister,
this one's my favourite picture.

I lost my virginity
when I was 16

which is pretty, like,
normal age.

But, like, after that,

I just turned into,
like, major whore.

I just realised
that, like, I loved sex.

I didn't realise
it was that good.

I just wasn't accepted
for it in high school.

People would always
talk shit about me.

And, like, back then,
it did upset me.

Like, I didn't -

I just felt all, like,
people didn't like me

because I was a whore,
and I don't...

I felt like, I felt guilty
for enjoying sex.

That's why I love porn
'cause it's like I can be...

..myself.

I'm going to sign my real name
somewhere.

Probably not
next to my porn name.

Whoops.

OK.

Man:
What is your real name?

My real name is Emily.

Narrator: 2,000 miles from home,
a new life, a new identity,

maybe the attraction
of LA's porn valley

is that it's a place
to escape to.

[laughing]

This is me.

This is me.

On the cover of 'Penthouse'
on a news stand.

Wow.

[laughing]

Holy shit.

Oh.

Narrator: Porn has been
consumed by the internet.

But despite that,

the iconic 'Penthouse' magazine
just about manages to survive.

- This is me! [laughs]

Oh, my god.
What is this one?

Narrator: And while anyone
can be a thumbnail

on a porn site,

only a select few make it

to be 'Penthouse'
Pet of the Month.

I'm going to Facetime my mum.

To show her.

Woman: Hi.

It's at a news stand.

Woman: [screaming]
How did it get out?

I don't know.

That's why I'm, like,
I'm really confused

that it's out right now.

But that's me.

Narrator:
That's Gianna's stepmum.

Unlike her dad,

she's come to accept
her new career in porn.

- This is probably my most
prized possession, actually.

If I'm being real, yeah.

This is my most prized
possession.

Like, I'm glad
I was born in this time

because I probably
would have never done porn

had I been born,
like, five years earlier.

[gentle piano music]

This is me in a magazine.

Hi.

Weird.

- Back in the day, as they say,

when you made the decision
to do porn,

you realise that you were
kind of stepping off

a cliff, you know.

Like, there's no coming back
from this.

And now I think it's almost...

It's not a big deal.

You have girls
that are just now turning 18

and this is the first thing
they want to do.

Free porn effect just becomes,
like, a career option

for people
that maybe 10 years ago,

it wouldn't have been
a career option.

But if my daughter ever told me
that she wanted to do porn,

in any aspect, I would
jump in front of a train.

And I also know that that
makes me a massive hypocrite

because I'm certainly willing
to film other people's daughters

doing terrible things.

My fear is that girls and boys

that are not old enough
to sort of understand

who they are or what they are,

are identifying with this
prematurely, you know?

If you're into wild, kinky,
weird, hardcore sex,

you know, good for you,

but I don't think
that you should determine

that that's what you're into
when you're 14, you know.

Woman: Do you feel responsible
in any way

for the fact that young people
are now having sex

where guys cum on girls' faces?

Do I feel responsible?

No.

Um, because if I hadn't have,

if we hadn't have started
YouPorn,

there was already Tube sites
that were going to be started.

Because of YouTube,
copying the YouTube model.

So, do I feel guilty?

Do I blame myself for these kids
looking at all of this porn?

No, because do the...

Does David Gold feel guilty

for having all
of the porn magazines?

Because you could blame him

for me starting YouPorn,

because I used to look at
my uncle's magazines.

So, who does the blame
go down to?

Is it Hugh Hefner?
Do we blame poor Hugh?

Who do we blame?

Woman: Is that
a good-enough argument

that if I didn't do it,
someone else would?

No, because it's not as if I
shot the first-ever porn movie.

There is millions of hours
of porn shot

before we even started YouPorn.

Um, so, I think, collectively,

yeah, anybody
that shoots porn is...

You could somehow point
the finger of blame

that it's because of him or her
that kids are watching porn.

So, it's...
It is what it is.

Yeah.

Shall we say anything else?

- People are going to think
I'm so conceited

but it's OK.

Yes.

Trying to get it even.

[gentle piano]

Yes.

Beautiful.

So, I texted my dad.

I sent him a picture
of the cover

and he was, like,
not happy for me.

He was like - what did he say?

I just sent him a picture
of my cover

and said, "Penthouse Pet
of the Month, September 2018."

He said, "I pray you take
the money you make

"and please go back to school.

"I love you very much.
I want you to be happy,

"but I'm very afraid

"of what you're doing
with your life.

"You know I'm always here
if you need me.

"I would never not be here
for you, but I'm afraid."

I was like, "Damn, dude,
can you just be happy for me?"

Man: What you're
just talking about there is

a generational gap, isn't it?

Yeah.

And I think we're,
you know, we had the choice

so if we wanted to
look at porn or whatever,

then we make the choice
to do that.

It wasn't just there
all the time.

Whereas for you guys,
it's, like, there.

Yeah.

Even if you're not looking
for it, it's there.

- Mm-hm.
- Which is quite sad, really.

- Porn looks pretty bad
to the outside world.

But it's OK.

'Cause I don't care
what other people think.

My happiness is what matters.

Narrator: We don't yet know
what the effect

of the free porn revolution
will be.

We're on a journey

that has really only just begun.

- I remember times
where I'd be driving around

quoting jobs for my business,

and knowing Lydia will be home

in about an hour
from the school run

so I would put my foot down
to get home quickly

so I could feast on

the opportunity
of that pornography.

It's probably got to the point

where you're literally spending
an hour, or an hour and a half

to find that perfect video.

Because you've seen so many,
you've seen them all

and it's now boring.

Man: Do you think
porn on the internet

is in control of you?

I think it is
in control of us.

It's hard to go without it.

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