Pornhub taps Liz Goldwyn to direct Literacy 101 series
Liz Goldwyn, an author, artist and filmmaker who hails from the Hollywood dynasty Goldwyn family, has teamed with adult e-commerce platform Pornhub to direct a series of six videos titled Pornhub Literacy 101.
Goldwyn’s credits include the documentary Pretty Things (HBO, 2005) as well as the forthcoming book Sex, Health & Consciousness (Sounds True, 2022).
She is also founder of The Sex Ed, which focuses on sex, health, and consciousness education.
Pornhub Literacy 101 is a guide for Pornhub’s 100 million+ daily visitors as to how to best and most safely interact with the controversial platform, which, according to its critics, should be shut down and its executives held accountable for enabling, distributing and profiting from rape, child abuse, sex trafficking and criminal image based sexual abuse.
"It’s important to me and to The Sex Ed to open up dialogue around sex, health, and consciousness to the widest possible audience, and who better to partner with to do so than Pornhub, whose analytics reveal an audience that rivals those of the top mainstream streaming giants?” says Goldwyn.
“As a researcher and educator in the sexual wellness space, I have known for years of Pornhub’s cutting edge technologies and safety practices, which far outweigh those of platforms many of us use on a daily basis. So, it was a no-brainer to collaborate with Pornhub on this series of PSAs.”
“Society needs to engage critically with pornography, especially as it exists at the nexus of media, entertainment and technology.” adds Goldwyn.
“Pornography is ingrained in all these aspects of our lives and having porn literacy is the first step to having the skills to process and understand our own and collective relationship with adult content.”
“This means talking about the very things we tend to want to avoid, like cybersecurity, the sharing of nonconsensual intimate images and videos, and what performers themselves have to say about working safely in their business.”
Shot in a highly stylised setting referencing the Golden Age of cinema, Pornhub Literacy 101 features some of the adult industry’s biggest stars, including Asa Akira, Kira Noir, Natassia Dreams, as well as Emily Willis and Ricky Johnson.
